Andrea ran a bit of a fever over the weekend and I experienced some aches and soreness but over all, we're doing OK.
Getting the vaccine is our way of mitigating our risks. The vaccine is no absolute guarantee of not getting COVID but it significantly reduces those risks. 90% of the COVID cases in the United States are among the non-vaccinated.
Which means that 10% of the COVID cases in the United States are among those that did get the vaccine.
I've seen anti-vaxxers point to that as evidence the vaccine does not work. Which is stupid logic. Look, for every 10 people who are sick, 9 did nothing to stop it and 1 did, I'll take those odds.
There are no guarantees. At least there is something people can do to reduce risk.
Sometimes shit happens and we have NO control over.
Like having a rock from space crash into your house.
Ruth Hamilton, a 66 year old resident of British Columbia, had a 2.8 pound meteorite plunge through her bedroom ceiling and come to rest between her pillows.
Ruth was thankfully unhurt by her stone visitor from space.
Oh, one more thing about this story is the sequence of events as told by Ruth: her dog began to bark, there was a crash and boom! There's a meteorite in her bed.
Her dog detected a falling rock from space before it crashed into her house? How awesome is that!
Well, Ruth and her dog are fine.
Why bother with an atmospheric shell around the planet and roofs on our houses if a space rock can still get through and crash into our bedroom pillows?
Of course we can't protect ourselves from every bad thing. I suppose we could armor plate our roofs to repel meteorites but that would likely be super expensive and hard to do. It might be worth it if we lived on a planet where the atmospheric shell around the planet and roofs on our houses were insufficient to stop most falling debris from space and meteorites were more common.
There are things we do to mitigate our risks because the chance of something bad can happen is a very real possibility.
There are things we don't do because the risks are low.
In a time of pandemic, the risks of catching COVID-19 are not low and we should do all we can to mitigate those risks for ourselves and each other.
And yet there are Republican governors out there in America actively seeking to over turn all efforts to use masks, engage in social distancing and get the damn vaccine.
Despite those states being the worst in increases in numbers of infected people and overwhelmed medical resources, the odds of getting these Republican governors are negligible, greater than the odds of a space rock crashing into our bedroom pillows.
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