Have yet to stumble upon that magical fun time social distancing group here in M-F. This area is home to a stanch and bullheaded cadre of scofflaws. Just today there was an ad in the local ‘uncensored’ FB page asking for people to come join them in downtown Pendleton to protest the lock down. Without masks of course. Dumbass people. It’s now at a point where 1,000 US citizens are dying every day. It’s expected to top 300,000 deaths in early December. And then the millions who end up hospitalized that survive and spend the rest of their lives trying to pay for it. Not a fun time.
I had a scare just two days ago, I’ve been going to the store just once per week to keep my exposure down, wearing a mask of course. Last Tuesday went shopping like normal and I ended up going to 3 new to me stores just to break up the monotony. So then on Friday, 72 hours later, I felt warm as I prepared my car for a detailing. Didn’t think much of it, it did seem to be fairly warm that day.
So my sister and BIL came and picked me up at the detailer’s and I hung out with them for the 3.5 hours while I waited for my car. Felt fine. Wore my mask most of the time and perhaps 85% of the time at their place. And then I picked up the car…$140! and headed home. Loaded up all the junk back into the trunk and back seat I usually carry and sat down to rest. And BOOM a bad ass cold hit me. Hard. Whoa, I could feel it struggling to overtake/overpower my immune system. Scratchy sore throat, dry cough, mild headache. Didn’t measure my temp, I should have, but it was likely just slightly above normal. Before it turned out that I couldn’t move much, grabbed a Lipton Chicken Soup packet and made some soup. Aww, that felt better. But the cold or whatever it was was still tugging on my health, and at 9:30 pm I couldn’t hardly see straight so I had a big swallow of Nyquil and went to bed. Was asleep within 5 minutes. Didn’t wake up until 8 am the next morning. And didn’t feel too bad except for the lingering effects of a bad cold. Over the next several hours got better and better. Em’ed my sister and BIL to let them know.
So that was a scare I could have done without. Sorry to have bored my readers but it’s getting pretty bad here in the land of not doing what you can to protect your neighbors I guess because, fuk em. I guess I’m guilty of that too now because I should have kept my mask on the whole time I was at my sisters place.
Anyway, back to normal and time to post another travel article. Though I’m not traveling much because of Covid-19 I do plan to head back to Pahrump in a week or so.
Meanwhile, here’s a pig!
