... because the old man has COVID.His wife seems to have brought it back with her last week from her trip to Chicago. She started feeling poorly the day after she got home, and he came down with it last Friday. And neither one of them would know what it is if I hadn't spent the entire weekend calling him up and badgering him to go and get tested... which of course he didn't do until today, because their local walk-in clinic isn't open on the weekend and he wouldn't go to the emergency room.
To paraphrase something comedian Dave Gorman once said about his father, "I love that man to bits, but he's... stupid."
Anyway, they told him to stay away from people until at least 24 hours after the symptoms are gone, and he's not starting on Paxlovid until tomorrow, so it'll probably be a while before my immunomoderated ass gets anywhere near the shop again. :/
--G.
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