Ladies and Gentleman, be careful about meeting up with people especially if you're unvaccinated because I caught covid last week at a company sponsored team outing. Someone at the team outing tested positive for covid the next day.
I have been working remotely in a country where there are no resources for getting the vaccine and I returned two weeks ago to the USA. Hindsight is 20/20, but I wish I would have either returned sooner to the US to get the vaccine, or gotten it immediately after my arrival to the US. As far as I know out of the 10 attendees, I am the only one who has tested positive aside from the originator. My guess is the originator and myself might have been the only unvaccinated people there.
I am not going to lie, part of me hesitating to get the vaccine stemmed from the following:
- Close friends not getting the vaccine
- One of my mentors not getting the vaccine
- All of the media publishing breakthrough cases making me question the vaccine's efficacy
I'm a pretty young and healthy person, so catching covid was a risk I was willing to take. I was also nervous about feeling sick after the vaccine because I had a quota to hit and a lot of other things to do. But honestly, even with mild symptom getting the vaccine sounds like a much better option if I could go back in time. I imagine someone older than me would likely feel symptoms much worse. And now having to isolate for two weeks sucks big hairy monkey balls.
Our company said they will give PTO to those who test positive and need to recover, but I'm also stuck in a room all day so I don't really have much else to do than work. It would be nice if the company gave quota relief this month but I don't expect that from them.
What I learned:
- I should have taken Covid more serious.
- The Vaccine does work.
- Covid sucks if you catch it
TLDR; get the vaccine. Protect yourself and others.
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