Speaker 1: It's nice side with Dan Ray. I'm wbsy Constance me video.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Dan Watkins, and welcome back. Before
Speaker 2: we get into the topic at hand, and let me
Speaker 2: let me just say, I'd like to talk about what's
Speaker 2: going on with COVID in this world, because I see
Speaker 2: some things and I hear some things which are making
Speaker 2: me think that COVID might be on the rebound. I'll
Speaker 2: get to all of that in a moment, but I
Speaker 2: first want to commend the selection of David Meyer as
Speaker 2: the special investigator. He will lead the inquiry into the
Speaker 2: death of Massachusettstate Police recruit Enrique Delgado Garcia. He was
Speaker 2: appointed today to that post by the Attorney General and
Speaker 2: Andrea Campbell. And it's a good choice. I had suggested
Speaker 2: week someone like an Ed Davis. I said Ed Davis,
Speaker 2: or Bill Bratton, or John Blodgett, the former District Attorney
Speaker 2: of Essex County, and I mentioned a couple of other
Speaker 2: names as well, but Kathy O'Toole, who had been a
Speaker 2: head of the MBTA police here and eventually the head
Speaker 2: of the entire police force what they call the guard
Speaker 2: in Ireland. But David Meyer, he was a special counsel
Speaker 2: to Governor Deval Patrick. But I knew him before that.
Speaker 2: He was the former chief of Homicide in the Suffolk
Speaker 2: County Office of District Attorney and worked closely with Dan Conley,
Speaker 2: who's a good guy as well. But when we were
Speaker 2: pursuing the claims of innocence for Joe Solvadi and others,
Speaker 2: David Meyer all of a sudden was put in charge
Speaker 2: of the case by the Suffolk County DA at the time,
Speaker 2: and he looked at the case and he was the
Speaker 2: one who basically said nomas, meaning you know, you guys
Speaker 2: have made the case here and all the charges will
Speaker 2: be dropped, which of course set up the civil lawsuit
Speaker 2: for the Salvadi, Lamoni and the others, the other two
Speaker 2: men who had died in prison. I think that the
Speaker 2: appointment of David Meyer is a brilliant choice and I
Speaker 2: know that David Meyer will get to the bottom of
Speaker 2: whatever happened to this poor recruit who died in what
Speaker 2: they call a boxing training exercise. And Rinki de Godo Garcia,
Speaker 2: who will be waked and buried later this week at
Speaker 2: young twenty five year old man who aspired to be
Speaker 2: a state police officer and in my opinion, was robbed
Speaker 2: of that dream by I'll be interesting. I don't think
Speaker 2: this was like a one punch lucky thing where somehow
Speaker 2: he suffered these incredible injuries. But I say, David Meyer,
Speaker 2: those of you who do not know David, they will
Speaker 2: be a complete, thorough and honest and he will. He's
Speaker 2: the sort of guy that the ships will fall where
Speaker 2: they may. David Meyer and Mark Lee were the two
Speaker 2: assistant district attorneys who finally finally saw to it that
Speaker 2: justice should be given to Joselvadi and Peter Lamoni and
Speaker 2: the other two men who had died in prison. So
Speaker 2: that's how I know David Meyer. I have utmost respect
Speaker 2: for him, and he will he will do a great
Speaker 2: job on this and if they will be if there
Speaker 2: were mistakes made, we will know about it. So putting
Speaker 2: that aside for the moment, we may talk about that
Speaker 2: later on. During the week, I've noticed a couple of
Speaker 2: things that I want to share with you which have
Speaker 2: caused me a little concern for many, many weeks up until,
Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, the end of June. I
Speaker 2: followed and kept track of what was going on with
Speaker 2: COVID in Massachusetts and COVID, you know, really sort of
Speaker 2: petered out dramatically in February mid February of this year,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. The last week in which there were
Speaker 2: more than two thousand new cases was February fifteenth, and
Speaker 2: the last week in which there were more than fifteen
Speaker 2: deaths was that same week. And you just saw the
Speaker 2: debts dropped off from the week of February fifteenth, from
Speaker 2: new deaths from twenty nine the week of February fifteenth, twelve, twelve, ten, fifteen, eleven, ten,
Speaker 2: three eight.
Speaker 3: Five six three five three four four four four five five,
Speaker 3: And at that point the state stopped releasing information on
Speaker 3: a weekly basis.
Speaker 2: But I noticed that a week ago there was a
Speaker 2: real uptick, and on the week of September nineteenth, the
Speaker 2: number of new cases in Massachusetts again crept on any
Speaker 2: given week crept up back over the two thousand figure.
