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Hey guys, today I'd like to talk about COVID content calamities. Let's get started. How many times have I said to you guys that all roads lead to COVID? Well, I'm pretty sure a lot because it seems like that has been the theme for the past two years that everything that happens in your life has something to do with COVID.
And just so happens that my household had a COVID calamity just recently. But before I talk about that, let's go back a little. Back in the very beginning of COVID, our oldest daughter, she had a COVID calamity to happen to her. And not to go into too much detail because I did not ask her if it was okay to share the information about her situation.
But long story short is there was a person at work that came to her that was like, I don't feel well. And then it ended up happening that this person was being tested for COVID. And our daughter and a couple other people that came in contact with her were sent home. Like, you know what, you came too close to her, go home.
And there was a whole lot more calamity with that situation. But I feel like back then, the way that everybody looked at the whole COVID situation was a lot different from what we've got going on now. Because back then, there was no vaccination. There was no glimmers of hope.
It was all doom and gloom. And now that people are being vaccinated and not as many people are being admitted to hospitals, and it's just not a thing anymore, but it's a thing. You know, it exists, but people are acting like COVID is like dead and gone. And we all know that that's not true.
But that's not stopping people from doing the most. And it's kind of sad. It's yeah, it's kind of sad. That's the best way I can describe it.
Because people have stopped being cautious and instead are throwing caution to the wind, which is causing all of these COVID calamities to happen. So let me tell you about ours. Okay, so here is the straight up reader's digests version of our calamity. It's going to be like dry bread, no extras, no nothing.
Here's just the plain bottom line of the story. There was a function at my husband's job, you know, he's in the military. And one of the people they provided for this function ended up testing positive for COVID. Well, my husband had been around this guy for days now and he's like, you know, I'm pretty sure we've always been masked and whatnot.
But the fact that this guy actually tested positive and he knew that he was in close proximity to this guy on multiple days, then it was like it was in his head. And it's crazy because that is me, my cousin Yolanda. She can attest to it. I am mental when it comes to hearing about a disease, hearing what the symptoms are and not long after the symptoms just seem to manifest in my body.
And it's like, oh my gosh, I have that thing that they're talking about. So you know how on 60 minutes, every now and then they would highlight somebody with some uber rare disease and all this stuff. And like clockwork, if I watched the episode and I saw the information and I heard what the symptoms were, it would be a matter of days before I'd wake up and be like, oh wait, I think I probably have what they talked about on TV because this is happening to me right now. Oh my gosh, I can't believe this.
I can't believe this happened. It's so rare. And of course it wouldn't be the situation, but I got myself all in a tizzy for nothing. Well, similar thing happens to my husband.
He wakes up, he gets the information. He wakes up the next day and he's like, oh my gosh, I have COVID symptoms. This isn't good. So he immediately masks up like literally I woke up that morning to see him on the phone talking to somebody with a mask on and I'm thinking, why does he have a mask on at like O dark 30?
But okay, I'm tired. Real duffer went back to sleep. I wake up fully and he breaks the news to me. Well, the fact that he's breaking this news to me is traumatic and devastating because of this.
The horror that I was experiencing deep down inside was that I was supposed to be flying out to Italy within hours of hearing this information from him that he felt like he might have COVID because he had been exposed to someone who actually tested positive. Well, now my mind is blown because he was going to be taking care of our daughter and all of the people that we could think of that could possibly watch our daughter. If in fact, my husband's test came back positive. They were either coming to Italy with me or they were nowhere close to being in town.
And I'm just like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I have this uber expensive ticket to go to Italy for the week. And my husband is saying that he thinks he may have COVID and therefore because our daughter is under the age of 12 and it's not vaccinated yet, he was like, he did not want to put her in that kind of position knowing that she's not vaccinated. And I didn't want that for her either. And so I'm just like, okay, so at every point in the road, whenever I finally wrap my mind around, my COVID situation, our COVID situation changed.
And it was like, okay, they said I can go get tested. I'm about to go out there and get tested today. He goes, he gets there, they send him away. No, make an appointment to get tested.
So now his appointment is for the next day. And then he gets there and they tell him, all right, 24 to 48 hours and I'm sitting there and I'm thinking to myself, there is no possible way that I'm going to be making it to Italy. And so in the meanwhile, I called the airlines, I fly Delta majority, the majority of the time. And the lady Tracy, I got to give kudos to Tracy big ups to Tracy because Tracy kept me calm.
