Here, have some pandemic

[cjsmith]

Well, it finally reached our house: Rob is COVID+. (On home PCR, well before any rapid antigen test showed anything. Be careful out there, folks.)

For two and a half years I've guessed this is how I was going to get COVID. Rob was going to go do something fun and he'd bring it home. This is the pattern he and I have followed for decades. (He travels. I usually have a job.) In any case, here we are. I do not always love being right.

Rob says it feels like having the flu, which at our age is pretty darn fortunate, frankly.

It feels weird to be masking in my own house. But if I can skip this, I sure do want to skip this. So far so good. My biggest exposure probably would have been Tuesday/Wednesday kind of time frame. I worked pretty late Thursday, the day he started to feel bad, and we began solid precautions by Friday. If I'm still in the clear by Monday my odds go way up.

Tick... tick... tick... tick...

Comments

[billeyler]

The dynamics and mental aspects of this have certainly changed in 2.5 years. Locally, the only place I see masks now are at anything medical, like doctor's offices and at chorus rehearsals. We also have been square dancing for some months again, mostly without masks. A few people report being COVID+, but it doesn't make people crazy anymore, and typically symptoms go from nothing to light sniffles to flu-like, sometimes with extended periods of tiredness long after.

He could have gotten it on the planes or at the dance event itself. Hard to tell anymore.

[cjsmith]

Things sure have changed. The fact it isn't "good chance of being fatal" any more is a big shift, for one!

He probably got it on the plane. Not a single person from the event itself has fallen positive. Planes are full of untested, unmasked, probably some un-jabbed, people in a closed, best-attempt-ventilated environment for hours. He masked, but one mask does only so much.