We had one Writer’s Section participant who was willing to talk about what happened to him, personally. That would be our Patient Zero- “PZ,” if you don’t mind. We are happy there were no other reported reactions to the vaccines, at least on The Patio, so there is the possibility that the events on PZ are not shared in the millions who were vaccinated. But there are reports of a spike in sudden illnesses and deaths in otherwise healthy groups.

There is much that is unknown about all this. PZ is of the opinion that he would not have signed up to receive the vaccination had there not been an announced intent to impose a positive vaccination status to board commercial airliners. Family obligations made travel an important priority.

In order to avoid complications, the Moderna vaccine was administered down in Culpeper by volunteers from the National Guard. It was not an unpleasant experience and was managed with a certain impersonal efficiency. Our vaxx sessions seemed to go without issue. The Government did not go forward with the “passport” segment of the travel restrictions.

We don’t know if the medical adventure started with that, or with some different aspect of the gain-of-function improved version of SARS-1. That is the version we know as Covid. We do know that subsequent blood clots in PZ’s femoral artery began then, and it was the start of something that resembled a short but effective stay in the County slammer.

The numbers on the pandemic were strange from the beginning. There were some egregious misattributions in cause. Our favorites were the car wreck deaths counted as Covid fatalities because of a positive test. This was a huge endeavor. According to WHO statistics, in the United States alone there were more than a hundred million cases of the infection and more than a million deaths.

In the case of the Patio Salts, the first one to get it in the circle needed some drama, so we called him “PZ.” He tried to do what was expected by the Center For Disease Control. He asked when people could see him, stand awkwardly apart in uncertain lines and forget his screen camera or internal speakers were “on” while participating in Zoom meetings.

There was no speculation that there might be side effects in the vaccines, even as reports of sudden medical events involving athletes began to show up. Our Patient Zero might- or might not- be one of them. In any event, it was all strange enough to see how it played out. One of us even got lectured personally by Dr. Fauci. And the grand news is that they seem to be planning on bringing it back again!

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