Speaker 2: Now that pales in comparison to again, you know what
Speaker 2: it was in terms of new cases last winter, in
Speaker 2: January and February. But once it dropped below the two
Speaker 2: thousand figure in mid or late February, it never came back.
Speaker 2: And it was a fraction all through April and May.
Speaker 2: And June four hundred, five hundred, six hundred cases. It
Speaker 2: just never really bounced back, but it started to creep
Speaker 2: back in let me see if I get I just
Speaker 2: want to make sure I'm giving you the right information.
Speaker 2: It did start to creep back in June. Late June,
Speaker 2: it was nine hundred and eleven and then slowly but
Speaker 2: surely it began to creep back. So here's the other
Speaker 2: thing that I noticed, and you should be aware of this,
Speaker 2: that at the end of this month, the federal government
Speaker 2: is going to make four free COVID nineteen tests available
Speaker 2: to every household that wants them. All you'll have to
Speaker 2: do is to go to your computer. And they're not
Speaker 2: available now, so you don't waste your time doing it now,
Speaker 2: but you'll be able to get and we'll get you
Speaker 2: that information too. By the way, that the at home
Speaker 2: COVID test, every household gets free COVID tests and has
Speaker 2: nothing to do with whether you're eligible for other federal programs.
Speaker 2: It's available for whether you're a millionaire or you're a popper,
Speaker 2: as long as you have an andretch you get these
Speaker 2: free COVID test people, I would advise everyone to get them.
Speaker 2: So looking at that also seeing more and more people
Speaker 2: in the last couple of weeks, just my observations on
Speaker 2: the street going into supermarkets, seeing more and more people
Speaker 2: being masked and wearing masks. All of a sudden, I'm
Speaker 2: thinking to myself, I'm looking at those as when I
Speaker 2: use the term vectors. So I don't know. I know
Speaker 2: I'll be getting a COVID shot in a week or so.
Speaker 2: The first shot I got was my flu shot, my
Speaker 2: high dose flu shot, which I would advise all of
Speaker 2: you who are on the wrong side of sixty to get,
Speaker 2: but a lot to know what your experience has been.
Speaker 2: Do you think that I'm panicking? Here? My sense?
Speaker 4: And just as I read different articles, I guess there
Speaker 4: are there's some new streams of COVID there are, and
Speaker 4: uh broad the countryside. There's also a change uh simultaneously
Speaker 4: that has been noted here in peace that that I
Speaker 4: saw in Axio's Boston than in a lot of cities
Speaker 4: around the country. Matter of fact, in most every major
Speaker 4: US city.
Speaker 2: UH. A new analysis found that driving rates are now
Speaker 2: above pre pandemic levels. So if you take all three
Speaker 2: of those, the fact that more people are wearing masks,
Speaker 2: that there's been uptick here. We haven't had the flu
Speaker 2: season really hasn't started. I mean today's the first day
Speaker 2: of fall. But we had beautiful weather until about a
Speaker 2: week ago, and and then the rains came in parts
Speaker 2: of Massachusetts. Uh. You see people wearing masks, people are
Speaker 2: driving more, which to me says that you're you're more
Speaker 2: in in contact with other people. That are our pattern
Speaker 2: Our patterns are back to the to the pre COVID time.
Speaker 2: And if you read some of the medical materials, there's
Speaker 2: one that I have here which is from the Association
Speaker 2: of American Medical Colleges. COVID is surging again. This is
Speaker 2: from August, late August. COVID is surging again. Here are
Speaker 2: the latest on new variants, updated vaccines, and masking. So
Speaker 2: my question is to all of you, simple one, and
Speaker 2: that is do you have that sense. I don't think
Speaker 2: that that I can give you the statistics from last week.
Speaker 2: I'll be interested to see what the statistics if the
Speaker 2: statistics are released this week. They were released that last
Speaker 2: week by Massachusetts I think as sort of a warning sign.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to open up lines here. We haven't
Speaker 2: talked about COVID in a while. Are you letting your
Speaker 2: guard down. This stuff keeps mutating, and sometimes it mutates,
Speaker 2: as I understand that into into a stronger form of
Speaker 2: the virus. The editor's editor here, writes, the staff right
Speaker 2: at bridget Baltz writes, if there's one thing that's predictable
Speaker 2: of the virus that causes COVID nineteen is that it
Speaker 2: will continue to evolve and find new ways to infect
Speaker 2: and reinfect the world's population. The latest mutation of SARS
Speaker 2: COVID two, specifically KP one, KP two, and KP three,
Speaker 2: and their sub lineages accounted for most infections in the
Speaker 2: US as of the first week of August, according to
Speaker 2: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the CDC Conveillance.
