I got lucky this year and escaped to Mexico just before all the snow arrived so i was thankful for that but now I'm back and thought I would share some thoughts with you.
Before I left, just like you, I watched all the suffering here with people trying to find a job, struggling to pay their bills and put food on the table and you had to feel sorry for them. But then I arrived in Mexico where $8 a day waiters have been out of work for almost a year and the ones who were still working had been reduced to three days a week. There were almost no tourists so tips disappeared and when Canada locked it's borders, just one canuck decided to stay until the lockdown ended in May. A very sad situation.
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Mexican women are still DROP DEAD GORGEOUS when they dress for a special event like a wedding or birthday party or any other type of celebration. Incredible.
Mexican food is NOT spicy unless you order it that way. And I never do because I am a sissy boy when it comes to spicy but I am in possession of some spices that will melt your face if you'd like to try some.
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There is basically NO VACCINE available in Mexico at the current time. They have approximately 75 million adults in the country and 60,000 in just the area where I go but that area only received FIVE HUNDRED doses and after inoculating doctors, nurses and government officials, it was all gone. Not a single citizen had been vaccinated.
The hospitals have not had an empty bed since last May and they're still using tents for the overflow. The one advantage they have is that they can bury their dead immediately because the ground is never frozen but they still have to use the refrigerated trucks because the funeral homes can't keep up.
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Before an American can return home, you have to receive a covid/antigen test with negative results so you can board the plane and imagine my surprise when the doctor handed me my certificate and said "enjoy your flight home and the antigens are only for your records but you already knew that you have had covid." EXCUSE ME??? WHAT??
"The tests indicates very clearly that you have had covid in the past but are now recovered and your body is producing the antigens necessary to fight off any future attacks. You're in good shape regarding covid." ?????????????????
Now I got very sick for 5 days last February but the doctor said it probably happened after that but I don't remember being sick other that a short cold in the summer which convinces me..... WEAR THE DAMN MASK because you never know if you have it and you certainly don't want to spread it to your loved ones.
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FINALLY, PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE TO READ THIS PARAGRAPH.
Before I end today's column, I just want to take the time to FINALIZE some politics. I can drop the gloves and 'have a go' with the best of them and for the first time in my life, I got totally involved in an election.....volunteering time, donating money and doing whatever I could do to help but my goal was not to get Joe Biden elected but rather to make sure that Donald Trump was defeated and I was thrilled that the majority of people in America felt the same way as I did and crushed him at the polls......... but I am no longer interested in discussing politics or conspiracies or anything related to this past election BECAUSE IT'S OVER. DONE. COMPLETO. FINITO. NO MAS.
Politics are politics and the people in Washington are going to do what they're going to do and there's not a damn thing any of us can do about it...........until the polling places open again.
And now we return to the White Sox and the Bears and the Blackhawks and yes, even the Cubs, along with human interest stories and news items that make you smile and laugh or maybe even cry. Thanks for listening.
HAVE A GREAT DAY AND ENJOY THE SPRING!!!!!
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