COVID-19 — Food for Thought

Apparently, I am doubling down today on posting articles. But I felt like this was a big one.

In December 2019 I lost my uncle to what seemed to be an infection, and a virus hitting at the same time. He had already been hospitalized, and had been readmitted to the hospital with what looked to be a pretty severe upper respiratory virus. We were just starting to hear about COVID and really knew next to nothing about it. 48 hours later we were planning a funeral. Brutal right?

Well in may of 2020, I went down pretty hard with a health issue as well, that I am not fully convinced was not Covid related. I was hospitalized for 4 days, and while sitting in a hospital bed, with no real access to anyone beyond the nurses once an hour I had some time to think. So I thought.

Within a week after I had walked away from the hospital the decision was made that I was immunocompromised enough that I shouldn't work. A mutual agreement that I was to be laid off was done so that they could hire someone to replace me because there was time-sensitive work that I could not do from home.

Like most others that were sitting at home, I binged on my streaming services, and I played way too many hours of video games, but one morning after I woke up I realized… Wait a minute… What am I doing? I went from working 60+ hours a week to sitting on my…