{"id":47811,"date":"2021-04-10T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47811"},"modified":"2021-04-10T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T13:50:11","slug":"vaccines-bailouts-and-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47811","title":{"rendered":"Vaccines, bailouts and irony"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The sun has just barely set, but I\u2019m already in bed, waiting for the Tylenol PM to kick in, so I can hopefully conk myself out to sleep for at least 9-10 hours.\u00a0 I have spent the entire day with a fever that has ranged anywhere from 99.8F to 101.4F, depending on the work of all the acetaminophen I\u2019ve been taking throughout the day to try and bring it down, because as much as I would\u2019ve loved to have stayed in bed and just ridden out this ailment, I\u2019m also a dad now, and I thought about these commercials from the past and completely understand how dads don\u2019t get sick days<\/a>, and I still had to make sure my child was taken care of first and foremost.<\/span><\/p>\n

So despite the nagging fever that\u2019s been wreaking havoc through my body throughout the day and made me feel like I was hit by a bus when I got out of bed at 6:20 am, I still completed a fairly routine day of parenting, although I did call in sick to work, because there was no way on earth I was going to be able to do both on a day like today.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t do any sit-ups, I didn\u2019t do any push-ups and I most certainly didn\u2019t go for any runs or do anything physical that would have exacerbated the shit feeling I was feeling all throughout the day, although mythical wife and I still made the best of an impromptu day off by going to the exciting land of Costco for random things, but most importantly $1.50 hot dogs and $9 pizza.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing is, I\u2019m not sick because I caught coronavirus or anything, quite the opposite.\u00a0 I\u2019m laid out because of the vaccine, since I just got Moderna.\u00a0 Frankly, most everyone I know who had gotten Moderna seems to have been laid out just the same in some capacity, and my own mom described pretty much everything I went through, so I kind of had an inkling that I was in for some hurting myself.\u00a0 And much like a self-fulfilling prophecy, I remember waking up around 5-6 times throughout the night, feeling off, and knowing pretty right away that I was probably going to feel it when I got out of bed, and when it came time to do so, it felt like concrete blocks on my feet when I stood up to start my day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless though, I am now vaccinated, and it\u2019s kind of surreal to know we\u2019ve finally made it to this point in history, where the long-awaited vaccine that seemed like a myth and fairy tale throughout 2020 is here, and people all across the globe are getting it, hoping to sooner rather than later, put an end to coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing though; I\u2019ve had this kind of love-hate feeling with the idea of a vaccine, because as I\u2019ve stated before in the past, as terrible as a thing as coronavirus has been, killing millions throughout the world, there were a couple of critical inadvertent blessings that came out of it, mostly namely the fact that because of it and all the stay-at-home measures, I had a tremendous amount more time to spend with my newborn baby and getting to really be a dad throughout the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

But with people getting vaccinated, and the pandemic gradually coming under control, that means my time at home will eventually come to an end when I\u2019ll eventually be needed to go back into the office.\u00a0 Aside from the forfeiture of time spent with my children, this also creates a whole new slew of challenges, like daycare and the financial and logistical matters that creates.\u00a0 Frankly, I don\u2019t ever want to go back into the office, and my job and team have proven how we can absolutely still get shit done while working from home.<\/span><\/p>\n

As much as I want to be able to go to restaurants and dine out again, I\u2019d rather forfeit eating out than having to go back into the office.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another train of thought I\u2019d been having a lot lately is how I\u2019m relieved that the vaccines are here, and I\u2019ve gotten it, but at the same time, I have this negative thought in my head that I don\u2019t like the fact that there are a bunch of selfish assholes out there who are eligible all the same to get vaccinated and therefore reduce their risks of getting coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking about the non-believers, the anti-maskers, and all people who went around throughout 2020 as if there was nothing wrong, and flaunted their defiance of logical standards citing their freedom and rights.\u00a0 I dislike the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of these shitheads out there that are all eligible and probably will get vaccinated the same as those of the world that adhered to safety standards, followed the rules, and showed a modicum of giving a shit about their fellow human beings.<\/span><\/p>\n

The vaccine is a reward and a blessing for those people, but for the selfish pricks that didn\u2019t help the world straighten itself out, it\u2019s a fucking bailout.\u00a0 I know there\u2019s no way to disambiguate, but I really wish it were possible to weed out the people who followed the rules and genuinely want the vaccine, to give it to all of them first, and then let the rest of the degenerates eat themselves over the later rounds of vaccinations.<\/span><\/p>\n

In one fucked up way, it\u2019s almost as if I wished the pandemic would continue so I would have more time to stay at home with my daughter and my future second, and there\u2019s more time for the anti-maskers to be exposed and potentially get punished for their greedy defiance.\u00a0 There are so many out there that don\u2019t deserve a vaccine that are eligible for it, and the idea of the world getting back to a semblance of normalcy where all these shitheads can resume blending back in disturbs me.\u00a0 At least in the middle of a pandemic, it\u2019s become pretty easy to spot the shithead, when they\u2019re out in public with no masks on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the fact that I\u2019ve gotten vaccinated, I\u2019ll still be wearing masks out, because frankly it\u2019s not the end of the world, and save for the beating I took because of the vaccine, I like the idea that I haven\u2019t gotten sick all throughout the last calendar year, and would like to keep it that way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll ever hit a point in the world where masks aren\u2019t ever a good idea, but as long as there are selfish shitheads out there, it\u2019ll never not be up for debate, because we won\u2019t be in a position where unanimous compliance will ever come to fruition.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sun has just barely set, but I\u2019m already in bed, waiting for the Tylenol PM to kick in, so I can hopefully conk myself out to sleep for at least 9-10 hours.\u00a0 I have spent the entire day with a fever that has ranged anywhere from 99.8F to 101.4F, depending on the work of … Continue reading Vaccines, bailouts and irony<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,194,83],"class_list":["post-47811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-coronavirus","tag-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47813,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47811\/revisions\/47813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}