Journal, Day 979

Wednesday, 23 November 2022

I had planned on taking a vacation day today, but we had an unexpected upheaval at our Atlanta office when a primary employee rather abruptly resigned and all hell broke loose. Being a team player and a member of management, I decided I’d give up the extra day off, but I plan on using that to my advantage later.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I sincerely hope that our communities don’t suffer from the same idiocy we’ve shown for the past two years and avoid the holiday surge in virus infections. This year we’re dealing with not one, but three viruses. Today in LA County, two children under the age of 5 died of RSV, and the new daily COVID infection rate was 3.077, the highest it’s been in months.

Be smart, people. Before you gather, take a test. If you feel even a little bit sick, stay home (or tell people not to come over, if you’re hosting). You don’t know if any of your friends or family might have immunity issues — they might not even know. And next week it will be too late to find out that they (or you) do.

We’ve been dealing with this thing for two and a half years, and hopefully we have learned something in all that time. Everybody’s body is different. Even vaccinated people can get sick, and even people without severe (or any) symptoms can pass the virus to others.

Winter is coming. Let’s all survive.