"When he was always talking about 'greasing the union' who knew that's what he meant?"
Posted on 07/13/2021 7:43:55 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Two weeks ago, we took a family trip out of state, our first in eighteen months.
Three-quarters of us had been fully vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer shot, with the exception being our 11-year old daughter. We’d been extremely diligent for a year and half (often militant) in taking precautions: isolating and masking and distancing since March of 2020.
My wife, 16-year old son, and I all registered for vaccines the first day we were eligible in order to give our family the best chance at protection moving forward. I was ecstatic to get jabbed. We all were. It felt like we could exhale for the first time in a long time.
After our waiting period was over, we were hopeful we could finally begin doing some normal things and left for our first family vacation since lockdown began. We were being as careful as we could while traveling, but as vaccinated adults it’s easy to let your guard down and to generally be less attentive than you had been regarding wearing masks and hand sanitizing and distancing. False security began to set in.
A few days into the trip our daughter started complaining about headaches, which we attributed to the heat and to the general fatigue of travel and activity. The next day, she began to get congestion and said her throat was sore. We expected her allergies were just flaring up, but we’d seen enough stories not to take any chances. We brought her to the local clinic and received a positive result for COVID-19. It was extremely disappointing but we knew that with her age, she likely wasn’t going to have escalating symptoms. We immediately headed straight home and began family lockdown together. This is when we made our big mistake. With the rest of us fully vaccinated, we felt less vulnerable being home with our daughter without constant masking and distancing, but that illusion didn’t last very long.
After developing increasingly worsening cold symptoms, my wife got tested and we were stunned to get a positive for her. A breakthrough case. “What are the odds?” we asked ourselves. I’d felt poorly earlier in the week, but had two negative tests in a row and imagined I’d just gotten a rare summer cold. After feeling much worse over the weekend, I took my third test which came back positive for COVID. Our son was asymptomatic but we tested him as a precaution, and he returned a positive result as well.
So, amazingly we are four for four with COVID here in our house, with three fully vaccinated people testing positive for the virus, two of us symptomatic. I’m not sure what the odds are, but we’re seriously considering the lottery. I can’t say we aren’t more than a little disappointed to be here after being so careful and diligent for a year and a half, but I also feel extremely fortunate. We’ll likely all recovery quickly, however not everyone will be that lucky.
The doctor who gave me my test results said that this Delta variant is frightening and unpredictable; showing a velocity and ease of transition that she wishes people understood and took seriously. She has been alarmed by how quickly it has spread and by how many people are still avoiding the vaccine, giving the virus an advantage it shouldn’t have at this point.
I’m hopefully in the worst of it now: congestion, headache, body aches, cough, fatigue, etc. I lost my sense of taste and smell (which for a devoted foodie is torture) but overall it feels like a very bad cold, which feels like good news. I shudder to think how bad it might have been had we not been vaccinated.
Entertaining read! Provides interesting insights into the warped mindset of Liberals.
Regards,
"When he was always talking about 'greasing the union' who knew that's what he meant?"
Every winter, “something” goes around WV and everybody gets it but it’s like a mild chest cold sort of thing.
Our doc calls it “The WV Crud” and we pretty much ignore it.
When this crap started, WV was one of the last states to report “covid” and even then, had crazy low numbers.
I wish someone could figure out whether the “WV Crud” we’ve all had is related to “covid”.
I can't speak to "breakthrough cases," but numerous colleagues of mine (60+ years old) have consistently reported adverse reactions to the so-called "vaccinations" - with a severity on a par with the symptoms I had when I actually contracted COVID! (Admittedly, I had relatively mild symptoms.)
Regards,
LOL!
OMG that movie was crazy.
/I still can’t walk past a can of Crisco in the store without shuddering
Well John. The claim is not that it prevents Covid. It is supposed to prevent the hospitlization which you only had less than .1 % chance of happening anyway.
Sounds like a blooming idiot on all counts.... and he willingly exposes his idiocy to the world by writing about it....
#4 It worked. It made the owners of the pharma companies billionaires.
Gotcha.
That was from the Sopranos’.
Although I thought putting in the gay subplot was lame, there were some funny lines from it.
“Alright let’s take this in the back.”
“Yeah, that’s what Vito did.”
Immunization with SARS Coronavirus Vaccines Leads to Pulmonary Immunopathology on Challenge with the SARS Virus
Chien-Te Tseng,Elena Sbrana,Naoko Iwata-Yoshikawa,Patrick C. Newman,Tania Garron,Robert L. Atmar,Clarence J. Peters,Robert B. Couch
Published: April 20, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035421
I married a Sicilian and the last thing I wanted to watch was a series about Sicilians.
:D
In Sicily women are more dangerous than shotguns.
The Crisco is from “Cruising”.
If you missed that flick, keep doing so.
o.O
“We’d been extremely diligent for a year and half (often militant) in taking precautions: isolating and masking and distancing since March of 2020.”
I worked in Contact Tracing. That is BS. That all say that until they finally admit the truth. They think wearing the Virtue Signal was good enough.
Or the “butter” from Last Tango in Paris, which thankfully is another movie I missed.
I have not seen that one and will continue to not see it.
Thanks for the warning.
Here’s an interesting side effect for these healthy people who isolated themselves for so long. What they’ve done is severely weakened their immune system by not getting regular exposure to the bacteria and viruses that inhabit our environment. After 18 months of isolation these people are susceptible to every little virus inhabiting every corner of the outside world.
My doctor said the less time you spend around people the more likely you are to get sick.
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