Thank you. That word was blocked out in my mind by big bold red letters shouting BETRAYAL. And like you said, it wouldn’t have mattered anyhow. I am so excited about George, I cannot wait to bring him home where I can hold him and love him and squeeze…
@filmore I appreciate your well meaning advice, but if I was able to make him do anything, I would have made him get vaccinated months ago. He’s a typical stuborn, grumpy old fart who is going to do it his way.
He is getting better, I can see the daily improvement. Today he actually showed interest in food and snagged a few pieces of veggies and ham from the cutting board like he always used to do. He never lost his sense of taste or smell, he just didn’t have any interest in eating and not enough energy to eat more than a few bites without needing a short nap and has lost 21 lbs as a result.
I agree that his appetite returning is a good sign. I used to get the flu annually and had no interest in eating for days, and getting my appetite back was always a sign of improvement.
Flu shots, dude! They work. The only time I ever got the flu was the year I missed my shot. I haven’t gotten COVID despite sleeping with someone actively shedding virus (es? ii?) since around the first of last month. I never got the flu from him. Vaccinations work!
RAH RAH RAH!!!
The irony of some anti-COVID vaxxers is that they believe there are microchips in the vaccine. In reality, the microchips are in the annual flu vaccines.
In 2020 when the pandemic ramped up and things closed, our manufacturing plants stayed open because our customers were contractors and quickly were considered “essential”. We were bombarded with propaganda on how we were following CDC protocols.
After a few months I visited one of our plants to pick up samples, and pick up something inside the office, which has one narrow hallway. Before I entered one employee exited the office and almost walked right by me talking loudly into a phone without a mask. I went in with a mask, and saw two co-workers talking in the hallway without masks. One of them saw me and said “relax, relax”. I walked by him and kept my mask on. I visited the plant 3-4 times during the pandemic, and all 4 times, no masks.
Well guess who won the pony? Yesterday I found out from a co-worker that in 2020 there was a major outbreak in the office and the plant, and the facility was quarantined for 14 days. How did he find this out? He also went to the plant to pick up samples and let his manager know where he was, and the manager told him the plant was off-limits and to leave immediately. The co-worker got upset with his manager because he has a family and asked why no one was informed of this?
So, at this plant anyway, we have a anti-mask culture, perhaps even with bullying, with no action by management to correct it regardless of the “we follow protocols” bullshit.
Even worse, it appears at best the outbreak was not communicated with company employees by mistake, at worst was covered up.
“Relax, relax”? FUCK YOU. I’m glad I kept my mask on that day!
That coworker I mentioned who was banned by the receptionist from taking cloth masks because he was throwing them away after use…
He went on vacation to Mexico. He came into the office Monday coughing. A coworker made him go home. He’s morbidly obese African-American in his 40s (I think). He was sick for four days in Mexico. They called paramedics at the airport when he and his family were leaving. He was dizzy, pale, and sweating. They had to put him in a wheelchair to put him on the plane. Back home, a day after having been sent packing by the little fireplug of a coworker, his g/f took him to Urgent Care.
I don’t know if he has COVID, but this is the guy who said he wasn’t going to be vaccinated because ‘I never get sick.’
Interesting. My son is on his honeymoon in Mexico this week, and told us that they’ll need to take Covid test before they head back and, if they fail won’t be able to get on a plane (apparently the resort will put them up for whatever the quarantine time is). Not 100% sure he has that right, but it would imply that your coworker is sick with something else.
This morning I read a couple of different articles about the same story: The overwhelming majority of people currently hospitalized for COVID19 have not been vaccinated. Some thought (rightly or wrongly) that they had contracted the virus months ago and now considered themselves immune, and so were surprised to find themselves deathly sick. Others just plain hadn’t gotten vaccinated yet.
In one news story, a pulmonolgist said he hasn’t had one vaccinated person become critically ill.
I just have to SMDH because he isn’t getting vaccinated because ‘I never get sick. I never catch anything.’ And here he is horribly sick. (He called another coworker this morning and said something to the effect of 'You know I never get sick, but damn!;
Here’s hoping “live and learn” doesn’t turn into “die and learn”. Obese 40 and AA is 3 strikes before he starts. Mexico and Mexican resorts are well-stocked with COVID carriers happily spreading the disease.
Just got a text from El Jefe. Coworker tested positive for COVID this afternoon, and has been admitted to the VA hospital.
He came into the office this afternoon. Why? I don’t know. I didn’t see him. His boss halted him at the office door, as he apparently looked (and sounded) like Death warmed over. He was only in the office briefly Monday and today, and both times he was masked.
Take my sister-in-law, please.
Everyone else in the family and friends group is vaccinated. She came out last night at dinner that she’s not had the shots and doesn’t intend to because “side effects”.
I lit into her over her “side effects” - death, infecting others, suffering from long-covid, being a general asshole, screwing up Hawaii’s herd immunity/economic reopening. I was not kind. No apologies will be forthcoming. No entry to our house, the visiting stateside family will not seeing her. Husband is a dentist and got his shots as a health care worker. Been on her case too for the last two months. My wife said I was a bit over the top but agreed on the visitation ban.
My brother-in-law’s sister and her husband won’t get vaccinated because conspiracy, or something. So my sis and brother-in-law have banned them from their home. They’re shocked, shocked I tell you, but actions have consequences.
[Cow-orker] has been admitted to the hospital and will be there indefinitely at this time. He collapsed 4 times from Sat evening until this morning. A combination of dehydration, covid and [cow-orker & g/f] got food poisoning from a Red Robin delivery Sat. He is now getting fluids and they are monitoring his oxygen levels, and is feeling better since he got admitted.
This guy adamantly did not want to be vaccinated. Having caught the disease, he now says he wants to be vaccinated as soon as he is able.
My son and daughter-in-law just got back from their Mexican honeymoon. Had to test negative to get on the plane home. They said all of the staff at the resort were constantly masked and bartenders were behind plexiglass.
I suspected that the tests were window-dressing, but they talked with someone at the airport who had a member of their party test positive.
Don’t remember where I read it, but everyone is eventually going to get vaccinated - either by a shot (or two) or by catching the actual disease. I know which one I chose, and can’t imagine why anyone would take the risk of getting the actual disease.
Such a common pattern. I lost track of how many “deathbed PSAs” COVID deniers made from their ICU beds urging people to take the virus seriously and not make the same mistakes they did. I wonder if those changed anyone’s mind? Some people just have to touch the stove to learn it’s hot enough to burn them.
