I'm still amazed - and pleased - that during all of these months of the pandemic, and with 600 to 700 clients, we've had less than a dozen contract the virus. All of them were quarantined on our properties - mostly in the same apartments - for the period the doctors prescribed. And none ended up in the hospital.
I attribute this low infection number to the fact that we followed government guidelines as to distancing, mask wearing, hand washing, and sanitizing surfaces.
As I mentioned in an earlier blog, most of us addicts don't live the healthiest life-styles when we're in the midst of our addictions. Many of us smoke, have poor eating habits, sometimes are homeless, have no medical care other than periodic trips to the emergency room. In other words we engage in high-risk life-styles that compromise our immune systems.
Through my eyes, the positive side of this is that if an addict has the discipline to follow the rigid Covid-19 protocol, just maybe they can apply the same principles when they graduate our program and return to society.
Who knows?
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