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.

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[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.