Our COVID honeymoon

My current beverage of choice

Well, the good news is that Henri took a right at Montauk and missed us.  The bad news is that the virus didn’t.

Yes, the disease Tracy and I successfully avoided for some 18 months finally got us.  I woke up last Friday morning with a fever, not a bad one – 100.5 – but bad enough that I immediately called my doctor and made an appointment for later that day.  The doctor gave me a test, and on Sunday called to tell me I was positive. 

Tracy got tested yesterday and was notified today that she’s positive too, naturally.  So along with preparing for Henri and waiting to get hit by Henri and being missed by Henri, this has been our honeymoon.  COVID positive for two of the most careful people on the planet.  I mean, we went 18 months without being touched by the disease, and then suddenly, BAM. 

We both have been incredibly cautious.  We’ve worn masks everywhere indoors, to various markets and so forth.  So we sat down and tried to figure out where the virus could have gotten us.  The only places I could think of where I didn’t wear a mask were visits last week to a farmer’s market and a local farm stand – both outdoors, of course – but I didn’t wear a mask either time.  At the farmer’s market, I stood in line for a moment or two, and there were a couple of other people at the farm stand, and I didn’t think anything of it at the time.  I’ve been going to both places without a mask all summer.

Which just goes to show the virulence of the Delta variant, I guess.  It apparently snuck up on me outdoors, the so-called “viral loads” carried by infected people probably accounting for transmission in the open air.

So here we are, both of us positive, drinking lots of fluids (see above) and eating homemade chicken soup.  Neither one of us can taste anything except saltiness and sweetness, but after a couple of days of having little if any appetite, we are at least a little hungry.

Boy are we glad we got vaccinated!  As I have reported in the past, although the vaccines will not prevent you from contracting COVID, they certainly mitigate its severity.  This disease which has infected more than 38 million and killed 633,000 so far has hit us with the glancing blow the experts have predicted for people with the vaccine. 

We’re both sleeping a lot, taking it easy, and of course quarantining ourselves.  We’re feeling a little better every day. 

Trust me:  I’ll be back on the case pounding away on these Republican bastards as soon as I am able.