My daughter made a good friend over the course of the pandemic. They were in class together during the spring in 2nd grade, but now the girls are in different 3rd grade classes, which really isn't a huge thing since it's not like the kids get to interact on their Teams calls. Anyway, I've worked with the kid's mom to set up Friday lunches for the girls where they eat together over Zoom. We'd talked about having the girls ride bikes together in the park and ride by my house with masks on, so yesterday we finally did. The girls had fun, her mom is a very nice person, but then she made the comment about that "I don't know why, but I have this weird feeling that the vaccine is gonna show up and everything will be normal after November 3rd."
Whoa. I pivoted well with "my doctors have informed me that I'm in the first or second wave to get the vaccine, and it won't be until February at the earliest." She responded fine, we moved on and had a regular conversation while the kids rode bikes. I kinda think she's just a busy mom who's got a lot to deal with at home and doesn't watch the news much. She knows I had heart surgery, that I'm at high risk and I don't know how she could miss the Biden and Black Lives Matters signs in our yard. But WOW.
