Background: Like 7 million other Americans -- anyone with transplants, auto-immune conditions and others -- I'm on an immuno-suppressant. That makes me more vulnerable than normal to COVID-19.
But I had the 2 COVID-19 vaccines and 2 boosters, the last booster the one that covered some of the latest COVID variants. And being cautious I went 2+ years without getting COVID.
Recently I went to a "Floyd Nation" concert, a *great* show by a Pink Floyd cover band (highly recommended!).
It was there at that concert I likely caught COVID-19. Crowded with people, screaming at the top of my lungs -- and as a former Army platoon sergeant I know how to use a "command voice" and yell loud enough to command 200 soldiers to pay attention -- I had a great time doing all things one would expect one to do at a concert.
That put me 3 days in an ICU, with COVID giving me pneumonia in one lung. Thankfully, the hospital had me fixed up quickly, transferring me from the ICU to a normal room and then discharged the next day -- but with a wake-up call that things could have turned out very differently!
Of course, the US federal gov't now pretends that COVID is "normal" and is nothing to worry about.
But the *reality* is that more than 250 Americans die of COVID-19 each and every day.
So my advice: Be cautious!
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