super spreader

Got to the grappling tournament yesterday. Much more of an ordeal than expected. The word "shitshow" was used repeatedly to describe the crowding and disorganization. Apparently, not the best representation of how these events usually go. On the one hand, I wish I'd signed up so that I could jump in there. It was kind of exciting.

On the other, I was already exhausted, cramped, and uncomfortable after the long car ride and hours of waiting around with nowhere to sit. Left at 10am and didn't get home until midnight. The next event is even further away. Think I'll skip it. I don't want to get up at 4am for the trip to Boston.

It was also my first super-spreader event since the pandemic started. It was hot an humid from all the people packed into much too small a space. They were way overbooked, and no one was masked or anything. Masking would have been sorely inadequate anyhow. There was even a kids' division. 

I estimate a roughly zero percent chance that the air was not chock full of covid. This is what I'm talking about, when I say we need to be able to count on our immune systems. Events like that are going on regularly now, and we can either avoid them entirely, or just do what we can to make sure we can handle it. There were probably even anti-vaxxers there, but the only lives they're risking are their own. We were all exposed to covid just the same.

Hopefully I've already had covid two or three times by now, and my immunity is strong, but I guess we'll see.

update, 5 days later: mild sore throat, fever of 101 😒