While attending the buffet at Atlantis on Thanksgiving Day, I played slots. No surprise, right? I saw my friend C.'s mom who was with another daughter visiting from Florida. I asked K. (C.'s mom) 'is C. here too?'. She said 'C. has too much to do so'.
I saw C. today - she hosted Thanksgiving which is why she was too busy to bring her mom to the casino last week. C. told me that her mom got COVID AND Type A flu - most likely from her daughter visiting from Florida. 9 people at the get together were infected with one illness or both. C.'s mom ended up spending two days in the hospital - she's 91. She's doing fine, back at home with 24 hour nursing care. C. owns a company and many of her employees were among the guests at the dinner and all are so sick, they have been in bed. Yikes.
She said her sister starting having symptoms on Thanksgiving Day but she truly thought it was the change from humid climate to dry climate. Never imagined she was sick. Never imagined that she was infecting a ton of other people with two viruses she very likely got from being on a cross-country trip on multiple airplanes.
The sister and her hubby were finally able to fly back home today - though C. said 'they shouldn't have but they wanted to get home'.
This scenario is exactly why I don't want to fly. Truly. Don't want to.
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