This is an update to my last blog about Covid never going away.
90-day guy is a special creature. The guy will tell you to your face one thing, then decide he is neutral when confrontation hits. He likes to fancy himself as Switzerland then right afterward claim he had your side the entire time, but it’s about harmony. Make love not war right? He is also one of the most gullible people on the planet… but then again what do you expect from a guy who views as much as 12 hours of tv a day at least?
So, he claims he called my colleague to discuss the Covid situation last night, a call that lasted 10 minutes, I highly doubt this to be true. He proceeded to text me saying “we all need to do a better job of staying home when sick.” All of us? Why me?
The following morning my colleague wanted to speak with me about the incident. I simply stated if you know we both got it at Chipotle, I need to file a complaint, we cannot have a business that allows people to flaunt the Covid 19 laws regarding restaurants. (For those not in the know, you CANNOT under any circumstances come to work in food service with any symptoms of virus/illness). I could tell by the look on his face, he knew I was on to his BS, and unlike the 90-day guy, I was going to actually make him prove it. When he said “we both felt sluggish” yep, but I said how did you know to test for Covid in the AM with no symptoms? He tried a retort, but I once again called him out saying “if you were Covid positive, why wouldn’t you demand I test? Or warn the other two (he has a temp replacement who comes in when he is out) about me likely being a Covid positive…. Because you know we both got it at the same time, right?
The look on his face said it all, it’s the same look a married man gives his wife when he states “sweetheart this is the only times you cheated on me right?” and her “well honey….” Response.
He knew the gig was up, and it was time to come clean. He told me he was exposed to it via friends over the weekend. Not a crime, it happens. Parties/events etc. It’s a thing. He said symptoms started Monday afternoon, he simply ignored them, figuring this would just go away. Tuesday it was worse, so he was downing the Robitussin to suppress his coughing symptoms. He took me to lunch to try to place the blame on me. When returning to work, he could no longer hide his cough because I sat in the breakroom the entire afternoon so he couldn’t grab said Robitussin. He tested positive Wednesday morning early, and decided he was going to take the day off. He continued throughout the day texting me asking if I had any symptoms, since I didn’t, his master plan wasn’t going to work. You can’t say we both got it at Chipotle when I’m not sick yet.
He told me that he told 90-day guy the lie simply because he knew he would believe it, much like the second time he gave me Covid and he said I got it at the gym. He thinks 90-day guy is stupid, I think he is just very gullible.
The real lesson he needed to learn was not that he got Covid and was not exactly forthcoming, it’s that he created chaos. When you give a very contagious virus like Covid to someone you are also exposing their entire network. By not being forthcoming you allow said network to be exposed when you are likely highly contagious. I have always lived by “its better for ask for permission than to ask for forgiveness” having to explain to folks you may be exposed to covid is a hard thing to do. As a result, I had to burn a day off work, and am out of pocket around $600 for doctor visit, official covid test from a pharmacy, and Paxlovid. All avoidable. His temporary replacement was supposed to go to a 1-year-old’s birthday and a family party the following day, out of abundance of caution he stayed away. He got lucky, he was briefly exposed and did not test positive over the 5 days.
If there is a lesson to be learned here, I will say this, Paxlovid works. Really well. I was over this in about 3 days, as I started feeling better Saturday night. He on the other hand, waited until the symptoms were so bad Paxlovid didn’t work. It must be taken at the first sign of symptoms, which I did. I lost about 7 lbs. over those 3 days, but I came out alright, he did not.
It could have been a lot worse.
Johnnie Does
Editor’s Note: This was submitted right after I went to Europe, but I couldn’t post it until today.