I wore masks in order to get hospitalized due to diabetic cellulitis. I've worn it since to get my prosthetic after losing a leg to diabetic cellulitis. I've worn masks on Uber rides, and in doctor's offices.
I have never been vaccinated, but would I if I had been gainfully employed? Would I have vaccinated if I had a wife and children? I don't know.
My penance is at least regretting the decisions that I made. Would they have thrown me out of the doctors office had I refused to wear a mask? If I didn't wear a mask in the hospital hallways would I have found myself carted away?
There are consequences though.
I think my immediate family knows of what I have done on twitter, though they don't mention it. After all, at least my sister has a twitter handle, and I bet my brother at least monitors it. He has early and often said that I should personalize and block all social media in order to get a job.
... do almost everything we did in public for a couple years. I was confident masks were useless by about April 2020 but just couldn't afford to have the "Let me show you the data *points to PowerPoint Slide Thirty-twelve*" when all I need from inside the Wegman's is some cilantro to make my Fish Tacos Salsa. I grumbled but it just wasn't worth it.
Maybe I should have pressed harder there but I pressed pretty hard in a lot of situations where thoughtful contemplation might have been more sensible. I don't think an iota less of you for it, especially owning it.
Ironically the two groups I hold most accountable are doctors and educators. If there are two segments of society that should not have been pushing the nonsense, it is those that should know better, shouldn't they?
My dad told me his dad stated the bottom 10% od any graduating class became bankers. I think nowadays, they become teachers. The ones who should be the vanguard of education actually know the least about masking and vaccines, and doctors are only marginally better.
On my second trip to the doctor following my amputation, the doctor tried to convince me to get the vaccine. When I said I hadn't gotten it, she asked me why. There was a moment there, I stood there and I think I said "personal reasons..." and then thought to myself "f it, she needs to know why." So I gave her a list.
• The vaccine is experimental. They had yet to rest for long term symptoms.
• I already had Covid twice...natural immunity.
• It doesn't stop the spread or infection
• It doesn't stay in the injection site.
I think I left out that Covid wasn't that dangerous anyway. Her response:
"It's ridiculous to think that a vaccine would stay in one place." Sh thought that assertion was ridiculous, but that is one of the very things the narrative pushed. She hem and hawed about it being experimental. She also tried to say that because I was diabetic it made me vulnerable. and my response was I already had it twice, so no I am not vulnerable."
I think she thought I was going to come at her with some MAGA hat wearing one syllable reason why I didn't want the vaccine. The next time I came after that. No mention of the vaccine at all, but still they pushed masking. Always with the masking.
About six weeks. She born on the 3rd, we met mid-June. (there were logistics involved in getting my then 79 year old mom out for an overnighter five hours away; also with my stepmom, I kid you not).
So you were considered "fully vaccinated." I was thinking I bet there are many people that all you had to do...was get vaxxed and the next day you could see the kid or elderly family member, depending on the part of the world you were in. Because of the arbitrary assertion of what "vaccinated" means it could be anything. You could be vaccinated yesterday (what I consider vaccinated) or for some it was fifteen days after the vaccine that one is considered vaccinated...and for some others I imagine that it is only after the second dose you are considered vaccinated.
I don't stand by my decisions, but I do own them.
I wore masks in order to get hospitalized due to diabetic cellulitis. I've worn it since to get my prosthetic after losing a leg to diabetic cellulitis. I've worn masks on Uber rides, and in doctor's offices.
I have never been vaccinated, but would I if I had been gainfully employed? Would I have vaccinated if I had a wife and children? I don't know.
My penance is at least regretting the decisions that I made. Would they have thrown me out of the doctors office had I refused to wear a mask? If I didn't wear a mask in the hospital hallways would I have found myself carted away?
There are consequences though.
I think my immediate family knows of what I have done on twitter, though they don't mention it. After all, at least my sister has a twitter handle, and I bet my brother at least monitors it. He has early and often said that I should personalize and block all social media in order to get a job.
"I wore masks in order to"
... do almost everything we did in public for a couple years. I was confident masks were useless by about April 2020 but just couldn't afford to have the "Let me show you the data *points to PowerPoint Slide Thirty-twelve*" when all I need from inside the Wegman's is some cilantro to make my Fish Tacos Salsa. I grumbled but it just wasn't worth it.
Maybe I should have pressed harder there but I pressed pretty hard in a lot of situations where thoughtful contemplation might have been more sensible. I don't think an iota less of you for it, especially owning it.
Ironically the two groups I hold most accountable are doctors and educators. If there are two segments of society that should not have been pushing the nonsense, it is those that should know better, shouldn't they?
My dad told me his dad stated the bottom 10% od any graduating class became bankers. I think nowadays, they become teachers. The ones who should be the vanguard of education actually know the least about masking and vaccines, and doctors are only marginally better.
On my second trip to the doctor following my amputation, the doctor tried to convince me to get the vaccine. When I said I hadn't gotten it, she asked me why. There was a moment there, I stood there and I think I said "personal reasons..." and then thought to myself "f it, she needs to know why." So I gave her a list.
• The vaccine is experimental. They had yet to rest for long term symptoms.
• I already had Covid twice...natural immunity.
• It doesn't stop the spread or infection
• It doesn't stay in the injection site.
I think I left out that Covid wasn't that dangerous anyway. Her response:
"It's ridiculous to think that a vaccine would stay in one place." Sh thought that assertion was ridiculous, but that is one of the very things the narrative pushed. She hem and hawed about it being experimental. She also tried to say that because I was diabetic it made me vulnerable. and my response was I already had it twice, so no I am not vulnerable."
I think she thought I was going to come at her with some MAGA hat wearing one syllable reason why I didn't want the vaccine. The next time I came after that. No mention of the vaccine at all, but still they pushed masking. Always with the masking.
About six weeks. She born on the 3rd, we met mid-June. (there were logistics involved in getting my then 79 year old mom out for an overnighter five hours away; also with my stepmom, I kid you not).
Wow, that must have been interesting.
The older you get, the more logistics are required.
"Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics."
- Gen. Robert H. Barrow
So you were considered "fully vaccinated." I was thinking I bet there are many people that all you had to do...was get vaxxed and the next day you could see the kid or elderly family member, depending on the part of the world you were in. Because of the arbitrary assertion of what "vaccinated" means it could be anything. You could be vaccinated yesterday (what I consider vaccinated) or for some it was fifteen days after the vaccine that one is considered vaccinated...and for some others I imagine that it is only after the second dose you are considered vaccinated.
Yes, full vaxed was her requirement. At that time hardly anyone had had a booster, many were just cycling thru first doses.