- 9:10 AM,
Wednesday, May 19th, 2021:
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- So my first gig
after I passed my "Fully Vaccinated" mark on the
17th was, well, quite the test...
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- I mean, I've done
gigs before during quarantine - but never inside for
more than like 30 secodns. And of course, there's the
smoke... I dealt with that once during 2020 and
as I did here: I'd run in, set up the car, and run
out. Nearly holding my breath the entire time. What
you don't realize is that when you can
SEE THE AIR? You're suddenly aware of the
breaths you take. Like, do viruses spread EASIER when
there's a fog machine? Do they get trapped in the fog
and then you are basically LOOKING at the virus as you
suck it in? If you can taste/smell the fog - does that
mean you're breathing in a virus even if you're
masked? It's pretty intense...
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- ...but once fully
vaccinated? It goes down a couple notches. Because I'm
still masked, I'm still constantly moving and spending
the majority of time outside AND I'm
vaccinated.
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- But, yes, this is
it: the last Quarantine Chronicle (unless I do
something Friday... but we're having friends over to
celebrate and that's a better entry to me). My kids
will have spent 436 days in this holding pattern and
obviously it's something we'll never forget.
I just don't have it in me to wax poetic or write
some big essay about what it means because, well, my
kids still aren't vaccinated. What ends this Saturday
is honestly? What most people have been doing this
ENTIRE TIME. Eating outdoors, going to the beach,
going swimming, wearing masks inside... with the one
caveat: we will let our kids hang out unmasked with
familes where the parents have been vaccinated. That
alone is going to feel like Christmas morning to these
kids. It's gonna be a nice, long summer of slowly
reintroducing them to life again and I'm so excited I
can barely sit still to hold a thought in my
head...
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- What a quote,
Shawshank. What quarantine chronicle.
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- Adam
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