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tangerinegreen555

tangerinegreen555

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I got a rather stark reminder this past weekend that this vile pandemic continues.

My daughter's 22 year old Chevy Lumina has been problematic lately. So I called my trustworthy 80 year old mechanic to tow it in with a flashing (not good) check engine light on October 12th.

He changed the spark plugs and wires which stopped the flashing check engine light, but it was still coming on and throwing codes related to ignition system.

So I took it back a few times over the next 2 weeks so he could check the code and see what he could do about it. He would clear the code and try to make a repair. Changed a coil under #1 plug and it seemed to work, no more codes at the moment.

So I picked the car up on the 28th after it was in and out of the garage 3 more times to check the latest code.

But on the 28th, my 80 year old mechanic who I've known forever was noticeably flu like sick. I put on a mask the split second I noticed he was ill which was fairly quick. I just got the covid booster a week earlier on the 21st. He was saying he just had a cold or something. "Something" was right.

I called him back the next day to tell him the code didn't come back and maybe it's fixed? But he sounded worse on the phone and said he was shutting down a few days because of fever and chills. I asked if he was vaccinated and he said no. I wished him good luck and told him to consider going to the ER before he winds up with pneumonia.

I called back the next 8 days to check on him, no answer. Dark.

Monday morning I stopped in at my lawn tractor dealer for a couple parts. Where I found out my mechanic died Sunday morning. Of double pneumonia. That started with those flu like symptoms on the 28th.

So sad, so sickening. Such a nice guy who just didn't take things seriously enough.
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I'll miss you Jim. A lot.
 
doublejj

doublejj

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Nearly 1 million kids ages 5-11 will have their first COVID shots by the end of today

Beloved stuffed animals in hand, they lined up at schools, pop-up clinics and children's hospitals to do something that little kids generally hate to do: get a shot. COVID vaccinations for 5- to 11-year-olds began in earnest late last week, ramping up over the weekend and early this week.

By the end of the day on Wednesday, about 900,000 elementary school-age children will have gotten their first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, a White House official shared with NPR in advance of an announcement expected later in the day

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Nearly 1 million kids ages 5-11 will have their first COVID shots by the end of today

About 3% of children in the age group authorized last week to get a low-dose vaccine will have their first shots by Wednesday, according to the White House.
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curious2garden

curious2garden

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tangerinegreen555 said:
I got a rather stark reminder this past weekend that this vile pandemic continues.

My daughter's 22 year old Chevy Lumina has been problematic lately. So I called my trustworthy 80 year old mechanic to tow it in with a flashing (not good) check engine light on October 12th.

He changed the spark plugs and wires which stopped the flashing check engine light, but it was still coming on and throwing codes related to ignition system.

So I took it back a few times over the next 2 weeks so he could check the code and see what he could do about it. He would clear the code and try to make a repair. Changed a coil under #1 plug and it seemed to work, no more codes at the moment.

So I picked the car up on the 28th after it was in and out of the garage 3 more times to check the latest code.

But on the 28th, my 80 year old mechanic who I've known forever was noticeably flu like sick. I put on a mask the split second I noticed he was ill which was fairly quick. I just got the covid booster a week earlier on the 21st. He was saying he just had a cold or something. "Something" was right.

I called him back the next day to tell him the code didn't come back and maybe it's fixed? But he sounded worse on the phone and said he was shutting down a few days because of fever and chills. I asked if he was vaccinated and he said no. I wished him good luck and told him to consider going to the ER before he winds up with pneumonia.

I called back the next 8 days to check on him, no answer. Dark.

Monday morning I stopped in at my lawn tractor dealer for a couple parts. Where I found out my mechanic died Sunday morning. Of double pneumonia. That started with those flu like symptoms on the 28th.

So sad, so sickening. Such a nice guy who just didn't take things seriously enough.
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