Category Archives: pandemic

COVID at Meador Manor

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Granger Meador

November 18, 2022; updated November 27, 2022 It took me two years and eight months to finally contract COVID-19. But I did finally succumb, so I will share my story and the lessons I take from it. Be Careful, Man … Continue reading →

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Fall Break was an Autumn Brake

Posted on November 6, 2021 by Granger Meador

November 6, 2021 | Photo Album Two weeks before Fall Break 2021, Wendy and I received our third doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. That meant our protection against infection would be strengthened for a much-needed brief escape from Bartlesville … Continue reading →

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It tasks me, it heaps me, an inscrutable malice sinews it

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Granger Meador

August 21, 2021 We have begun another school year battered and bruised but not broken by COVID-19. Vaccines now shield most of my colleagues and loved ones from hospitalization and death, even as the Delta variant, pandemic fatigue, and pathological … Continue reading →

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My spiky crystal ball

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Granger Meador

April 25, 2021 Soon the Pandemic Response Committee I chair in our school district will conduct its 50th meeting since March 6, 2020. I provide this overview of our experience as we enter a welcome new phase of the pandemic: … Continue reading →

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Pandemic Pastimes

Posted on December 5, 2020 by Granger Meador

December 5, 2020 Wendy and I are concluding the ninth month of a contracted lifestyle during the COVID-19 pandemic. I expect we face at least six more months of daily masking, distancing, and hand hygiene at work. We’re probably going … Continue reading →

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