When Negative is Positive
A son comes home and tells his Dad, “I think I flunked the test”. “Son, you cannot be negative”, father responded. “OK, Dad, I am positive that I flunked the test.” Of course this is a joke. We live in a time when sometimes negative and positive can be confusing. Recently, after getting three vaccines (including a booster shot), I started to feel under the weather — I had a runny nose, sore throat, dry cough; typical cold symptoms (no high temperature). After waiting in my car for two hours to get tested, I found out two days later that I tested positive for Covid. A week later, though I felt almost normal, the home test was still positive. It took another three days before the test result was negative. During all that time I did not stop working from home (but I would get tired in the afternoon). Though we are together all the time, my wife Elfa did not have any negative symptoms.
I heard from other people who after all three shots got cold symptoms and tested positive. Nevertheless, I think the worst is over.
When last Sunday afternoon Max took us for a walk at the Great Highway along the ocean, there were hundreds of people, and only a few were wearing masks, and as you are reading, in most of California masks indoors are not currently mandated. Covid created a lot of new realities, but also unleashed creativity as you can see in these three images. My new photo-poetry book, “42 Encounters with Love” is available here.
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