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Staying Healthy, and Trying Not To Panic
This pandemic has been running rampant for eighteen long months now. When it first struck our area, I have to admit I was concerned. I have severe asthma so I am considered “high risk”. If I were to get this deadly virus, I could very well end up on a ventilator.
As the months went by though, my worry and concern went away. When my job reopened, I returned and over the past year have remain consistently aware of staying as healthy as I can. I wear a mask at work. I wear gloves whenever handling money or items people have definitely touched. I use hand sanitizer throughout the day and make sure I don’t touch my face.
Now, as this new variant of the virus is blowing through, I’m seriously concerned. We have more cases than ever before. At work in the past month, we’ve had five people come down with it.
I have to work. There’s no way around that. I work in the public and talk to hundreds of strangers a day. That’s out of my control. With each new day though, I wake up and worry.
I know a lot of you who read this are thinking, “What about the vaccine?”
At this point, I’m not going to get it. I know of four people who have gotten it and still contracted the virus. I know of two people who got it and ended up in the hospital with blood clots or a stroke.