Someone I Know Got Covid

 My plans for the Christmas weekend had been set in stone since November.  But now I am without.

My friend’s wife, a local girl, came down with it I learned Saturday night. She has all the symptoms: headache, stomach pains, fever and throat pain. My friend suspects he was the carrier.  His young daughter is staying with an Ayi (domestic help) and can’t go to school.  He is locked down for ten days.  

So I won’t be doing much this Christmas weekend.  Under the circumstances, I can’t make alternate plans.

As with anything to do with Covid, whether it be the over reaction to it or the virus itself, it came just in time for the holidays.  Too bad.  I was looking forward to the party.

The Gate near the International Department of My School

 Photo taken with the loaner phone.

The bugger thing is that this gate is rarely open so I have to take a roundabout way to get to work.

Will I Finally Get Covid?

 These talk of a surge may mean I may finally get COVID or know someone who did.

But I sometimes wonder if I might have already gotten it.  Just before the Chinese New Year 2020 when it all went down, I had a nasty cough that was so bad that I couldn’t drive the car because of the spasms I would suffer as I coughed.  I had caught the bug from a nurse who I had had a class with.  And at the time, I had asked if I had this corona thingie.

Deuce!

I had a two guess Wordle result a few days ago. I was remiss and forgot to post slash brag about it.

Till now:

I had about ten deuces this year.

French Foreign Legion versus Argentina in the World Cup Final

In my opinion, the  third place match is more compelling.  Now that not much is on the line, will the stingily defensive Moroccan and Croatian teams open it up and play an extravaganza game full of goals?

The final could well be a nil against null yawner decided by kicking the ball at a practically open net until someone misses.

The Africans I know take solace in the fact that the French team looks awfully African.

Mask Hysteria

 People are nuts!

Got to get those N95 masks they say! So many new Covid cases!

Whatever!

Mask Mandates! Will the Madness Ever End?

 My spidy senses were correct,  There was something going on with the masks.

My school is saying mask wearing is mandatory.  I never taught with a mask on, so l wore the mask on my neck.  I really can be bothered to make the students wear them, and they don’t seem scared enough to wear them.

Why are people wearing them?  News going around about a surge of cases for some variant. Probably gaslighting on account of the QR codes enforcement going away.

Restrictions Are Easing but

 Covid restrictions are easing.  I didn’t need to show a code to get into a mall.  The Apple Store person serving me told me the health app wasn’t needed anymore when I asked if I needed to install it on my Loaner Phone.  No testing  has been done at my apartment community.

But, maybe it’s just me, but more people are wearing masks.  I was the only person in the mall to not be wearing a mask,

Loaner Phone!

 My IPhone 13 was freezing and crashing.  So, I took it to the Apple Store in Wuxi.  Two weeks for it to get repaired, so loaner phone!  Loaner phone!

Loaner phone!