Well, all 3 of us are really sick with Covid now. Cough and hacking up nasty tasting and smelling goop. Joints all ache. Eyes ache. Head aches. Feel nauseous. Can't think properly. Cranky too. Don't catch it!Sorry to hear about your father in law's illness.
This year with the sudden spike of Omicron I've been watching all the idiots out there breaking their bubbles for this inane holiday.
To be honest, I haven't been anywhere for the past few months and I'm waiting til supply issues work themselves out before I get a booster.
I told my best friend to stay home because he broke quarantine the day before xmas eve and went to a crowded mall.
I've been taking no chances at all this year.
Gary
We're doing out best. Just staying inside. Mostly I'm in my studio.Get plenty of rest, stay hydrated and don't exert yourself with trivial things.
Get well soon
Gary
So sorry to hear that.
Thanks Ray! We're doing our best. It just seems like the whole health care system here in Ontario has gone for a poop. My father-in-law who is with is has to go to the hospital tomorrow for a follow up on his pacemaker. We've tried to contact them to tell them about our Covid situation but all we get is the voice mail and no return call. Now I do understand that they're crazy busy but , somebody must be checking the messages one would think. I don't know. Maybe there are just too many to check.
Oh I know! A couple of weeks ago when we took my father-in-law to the hospital for his pacemaker, they were so understaffed that they couldn't find anybody to check him out for almost 2 full days. They even had him on a gurney in the hallway. I was waiting in the emergency room trying to stay away from everybody. Some guy vomited on the floor directly behind me! People were hacking and coughing everywhere. All the staff looked like they were in a war zone. To my mind they are!The health care system in Ontario is strained almost to the breaking point.
Doctors, nurses, and even maintenance and administrative staff at the hospitals have been working non-stop, backbreaking shifts under covid protocols for two years solid now.
I fear this coming winter is going to be a lethal one in the GTA this year. 8200 new cases reported today. 182 in ICU and 104 on ventilators.
This thing is spreading like marmalade on a hotplate.
Vaccine protections are equivalent to a raincoat during a hurricane.
Sooner or later I fear we will all succumb to the Kung Flu...
Gary
Sadly, I think you're probably right. The thing about the vaccines is that they're not going to prevent you from catching it ot cure it, they lesson the symptoms so that you're far less likely to need a hospital. Here in Canada, our medical system is almost at the breaking point. Medical staff are just plain worn out. I've heard people yelling at them just last week when I was there with my wife and father-in-law. He needed a pacemaker.
It certainly looks that way. I'll be very glad when I'm better. Hard to think and function with a melon full of snot!Sadly Jeremy, I have to agree. Only fools try to resist the laws of Darwin and natural selection. They apply to every living thing on the planet, from the tiniest virus to almighty us.
Regardless of our best efforts, unless we are insane enough to try a different drug for each variant, we are going to have to raise the white flag and take our lumps from this family of viruses.
Some of the things the whack jobs have been saying about Big Pharma during all this have started to earn a certain ring of truth.
At this point, NONE of these guys have signed over any patents to the WHO so that we could get the entire world vaccinated and put an end to new variants.
Greedy people may not have started this, but they ARE prolonging it.
Gary
