“i should cap you like old yeller / you’re just about as useless as jpegs to helen keller”

[larryhammer]

We're in quarantine.

Eaglet spent the last two days sick, lighter symptoms than most of their two-day bugs, but icky enough yesterday they still stayed home from school. This morning per SOP we did a rapid antigen test that turned out to be a good thing. So, yeah, their first time after years of carefully using PPE (only two other kids in class still use it) they have Covid.

We grownups are still symptom-free and testing negative. So far.

Not a great week for this, what with Lunar New Year on Saturday, including something like 6 performances by their lion dance troupe over the weekend (not counting the ones they couldn't make anyway), including one for their own school's Spring Festival. Plus a field trip this Thursday to their middle school. And both soccer and flag-football* practices and games. But then -- there's no good week for this.

In other news, Eaglet is registered for middle school, starting August. Already.

ETA: One of the two kids, both also home sick, from Thursday's playdate has also tested positive. Since they are both from Eaglet's core gaming group, there has been some entertainment. Which is good, as Eaglet is energetic enough to periodically chase cats across the house and otherwise declare the entire Boredom Of The World is theirs, when not online with friends.


* For those outside the States: this is the non-tackle version of American Football played at the U14-and-under levels. Yes, Eaglet is playing both footballs now.

---L.

Subject quote from It's All About The Pentiums, Weird Al Yankovic
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Comments

[cmcmck]

These things happen.

Hope it turns out to be a mild dose which seems to be the direction of travel now.

[larryhammer]

It does. Healthwise we're more worried about ours than theirs atm.

[sovay]

So, yeah, their first time after years of carefully using PPE (only two other kids in class still use it) they have Covid.

May Eaglet heal without complications and may you not need to.

*hugs*

[larryhammer]

Yes to both.

*hugs back*

[graydon]

All best wishes!

Dose minimization seems to matter; snorting buckets of carrageenan nasal spray is very likely a good idea. (For the adults, too.)

[larryhammer]

We're looking into that. And other methods of minimizing contact that do not involve masking for all, which mentally is ... not a good idea atm.

[graydon]

The standard advice is a fan in the quarantine room's window, pointed out and run continuously.

(The non-infected should stay as close to the external air inputs as they can.)

[larryhammer]

All doors with screens are open, and the window in Eaglet's room. (Fan, alas, is not an option on that window, given sillage and current equipment. Fortunately, heating/cooling is by mini-splits rather than venting.)

[hildigunnur]

Speedy recovery to Eaglet and hopefully you and Janni won't catch it.

[larryhammer]

Thanks.

[puddleshark]

Oh, no! As you say, there's no good time for it, but this timing seems particularly bad.

Best wishes to Eaglet for a speedy recovery, and may the grownups stay symptom-free.

[larryhammer]

Thanks.

[oracne]

Here's hoping you and J. dodge it and Eaglet gets through easily with a light case.

[larryhammer]

Thanks.

[gwynnega]

I hope that you and J. manage to avoid catching it, and that Eaglet recovers quickly.

[larryhammer]

Eaglet is, as I type this, running back and forth from one end of the house to the other, chasing cats. They are more or less recovered, symptomwise, and getting bored bored bored.

[gwynnega]

I am glad to hear it!

[thistleingrey]

Swift recovery to them.

Reason continues masking at school, too, except during lunch (which is outdoors, but with the way the space is structured, there's not much airflow; still, must eat).

[larryhammer]

Thanks.

Eaglet and the other positive friend are almost the only maskers in their class, indoors. Lunch is outdoors, weather permitting, and the airflow through the courtyard is pretty darn good. It's the wind+rain days, eating in the MPR, that have always worried us.

[marjorie1170]

I hope you all fare well through this! Glad to hear Eaglet is energetic.

[larryhammer]

Thanks.

:boing boing boing: from the other room ...

[sartorias]

Urrrgh! May it go away fast!

[larryhammer]

From your keyboard to God's ear!

[mrissa]

Aaaagh sorry.

[larryhammer]

thanks

[umadoshi]

I hope Eaglet makes a quick, full recovery and that you grownups manage to dodge it. :/

[larryhammer]

They have, but alas we haven’t…