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Someone In Our Office Got COVID
And the reactions are interesting.
My day started, like a lot of them do lately, with an argument with my boyfriend. Fortunately, we don’t live together, because that would make my angry “Goodbye!” really awkward as I got up to move to the other end of the couch.
I wanted to talk to him about the different reactions I was seeing from people when they learned that someone where I work, a small-ish office building housing several lawyers, came down with COVID-19.
My co-worker, the infected attorney’s secretary, texted me the minute she found out. She lives with her partner and his 93-year-old mother. I see my own 91-year-old mother every day to shop and help her with daily tasks since she still lives independently in her own home.
This guy does not care about any of that. His wife began exhibiting COVID symptoms the Monday before Thanksgiving, but he didn’t say a word. Instead, he continued to come to work without a mask, and carry on as if nothing was wrong.
By the time he started experiencing symptoms himself on the Friday after Thanksgiving (or so he says) we had all been exposed.
To say that I’m irate is putting it mildly.
