Catching up on some things that occupied my mind-space today: a Covid related FaceBook post, a Wendy's commercial, my awful back pain and the completion of our three season room.
Someone with whom I used to work, and in fact I hired, posted today on FaceBook a meme related to Covid. It said: If you had a 99.8% of NOT getting cancer, how would you feel if you were forced to still go through chemotherapy?
Now this person, astonishingly, is a rabid anti-vaxer. In this day and age, you really have to have your head in the sand if you don't believe in the science behind vaccinations. She does. She also chooses to follow and defend discredited pseudo doctors who speak out against vaccines. It's really the dumbest thing since Quanon, only Q happened after anti-vaxers and I imagine their Venn diagram is almost just one circle.
Anyway, this post was wrong on so many levels. Your chance of getting Covid is not .2%. I believe your chance of DYING from Covid is about .2%, or 10x what it is for the flu. The vaccine has shown to be 100% effective against you dying from Covid. Read that again. Yes, 100% effective. So if you haven't gotten the vaccine, that's on you.
Chemotherapy is a months long if not years long incredibly painful and exhausting process. A Covid vaccine takes 5 seconds and IF you have symptoms, they are minor and last a day. That's a huge fucking stretch to compare chemo to the vaccine.
If you have cancer and choose not to do chemo, the cancer will not mutate inside and get passed on to someone else. Covid however, COULD mutate inside you as it replicates and produce an even deadlier and/or more contagious variant of the virus that could harm the entire planet. You could be the Typhoid Mary of Covid if you don't get the vaccine. That's an actual possibility.
Wendy's is running a commercial where they have an alarm going off and a techno voice saying "Bag Alert. Major Bag Alert." So they have some bag deal apparently, but nobody on their marketing team knows that calling someone a "bag" is derisive and is generally short for douchebag or jagbag or some other such term. Every time I hear the commercial I think to myself, there's a douchebag nearby!!
A little more than a month ago now, the kids started playing soccer on Thursdays and Saturdays with practice on Thursdays. I didn't volunteer to coach, but I did volunteer to help. Unfortunately, no one else volunteered to do either, so I was left holding the bag. Shortly after running around on admittedly older sneakers, my lower back started ailing. It has continued to hurt with a pain going down both butt cheeks when it flares up. Normally the flare up is right after I get out of bed in the morning, including in the shower. Periodically during the day the pain reappears and stops me mid-step. That said, I'm able to golf and go to the gym to workout (including riding the stationary bike), without pain. Go figure. It could be a slipped disc that would rectify itself in time. It seems like Sciatica has these symptoms as well, which could also rectify itself. OR it could be something worse, like spinal stenosis. Let's hope not.
Finally, our three season room is complete! We tore out the pergola and put in the room covering a slightly larger foot print. Why 3 seasons? Our house is plenty big and I don't want to add to the tax base for it. Since the room has no heating or A/C, it would not be considered additional square footage for the house for tax purposes. Win win! However, it is SOLID! The HOA said we had to make it look like the rest of the house which, on the first level, is brick. The contractor did a great job a price about half what we were quoted from two other companies. I'll post some pics here of the final product and then work backwards with some pics from construction.
This is how it looks now! We've also added a table and parts of an L shaped sofa, but it's not complete yet.
And now we go back to the construction phase.
