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Everyone Around Me Has COVID

Is my turn coming up?

I was lying in bed last night about to fall asleep, and my wife got a chirp on her phone; her brother and his wife have COVID. I answer back, “That sucks,” and fall off to sleep. On Christmas eve, I wanted to call an employee who had done me a favor earlier in the week, and I called his boss to get the number. The answer I got was “He is out with COVID, his entire family has…