Tracy got me to stop crying. Tracy even threw in some jokes here and there and got me to laugh. But basically what she did, she was like, you know what, how about this? Because you don't know when your husband's results are going to come back, let's push you back a couple days.
So instead of leaving on Sunday, you leave on Tuesday. And then from there, if you get info sooner, call us back. I'll put notes in here that you might be calling us back on early early on Monday to be able to catch the flight out on Monday. And if not that, we'll just push it out another day.
And she was like, don't worry about it. There's no set number of times that you can change your ticket because we are in these COVID times. The airlines understand that and we are willing to work with you. So don't worry about it.
Don't worry. We got you. And man, oh, man. So she got me to stop crying and everything only to then make me cry at the end of the conversation because she's like, is there anything else that I can help you with?
And it's like, Oh, my goodness, Tracy, my angel, you have done so much for me right now. And then the tears just came coming right back. And she threw a joke in there to get me to smile before she hung up on the phone. I'm like, I wonder if that something they learned in training or of Tracy is just awesome like that.
Delta airlines, you need to give Tracy a bonus in her check because Tracy did that. She held me together and pushed me through that little timeline there. So the reason I wanted to talk about this though is the fact that people are doing the most right now. They're not wearing their masks.
And if they got vaccinated, they don't know if they're running around asymptomatic like this guy was and possibly still spreading the disease. And the fact that I had a decision to make knowing what the situation was, I knew that my husband was saying that he might be COVID positive. But nobody knew that I knew that he thought that. So I very, if we had somebody to watch our daughter, I very well could have carried my behind on that plane on Sunday and not said a word to anybody knowing that this was the situation.
And I could very well end up spreading it to somebody if I had in fact caught it and been asymptomatic. But you know, the thing that in my mind was like, you know, you got to do the right thing. You got to do the right thing. One, because you don't want to be running around infecting people.
But two, you don't want to get caught on the outside of the country because in order to get back into the United States, guess what? I have to take a COVID test. They're not making you take one to go to Italy, but they're making you take one on the way back. So it's like, you know what, if I did get infected, I might get stuck in Italy and be in a world of trouble because I don't know that I would know the first thing about what to do other than trying to find the consulate's office and like just prying on their doorstep like, Oh, God, please, please, somebody help me because I have no idea what to do.
And I don't speak this language, not even a little bit. But long story short, there was integrity and what we decided and me staying back and not going to Italy on Sunday. But everybody out there does not have that same integrity. So what does that mean?
Stay the course, continue to wear your masks people, because there are people out here that have COVID and don't know it. They're feeling fine. They're looking fine. You can't look at somebody and tell if they have COVID if they've been vaccinated and or for those people that for some reason, their bodies are okay with fighting it, you know, they may be asymptomatic.
You just don't know what's kind of like AIDS that was the talk back then, too. You can't look at a person and tell if they have AIDS or HIV. So don't treat it as such. Don't sit here and think that, Oh, because he's not on a ventilator, he's not looking like death warmed over that he's okay or she's okay.
Be cautious guys, wear your masks. Don't think that because everybody looks good that they are good. That's that's all. That's my story.
Okay. Well, that was today's episode of Tweeter and thank you for joining me and listening to my story. I know I got a little carried away in that last piece there, but I had to get to the bottom line and that is simply continue to be diligent, continue to be safe, continue to wear your mask. COVID is not gone.
It's still there. It's still a thing. It just may not present itself the same way and you may not be seeing it as much around you because people now probably have it and you don't know that they have it. So rather than being sorry, just be safe, wear your mask guys.
It's not going to kill you. Seriously, wearing a mask is okay. It protects other people and if they wear theirs, then it protects you as well. So let's work together, not against each other because the longer we continue to act as if COVID is not a problem, it's going to remain a problem and that my dear is a big problem.
Okay. Set a lot to say nothing, but bottom line that that's where I stand on the issue. Be safe. Think of yourself, but think of others more and wear your mask.
All right guys, look me up on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram at hevat. That's at h-e-v-e-t-t-e or just look at the hashtag tweet trends and share with me at your COVID calamities. Have you had a situation or run in where somebody has been tested positive and now you're confused as to what do I do next because ABCXYZ was supposed to be what I'm doing and now my whole world has been turned upside down on its head because of this? Share.
I'd love to hear your story. All right. Have a great one. I'll see you again back here on Thursday, but until then wear your mask.