We're not over covid, and I'm not over my frustration

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By Tom Burke / Herald columnist

Tuesday, Nov. 29: So I popped positive today, twice, with my home covid test. As did my wife.

And I’m furious. At our age, data says covid can mean death. (And yes, we’ve had the shots and boosters.) But I haven’t actually faced imminent demise since I wandered off into a minefield outside a Greek airbase years ago; was kidnapped at sawed-off-shotgun-point by a guy who’d just shot up a bar in New York’s Chinatown; or stood bridge watch on a 700-foot freighter as we went through the eye of a typhoon between Hong Kong and Singapore and rolled to about 45 degrees, a bunch. So I’m frightened as well.

Why furious? Well, because knocking on wood for good luck (see my Thanksgiving column Nov. 21) didn’t work. I noted in that piece we’d missed the disease so far and clearly taunted karma by even thinking we’d actually dodged that bullet.

But I’m also angry, disgusted, and almost wanna-be-vindictive with those who refuse the vaccine and skip the second shot; and the millions who haven’t had the booster.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/burke-were-not-over-covid-and-im-not-over-my-frustration/

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1. LIKE

[Goonch]

2. I feel like I'm the lone masked man in the county

[Irish_Dem]

3. I wear my mask all the time when outside my home.

Knock on wood, no covid, no flu, no colds. So far.

[Skittles]

6. you aren't

but it's only the people who truly give a shit who are staying masked

[orthoclad]

4. I'm too tired to be angry anymore

I gave out thousands of kn95s. I've talked myself hoarse. I've walked out of places of business. I've been called a coward for being courteous enough to mask. If a million dead isn't enough to teach USians simple hygiene and courtesy, then I don't know what will work.

I hope you recover well.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. I still mask up in stores and stay out of restaurants.

[Skittles]

7. ...

"...keep wearing a mask in crowds or with unfamiliar people, I think that’s where we got infected"

they likely passed covid on, too

people, STAY MASKED, STOP SPREADING COVID........