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COViD Crazy
Locked Up Abroad
Yacht crew usually get confined to the boat or a hotel if they have COVID at work. Not so in Italy, according to Capt. Alan Tookey. The 42-year veteran captain found himself in a 12-day lockdown at a sanitarium after testing positive for the virus before Christmas. He described it as similar to the institutional setting in the 1975 film, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
“I expected to see Jack Nicholson and the Chief,” he said with a laugh.
The crew on the yacht had followed safe protocol, but a contractor tested positive. Then Capt. Tookey did also on the day the yacht was to leave port. “Covid doesn’t care about your schedule,” he said.
Fortunately, he only had a sore throat and congestion, but two days later an ambulance arrived to take him away to the room where he watched Italian TV, started an online language course, and was grateful for internet access. Although the staff were professional and nice, it was a long 12 days, he said.
“I lived mealtime to mealtime, and waited for a test,” Capt. Tookey said with a laugh. “If I see another bowtie pasta before I’m put in the ground, it’s too soon.” — Staff report
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NO MORE NEEDLES!!!
No one likes to get a shot, and no one likes needles. So why does every COVID story on every news channel and print publication show a close-up picture of a needle going into someone’s arm? For some reason the media thinks showing a large and sharp needle poking into a person will prompt them to get a vaccine. News alert: It doesn’t!
Lots of people have a very real fear of needles (including me!), and showing needles over and over does not motivate us to get a shot. In fact, it keeps us from getting a shot. There are so many other visuals to tell the story.
As a small sign of breaking with traditional media, Triton will make a solemn promise to never, ever show a picture of someone getting a needle put into them.
Stop showing needles in the media! We’re over it!! (If you agree, go to Triton’s Facebook page and let us know.) — Jim Bronstien, publisher
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