I'm really trying to be a
nice guy. Make it sound like it's a real challenge for me and maybe
it is but I figure I need to stowaways many blessings as I can for
another great day of reckoning coming at some point down the line.
I've not had a haircut for I'll bet you six weeks , since before the
virus took hold here in Utah. I think I've written about my barber
before, little older lady who shop is right across the street from
where I live. She speaks little English and my Spanish is limited but
we communicate well enough.
This afternoon I was
sitting out in the sun reading when my next-door neighbor, Carol
emerged looking all dressed up. I was impressed and of course asked
her where she was going. She informed me she was going to the
hairdresser, it's a new person not far from our apartment complex. My
neighbor had a stroke one time and has a very significant walking
impairment. She can walk but is challenging with a lot of foot
dragging. She indicated that the hair place is not far. I was a
little concerned for her crossing a fairly busy street to get to the
salon. So I figured why not be a nice guy and offered a at least roll
with her across the intersection knowing that as slow as her gait was
it might be helpful to have two people crossing together so that
people in their autos would not get too impatient. I was usually
quite a bit ahead of her and the only time I was close was at the
light when we waited for the signal to change. Again I didn't think
about it that she had gotten one of the people in the apartment
complex with the car to give her a lift. She voluntarily informed me
then that her son had been tested positive for the Covid virus and
seems to gotten a very light case, he and his wife. And Carol told me
then that the one person who usually gave her a ride now suddenly
started avoiding her. Initially I didn't think too much of the
revelation. I got Carol to the other side of the street and went my
way and noticed that my barber who has been closed was open. It was
about then I realized I did not have my mask on and that I MAY HAVE
BEEN EXPOSED! Well, the revelation didn't come like lightning just
came in little niggles and noogles as I pondered what a person
responsibility should be on something like this. The lady went on to
inform me that her son had been tested again a day or so later than
tested negative. So everything was all right. I think I'm okay… I
think but now what do I do? Do I self isolate, more than I already
am, for 14 days? Do I need to take an examination of some sort where
they stick the cotton swab to my brain tips? Do I tell people not to
visit me and tell I know that I'm negative? What do I do? I really
think I'm okay but still in the back of my mind I feel like I'm a
typhoid Mary
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