Not even a post-it, a subsection of my covid & things that want to kill humans board on my Pinterest “No shit, it’s still trying to kill us”
Just when you thought COVID-19 was gone, had convinced yourself it was gone, had lied to yourself that it was gone, it pops up like an undesired guest at a baptism.
Okay, fine, that was a small Maleficient joke.
But, yeah, covid is still trying to kill us.
It isn’t gone.
The masks are mostly gone, beat down by peer pressure.
I noticed that where there had been zero covid patients in the hospital for a few weeks, all of a sudden there were 3.
And then 6.
And then 9.
A friend of mine asked about the possibility of a covid booster shot, out of concern for their family members who are vulnerable. The fact that the school year is approaching and at the beginning of the last school year, there had been 60% call-outs for students within 2 weeks of the start of school.
In other news, the vaccine companies have nearly completed work on this fall’s vaccine. Apparently, it is to be ready in September. Pending FDA approval.
The news reports began reporting that there was apparently a summer surge of covid, for the fourth year in a row.
The real tell?
The seeming shortage of at-home covid tests. I know I got the last one at the local drugstore, which I bought after noticing that the ones I had expired.
Definitely ‘no shit! it’s still trying to kill us’ indeed.
Good luck convincing others that this is happening.
I’m sure they’d rather keep their heads down, and the masks off.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 