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

[minoanmiss]

ALL GOOD LUCK. Away dang viruses!

[hitchhiker]

fingers crossed!

[tenacious_snail]

wishing you the best. Glad that your house is large which can create some separation.

[noelfigart]

Oh my. Good luck! I am sorry this has happened.

[ckd]

Fingers crossed for you both: that you stay negative, and that his case continues to be mild and ends quickly.

[lcohen]

here's hoping that you stay healthy and his case continues to be fairly mild!

[nosrednayduj]

Um. Sorry? It's sort of my fault, right?
About 15 people from the dance have told me that they tested and they were all negative, so the airplane home seems to have been the vector.

[pauamma]

*knocks on wood*

[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.

[amaebi]

I am holding my thumbs tight for each of you and both of you.

[labelleizzy]

🤞🏻🤞🤞🏼🤞🏽🤞🏾

[wcg]

FWIW, we've been requiring masks at our Contra dances since we resumed them last year. In that time we've had several instances where one dancer tested positive after a dance and let us know about it. We have not had any cases of community spread. So it's pretty persuasive that the masks work, even when people are holding each other close and breathing hard.

I hope they work for you.