Adaptation to COVID world

I remember your ordeal. I’m so glad I was just put off during my break. Trying to get back into a country would have been maddening.

 

My extended family's Christmas Eve and Christmas parties were COVID spreader events. A handful of people came down with COVID. Luckily, I was taking of my father, who can't get around, and we weren't exposed.

Nobody is very sick, happily.

 

My Viktor Navorski era was in August 2020. Every test I took then was free, with having to get to testing sites around the Metroplex without a car making up most of my costs. In 2022 I at least had relatives with whom I could crash, but the testing set me back nearly a grand. A chill went down my spine when some local health authorities suggested bringing back testing and quarantine for the current winter surge in respiratory illnesses, but thankfully that appears to have been just talk.