{"id":49958,"date":"2021-12-27T18:24:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49958"},"modified":"2021-12-27T18:24:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:24:34","slug":"ready-and-waiting-for-an-end-to-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49958","title":{"rendered":"Ready and waiting for an end &#8230; to the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pandemic-300x200-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42193\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pandemic-300x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, brother. Let me count the reasons why I am so ready for the pandemic that has become part of our daily lives to be under control enough for it to no longer dominate every news cycle I watch.<\/p>\n<p>The docs the networks trot out keep telling us that the current surge, the Omicron variant, will continue for a while longer. Then they tell us those who are stricken by it won&#8217;t be as sick as before, but that there will be more of them.<\/p>\n<p>I am counting my lucky stars, my blessings and every little thing I can count for the fact that my wife and I have remained free of the virus. Same for our sons and their loved ones. One of my sisters got quite sick a year ago; her husband was asymptomatic with the virus. They&#8217;re recovering and I am thankful for that, quite obviously.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am <em>so-o-o-o-o<\/em> ready for this virus to be controlled. The vaccines are working. They have those oral meds that prevent occurrences. I might stock up on the pills if I am able to find an outlet to acquire them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s becoming clearer to me that we aren&#8217;t likely to exterminate the COVID virus. We&#8217;ll just need to corral it and keep a sharp eye on it.<\/p>\n<p>I am OK with that. I just am ready to be free of the news barrage dealing with the COVID virus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, brother. Let me count the reasons why I am so ready for the pandemic that has become part of our daily lives to be under control enough for it to no longer dominate every news cycle I watch. The docs the networks trot out keep telling us that the current surge, the Omicron variant, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49958\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ready and waiting for an end &#8230; to the pandemic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9423,9261,5085],"class_list":["post-49958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-covid","tag-pandemic","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49959,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49958\/revisions\/49959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}