Since we last talked, I got COVID. And, then I got Pneumonia from COVID.
I bring it up, not so much to talk about me, but rather to share with you the reaction from colleagues, friends and others.
Comments ranged from. “Why aren’t you in the hospital,” (got that one a lot) all the way to, “You don’t have COVID, you might have the flu, but not COVID. There is so such thing as COVID.”
In between, I was offered friendly helpful advice on drugs my docs should be giving me, including ivermectin, “but don’t take the kind they give to horses,” to supplement regimens, wear a mask, don’t wear a mask, isolate, don’t isolate, to finally, “You’ll be fine. Everyone is going to get it. You have to live your life.”
All of the above offered, I add, without my asking.
Thanks to the Internet and a healthy dose of the COVID politics for more than two years, everyone is an expect and parttime clinician. Or, to put another way, Everyone has become a buttinsky, as my grandmother used to call one of her neighbors.
Had I come down with another malady, few would have offered up unsolicited, sometimes looney medical solutions, save for, “Feel better.”
But, COVID is different. To paraphrase Joe Biden, there’s only three things we need to make a sentence: A noun and a verb and COVID.
Meanwhile, the Times reporting this morning, “Covid-19 is surging around the United States again in what experts consider the most transmissible variant of the pandemic yet.” Still, “Most Americans are meeting a new Covid wave with a collective shrug.” The Chicago Health Department’s commissioner stating flatly, “I feel strongly you can’t kind of cry wolf all the time.”
Even Doctor Anthony Fauci says, “We should not let it disrupt our lives.”
Unless of course, you get it. And, then you don’t have a choice.
Feeling better by the way. And, no I didn’t take ivermectin.
That’s how we view things this week. I’m Craig Burdick. Thanks for watching SNN, THE Suncoast News Network.