Speaker 2: So I just want to open it up six seven two,
Speaker 2: five four ten thirty six seven nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Do you think COVID's coming back last winter? I think
Speaker 2: we kind of didn't see much of it. Didn't seem
Speaker 2: certainly as much of it as the winter before. I
Speaker 2: have friends of mine, family members not here in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: but who tell me that they have contracted COVID or
Speaker 2: been diagnosed for COVID. Thank goodness, they were not anybody
Speaker 2: who was in that category of being either older or susceptible.
Speaker 2: So let's let's just get to it. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty six one seven, nine, three thirty COVID. Are
Speaker 2: you concerned? Have you gone and found your masks your
Speaker 2: old mask lately or are you just kind of cruising
Speaker 2: along figuring that this is in the rearview mirror and
Speaker 2: it's nothing really to worry about. I don't hold that view.
Speaker 2: I am a little concerned. I'd love to know, on
Speaker 2: a scale of zero to ten, where is your concern level.
Speaker 2: I'm like it about a three or four right now, okay,
Speaker 2: but it could go up real quickly for me. Coming
Speaker 2: back on nights, I joined the conversation.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: We are in the Window World Nightside Studios and I'm
Speaker 2: proud to have them as the sponsor of our night
Speaker 2: Side Studios. Now, just get to the phones now again.
Speaker 2: I try to pick subjects that are sometimes different, and
Speaker 2: I don't know when the last time you talked about COVID,
Speaker 2: but I'd love to know what your observations are, because
Speaker 2: this is North America's back porch where all of us
Speaker 2: can chime in and you can say to me, Dan,
Speaker 2: you're wrong. This COVID thing is we got to beat.
Speaker 2: No problem. I'm not seeing anybody wear masks. That's not
Speaker 2: been my experience. Let's go to Bob and Pet. Hey, Bob,
Speaker 2: I appreciate you calling in. How are you tonight?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 6: Good Dan?
Speaker 7: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great? Thanks for calling in on this subject.
Speaker 2: Love to know what you think. Do you think I'm
Speaker 2: off based on.
Speaker 6: This, Dan, I think you really are into something. To
Speaker 6: be honest with you, I.
Speaker 2: Wish I was wrong. I wish I was wrong.
Speaker 8: To be honest, You're not wrong, Dan.
Speaker 6: I'm going to tell you a little story. Last week
Speaker 6: I had COVID myself, okay, and eight other people I
Speaker 6: know had COVID, including my parents that are in their eighties. Okay,
Speaker 6: they're doing better now, you know. They've been staying in
Speaker 6: the house and everything and isolating and everything. And to
Speaker 6: be honest with you, this COVID. I had COVID twice before,
Speaker 6: and this third time I had it last week, the
Speaker 6: symptoms seemed worse for me. Okay, I was in more pain.
Speaker 6: It lasted a lot longer than the first two times
Speaker 6: I had it, I was sick for about ten days.
Speaker 6: Aches and pains, headaches, chest pains.
Speaker 2: Question. I want to ask you a question. Did you
Speaker 2: did your doctor or did anyone recommend that as soon
Speaker 2: as you were diagnosed with COVID to get a prescription
Speaker 2: for what's called packslovid.
Speaker 6: Yes, they they had mentioned that to me, but they
Speaker 6: said you have to be within so many days to
Speaker 6: get that. If you have this simple like three or
Speaker 6: four days this that that wouldn't work because it's already
Speaker 6: in your system.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, Okay, fair enough? That is accurate. By the way,
Speaker 2: it's I'll tell you the first time, the first moment
Speaker 2: you think you have it. That's why these tests will
Speaker 2: be very important. Get some tests, all these tests. It
Speaker 2: was funny they they don't have a long life expectancy.
Speaker 2: We had some tests at the house and you look
Speaker 2: at them and it's like, wait a second, these are
Speaker 2: already expired. And I don't know if that's because the
Speaker 2: companies that are making the tests are intentionally producing tests
Speaker 2: which you have to continue to Rebut that's a story
Speaker 2: for maybe another phone call later on during the day,
Speaker 2: later on during this evening. But this hits you like
Speaker 2: a ton of bricks, is what you're telling me.
Speaker 6: A ton of bricks, Dan, and Dan, I mean to go.
