Oddly enough, they are not all there for the cafeteria food. Also, the majority of folks in the hospital are not well to begin with. They test everyone who comes in, even if they are there for an ingrown toenail. What is funny is that nobody will tell us how many people in the hospital are there with COVID and how many are there because of COVID. I know that COVID can lead to very serious illness and death. You think I am making light of a virus that can have devastating effects. Oh, and by the way, the CDC assures us of several important truths, including that if you test negative you could still be positive and that if you test positive you have already spread your lovely aerosols to everyone around you anyway.Īnd, in case you didn’t hear the latest, you should definitely mask up, but it’s not clear that masks even prevent transmission in the first place.īy now, many of you are mad at me. No wonder there are shortages in available tests. Don’t wander into every clinic to get tested unless you feel it’s going to get way worse, which for many of us at this stage, it will not. Should you stand shoulder to shoulder with every hacking person in town to get tested for something that you catch when you stand shoulder to shoulder with every hacking person in town? Whatever happened to just asking for a day off when you need it?īut if you have a temperature or can’t smell your eight-year-old son’s socks, you might be sick. There are lines around every street corner for people to get tested. Diarrhea? Better go get tested for COVID. Don’t forget the probiotics for your MCT-induced diarrhea. And on top of that, enough zinc to galvanize your liver, CBD for depression and MCT oil for your COVID-induced 20 pounds. You take vitamin C, right? No? Liar, you know you do.

During the Clinton era, that was just a drinking game. And they think they should go into quarantine for a week every time they hear a politician say, “Look,” before lying about something. Everyone knows that cigarettes are safer than somebody wearing a mask who is vaccinated coughing 30 feet from you. Two of my employees ran outside to hide-I mean, to smoke. A contact lens rep came in and coughed through their mask. The staff’s response to COVID seems to be one of paranoia. But when an 82-year-old World War II veteran who fought at Normandy reaches his hand out, I am shaking it. Sorry, I know some of you think I should chop my hands off at the wrist after such a terrible act. I just assume they are singing “Happy Birthday” twice while they watch.Īnd, I have only shook hands with someone probably two times in the past two years. Of course, now I wash my hands in front of the patient. I wash my hands as I have done between every patient over the past 42 years. I mean yes, I am vaccinated and I wear a mask when I should, when with the staff or patients or when I am asked to by a business. Has that been studied? If you see Fauci, could you run that by him, please? Never happens on a yucky weather afternoon. Seems like when the day is sunny and beautiful, that somehow triggers COVID. This has happened a little too frequently lately. My first three patients this afternoon all called in with COVID.

Keep calm and carry on