Originally Posted by
TFarnon
I've got 4 minutes before my next reaction comes off the analyzer, and another 6 to 10 minutes before I swap cassettes on a different analyzer. I am exhausted. My legs are cramping from roaming around the lab all day every work day. My head hurts and my eyes burn. I desperately want a rest, but it's not going to happen for a long time. If I call out sick, someone has to fill my spot, and someone has to fill their spot and so on. There are more spots than people in this town. If you want to work 80 hours a week in this field, you can. This is what COVID has done. This is what the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers have done. This is what legions of idiots who just have to get out and socialize, exchanging infected aerosols and bringing their kids along for the fun, have done. Officially, we had a lockdown in my state. Yeah, riiiight. This is what your "rights" have done. COVID is a lot like unprotected sex. Just as with unprotected sex, you effectively have sex with your partner, anyone your partner ever had sex with, all of their partners and so on. Well, COVID means that you got breathed on my someone, who was breathed on by multiple someones, who were breathed on my multiple someones. It takes only one infected someone and one good sneeze or cough, and all of those nice, clean people you associate with can now transmit COVID to you, and from you onwards to others.
This is what all you healthy-eating, moderately-exercising, peak health advocates have done. None of that stops a virus. None of it. That is the nature of viruses. Reproduce is what they do, and that means infecting hosts. Viruses don't care about your politics, or your so-called principles. They simply spread and reproduce, passing from host to host. And I don't see a vacation any time in the next 12 months.
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