Speaker 6: The story gets even a little bit more interesting. Two weeks,
Speaker 6: two weeks prior to this, I had gotten the flu shot, okay,
Speaker 6: the regular regular a flu shot, not the COVID shot.
Speaker 6: The flu shot, so me I was thinking, Oh, this
Speaker 6: must be side effects from the flu shot. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 6: So I waited a day two and the symptoms started
Speaker 6: getting worse. So I called my doctor, and my doctor said,
Speaker 6: why don't you take a COVID test. It sounds like
Speaker 6: you get the beginning stages of COVID. So I took
Speaker 6: the COVID test, and sure enough I had COVID. Oh
Speaker 6: and that was two weeks after I got the flu shot.
Speaker 2: Well, the flu shot is not going to help you
Speaker 2: with COVID.
Speaker 6: Right, No?
Speaker 2: No, I mean unfortunately, it disguised the COVID. It allowed
Speaker 2: COVID to get to work in your system, and you
Speaker 2: were thinking, ah, this is this is the little remnants
Speaker 2: of the flu. So it worked right right. Do you
Speaker 2: have any idea where you got it? Or you said
Speaker 2: that there was some other family members? Was there a
Speaker 2: family activity or event?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 6: No, No, there was no event, nothing like that. You know,
Speaker 6: just we're but people by the you know. My doctor
Speaker 6: also stated that if you get if you have COVID,
Speaker 6: he don't recommend you get in a COVID shot until
Speaker 6: at least three or four weeks after you're cured because
Speaker 6: the covidink.
Speaker 2: I got to be honest with you. I've heard many
Speaker 2: doctors say much longer than that. So double check that
Speaker 2: with your doctor.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because they said it's still in your system and
Speaker 6: it takes a while for that to get out of
Speaker 6: your system.
Speaker 2: Right, but I also think that it can almost reactivate it.
Speaker 2: Double check with your doctor. I had heard that you
Speaker 2: weren't supposed to get you know, if you unfortunately like you,
Speaker 2: if you get COVID. And again I'm not a doctor,
Speaker 2: I'm not playing it on radio. Heard maybe there's some
Speaker 2: doctor right right, is that? I think the general advice
Speaker 2: that I heard was not gett a COVID shot but
Speaker 2: then three or four weeks. But it was much longer
Speaker 2: than that, So I don't want to miss Yeah, I
Speaker 2: want to double check with your doc. And hopefully there's
Speaker 2: some folks out there right now who might be able
Speaker 2: to tell me I'm right or wrong on that. But
Speaker 2: my understanding is once you have COVID, you have the
Speaker 2: antibodies in your system, which is what a COVID shot does.
Speaker 2: So therefore the COVID shot, as I understand that from
Speaker 2: back in the day, it was superfluous and not that
Speaker 2: it was going to harm you, but it was it
Speaker 2: was unnecessary, right.
Speaker 6: I mean then, to be honest with you, I let
Speaker 6: my guy down. I thinking it was all gone. I
Speaker 6: thought it was all passed because the news media wasn't
Speaker 6: like you. They weren't even reporting it on the news
Speaker 6: that much. So I was thinking the numbers went down
Speaker 6: because the news made the news media is not reporting it.
Speaker 6: So I'm thinking the numbers are coming down. You know,
Speaker 6: your gout is down and everything, well.
Speaker 2: The numbers. I kept track of the numbers, and beginning
Speaker 2: in the middle of February last winter, there was a
Speaker 2: pretty significant drop off and they stayed down, but in
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks that popped up, and last
Speaker 2: week there were and I have the numbers right here
Speaker 2: which I can share with you. Last week, if you
Speaker 2: were up, they were you were You and your family
Speaker 2: were amongst the two thousand, three hundred and one new
Speaker 2: COVID cases, and last week there were sixteen new COVID deaths.
Speaker 6: Okay, guy, because when I called my doctor last week,
Speaker 6: he told me that the numbers were really spiking up
Speaker 6: and last week was the big the highest numbers he's
Speaker 6: seen in a while of COVID yep.
Speaker 2: So that's why we're talking about it tonight. And I
Speaker 2: appreciate that you called in as somebody who had dealt
Speaker 2: with it and let it be a warning to others
Speaker 2: to take to continue to take it seriously. Bob, thank
Speaker 2: you much for your call. I really thanks, thanks so much. Okay,
Speaker 2: here comes the news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2: I'd like to hear what you think on this now again.
Speaker 2: I introduced these topics in the hopes that people will
Speaker 2: step up on North America's back porch and express an opinion.
