and so we slide towards summer...covid restrictions are lifting week by week...we are seeing family and friends...vaccinated, we hug...lunging towards life as it had been...but we really can't...we are in the new normal...a unique state where we excitedly embrace all that we have missed...but with pause...for those who lost someone to covid, life will never be as it was...for those of us who had covid, there is either a leeriness to the rapid fire reopening...or a sense of invincibility...to a degree, to move on we kind of need to ignore the news...we did have falling numbers of cases...and hospitalizations...this morning I read of a concerning plateau...which paired with sinking vaccinations rates and increases of a more virulent and dangerous delta variant could spell an unsettling fall for the unvaccinated...and they are a formidable number...but people spin the dial on that one...the thought of another pause is too painful...there are hockey playoffs...and tickets to buy for the return of concerts and Broadway...cheer fellow Americans at the Olympics in Japan...a country currently drowning in the virus...there are masks to burn...and school board meetings to scream at...time to get front row seats as deniers eviscerate Fauci...a modern day Roman coliseum headliner...watch out for the cougher in row 2...
