An apology for the confusion
What I do
It’s been a day
I found out this morning someone I interviewed without a mask but properly distanced tested positive for the coronavirus. The plan was (and still is) to get tested 3-5 days after that just to make sure I don’t have any issues. Still, I decided to get tested today.
And then came the call the test came back positive. To say I was concerned would be an understatement. And then there was what this would do to my wife and my coworkers.
My wife, a medical professional who has been on top of COVID from the start, said I should get a second test at a clinic just to be sure. I didn’t want to go, but I was hoping this test would come back negative.
As I waited for the test result, I read on Facebook that a former classmate of mine at Smithville died at the hospital in Tupelo from COVID. I had not seen John Turner since 2016 when this picture was taken before Christmas while I was doing a story about the helicopter the hospital uses.
Just minutes later came word that this latest test was negative. I was told it should be more reliable than the one I got earlier. Also, I’m vaccinated, and I showed no symptoms.
I cannot adequately describe how relieved I was hearing about my life for the moment changed for the better.
I also cannot adequately describe how saddened I was by a family losing someone they loved dearly because of this terrible virus.
So when I say it’s been a day, it’s been a day.
A casualty of the delta variant
Who’s playing who?
| SMITHVILLE (3-1) | AMORY (2-2) | HATLEY (0-4) | |||
| August 27 | Belmont L COVID | IAHS L 35-14 | at Hamilton L COVID | ||
| September 2 | at Hatley W 33-13 | Smithville L 33-13 | |||
| September 3 | at Caledonia L 30-18 | ||||
| September 10 | Hamilton W 31-0 | Mooreville W 51-21 | Mantachie L 32-0 | ||
| September 17 | at Alcorn Central W 33-20 | at North Pontotoc W 38-7 | at Belmont L 47-0 | ||
| September 24 | Ashland | Houston | at Holly Springs | ||
| October 1 | at Okolona | at Aberdeen | Noxubee County | ||
| October 8 | Biggersville | Hatley | at Amory | ||
| October 15 | at Falkner | at Noxubee County | Nettleton | ||
| October 22 | H.W. Byers | at Aberdeen | |||
| October 29 | at TCPS | Nettleton | Kossuth | ||
| November 1 | Thrasher |
Sign of the times
Words to work by
If you’re a news anchor, you understand
Recent email to the newsroom:
If you would, please make sure you keep the control room mics off as much as possible. The hearing in my right ear, which I ruined working an assignment desk years ago, has diminished significantly in recent months. So while I can hear fine in the left ear which has my IFB, I’m struggling to hear the meteorologist in my other ear. That makes it difficult when we’re transitioning out of weather and I can’t hear what he/she is saying if the mic is left open.
Thanks,
Craig Ford
Assistant News Director
Anchor/Reporter
WTVA/WLOV
Tupelo-Columbus, Miss.
(662) 842-7620 Ext. 27
On Martin Luther King
He didn’t go around telling people what needed to change in America. He went around and told people what he believed. ‘I believe, I believe, I believe,‘ he told people. And people who believed what he believed took his cause, and they made it their own, and they told people. And some of those people created structures to get the word out to even more people. And lo and behold, 250,000 people showed up on the right day at the right time to hear him speak. How many of them showed up for him? Zero. They showed up for themselves. It’s what they believed about America that got them to travel in a bus for eight hours to stand in the sun in Washington in the middle of August.
Simon Sinek at a TEDx Talk in Puget Sound , Wash.
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