You caught Covid, Ilan?
Gute Besserung then.
Everyone around here seems to currently get it, it's so much more prevalent than 12 months ago, when the lock-down measures were still in place. Our keyboarder caught it, many colleagues (especially ones with younger or school age children) at work have it, the Harley-Davidson maintenance and repair workshop had to close because of it (all the mechanics had fallen sick), relatives have it, politicians get it and have to cut short foreign visits and quarantine there. (Needless to say everyone I know who caught it has been vaccinated or at least claims (s)he is.)
And quite a lot of people say that even the present variant (which is undeterred by the current German/European heat wave) is no joke and that they have never felt as sick in their life - people staying infectious for two weeks is not seldom. Take me back three years or so and I would have laughed at you that a new virus should keep us busy for such a long period in this day and age. Our keyboarder is only regaining his sense of taste and smell slowly and says that a lot of things smell and taste different to him now than the way he remembered them which he finds totally unsettling.
Neither Edith nor I have yet caught it (at least that we know of), but I always say that it can only be a matter of time, statistics are like that. And it is also noteworthy that we know quite a few families or couples where people living in the closest imaginable everyday proximity to afflicted individuals have
not caught it, weird. The one thing you can say for certain about COVID is that it continues to defy expectations and baffle both on a global and individual scale. You know how keyboarders are more the sensitive type.
All that does make you reassess skin and dust mites who seem to get along nicely with us as hosts! We should really start a support group for them. I like parasites that are not out to kill you.
PS: Looking forward to voting again? It's been a while ...
