Ah, yes…vaccination.
Y’know, I’m absolutely pleased that my son can have at least some of his senior year back at Roosevelt.
I’m excited that my daughter can see her freshman friends again.
I’m very, very glad that my wife working as the school secretary at Astor Elementary is fully vaccinated against the return of students.
So it’s difficult to express how absolutely, completely, incandescently furious I am that within a month these three will be returning home from interacting with who knows how many COVID-infected randos and bringing who knows how massive a viral load to me, who at 63 is NOT vaccinated and, more to the point, cannot GET vaccinated in time to escape the path through this fucking plague pit because my state government apparently considers me expendable if it means getting the schools open.
At least when I was a GI the Army got me a yellow fever shot before sending me out into the mosquito-infested cuna grass.
I checked everywhere. Under 65? Nope. "Multigenerational household"? Nope. There's just no route for me to get protected from this goddamn disaster. I just have to hope like hell my family doesn't bring home a round for the revolver as we begin to play "COVID Roulette" or dance to "The NoPo Minefield Tango"
I don’t expect anyone in the state government to do anything to help me protect myself, since they obviously knew this would happen when they reopened the schools in March rather than next fall and decided in a very Trumpy way that satisfying the people who have been grousing about online teaching (which DOES suck, I get that...) was worth people like me “taking the (fucking) punch”.
But it doesn’t make me any less furious at the whole pack of sonsofbitches that after nearly a year of me being extra careful and doing all the right public health things I was asked to do that this fucking COVID crapshoot is their gift to me.
Sorry. I’m more than a bit irked with my supposed “leaders” at the moment.
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Being another 60++ male who is likely to be waiting until summer for a vaccination it's pretty obvious who is "expendable" and who isn't... so suck it up and eat ur vitamin d 'cause living a long time is the best revenge ;-)
If I'd have known that the State of Oregon would put this turd in my pocket I'd have made sure to farm the porch monkeys out to the county road crew long ago. It's my failure to foresee that the State would assume that everyone with kids in the public school would be a vitamin-packed thirty-year old instead of a broke-dick old cannon cocker.
That's what I get for assuming any goddamn thing about this idiot country.
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