I feel for you, Cap. Glad it's not worse than it is for you. Having it was honestly the sickest I've ever been. The only other thing that was close was when I had measles as a kid.

Get well soon.

This sucks so very very much. I too have been so thoroughly careful and sacrificed so much to keep my family safe this year, and it's enraged me when others have selfishly risked contaminating us in spite of this. My heart is with you in this, my friend.

Like every else said, I hope it's not a severe case for either you or your daughter. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

I'll add my voice to the chorus of well-wishes for The Captain. Take care of yourself and your family, and I hope to see you again at some shows on the other side of all this.

Our county is still surging, and has one of the highest positivity rates in Ohio still, which is making me rethink going out and about except for work between now and when I get the second dose of the vaccine. It's a gorgeous spring day today and I am off from work and part of me wants to go riding around checking out antique malls and such that I haven't been to in almost a year, and the other part of me wants to stay at home and avoid the careless people of our county. The stay at home voice is winning. I have to go out tomorrow for a nurse visit at my doctor's office to get my blood pressure checked anyways, so staying home today makes sense (BP was way way, way up last week, worryingly so, when I had my first doctor's visit since the pandemic started and they want to follow up this week to see if it has stayed up or lowered to acceptable ranges for someone taking blood pressure meds, if it hasn't come down, we'll start revisiting my prescriptions and other strategies for managing it. They hypertension headaches I was suffering from have alleviated, so I am hopeful. It was a particularly bad weekend at work last weekend and by Sunday when I started feeling those headaches and lightheadedness I was completely stressed out and almost ready to walk out. This weekend was a little better and I am not feeling like I did last Sunday/Monday so I am hoping it was an isolated incident triggered by a bad weekend, but I am taking the necessary steps to make sure. I also need to schedule a new sleep study to make sure my C-Pap setting for my sleep apnea is still effective or needs to be altered, and I will be making an appointment for that today or tomorrow).

I find as I get older, health issues I could shrug off and tough it out when I was younger now take considerably more out of me and need to be addressed and taken more seriously. While I can still physically do a lot of what I used to be able to as a younger man, it takes more out of me to do it now, and I need much longer to recover even when I am feeling good. When I am not feeling good, I get run down so much quicker and it lasts so much longer. I have become much more aware of what I need to do for maintenance and upkeep of my body and am taking the whole thing much more seriously these days, but old habits die hard. I need to keep reminding myself not to be stupid or stubborn about it, and just suck it up and do what is needed even if its inconvenient or unenjoyable. Taking the necessary precautions for COVID safety are part of that.

-M

@bert, I likely got it from my older daughter, who picked it up at school.

Apparently the incredibly selfish, stupid, and irresponsible parents of one of her 9th-grade classmates thought it would be OK to let their kid have a party with multiple dozens of people at it, and within 7-10 days, there were at least 20 reported cases among the kids who were there.

They of course brought it to school in the interim, which is why our HS shut down ALL in-person instruction just one week after returning everyone to the building full-time from hybrid (they'd phased it in gradually, starting with the seniors and working down to freshpeople).

Yup. We live a fairly red area just outside of Pittsburgh, where many people are still flying flags and banners dedicated to the previous POTUS and it isn't uncommon to see a Confederate flag.