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I’m vaccinated, but I’m really not ready to leave my pandemic cocoon
washingtonpost ^ | 04/10/2021 | Steve Petrow

Posted on 04/12/2021 6:47:23 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

As we lurch into pandemic year two, I find myself strangely reluctant to leave my pandemic cocoon. Not a week goes by without someone asking if I’ve gotten my “Get Out of Jail Free” card — the vaccine — but until recently, I’ve told almost no one that I got the shots last month. How could it be that now, with my escape route in sight, I shrink from the exit

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KEYWORDS: cocoon; covid; pademic; vaccinated
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Get back under the bed and shut up!!!


61 posted on 04/12/2021 7:31:50 AM PDT by libertylover (Many people who want to destroy us have bumper stickers on their cars that say: "Coexist".)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Yeesh!


62 posted on 04/12/2021 7:36:45 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: cyclotic

Me too. Never stopped.....but I did like it when I was out and no one else was. I’ve flown twice and stopped at every casino I drove by in Oklahoma while there. I’ve been to Chumash casino (above Santa Barbara) multiple times and Vegas at least once a month. Our once a month bunco group has kept meeting, at my house to make it simpler. Hugged every old friend I’ve run into anywhere.....and never got the Covid.
The only difference this whole thing made to me is I realized I enjoyed it when everyone else was stuck in their house, afraid to come out, and I was out and about without all those people.


63 posted on 04/12/2021 7:40:34 AM PDT by sheana
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To: cmj328

Leading from their basements.


64 posted on 04/12/2021 7:42:43 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
I'll bet his boyfriend does not shrink from his exit.

Aw, ya beat me to it!

65 posted on 04/12/2021 7:42:55 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Boofer and boofee.


66 posted on 04/12/2021 7:44:37 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I grew up during the Vietnam war. Every night on TV we'd hear the number of all the soldiers deaths. It was very sad to hear it.

This is what I think of when I happen to watch the news waiting for the weather report.

In the Covidia we are given the number of "cases" and they make it sound like we are back in the Vietnam era where "cases" are deaths of people.

"Cases" are people who tested positive. whether or not they have symptoms, and from what I hear a lot of people are testing positive because they have the PCR test calibrated too high which means positives are guaranteed.

I hate it when people work overtime to play on my sympathy.

67 posted on 04/12/2021 7:46:53 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: silverleaf
"This the guy that wrote this? "

No - see Post #22.

68 posted on 04/12/2021 7:47:44 AM PDT by jackibutterfly (May the 10 just men lacking in Sodom be found in America, for it’s sake of survival.)
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To: Jewbacca
In fairness, he probably has AIDS.

Where were his precious sensibilities when he was out getting that?

69 posted on 04/12/2021 7:49:33 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Then board up your house and stay there and leave the rest of us alone.

I sure wish more people would take that advice.

Give me a bucket of nails and a hammer and I'll be happy to help board some of those people in so they no longer have to worry about or bother the rest of us.

70 posted on 04/12/2021 7:49:54 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: Slyfox

The local Fox affiliate losers publish a daily case count but of course fail to mention that the overwhelming majority of those cases have been healed many months ago. They get off on the 462,000 number.


71 posted on 04/12/2021 7:52:49 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: cyclotic
Just to show you how fear-inducing the news is these days, I was watching something I wanted to see about a half hour before the news started. I left the room to find something for my project I was working on, which took me about 10 minutes. I came back in the den and to finish what I was working on and I started getting agitated. I looked up and saw the cause of my agitation - I had come back into the room during the beginning of the case count, the death count, the report from this hospital, and this celebrity has died of covid.

I am self-inoculated from the fear. That little event taught me exactly what is happening to people because of the news on TV.

72 posted on 04/12/2021 8:03:12 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: ChicagoConservative27
How could it be that now, with my escape route in sight, I shrink from the exit

How could it be? Psychological issues, that's how. The damage done to mental well-being over the course of 2020 and now 2021 by our federal and state governments has greatly exceeded anything done by the virus itself.
73 posted on 04/12/2021 8:05:58 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Sooth2222

These mental b.s. maladies are Western society fabrications.


74 posted on 04/12/2021 8:10:02 AM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Only someone in a culture in its dying last days would write something like this. The fall of the US is here and it is accelerating rapidly. We will take the world down with us. I don’t think we will even get another 20 years before a complete collapse.


75 posted on 04/12/2021 8:11:03 AM PDT by Codeflier (Covid-19 taught me: Two types of "conservatives", frightened safety seekers vs. freedom lovers)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This wussie epitomizes the saying, “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

Worse, the comments agree with him: The Washington Post Liberal Bubble!


76 posted on 04/12/2021 8:14:28 AM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because you let fear and paranoia control your life.


77 posted on 04/12/2021 8:21:40 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: Candor7

Here’s hoping.


78 posted on 04/12/2021 8:22:52 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

It’s clear this “wife” has a lot more to worry about than the Chinese evil spirit disease.


79 posted on 04/12/2021 8:24:32 AM PDT by glennaro ("Until it's safe" means "never" (Dennis Prager))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Snowflake pu**y. And with only a 99.7% survival rate, it’s best you stay inside forever!!


80 posted on 04/12/2021 8:25:48 AM PDT by albie
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