Good morning! Today is Wednesday, November 4th, and it’s a crisp, cool morning in North Carolina. The leaves in the backyard have adopted their “I’m getting ready to fall” colors and the ground is already littered with early adopters. 🙂 Unfortunately, I believe my family has missed our chance to head to the mountains to see the leaves in full color… 🙁 Always enjoy a trip like that. There’s always next year… right?
Moving on…. in my last post I mentioned that Covid had come to roost with my family. My daughter, wife and I all had it. To be honest, only my daughter tested positive for the virus, but my wife and I had all of the symptoms too, so we felt it was proper to assume we were positive as well. We quarantined for 14 days and really, overall, it wasn’t that bad. My daughter had a fever for about 4 hours, which is why we took her to the doctor, however, that ended up being her only symptom. Weird.
However, my wife and I had a slightly different experience. My wife couldn’t taste anything for about a week and I had a fever one night and then a cough that hung around for about a week. Weird.
Why am I using the word “weird”? I’ll tell you why… My daughter had a fever for four hours. My wife couldn’t taste anything for a few days and I had a mild temperature (For one evening) along with a cough. From my perspective, it’s weird that the extent of the virus wasn’t more severe. Especially based on the what we’ve seen in the media and the fact that I have a compromised immune system. Oh well. Maybe the experts really don’t know everything? Or, perhaps we were just random outliers who had an easy time with things? We’ll most likely never know.
ok Ok OK! Not everyone is as lucky as we are! I know that, so please don’t think I’m being too callous! However, to shut down schools and, basically, America for all of these months… the reality of those kinds of decisions hit hard as I look back on a virus that was easier for me to shed than the flu. Trust me, and my wife can confirm for you, when I get sick… it’s usually a bummer. It hangs on and on and on… drives us both crazy with respect to how hard it is for me to get over being sick. It just stinks. Strange that wasn’t the case with a virus that has scared the fool out of all of us. Go figure.
One other thing… do I still believe the virus can be awful? Totally. Especially to the elderly and even those with severely compromised immune systems. It’s one of the reasons I haven’t been able to see my parents in almost a year! I’m hoping we’re able to resume life as normal some time in the near future, although… if I’m being honest… I really don’t know if I can properly define what the word “normal” will actually mean. Tough times.
That’s it for today! I hope no one is offended by my take on Covid. I certainly don’t mean to underestimate it’s ability to cause folks some real trouble! I’m only stating an opinion that maybe, just maybe, we could limit some of the more stringent restrictions to a narrower group of individuals vs American Society as a whole. Who knows, maybe that vaccine will be ready very soon and we’ll all be able to move on at once… time will tell!
Talk to you in a few days!
