My Covid Experience (So Far)

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21 January 2022 - Adetswil

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While I was in the US last Spring I got my two jabs of Moderna before all of my friends in Norway were able to. I wanted smooth sailing for my Summer travel to run in Grindelwald, and I wouldn't have been to get the vaccination in Norway until months after my July race. And then in the Fall I got boostered, again on a trip to the US. My Norwegian friends will not be able to get boostered until next month at the earliest. So it seems like to get around the travel restrictions I made the selfish decision to be cowed into obedience. I'm not particularly proud of this, but it didn't seem like the vaccines where much of a risk to me personally even if the mandates many governments have put in place are terribly destructive of freedom. And there was pretty good science that the vaccines were pretty good at protecting people from the version of covid that was around in Fall & Winter of 2020-2021. This year, of course, there is a completely new variant that is much less deadly and different enough that everybody is catching it. So naturally when we all gathered for dad's funeral a couple weeks ago germs were shared and those of us who hadn't gotten it yet like myself, my mom, and my sister all got it. Dell was worried about me Monday after the funeral because I had a lot of snot, so she made me test then and of course it was positive. Other people also fell sick as they returned home, but I was stuck on Hilton Head Island in a hotel to stay away from the rest of the family. Still they got sick. It was never more than a small annoying cold for me, but a long lingering one. I still have too much snot and a slight cough. Fortunately my PCR test last Saturday morning was negative though, so I was able to return home. Nothing like coughing away on an international flight during a pandemic. Now I'm quite ready to no longer be sick and for everyone else to get it and get over it so that we can be done with this nonsense and try to claw back what freedoms we can from among those that were lost. And I really dislike that the argument is being framed as for and against vaccination, when it should be about governments tyrannically seizing our freedom of movement, our freedom of assembly, and our freedom to make our own medical choices. I'm not against vaccination - I'm glad I got it - but I do value those freedoms. Society is not more important than the individual!