Posted on 12/17/2021 9:21:49 AM PST by BusterDog
I turn 40 today, and I was planning to have a party. The Delta surge made me nervous about it. The arrival of Omicron made me cancel it.
The plan was to have an extended house party, with a couple dozen people popping by over the weekend. On the one hand, it would have been an unmasked, indoor event—the kind in which the coronavirus, in all its incarnations, spreads most easily. On the other hand, everyone who was going to be there is fully vaccinated, and most of them, myself included, have been boosted. A month ago, I would have felt comfortable about that trade-off, especially if people got tested in the preceding days, as eight friends did when they came over for Thanksgiving.
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There has to be a psychological payoff to being so frightened, or people wouldn’t do it.
The author is both a coward and a willfully ignorant fool.
Imagine a life so pathetic that one would think the reasons they cancelled their birthday party would be worth writing a story for publication.
Ed Yong is a scared, indoctrinated idiot.
Geez. I sure hope the writer doesn’t do something horrible this close to Christmas. Become a zero carbon emitter or something.
I have a relative that paranoid.
It’s really sad.
If someone is canceling birthdays due to covid, they are NOT thinking.
Enjoy your gruel, Ebeneezer!
He is a major virtue signaler and wants love and attention for being the Carefullest Man In The World
Good move. I am canceling all my birthdays, so I can stay this age forever.
Classic wussy dickhead...
What a country full of dimwitted sheeple we have today...
Based on this “logic”, this idiot should never have another social event ever since someone might give him a bad cold or the flu
Well I’ve always been prepared and aware of the flu season before covid. So I didn’t do anymore except wear a mask and gloves when the ‘warnings’ went out we needed to protect hospitals from being overrun.....and that never happened in my area.
However here we are now with twice the number of people hospitalized and people dying from apparently covid after the majority of the public has had the shots. It would not be far fetched to wonder if the shots aren’t creating the problem.
It boggles my mind how many people choose to live in a state of perpetual fear.
This time last year, with effective vaccines and a new administration on the horizon, I tweeted that I was “gently hopeful about being able to have a party.” That wasn’t to be.”
lol....no &*$! Sherlock
What will happen to Ed when he actually has to face a real catastrophe or hardship, or a difficulty in his life?
What a bunch of pussies!
Who throws a birthday party for themselves?
What a moron
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