My Covid19 Takeaway – Maniscalco Gallery
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A year and a half in of mask wearing, social distancing, and just like that, I got the Covid. And it’s kickin my ass. I’m so glad I’m vaxed and boosted. As an added precaution, I also opted to take the PAXLOVID ani-virals, from Pfizer, a regiment consisting of six pills a day for 5 days. Still, even with all this, it’s been a pretty rough ride.
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But I woke up on day five of symptoms and taking the antivirals, with just mild congestion. Still in a mental fog. I am feeling a little nausea, probably because of a reaction with my other meds. I also had concerns regarding an earlier inner ear infection, with left me with inner ear sensitivities. Fortunately, I have not lost my sense of taste or smell. Hoping for a neg test by tomorrow.
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I continued: “Having read your articles, and in consideration of the much larger context of acting as a responsible citizen of the Earth to contain the pandemic, a statistically small increase in the number of SAD and cancer deaths is the unfortunate price we have to pay as a society to prevent mass extinction. Alternative means to combat the virus were not available. There are more options now and people should become educated about what is right not just for themselves but for the good of the community.”
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I did not attend my son’s recital yesterday because I’m still isolating. Another parent, also infected with Covid, during the same time I was, did attend, masked, etc. I chose caution. She chose significantly less caution. She put others at greater risk. I sacrificed something by not seeing my son perform live (I watched the video, he was fantastic!). It is likely this other parent infected others with Covid, last evening, while I did not. I also chose to get vaccinated and boosted; I accepted those risks, those sacrifices as well, because at the time, these were clearly the only best options. I would do the same thing again today, if given the choice, because it was right not just for me, but for the rest of humanity.
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The above were two personal choices that directly affected others in the community. Every day, each of us have both a personal and collective responsibility to survive pandemics, now and in the future. We will not survive as a species without a commitment to both these principals. It’s the “me first and only” mentality which will ultimately be mankind’s undoing. We are the only species on Earth who can choose to put ourselves as individuals over the herd, as it seems we have. That is why we will not survive.
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My concern is in the next pandemic, now that our species has discovered “self-preservation” provides individuals with the ability to survive at the expense of the herd, we will have set a very dangerous precedent. This is something brand new in human history. In past pandemics, it was get vaccinated or die. We got off relatively easily with Covid19. By setting a “do only what’s good for me and only me” precedent to dealing with a pandemic, when something does come along, perhaps even more virulent and deadly, we will surely not survive. And “we the people” will have signed our own species’ death warrant.
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Let us all pray I’m wrong, again.
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