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1. Josh has tested positive for COVID. He had symptoms starting on Monday when he arrived home from the funeral, but we honestly thought he felt like shit because he'd just driven eight hours after spending four days outside. He slept outside in a tent in the cold and stayed outside the whole time except to poop and to shower twice. But it wasn't enough. :( I mean, there's no proof that he got it at the funeral. He could have gotten it at the grocery run before he went. Or maybe one of the kids is asymptomatic and brought it home. But I feel pretty sure that that's how he got it even though he was as careful as he could be and stayed far away from people.
The good news is that he's already a thousand times better than he was on Monday. I believe if he hadn't had that long drive and been exhausted and sleeping on the ground (which made his old bones hurt) that we might not have known he was even sick. He's getting better really quickly.
So far none of the rest of us have symptoms, and we're doing everything we can to limit the spread. He's staying in his room (we don't share a bed because he snores like the dickens), not eating meals with us, not sharing towels, not using the pillows and throws on the couch, wearing a mask if he comes out of his room. We've already got practice with the measures we need to take from when I had mono last semester.
Fiona cried last night at bedtime, so I cuddled with her for awhile and told her a story about Wobbles teaching her to grab leaves with her teeth and fling them away to find the bugs underneath until she laughed and calmed down. LOL She's sad about having to stay home from school, and I think she's also scared for her dad since she knows how serious the virus is.
Emma is really worried that she will get behind in calculus.
I talked to the school, and if the girls test negative on Monday, they can go back to school on Tuesday, so hopefully that will happen, and she will only miss three days of school.
I have to admit that I am really scared of getting COVID. I worry that with all my autoimmune problems that I would have a bad case. I also get really scared of articles like one of the recent ones on NPR about how COVID destroys the brain. Of course, the obvious solution there is not to read those articles. LOL
2. I am just completely speechless about what happened yesterday at the Capitol.
I am just hoping that this is finally the road too far for the Republican lawmakers who have supported Trump (after all, since self-interest is their defining quality, and the rioters put them in danger, I think they'll have an easier time seeing the siege of the Capitol as a Bad Thing). It is going to be eye-rollingly hypocritical, but I fully expect over the next year, a ton of Trump's most fervent supporters to come forward and condemn him and try to spin it that somehow they were always against his most terrible actions even while cheering those actions on. And while the hypocrisy will make me throw up in my mouth a little, I think those public denunciations will be important.
3. But some rays of light in the darkness! My state elected the two Democratic Senators that will allow us to start fixing the mess Trump made! And I was a part of it! Living in the South, I have always felt like my vote doesn't matter for anything beyond local matters (I still vote, of course), so this was completely novel and energizing and exciting for my votes for Biden, Warnock, and Ossoff to be so important. And it was doubly exciting for such a historic vote to be Emma's first time at the polls.
I got a Christmas card from![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
stonepicknicking_okapi with a gorgeous cross stitch of my name and a bee and a moon inside. It was really touching to get such a kind gesture on such a shitty day.
The good news is that he's already a thousand times better than he was on Monday. I believe if he hadn't had that long drive and been exhausted and sleeping on the ground (which made his old bones hurt) that we might not have known he was even sick. He's getting better really quickly.
So far none of the rest of us have symptoms, and we're doing everything we can to limit the spread. He's staying in his room (we don't share a bed because he snores like the dickens), not eating meals with us, not sharing towels, not using the pillows and throws on the couch, wearing a mask if he comes out of his room. We've already got practice with the measures we need to take from when I had mono last semester.
Fiona cried last night at bedtime, so I cuddled with her for awhile and told her a story about Wobbles teaching her to grab leaves with her teeth and fling them away to find the bugs underneath until she laughed and calmed down. LOL She's sad about having to stay home from school, and I think she's also scared for her dad since she knows how serious the virus is.
Emma is really worried that she will get behind in calculus.
I talked to the school, and if the girls test negative on Monday, they can go back to school on Tuesday, so hopefully that will happen, and she will only miss three days of school.
I have to admit that I am really scared of getting COVID. I worry that with all my autoimmune problems that I would have a bad case. I also get really scared of articles like one of the recent ones on NPR about how COVID destroys the brain. Of course, the obvious solution there is not to read those articles. LOL
2. I am just completely speechless about what happened yesterday at the Capitol.
I am just hoping that this is finally the road too far for the Republican lawmakers who have supported Trump (after all, since self-interest is their defining quality, and the rioters put them in danger, I think they'll have an easier time seeing the siege of the Capitol as a Bad Thing). It is going to be eye-rollingly hypocritical, but I fully expect over the next year, a ton of Trump's most fervent supporters to come forward and condemn him and try to spin it that somehow they were always against his most terrible actions even while cheering those actions on. And while the hypocrisy will make me throw up in my mouth a little, I think those public denunciations will be important.
3. But some rays of light in the darkness! My state elected the two Democratic Senators that will allow us to start fixing the mess Trump made! And I was a part of it! Living in the South, I have always felt like my vote doesn't matter for anything beyond local matters (I still vote, of course), so this was completely novel and energizing and exciting for my votes for Biden, Warnock, and Ossoff to be so important. And it was doubly exciting for such a historic vote to be Emma's first time at the polls.
I got a Christmas card from
stonepicknicking_okapi with a gorgeous cross stitch of my name and a bee and a moon inside. It was really touching to get such a kind gesture on such a shitty day.