Speaker 2: If you think I'm way off base, and if you're
Speaker 2: a medical professional, I would particularly love to hear from me.
Speaker 2: You don't have to identify yourself by name, but I
Speaker 2: don't want to be giving out income information. The information
Speaker 2: I'm giving out is basically public information. I think there's
Speaker 2: an uptick, and I've seen other things. The fact that
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, the CDC is once again offering
Speaker 2: free COVID tests. I don't know how long that had
Speaker 2: been planned. Maybe someone will call and tell me it's
Speaker 2: been planned for a year. But the coincidence of that,
Speaker 2: the uptick and just more people just seeing more people
Speaker 2: with masks in the last I don't know, three weeks. Uh.
Speaker 2: Is it a coincidence? I don't know. Maybe I think
Speaker 2: it's something we should be concerned about. That's why I'm
Speaker 2: bringing it up tonight, and I hope that you're concerned
Speaker 2: enough and if you have any information that you can
Speaker 2: help us with here in North America's back porch. The
Speaker 2: numbers are six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty
Speaker 2: or six one seven, nine three one, ten thirty. We'll
Speaker 2: be right back on nights Side after this.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, now, again, I'm surprised that more of you
Speaker 2: you were not willing to just tell me what you think. There.
Speaker 2: This is I'm telling you what I think. I think
Speaker 2: that COVID is making a comeback. I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: But when I look at some of the some of
Speaker 2: the medical journals, including one here from the Association of
Speaker 2: American Medical Colleges. And I see the numbers here in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: and I see the behavior of people. Let's go to
Speaker 2: Larry and Dennisport. Larry, appreciate your calling in.
Speaker 8: How are you, sir, Dan Hi? Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: So what do you think about my theory here? I'm
Speaker 2: thinking that that it's time to get a little serious.
Speaker 2: This thing might be bouncing back a little more, a
Speaker 2: little more strongly than maybe we would have expected.
Speaker 8: I'm going to have to agree with you now.
Speaker 2: You can always disagree with me. You know that, Larry,
Speaker 2: don't worry about it. We'll still be friends. Go ahead,
Speaker 2: I know, I know.
Speaker 8: I'm still getting over that seven inches of rain we
Speaker 8: had in thirty six hours.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable, unbelievable. I've never heard rain like that, with that
Speaker 2: intensity to that long two and a half days.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was unbelievable. It was even more unbelievable on
Speaker 8: Cape Caught. People don't realize so the rain stopped. I
Speaker 8: forget when sometimes Saturday I was out in the woods
Speaker 8: on Saturday on Sunday mountain biking on the trails.
Speaker 2: That it was going.
Speaker 8: No, it's like it never rained. Really, it's because the
Speaker 8: sand just absorbs all the water. It was amazing. It's crazy.
Speaker 8: But anyway, getting back to COVID. As you well know,
Speaker 8: I'm vaccine injured since twenty twenty one long term side effects,
Speaker 8: and then I got COVID in twenty twenty three and
Speaker 8: developed into long COVID. So I'm very cautious with COVID
Speaker 8: because the doctors told me, especially people with long COVID,
Speaker 8: you do not want to get reinfected because every time
Speaker 8: you get reinfected, it makes your side effects even worse.
Speaker 8: And I've been working for three years now and I'm
Speaker 8: finally starting to see some improvement with some of the
Speaker 8: protocols that i'm doing. So but here's what I'm finding.
Speaker 8: And like what you mentioned in February and then into
Speaker 8: the next few months, COVID kind of disappeared. You never
Speaker 8: heard about it on the news or anything. People were
Speaker 8: getting cold and thinking it was either allergies or regulars,
Speaker 8: not even testing for COVID. They weren't even doing testing.
Speaker 8: In the last months, I know at least six or
Speaker 8: eight people that have COVID. My own wife had it
Speaker 8: last month. I can't believe I didn't get it from her,
Speaker 8: but they did not suggest for my wife to take paxvid.
Speaker 8: Every doctor is different on that one.
Speaker 2: Really. Well, what I've larry is that if if you
Speaker 2: catch it early.
Speaker 8: Yes, I had in it.
Speaker 2: Was November or twenty twenty two, very mild case. But
Speaker 2: my daughter said, get packs all of it. I got
Speaker 2: it quickly, and you know, it painted necks like two
Speaker 2: pills twice a day, and it kind of left a
Speaker 2: feeling of a kind of a steel feeling like you
Speaker 2: would chew metallic italic metallic better word. But that was it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was no more than the sniffles. But look,
Speaker 2: when when you're on the wrong side of fifty, you
Speaker 2: don't mess with this.
