![Here's the post I've diligently tried to avoid writing for 14 months.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Yep, I'm Ro Ro Ro-ing my boat gently down the polymerase chain. 🚣♀️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I'm not making any stops on the way to KokoRo. ☀️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I've joined Vancouver's latest punk band, The Variants of Concern. 👩🎤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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But seriously, I have COVID-19. 🦠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I've already completed all contact tracing requirements. We're all safely isolating at home.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We're 18-39. The ones "ruining this for all of us," according to our illustrious Premier. We followed all the rules. FOR 14 F🤬ING MONTHS. We don't see anyone. We don't go anywhere. Yes, we go to the grocery store and we've been to a restaurant a few times (and always felt safe), and of course I'm always at the hospital for appointments for the boys.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So how?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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My husband is an essential, frontline worker. 🤷♀️ Or maybe I touched a contaminated jar of spaghetti sauce one fateful day. We will never know.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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My point is simply that while workplaces are doing all they can, it can never be enough in the wake of neglectful government inaction on policies that turn around and blame "partying young people" categorically, instead of addressing the bungled and slow rollout of vaccination campaigns.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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But "we're ruining this for everyone."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We have 2 immunocompromised, lung-diseased former preemie children we have anxiously protected for 14 months. And now, what we feared has happened.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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But... we're the ones ruining everything.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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To be clear: I'm not worried about us.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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