When Will COVID End?

We are going back to the office today and I am not really. Well, I AM ready: I have been vaccinated, boosted and I am ready to mask like Orville Peck. What I am not ready for is to put up with people's fuckery and their refusal to vaccinate and/or test regularly. You see, the thing is I work for a place that lets people in if they have been vaccinated or show proof of negative results in tests weekly. Why are they doing this? Well, the economy, people want to go back to 'normal', etc. The usual suspects.

Oh yes. You cannot sling a cat without hitting someone who complains about not 'being back to normal'. People want to erase two years of a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the US and go back to doing everything it is they used to do before the world was hit with COVID-19. Silly fools. There will not be 'back to normal' after COVID-19. 

One of the things I learned from the awesome guys at ASAP Science is that the idea I had that viruses evolve to become milder is way much more complicated than what I thought. Enters Omicron. I am glad I'm vaccinated and boosted, but there's still the chance that Miss Omicron would fuck me up. Fuck mutations and the unvaccinated. The unvaccinated are driving this pandemic. And when I say 'the unvaccinated' I am not talking about some extra-poor farmer in a developing country with not easy access to the vaccine.

When I talk about 'the unvaccinated' I am talking about the stupid asshole living in the comfort of the United States who refuses to get vaccinated because whatever fucked up thing they read in some post in social media while 'doing their research'. Yeah. Fuck those 'unvaccinated' assholes. The one thing that keeps me going is to know that because I am vaccinated and boosted I am less likely to infect others if I, by any chance, get infected myself. Fingers crossed I will not, right? And also that I am much less likely to keep driving these mutations that keep threatening the immunocompromised and the babies. 

As of today, there are six scenarios that scientists predict could be possible in a world ravaged by COVID-19. What stayed with me is that most probably we will need a yearly vaccine, like we now do have with the flu. And that makes me think that years from now, we will still have people 'doing their research' on fucking Facehook swearing the vaccine came out of nowhere or people complaining about the microchips everybody apparently have had for years and that they swear will eventually cause my keys to stick to my upper arm.

Where is my money, Bill Gates? 

So wish me luck and patience to deal with stupid assholes and let's keep our fingers crossed that I don't have to let some ignorant Karen have it because she's all up in my face without  a face mask covering her unvaccinated face. It's going to be a year, this 2022.

XOXO

P.S. did you know you can get four free at-home COVID tests from Uncle Joe? You can go to WWW.COVIDTESTS.GOV and order yours in under five minutes. There, I also discovered that there's the possibility to have my insurance pay for up to eight tests a month per plan and that there's a list of community-based testing sites in case I need one. And the White House has opened a Hotline to order the tests by phone: 800-232-0233. Stay safe! 

P.P.S. First Betty White, then Andre Leon Talley and now Thierry Mugler? And it's only January? Fuck off, 2022!