After two nights out I stayed home yesterday. That’s not true, I took my Donut Walk™; not only that it became a Donut/French Fry Walk™. Checkers gave everyone with their app a free large order of fries. Checkers is next to Krispy Kreme, I got two delicious fried foods for free. While the 3.8 miles I walked more than made up for the donut that’s not enough to burn off the fries. That’s fine as the fries were not a snack but part of dinner. I am allowed to eat. I am lucky that I don’t need to worry about my weight. For much of my life that wasn’t true. When people make inferences about a person’s character based on their weight they are wrong. You can’t do that any more than judging character by height, gender, or skin color. The only way to judge character is a person’s actions and words.
I had therapy yesterday afternoon. It’s been in the warning but as the world opens up again our schedule has become less regular. As a reliable patient I get extra consideration in scheduling but there’s still quite a bit we need to play by ear. Next week It’s early morning on Thursday. My therapist prefaced telling me that with, “You’re not going to like this but … “ Good thing it’s iced coffee season, so I don’t have to brew my coffee early, just pour it. I always want coffee to deal with therapy. It helps to be alert. The week after that it’s in person! Oy, that’s not what I have on my calendar. I am afraid I screwed things up. I just set a reminder to call the hospital on Monday to clear things up.
Now to talk about something serious. One of the blackest marks on American History is the Tuskegee experiment. Black men with syphilis were denied treatment and lied to so the progress of the disease could be studied. Their health was sacrifices, the health of people that had sex with was risked, so that doctors could learn the course of untreated syphilis. This is rightfully viewed as an enormity. These men volunteered but not to suffer from a horrible but treatable disease.
We are now repeating history but with a twist, the horrible disease is COVID-19 and what’s being denied to the subjects is not treatment but prevention. The shocking part is that people are volunteering knowing what they are getting into. They are choosing to not get vaccinated and risking their own health, and the health of those around them. Lies factor into it but not from the medical establishment but those opposed to it. They are being sold a bill of goods that getting vaccinated is the dangerous experiment. Millions have died because of COVID-19, there have been some unfortunate side effects of the vaccines, but the numbers are dwarfed by the toll that the disease has taken.
Sadly, I know at least one friend that has not gotten vaccinated. She was upset because she feared that she gave COVID-19 to her dog, she hadn’t, but will still not take the simple measure needed to prevent it from happening. I can’t convince her but I’m hoping to convince somebody. People are looking at it backward, the ones not getting vaccinated are the lab rats. The results of the experiment are coming in. As the country opens up those that are vaccinated are staying healthy, COVID-19 is spreading amongst those that have not been vaccinated. This is not a valuable experiment; it shows just what we expected to find. Previous experiments have shown that the vaccine is effective. We in America are fortunate, anyone that wants to get vaccinated can do so at no cost. Most of the world is not so lucky. Take advantage of your good fortune.
Now to make my favorite meal, breakfast. I’ll find out what I’m eating when I’m in the kitchen.
Wise Madness 