Frankincense and Myrrh, Positive COVID Tests, Joe Rogan, You do You

“This virus will leave us entirely newborn people. We will all be different; none of us will ever be the same again. We will have deeper roots, be made of denser soil, and our eyes will have seen things.”
— C. JoyBell C.

Hello, thank you for stopping by the Word Soup Kitchen, where I attempt to share my thoughts and ideas on this wild and wacky time we are enjoying these days. Soon, we will celebrate a significant birthday, wise men, drummers, frankincense, and myrrh, a manager, and a donkey.

I had a good day yesterday; I went up and ran an appointment in the morning with one of our teammates. I had my annual call with my investment specialist. We had a good year; my retirement account is in good order,  I’m in a pretty good place.

I left there and joined our weekly staff meeting. The question for everyone was one Christmas memory you have that you could share. For example, I shared when I was seven, my aunt made a mistake and put my name on two lego packages; I loved legos, and she didn’t have the heart to tell me the other one was for another kid.

I had a cup of soup at Panera before running my final call of the day at 1:15 with one of my long-time clients. They are growing; we went through the coverage limits, I left there and headed home. I was scheduled to join my friends Greg and Greg on a podcast, but I blew it. I arrived home, and Greg was at my house and said, “where were you?” and I thought, “you idiot!” Although I am far from a perfect man, my friend gave me grace, and they had a good chat about my friend Greg’s work.

Greg, Cousin, my wife, and I sat around our bar and caught up; we made some chuck roast tacos and took it easy last night. I talked to my sister who’s husband tested positive for COVID. They just returned from a wedding in Jamacia; a few of the wedding party also tested positive and are now quarantined in a room at the resort for ten days. They can’t leave. That sounds like a horror movie to me.  

I’m not a doctor, but logic and common sense consumption of the news leads me to believe that we will all get this new variant. So we will get a runny nose, maybe a cough, but you will be fine in a couple of days.   My parents were set to visit but canceled due to his positive test.   My wife is not feeling great, I suspect she might have it, but no loss of taste or smell, so is it’s the common cold. So we will stay home for the next three days, limiting our engagement with other humans. Luckily, we had all our family Christmases the past two weeks. So, we will hunker down, hydrate, and take it easy.

Pulling up my “Smart” news app, I see China is locking down a city of 13 million people in advance of the Olympics. A government order said that one person from each household would be allowed out every two days to buy household necessities. Other family members were required to stay at home. Some people are stuck in a hotel; imagine getting stuck like the wedding party in Jamaica, horrifying.

Another article talks about the symptoms of Omicron, and the main tell is a scratchy throat, not a sore throat. As for the writing of this word soup, my throat is rough; I have a lite cough; I can say without a test, I probably have COVID. But where does one find a test? If I test positive, then what?   Aside from my throat, I feel fine. I’m double vaxed, had had COVID before, and feel bulletproof.

I did talk to a good friend who got a bad case of COVID; he couldn’t walk for a couple of days.   He came back to work and felt better, but it can be a bitch for some people. If you are compromised or consider yourself old, I suggest getting the booster. However, my doctor told me not to get the booster; her advice was to wait until the booster was adequate with all the new variants, so I’m taking her advice and will not boost until she tells me to do so.

I listened to the Joe Rogan episode with Peter McCollough; it’s pretty fascinating; I encourage every human to give it a listen. Unfortunately, you can no longer find it on Youtube, but you can find the entire show on Spotify. I asked my COVID infected brother-in-law, who is also a medical professional, to watch, and he shared the following, “We watched the entire three-hour podcast on Spotify. I liked his delivery, and he was very knowledgeable. I would like to believe a number of his thoughts and beliefs, and I hope he is correct about a lot of his points. I am confused about why he got vaccinated after COVID and recovered; if he believes you can get re-infected again? I think we are in the discovery phase of all of this, and the characteristics of this damn virus are still coming to light. I agree with him that the emphasis was placed on the vaccine and not the actual treatment of pre-hospitalization cases.”

I hope these words find you in a good place and space. I hope you are healthy and don’t have a scratchy throat; if you do, take it easy and use your time to work on your plan for next year. I think we are moving in the right direction; I think we will avoid more lockdowns and follow states like Florida and Texas show that the more open society, the better the health of all. There is more than one way to navigate a pandemic, you do you, and I’ll do me, and forever we can both live free.

“This virus will leave us entirely newborn people. We will all be different; none of us will ever be the same again. We will have deeper roots, be made of denser soil, and our eyes will have seen things.”
— C. JoyBell C.