Speaker 8: Well, I look at it the right side because it's
Speaker 8: better than the dirt nap so. But but anyway, I'd
Speaker 8: have some friends that took the pack SUV and had
Speaker 8: some side effects from it. With me, my doctors told me,
Speaker 8: don't get any more shots. Don't put anything in your
Speaker 8: body because your immune system is inflamed and then overdrive.
Speaker 8: And I don't know anybody else that's even getting those shots.
Speaker 8: You can't give them away right now. But getting back
Speaker 8: to that last caller, well, Rob.
Speaker 2: Had his COVID shot this weekend. So there are people
Speaker 2: who and I'm I'm going to get a COVID shot.
Speaker 2: I had a flu shot, a flu shot a week
Speaker 2: and a half ago. I'm I'm gonna I gotta. They
Speaker 2: suggest two days separation.
Speaker 8: At least the Yeah, but if you test positive, if
Speaker 8: you test positive for COVID, they tell you at least
Speaker 8: three months.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's why when when Bob said three or four weeks,
Speaker 2: I always heard longer, because you have it. Well, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe his doctor told him something else.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not a doctor, but but I'm glad to hear
Speaker 2: you say that, because the idea is that when you
Speaker 2: have COVID and you recover from it, one of the
Speaker 2: lasting impacts is you have some immunity. Uh, And there's
Speaker 2: no reason to get a shot any sooner than whatever
Speaker 2: the medical viewpoint is.
Speaker 8: But yeah, yeah, exactly, I'm sorry to hear that you
Speaker 8: that you had it.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're you're now totally immune.
Speaker 8: Well, well, I don't know about that, but it's just
Speaker 8: these long term side effects, these long COVID. You should
Speaker 8: do another segment on.
Speaker 2: Long Oh I've done I've done a couple of segments
Speaker 2: on long COVID, my buddy Cliff Ritchie who was a
Speaker 2: great tennis player. Uh in the Jimmy Connors, Arthur Ash,
Speaker 2: John mcenroll.
Speaker 8: Yeah, right up, And you did it right, and you
Speaker 8: did a great interview with Julie from the COVID coverage censer.
Speaker 8: But you you brought up another subject. I thought you
Speaker 8: were going to tie this in that there's more traffic
Speaker 8: out there. And when I go out in the rows,
Speaker 8: I say, in the middle of the day. You know,
Speaker 8: I'm retired. I say, doesn't anybody even if you're working
Speaker 8: from home, doesn't anybody work nine to five anymore?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. I don't know that you where
Speaker 2: you are on Cape cod might be a small sample
Speaker 2: size the idea.
Speaker 8: No I drive up to Boston a lot.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, okay, Well apparently it's all over the country.
Speaker 2: It's all over the the biggest twenty five again. It's
Speaker 2: like people getting back and get out, and we apparently
Speaker 2: are at traffic levels which were similar to what they
Speaker 2: were pre COVID. Now, look, we probably picked up ten
Speaker 2: or fifteen million more people of drivers age, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean the population continues to experience. All right, Larry,
Speaker 2: I got to run here, I gotta get to break.
Speaker 2: Thanks buddy, talk to you soon. All right, good night,
Speaker 2: all right, we're gonna come back. We're gonna Ruth, You're
Speaker 2: gonna be next, followed by John and Maureen, and I
Speaker 2: want to hear you guys experience. Thank you much for calling,
Speaker 2: and we'll get to all three of you before the break,
Speaker 2: before the newscast. I promise back on night Side after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: nights Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: We get lines filled up. Now, maybe we'll get to
Speaker 2: go into the next hour. Let me go to Ruth
Speaker 2: at Uxbridge. Ruth, do you think I'm crazy or do
Speaker 2: you think COVID's making a comeback?
Speaker 7: I think people are crazy if they don't take one
Speaker 7: on this. I'm older, I've got a birthday coming up
Speaker 7: next month, and on mid eighties. But I'm very selling.
Speaker 2: You're about you're selling. You're about forty five. By the way,
Speaker 2: You've got a great, great voice.
Speaker 7: Thanks well, I can mow my own Launes and Rake
Speaker 7: and all that jazz still and but August twenty third,
Speaker 7: I started coming down with a headache. On August twenty fourth,
Speaker 7: headache still heard. I did a COVID test, said negative.
Speaker 7: I got through Tuesday, and I felt horrible. I couldn't
Speaker 7: get people better realized if they started getting headaches, they've
Speaker 7: got this stuff. And anyhow, I tested absolutely positive that
Speaker 7: Tuesday and the doctor put me on pack full OFVID.
