In our office, our graphic designer is the only Korean on our team; the rest of us—my other coworker, my boss, and me—are all Amurrican. I can imagine how difficult it must be not to have people you can connect with automatically on a cultural level in your office, and life doesn't get any easier when your daughter comes down with COVID, and you and your wife are supposed to remain isolated with her, thus guaranteeing that you'll get COVID, too.
Which is what happened: my Korean coworker caught COVID at home while tending to his daughter, but apparently, his long isolation period took the probability of his infection into consideration. Upshot: the isolation is over as of today, and our in-house designer will be back in the office starting tomorrow. I don't know whether he got jabbed before he got infected, but we all now know that the jab is no guarantee when it comes to infection: it only affects outcomes like hospitalization (get jabbed, and you'll probably spend less time in hospital once you're infected). The downside of getting jabbed is that it dilutes your body's ability to form a natural immunity, which is considered a better ward against reinfection than the jab itself.
I remain un-jabbed, but I'm impatient to get infected, to get the infection over with, and to have natural immunity. At this point, COVID is simply an endemic reality, like the good ol' flu. Politicians, pro-vaxxers, and other pearl-clutchers need to let go of their fear and understand that the virus is here to stay and is part of the human reality henceforth.
ADDENDUM: seen on Instapundit:
These are the same dumb shits always accusing conservatives of fearmongering.
MONDAY UPDATE: the coworker is back, and he's fine. He never got the jab, either, but now, he's got natural immunity, which is a hell of a lot better than the jab.
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