My wife and I have had our second COVID vaccine shot, and we are ready to ditch the mask. Unfortunately, we cannot do that 100% of the time. We still honor “mask required signs” posted by restaurants and shops.
Even before our vaccination, we never let fear control our lives. We did take reasonable precautions, we did grocery shopping, kept doctor appointments, made trips to the cleaners, and had our hair cut. We limited restaurants to outdoor types and limited visits to those with family and close friends. And until just the last few months, we only knew people who knew people who had the virus. Then my sister and her husband were hit by COVID. Both recovered—no hospital required.
At the same time, we do not minimize the devastation caused by the pandemic. We feel for those who lost friends and loved ones to the disease. But, we are shocked by the havoc to our economy and the loss of freedoms imposed to “protect” us. And most of all, we are frightened by the realization that our enemies no longer need bullets to subdue us. All it takes is a virus. Several of my Mark Rollins Adventure fans have suggested that his next adventure involve an evil plot to develop a virus that targets based on DNA—a bug that can kill us but not them!
The line between fiction and reality grows thinner by the day.
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