Speaker 7: But the problem is that, yeah, I went through that
Speaker 7: series of the medicine then, but uh, what I have
Speaker 7: Apparently I've got complications now. I am immune immun I'm compromised. Okay,
Speaker 7: So anyhow because of a particular medication, I'm on growth
Speaker 7: rider and so anyhow, my thing that this has happened
Speaker 7: is I got all the fun. I lost my taste
Speaker 7: and finally got it back on. That's so weird. But anyhow,
Speaker 7: as I got well, thought I got well. I've been
Speaker 7: coughing ever since then and can't get rid of the cough.
Speaker 7: And they've just put me on a Marxist selling So
Speaker 7: this stuff is not a joke. I've had all my
Speaker 7: shots and stuff like that, and I don't know where
Speaker 7: I got this from. So I don't know. So people
Speaker 7: better pay attention to it. Because thank you.
Speaker 2: For taking the time to call in an issue the warning,
Speaker 2: because I think that your call is as important as
Speaker 2: Bob's Larry's call was. Yours is important because not only
Speaker 2: did you get it, but obviously you have some lingering symptoms.
Speaker 7: And I've got lingering symptoms now. So yeah, people, please
Speaker 7: be careful. Please take these warnings seriously. And I've had
Speaker 7: to go out a couple of times to get medications stuff,
Speaker 7: and believe me, I'm wearing my mask. But other than that,
Speaker 7: just to get medicine and come back in the house.
Speaker 7: That's it. I don't want to be around people.
Speaker 2: Well, you're always gonna be around Nightside, okay, And I
Speaker 2: really appreciate it.
Speaker 7: I always see them. I love your program.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, I love you for saying that. And again,
Speaker 2: please get better quickly and give me a call in
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks. Just let me know how you're doing.
Speaker 8: Okay, sheld and thank you.
Speaker 7: Good night.
Speaker 2: Good night. Well she sounds great, but obviously she's been
Speaker 2: fighting it. John and Marshall, Hey John, next on Nightside, Welcome, Hi,
Speaker 2: how you doing. I'm doing fun? John? Am I crazy
Speaker 2: about this?
Speaker 5: Or no, no, you're not, And actually it's it's I'm not.
Speaker 5: I'm not seeing a lot on the media about the
Speaker 5: about the uptaking COVID, but I mean, it's definitely out there.
Speaker 9: I like you.
Speaker 5: I'm seeing people wearing masks more often now than I
Speaker 5: did before. A friend of mine is in a combination
Speaker 5: nursing home rehab and she's been in there for a
Speaker 5: few weeks, and on my last visit up, they suggested
Speaker 5: at the front desk where you sign in, they suggested
Speaker 5: that you you grab a mask and wear the mask
Speaker 5: whilere you're in the in the building visiting advice.
Speaker 2: And it's been a while, probably since she had remember
Speaker 2: that used to be back in twenty twenty. That was
Speaker 2: the normal course I did. They gave you a mask, and.
Speaker 5: This was you know, this wasn't it wasn't mandatory. It
Speaker 5: was so it was optional, but they gave you the option.
Speaker 5: So I went in to see her and she says, well,
Speaker 5: I have COVID, and I'm thinking to myself immediately I
Speaker 5: ran through myself. You know, she's in this nursing home
Speaker 5: rehab thing. They told her she has COVID. She's confined
Speaker 5: to her room and I'm thinking, I'm in you know,
Speaker 5: compromise due to a respiratory condition. So I said, well, Okayan,
Speaker 5: are you seeing you? I took.
Speaker 2: You before you went up to see her, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I had to stop in the other day
Speaker 5: and drop something off. And now there's a sign at
Speaker 5: the front desk and that they don't use the word COVID,
Speaker 5: but they say that all visitors are it suggested that
Speaker 5: all visitors wear a mask when entering the facility.
Speaker 2: All right, well that's another good sign, and John, thank
Speaker 2: you very much for and making us aware of this.
Speaker 2: I was hoping. I'm delighted that so many folks now
Speaker 2: have decided to pick up the phone so we can
Speaker 2: kind of alert people to what's going on. And uh,
Speaker 2: a little extra precaution is not going to hurt anyone.
Speaker 2: A lack of precaution could hurt a lot of people now.
Speaker 5: And I'm thinking, you know, as far as precautions go,
Speaker 5: this is a real plus for vote by mail.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, well that's just one example. I mean,
Speaker 2: you still got to potentially go to the grocery store.
