Last week was a miserable week for lots of people in Arkansas but also at home.
Thursday night and as it rolled into Friday morning was a sleepless affair as things got a little sketchy. Dizzy. Disorientated. Head in a fog. Praying to the porcelain god, which is a euphemism for vomiting, multiple times.
Friday was much of the same but minus the bathroom trips, not much need for that when you don’t have anything to eat or drink for a day.
The burning question was, could I have Covid?
Working from home, in an ice storm that kept people locked down and my last trip out was the previous Sunday morning for church.
It seemed unlikely but thanks to the free Covid tests provided by the Biden White House, they were here and I took one.
Jamming a q-tip up both sides of your nose is decidedly unpleasant and then the wait. Two lines means you’re sick. One line means, you might be sick from something else, but it isn’t Covid.
It was one line. Thankfully.
Not everyone has been so lucky, as of today, the number of Arkansans who have died during the ongoing pandemic stands at 10,611.
That’s up from last week’s 10,341 as the pace of death has picked up and as expected with Covid fatalities being known as a lagging indicator. In essence, that means it takes four to six weeks for deaths to begin appearing. Covid it isn’t like the flu in HBO’s Station 11, where you get sick that morning, and die that night, it takes time. So, sadly, the fatalities are going to keep ticking up.
That’s why, if you look at the forecast numbers from the Centers for Disease Control, they continue to be bleak, as seen below.
Top line forecasts still call for more than 12,000 deaths in Arkansas, which is where it was last week, and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that.
There’s a general sense of things are going back to normal and there’s certainly a reluctance by Gov. Asa Hutchinson to be truthful but the reality is things aren’t over. It is still an ongoing pandemic and people should continue to take reasonable precautions.
If you don’t want to get sick and die, there’s some things you can do:
Get vaccinated
Get boosted
Wear a mask
Avoid crowds
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Last week was a miserable week for lots of people in Arkansas but also at home.
Thursday night and as it rolled into Friday morning was a sleepless affair as things got a little sketchy. Dizzy. Disorientated. Head in a fog. Praying to the porcelain god, which is a euphemism for vomiting, multiple times.
Friday was much of the same but minus the bathroom trips, not much need for that when you don’t have anything to eat or drink for a day.
The burning question was, could I have Covid?
Working from home, in an ice storm that kept people locked down and my last trip out was the previous Sunday morning for church.
It seemed unlikely but thanks to the free Covid tests provided by the Biden White House, they were here and I took one.
Jamming a q-tip up both sides of your nose is decidedly unpleasant and then the wait. Two lines means you’re sick. One line means, you might be sick from something else, but it isn’t Covid.
It was one line. Thankfully.
Not everyone has been so lucky, as of today, the number of Arkansans who have died during the ongoing pandemic stands at 10,611.
That’s up from last week’s 10,341 as the pace of death has picked up and as expected with Covid fatalities being known as a lagging indicator. In essence, that means it takes four to six weeks for deaths to begin appearing. Covid it isn’t like the flu in HBO’s Station 11, where you get sick that morning, and die that night, it takes time. So, sadly, the fatalities are going to keep ticking up.
That’s why, if you look at the forecast numbers from the Centers for Disease Control, they continue to be bleak, as seen below.
Top line forecasts still call for more than 12,000 deaths in Arkansas, which is where it was last week, and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that.
There’s a general sense of things are going back to normal and there’s certainly a reluctance by Gov. Asa Hutchinson to be truthful but the reality is things aren’t over. It is still an ongoing pandemic and people should continue to take reasonable precautions.
If you don’t want to get sick and die, there’s some things you can do: Get vaccinated Get boosted Wear a mask Avoid crowds