Rant #3,029: The Safety Dance

 

Boy, did I oversleep today!

I actually slept past 7 a.m., which is something I never, ever do, even on the weekend.

I guess I was really tired yesterday … and the fact of the matter is that I am tired just about every day lately.

I have lots of worries … but I am happy to report that my wife is just about 100-percent better.

She has no fever, no ill effects from COVID, other than a bit of a cough and some congestion.

I can say that the pills worked, the shots worked—lessening the effects, but not preventing her from getting this thing—and she is on the road to full recovery.

She told me she might venture outside tomorrow to do some banking, and she hopes to go back to work on Thursday.

And yes, she is still wearing a mask as she moves around the house.

As for myself and my son, we are still taking precautions.

We are staying away from the main bedroom, where my wife has been recuperating, and we are still not eating with her, pretty much confining our movement to the front of our dwelling.

And as for me, I won’t return to the bedroom until probably this weekend, just to make sure everything is A-OK.

We have all managed, and I do believe that by this weekend, everything will be back to normal here, at least as far as our house being rid of COVID.

My son and I were told by a doctor who gave us the COVID test last week that my son and I should not take the latest booster shot for a week or two; this wait is just to make sure that the two of us don’t have lingering COVID.

Once that period is over, I think we are going to look into getting the current booster shot, because it is clearly evident that that booster shot protected us from getting COVID, not necessarily from the cruise that we were on, but from my wife.

And it certainly protected me … I don’t have to go into detail, but you can imagine why I said what I said.

If you can’t, use yoiur imagination.

My wife cannot get the latest booster for some months now, but when she can, I am going to highly recommend that she gets the shot.

Long Island has the highest rates of COVID in New York State, and that is because we, in particular, live in the “COVID Doesn’t Exist” zone, where an incredibly large amount of people actually believe that this thing doesn’t exist, so they don’t need to take any preventative measures to protect themselves form something that is nothing more than a figment of the government’s imagination.

Well, if anyone had any doubts in their minds about the existence of the malady, and the need to get shots, just look at what my wife went through.

Fever, dizziness, total discomfort … and she didn’t even have it that bad, so to speak, like when my sister had it during the early days of the coming of this disease, when she literally was one phone call away from being admitted to the hospital, and there were no shots available to counter what she had.

I still have my beliefs … I still believe that this is itself a variant of the common flu that we have every year, and like the flu, there will be many variants of COVID that we will have to deal with in the future.

I do believe that the government did a total disservice to the populace by marketing the shots as a preventative rather than a mitigater, so you still have people who say they won’t get the shots because they don’t do what they were advertised to do.

And yes, I do believe that the government used the pandemic for its own political purposes, which is the most heinous thing that I can say about this whole experience.

In conclusion, COVID does exist, it is not the figment of someone’s imagination.

The shots are not true vaccines; they do not prevent one from getting COVID, but they do lessen the effects if one gets the disease.

And lastly, this is just another one of those maladies that we are going to have to be aware of, and take measures to prevent the spread of.

I now have a living, breathing example of how virulent this disease can be, living right in my own house.

Get the shots, don’t get the shots … it is entirely up to you.

But based on what I have seen right here in my own house, we will be getting the booster shots when we are able to.

Period.