Speaker 2: You know, you got to live your life a little
Speaker 2: bit too. And so I don't want to get back
Speaker 2: to the point where we were wiping down kens outside
Speaker 2: our back door when we came from the grocery store.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't want to get that up point. I
Speaker 5: actually where I shot up. I actually I do an
Speaker 5: order online. They pick it for me.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 5: No I have to do is drive up and go.
Speaker 2: A lot of people do that as well. That may
Speaker 2: become even more in vogue. Thanks John, I got to
Speaker 2: get one. We're in here before you break. Okay, let
Speaker 2: me go to Marie and brought them more. We want
Speaker 2: to get you in under the wire head the folks
Speaker 2: who are on the line. We'll stick with it until
Speaker 2: the next hour. Go ahead, Maureen.
Speaker 8: Dan.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I turned on late, but I just wanted to.
Speaker 9: You know, he had just your previous call. I just
Speaker 9: mentioned about that facility he visited his friend. I'm thinking
Speaker 9: that maybe about a month month and a half ago,
Speaker 9: if it wasn't a little bit more, I thought I
Speaker 9: heard that like mass General Hospital was requiring I don't
Speaker 9: know if they were acquiring you know, visitors, but it
Speaker 9: was it was about to wear the masks. My personal
Speaker 9: and you're not crazy. I agree with you, my personal.
Speaker 9: I went to the grocery store yesterday. Yes there were
Speaker 9: myself and there were a few other people that did
Speaker 9: have a mask on. But that's my preference. But like
Speaker 9: everyone else says you have to take care of yourself,
Speaker 9: your your other previous caller, you know, take your precautions,
Speaker 9: you know. So so yeah, just just be smart.
Speaker 2: Well again, look, what did they say? An outser prevention
Speaker 2: is worth a pound of cure. And that's exactly what
Speaker 2: I think we're talking about here. We gotta be smart
Speaker 2: about this, you know, because if it is going to
Speaker 2: come back, all of us will be in jeopardy. So
Speaker 2: I just felt I wanted to talk about it tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm delighted so many people have called on it, Marie,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate that you've called and reinforced it. And
Speaker 2: I have other callers. We're going to get to them
Speaker 2: on the other side of the break, on the other
Speaker 2: side of the newscast, as simple as that. But did
Speaker 2: you get it? Did you get it when it was first,
Speaker 2: when it first arrived back in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: or have you avoided it so far?
Speaker 9: I want to say I got it pertunately about the
Speaker 9: same time as you know, late November. It was after
Speaker 9: Thanksgiving twenty twenty two, and it was it happened to
Speaker 9: be my oldest sister and myself, my husband and then
Speaker 9: you know my sister broblem law. But it was, yeah,
Speaker 9: it was. But again, we were lucky enough that we
Speaker 9: got on the pack slowed my husband and myself, so
Speaker 9: I mean, but everything else you take precautions. But thank you, Jan.
Speaker 9: I know you've got a break. It's great to talk
Speaker 9: to you, and you have a great rest of your night.
Speaker 2: Maurie. Thanks so much for being such a loyal listener.
Speaker 2: And I really mean that I know exactly who this
Speaker 2: is because I see you on pregame and postgame off
Speaker 2: and checking in. So thanks. I feel like I know
Speaker 2: you as a friend.
Speaker 8: Okay, I feel the same.
Speaker 9: Thanks, have a great night. Appreciate you time.
Speaker 2: Thanks Maury. Okay, I'm not going to sure. Thanks, Mary,
Speaker 2: not going to shut change anyone. Bill, Lisa and Alex
Speaker 2: stay right there through the newscast. I'll get you right
Speaker 2: on the other side and we can continue to talk
Speaker 2: about this for a little while. I do also want
Speaker 2: to get to the federal arraignment today of the latest
Speaker 2: nut job potential assassin. We as a country seem to
Speaker 2: produce more political assass essence than than we deserve to. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's just unbelievable what's going on. We'll get to that
Speaker 2: as well, So if you like to join and talk
Speaker 2: about COVID, it's COVID making a comeback, that's the question
Speaker 2: I think it is. And I've explained to you why
Speaker 2: everyone seems to agree with me and this one. If
Speaker 2: you disagree, that's fine, give us a call. Six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Back on night Side, more conversation talking about COVID. I
Speaker 2: think it's back amongst us at a level that maybe
Speaker 2: some of us don't appreciate. Back on night Side, after
Speaker 2: the ten o'clock news,