Sturgill Simpson getting back on Instagram has been one of my saving graces during this whole quarantine.
I even thought about enrolling in his Dick Daddy Survival School, just to keep myself from going insane. And because I live on the 29th floor of a building in Chicago and I need to live vicariously through a guy that hangs out in the woods all day.
However on a serious note, Sturgill announced this afternoon that he has tested positive for Coronavirus.
In the lengthy Instagram post, Sturgill detailed his entire experience with the virus up to this point, including the absolute circus he went through just to get tested.
“Ok since they are in short supply these days here are some facts… We were on tour in Western Europe for two weeks late Jan /early Feb..then up and down the southeast/eastern US playing arena shows mid Feb to early March. We played Charleston, SC on March 10 and they pulled the plug on our tour March 12 and I returned home.
This photo was taken at 9am on March 13th when my wife took me to our local hospital ER due to chest pains, fever, and pre-stroke blood pressure levels. I spent an hour listening to a (highly condescending) Doctor refuse to test me because I “did not fit testing criteria” and tell me why it was impossible that I had contracted the virus due to its extreme rarity and that it was not in western Europe yet during that same period (which we now know is incorrect) even though I was told by two nurses that I was the first person their hospital had walk in requesting to be tested.
Almost one month later on April 6th my wife and I were both tested after finally finding a free drive-thru testing facility outside a National Guard depot in Alabama. Yesterday on Friday April 10th, after almost one month without any symptoms, I received a call from the Nashville CDC stating that my test resulted in a positive detection for Covid-19. My wife (who has been by my side since Europe) tested negative.
I should also add that the CDC nurse I spoke to yesterday told me that it reacts differently in a case by case basis and the White House briefings and the information they are providing is basically pure speculation causing fear and that the only thing anybody knows is that we don’t really know much yet.
All I know is I first felt symptoms a month ago yet I’m still positive and contagious and now on quarantine in the dojo until April 19th and really wishing I’d taken my wife’s advice and put a bathroom in the floor plans… live and learn.
But hey, at least our Government appointed task force headed by a man who does not believe in science is against mass testing and we now have a second task force in the works to “open America back up for business”! Dick Daddy out.”
Of course country music has recently lost two legends due to complications with the Coronavirus. Joe Diffie, and then the great John Prine, who was a very dear friend of Sturgill Simpson.
Thankfully it seems like Sturgill is going to be fine, but holy hell I can’t take this shit anymore.
Stay home and wash your damn hands people.
Get well soon Sturgill, we need the Dick Daddy back on stage.