The summer is approaching …
Late yesterday, we finally had our pool opened.
It is not ready for swimming just yet, but it is there, and within a few days, we can finally use it.
The forecast isn’t for swimming weather for later in the week—it is only supposed to be in the 70s here—but when the time comes, we will be able to jump right in.
Last year, the pool was our salvation, as it gave my wife and I something to do during the height of the pandemic, allowing us to keep cool while we socially distanced ourselves.
People began ordering pools left and right, but we had ours in place, and it became our refuge from all that was going on … and it also allowed me to take my mind off of my turgid employment situation for a few hours at a time.
It will do the same thing for us this year, but on a different level, of course.
We are still in a pandemic—or so we are told—but things are loosening up.
I am semi-retired, working a remote writing job that gives me a lot of freedom, at times, to do what I want to do.
But we still have our big bath tub to jump into and relax in, and while the pool may be on its last legs—we have had this pool for seemingly decades—it has served us well, in good times and bad.
The summer is getting closer, and when I look at the pool from a window inside our house, it just cools me off all over.
The other day, while in the supermarket, I saw an actual “craft” soda that caught my eye, a coconut soda, something I had never seen before.
Being a fan of soda—although I have cut down considerably the amount of soda I consume each day—I just had to get it, and I did.
I tried it yesterday, coincidentally on the same day we opened the pool, and it is the perfect drink to have while using the pool, not as sweet as you might think with that nice coconut flavor.
It is something different to drink during the summer, and I kind of liked it, a good alternative to my usual cola … and it is just so perfect for the summer.
And this summer promises to be so different from summer 2020, or at least that is what we are being told.
Just about everything is opening up as the supposed pandemic wanes. You will be able to go to amusement parks and other attractions with and without a mask, and just about every other venue is open at full or at least near capacity.
You can also go to the beach or even your local public pool without hesitation, and while it still isn’t the usual norm we are used to, it is approaching that … as long as the coronavirus is kept at bay.
As you know, I don’t believe a word that is pouring out of supposed experts’ mouths about this virus, but unfortunately, the spew is governing what we can and can’t do, so you and I have to at least hear what they are saying.
One interesting aspect of this is that while they will tell you how much of the population is supposedly inoculated against this scourge, they will not break down the percentage of who got what; in other words, how many people in the population opted for the Pfizer shot, how many chose the Moderna shot, and how many got the Johnson & Johnson shot.
They evidently don’t want you to know, because knowing the percentages might change some people’s views on how safe we really are.
I would bet that the Johnson & Johnson shot is the preferred one, simply because you only have to get one of them to supposedly be fully inoculated.
Its presence has been a game changer, certainly pushing up the percentages of those inoculated.
The problem is that it only provides 67 percent to 71 percent protection, while the other two-shot doses provided 95 percent or better protection.
So if most of the population received the Johnson & Johnson shot, that means that most of the population only is 67 percent to 71 percent protected, which means that they can not only pass on the virus to unsuspecting people at a greater rate, they are only protected at that rate against the virus.
Pretty faulty to me, and it leads me to believe that as usual, politics have gotten into the inoculations, and we aren’t as protected against this thing as we could be.
But we will never be told the breakdown, because officials don’t want us to know this, as it could put a crimp into our perception that we are beating this thing into oblivion.
We simply aren’t.
I will certainly ponder that as I sit in my poll, whiling away the day in the hot summer …
(Not.)
Late yesterday, we finally had our pool opened.
It is not ready for swimming just yet, but it is there, and within a few days, we can finally use it.
The forecast isn’t for swimming weather for later in the week—it is only supposed to be in the 70s here—but when the time comes, we will be able to jump right in.
Last year, the pool was our salvation, as it gave my wife and I something to do during the height of the pandemic, allowing us to keep cool while we socially distanced ourselves.
People began ordering pools left and right, but we had ours in place, and it became our refuge from all that was going on … and it also allowed me to take my mind off of my turgid employment situation for a few hours at a time.
It will do the same thing for us this year, but on a different level, of course.
We are still in a pandemic—or so we are told—but things are loosening up.
I am semi-retired, working a remote writing job that gives me a lot of freedom, at times, to do what I want to do.
But we still have our big bath tub to jump into and relax in, and while the pool may be on its last legs—we have had this pool for seemingly decades—it has served us well, in good times and bad.
The summer is getting closer, and when I look at the pool from a window inside our house, it just cools me off all over.
The other day, while in the supermarket, I saw an actual “craft” soda that caught my eye, a coconut soda, something I had never seen before.
Being a fan of soda—although I have cut down considerably the amount of soda I consume each day—I just had to get it, and I did.
I tried it yesterday, coincidentally on the same day we opened the pool, and it is the perfect drink to have while using the pool, not as sweet as you might think with that nice coconut flavor.
It is something different to drink during the summer, and I kind of liked it, a good alternative to my usual cola … and it is just so perfect for the summer.
And this summer promises to be so different from summer 2020, or at least that is what we are being told.
Just about everything is opening up as the supposed pandemic wanes. You will be able to go to amusement parks and other attractions with and without a mask, and just about every other venue is open at full or at least near capacity.
You can also go to the beach or even your local public pool without hesitation, and while it still isn’t the usual norm we are used to, it is approaching that … as long as the coronavirus is kept at bay.
As you know, I don’t believe a word that is pouring out of supposed experts’ mouths about this virus, but unfortunately, the spew is governing what we can and can’t do, so you and I have to at least hear what they are saying.
One interesting aspect of this is that while they will tell you how much of the population is supposedly inoculated against this scourge, they will not break down the percentage of who got what; in other words, how many people in the population opted for the Pfizer shot, how many chose the Moderna shot, and how many got the Johnson & Johnson shot.
They evidently don’t want you to know, because knowing the percentages might change some people’s views on how safe we really are.
I would bet that the Johnson & Johnson shot is the preferred one, simply because you only have to get one of them to supposedly be fully inoculated.
Its presence has been a game changer, certainly pushing up the percentages of those inoculated.
The problem is that it only provides 67 percent to 71 percent protection, while the other two-shot doses provided 95 percent or better protection.
So if most of the population received the Johnson & Johnson shot, that means that most of the population only is 67 percent to 71 percent protected, which means that they can not only pass on the virus to unsuspecting people at a greater rate, they are only protected at that rate against the virus.
Pretty faulty to me, and it leads me to believe that as usual, politics have gotten into the inoculations, and we aren’t as protected against this thing as we could be.
But we will never be told the breakdown, because officials don’t want us to know this, as it could put a crimp into our perception that we are beating this thing into oblivion.
We simply aren’t.
I will certainly ponder that as I sit in my poll, whiling away the day in the hot summer …
(Not.)
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