We’re still strictly COVID conscious & will remain that way (and advocate loudly) until clean air is made a focus for public spaces: losing cognitive & physical function isn’t a risk we’re willing to take, nor is it something we have been willing to add to others’ risks.
My Dad and I TOTALLY lucked out by doing a five day ethnographic art show at Ft Mason in SF in late February, 2020…
…about a third of the other exhibitors had just come in from buying trips in China! I mean, yeah, there was that Death Cruise Ship quaranteed off of the Embarcadero but what did that have to do with us?
Turns out that a week after the show, it had something to do with us. I felt as sick as I've ever been in my life and called my octogenarian Dad to to check on him and he scared the hell out of me, he admitted to feeling “under the weather”. This was the first time I'd ever heard Dad admit he was sick. I got in my car, drove over and over his objections, took him to Kaiser Emergency.
They took one look at the two of us and ordered SARS tests for both of us (even though I wasn't a Kaiser Member). Both of us tested Positive. We had Covid (which is a SARS disease) they didn't really have any advice for us rather than fluids and to STAY AWAY FROM OTHER PEOPLE.
I made the decision to move back into the house I grew up in. When the lock down came, I made the decision to make that move permanent so that Dad wouldn't be isolated. Asking the months dragged on, it became clear that I needed to be there. I got to spend his last three years with him.
You def lucked out mark. Could’ve easily joined the folks who succumbed ‘cause we didn’t know Jack about treatment at that time. Glad you found a motive to spend time w your dad tho 🐶☯️👍🏽
Again, we were both sick as dogs, I’ve never felt so sick in my life, What we didn’t know is that, as awful as it was, it was nowhere near as virulent and deadly as what was to come. That first strain that hit us was nowhere as deadly as what followed as the strains that mutated in Europe hit New York City and the Eastern Seaboard.
So, yeah, Dad and I sheltered-in-place HARD, as the vaccines came on, we got them. Neither of us got sick again. In fact, I didn’t have Covid again until a few months ago and it was much less severe than it had been the first time.
“There were no shortcuts.
Lack of discipline continued to reign.”
If only that had ever changed 😢
We’re still strictly COVID conscious & will remain that way (and advocate loudly) until clean air is made a focus for public spaces: losing cognitive & physical function isn’t a risk we’re willing to take, nor is it something we have been willing to add to others’ risks.
My Dad and I TOTALLY lucked out by doing a five day ethnographic art show at Ft Mason in SF in late February, 2020…
…about a third of the other exhibitors had just come in from buying trips in China! I mean, yeah, there was that Death Cruise Ship quaranteed off of the Embarcadero but what did that have to do with us?
Turns out that a week after the show, it had something to do with us. I felt as sick as I've ever been in my life and called my octogenarian Dad to to check on him and he scared the hell out of me, he admitted to feeling “under the weather”. This was the first time I'd ever heard Dad admit he was sick. I got in my car, drove over and over his objections, took him to Kaiser Emergency.
They took one look at the two of us and ordered SARS tests for both of us (even though I wasn't a Kaiser Member). Both of us tested Positive. We had Covid (which is a SARS disease) they didn't really have any advice for us rather than fluids and to STAY AWAY FROM OTHER PEOPLE.
I made the decision to move back into the house I grew up in. When the lock down came, I made the decision to make that move permanent so that Dad wouldn't be isolated. Asking the months dragged on, it became clear that I needed to be there. I got to spend his last three years with him.
You def lucked out mark. Could’ve easily joined the folks who succumbed ‘cause we didn’t know Jack about treatment at that time. Glad you found a motive to spend time w your dad tho 🐶☯️👍🏽
Again, we were both sick as dogs, I’ve never felt so sick in my life, What we didn’t know is that, as awful as it was, it was nowhere near as virulent and deadly as what was to come. That first strain that hit us was nowhere as deadly as what followed as the strains that mutated in Europe hit New York City and the Eastern Seaboard.
So, yeah, Dad and I sheltered-in-place HARD, as the vaccines came on, we got them. Neither of us got sick again. In fact, I didn’t have Covid again until a few months ago and it was much less severe than it had been the first time.
People’s true colors came out, and I ended up with only a handful of friends I still interact with.