I have always been a kind of bottom-line kind of guy. So here it is, despite any and all precautions anyone takes, every human being on the face of the earth will catch Covid-19. It is just a matter of time. That is the bad news. The good news is that for 99.9% of those who are fully vaccinated with boosters, at least one, and preferably two, you will have a mild illness not requiring any medical care and you will not die from the disease. Clark and I just returned from 2 weeks in Canada and despite wearing a mask, taking Vitamin D, wearing a negative ion generator, etc., etc. we still caught the damn thing. But, no fever, no breathing problem, just a very mild cold with a mild cough, running nose, and sore throat for about 3 days. A nonevent. To date Covid is one of the most contagious and transmittable viruses ever known to man. Remember this during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic people living in the Mariannis island in the South Pacific all caught Spanish Flu and 1/2 of the population died. This occured even though they never had any visitors. Not one ship or airplane landed and despite no contact with the outside world they all got it anyway. The reason's the mandates for masks for example have not worked is they only have a chance of working if 100% of the population wears a mask 100% of the time and does NOT remove it to eat or drink which is basically impossible. In addition have you ever tried to get 100% of human beings to do anything?? Just look at China who with their draconian totalitarian system have again completely locked down Shanghai and yet the virus is still spreading there. I doubt anyone knows why you cannot stop the spread of Covid. I suspect the wind, birds, whatever help it spead. The bottom line is I truly believe most humans will eventually catch it. BUT! If you have your shots and booster the evidence is clear, your symptoms should be mild and you should not die. Elderly folks with mutiple high risk factors will still have some risk of hospitalization and death. Colin Powell is a good example here. He had all his shots and boosters, but still he caught Covid and died from it. But he was under active treatement for not one but two cancers so the deck was stacked against him no matter what. Don't forget every year in America 50,000 die in car accidents and 35 people die yearly falling out of bed and breaking their neck. Life is a risk factor. All we can do is mitigate and reduce the risk which we can do with Covid by getting all shots and boosters.
It also needs to be noted that the current requirement of the US Government to reenter the USA from abroad requires a negative COVID test exactly 24 hours prior to the exact departure time of your flight, or if the test is positive a letter from a licensed physician that you had an active COVID infection and have recovered and are safe to travel. It is somewhat difficult to accomplish this. All COVID testing sites are not always obvious. The ones we found all required appointments and prepayment with no provision for walk in's. Their appointment times where usually 9 to 5 and not conveinent to match your flight times, and resulted in having delays getting an appointment that in our case at least caused us to miss our flights. One example that can impact you is your flight is delayed a couple of hours and your COVID test is now over 24 hours from the new flight time and you have to go through the entire process again with no guarantee you can get an appointment and result in time. For us it was a nightmare. Be sure and consider all of this and have a back up plan in place just in case. We also had trouble finding a hotel room last minute for even a day or two until we could get everthing fixed.
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