I continue to be grateful

[lunabee34]

We had planned to leave yesterday to go visit Josh's sister for the weekend.

Wednesday night, her husband started coughing. He got vaccinated (J&J) back in April, but he got a test yesterday in an abundance of caution. He got the results today. He has COVID.

I'm so glad he got tested. His symptoms are very, very mild. I'm so glad he even had symptoms at all because we would all have gone and potentially gotten sick.

On Friday, my kid is supposed to go back to school in a district where I don't think they're going to be doing any mitigation measures anymore. None. She's going to wear a mask, but I'm pretty sure nobody else (adults included) will be. In two weeks, I'm going back to work and we're not socially distancing or requiring masks or requiring vaccines. I keep hoping that some of this is going to change in the next week. *sigh*

But for now I am deeply grateful that for at least a little while longer my family is safe.

Comments

[china_shop]

*huuuuuugs*

So much kudos to your brother-in-law for getting tested! It really is about respecting and protecting others.

(I wish the schools were doing their part, gah!)

[minoanmiss]

This this all of this! Meep.

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

[lunabee34]

Me too. :(

I was really skeptical about my institution but I have to give them props for last year. Because all of our classrooms were socially distanced and because of the mask mandate, transmission was really low. I'm afraid of what this year will be like now that we're all back in classrooms with no socially distancing and no masks.

I worry about Fiona, too. Her school was "socially distancing" and "wearing masks" last year but like in the most in name only way. I think the only reason her school was fine is that 5-7 year olds are extremely resilient and that age group has statistically been okay (with exceptions and lord do I not want her to end up one of them).

[kass]

oh man. I'm so glad you and yours are ok.

[lunabee34]

Me too.

*clings*

[independence1776]

I'm glad he got a test and that he recovers rapidly!

*hugs*

[lunabee34]

Me too. So far, he doesn't even really have cold symptoms, so I am hopeful for an almost asymptomatic experience for him and that Josh's sister will just not even get it.

*hugs*

[tabaqui]

My state is being so stupid about this and I can't see me taking my mask off for a LONG time.

[lunabee34]

Me either.

Before Delta, I was looking forward to teaching without a mask--wearing it at other times, but taking it off while standing up in front of the classroom. Yeah, that's not happening.

[lyr]

Ack. I know what you mean. I think I will teach masked, the way things are going.

[lunabee34]

Me too.

Before Delta, I was going to teach unmasked, and I was looking forward to it. I'm still wearing a mask even after vaccination, but I was going to take it off in front of the class for that brief time. Yeah, no.

[amejisuto]

Wow, you're lucky! That was a close call! Hope your brother-in-law feels better soon!

[lunabee34]

INORITE?

I hope so too. I don't think he even feels bad which I'm grateful for.

[amejisuto]

That's good!

[musesfool]

*hugs*

That was a close call - I'm glad you got the news before you left, though I'm sorry he's sick.

We are still moving ahead with reopening but with masks in place for everyone in the office. We'll see how it goes I guess.

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

Honestly, if y'all wear masks and do social distancing (and don't eat or sing or exercise together), I think you should be okay. I was so skeptical when they made us go back to the classroom last year, but those measures made it okay. That being said, it's not foolproof, and it's still scary. The other thing that helps is everyone being vaccinated. Where I am, most people are not, which makes it worse.

[musesfool]

Yeah, I'm not particularly worried about in the office (most of my coworkers are vaccinated and they just renovated the space and upgraded the air filters, though there are still questions about eating in shared spaces and it's now a completely open office plan), but I am anxious about the subway (for all of us!), and the fact that many of them have kids under 12 who can't be vaxxed yet.

[lunabee34]

Oh of course. The subway would be really scary. *hugs*

I remember you posting about the switch to the completely open office plan. Those are so horrible and a bane on human existence. They only ever sound good on paper and never do any of the things they're supposed to do in practice.

[executrix]

Well, that's a Die Hard level of the same shit happening to the same guy.

[lunabee34]

It's my brother that's had it twice already. But he's not vaccinated because he is a Dumbass. Maybe if he has it three times he'll see the light. But I doubt it.

LOL

Hope you're doing well. Been thinking of you.

[umadoshi]

*hugshugs* I hope your brother-in-law recovers quickly and fully. Thank goodness he got tested!

[lunabee34]

Thank you thank you!

He's not really even sick. I'm so glad he got tested with so little discomfort.

[torachan]

Oof, glad you were able to avoid that.

I hope there won't be any bullying or negative reactions to her wearing a mask, considering many of these kids will have heard anti-vax/anti-mask sentiments from their parents.

[lunabee34]

Unfortunately, she's already had a year of that. I hesitate to call it bullying because it didn't bother her overmuch, but she's already had a year of comments about her insistence about keeping her mask on when the rest of her classmates spent a year pulling theirs off at the least encouragement. We've already talked about how she's probably going to be the only person wearing one, and she's said that's fine, but she has mentioned that she's not looking forward to people making irritating comments about how she should take her mask off so they can hear her better (which if that's the worst they're saying then okay). The whole making her cry over voting for Joe Biden in the mock election and that girl saying she couldn't be her friend because of it was far worse.

This place is really shitty sometimes. *sigh*

[torachan]

Oh right, I keep forgetting you guys were already doing in-person school this past year, too. Ugh. *hugs*

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

[trobadora]

Oh, damn. I'm glad he got tested and the rest of you didn't get exposed!

We're back at the office for two days a week now, and it's stunning how even with the best of intentions, just the inability to properly avoid unmasked people can start eroding one's caution. I hate it and am trying to be extra diligent now.

[lunabee34]

Me too!

I know exactly what you mean.

*hugs*

[chelseagirl]

I am so sorry to hear all this -- and glad for all of you that he did the sensible thing and got tested.

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

Thank you.

[spikedluv]

Thank goodness he got tested! I'm glad the symptoms are mild and I hope he recovers quickly.

Fiona is such a brave and strong little girl! I'm very impressed with her. And her mom. *g*

Ugh, though, that none of the schools are requiring masks or vaccinations. I hope you all stay safe.

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

Both my girls are strong and brave. I just fake it. And then get really bossy and bitchy when I can't. LOL

Thank you, sweetie.

[corvidology]

My institution is requiring vaccinations for all students and staff without a religious or health exemption and those people are going to have to complete daily monitoring and a weekly test. I hope yours decides to do better with the upsurge in the Delta variant. ♥

[lunabee34]

I'm so glad for you. *hugs*

They won't require vaccination. I think that's 100% off the table. But I really hope they will go back to the socially distanced classrooms and the masking. That worked last year really well.

[corvidology]

I think your institution may have to go back to the sensible measures they had before at least now that the Delta variant is running rampant in the South and is infecting people who've been vaccinated.

[lunabee34]

*crosses every damn thing*

[timespirt]

I think the government is leaving it up to the school districts to do what they want but I figure most colleges are requiring masks, social distancing and vaccination proof?

[lunabee34]

Nope. No public institution in my state is requiring any of those things. I think that's true of most states in the South. :(

[timespirt]

Well, then it's going to be up to the parents. I know I will keep my mask on for the foreseeable future. The government knows squat and I can't be bothered to listen to their flip flops on a daily basis. Odds are sooner or later they may get something right but for now...no frigging way!

"HUGS"

[lunabee34]

I'll be wearing mine!

I was heartened to see that most (not all, sadly) of my colleagues were masked up at convocation yesterday, so at least we'll be masked if our students aren't.

[timespirt]

Have to hon, this Delta thing is really spreading fast even for vaccinated people. Us with underlying conditions have to be very cautious about all this.

"HUGS"