@Dannyboy and @Shawn , I assume there will be mandatory masked rehearsals?
This school has adopted a "masks optional" policy and refuses to revisit it. The best we can do is ask and force spacing in our practice spaces. Luckily this is a certain type of kid and the bulk of them will happily wear them.
I used the website @Jeanne-Mayell shared to order a bunch of N-95 masks for myself, my wife, and my daughters so between this, my booster, and my general disgust at how gross humans are (which I've had for tens of years and has always led me to touch as little as possible when out in public and carry hand sanitizer with me at all times) I'm feeling protected. I'm worried about the kiddos who choose not to mask because we can't make a policy that differs from the school, and should a parent challenge us for attempting to sidestep that, we'd receive no support from the principal or the superintendent.
My housemate informed me this morning that she's sick with a fever and muscle aches. She's assuming it's Covid and says she will get tested later this week if the symptoms persist. She says it's weird because she doesn't have a cough or any other symptoms. She works as a waitress and suspects she got it at her job as she doesn't socialize much outside of work (other than socializing outdoors with some neighbor friends). She says she got the booster. I got mine about three weeks ago and I suspect she got hers later than that as she hadn't had the booster at the time I got mine.
She rents a room in my house and mostly keeps to herself, but we do talk in and share the common areas of the house. So far, I have no symptoms, and I'm hoping I'll avoid getting them. She is isolating in her room, but does go out to smoke on the back porch. We usually don't wear masks in the house, but we both are now wearing them in the common areas since she's sick. I've also decided to spend less time in the common areas to reduce my risk of exposure (though at this point, it's possible I've already been exposed).
Last winter my niece got Covid, but no one else in her house got it. A few months ago, my sister's husband got it, but no one else did. My sister even slept in the same bed as her husband before the diagnosis and didn't get Covid. They all got tested in both instances and no one else in the house got it. I'm hoping the same will hold true if my housemate does actually have Covid as we really don't spend a lot of time in the same space. Of course, if it's Omicron, it could be more contagious than what my niece or brother-in-law had.
@melmystery @dannyboy Well, my husband and I have been extremely careful, but our son has been living with us in an apartment connected to the house and we share the kitchen and meals and we go for walks and hikes and drives in the car. He works in a hospital and while masked, he does remove the mask to take a drink and to eat. In the last two weeks, his floor started taking in covid cases, doors closed, but still it was there in the air. And he'd been working overtime to help out with so many people out sick.
A few days ago, he said he thought he was getting covid. He initially had an indeterminate lab test but then a third test came out positive. He's quarantining now and I am making up large pots of vegetable soup broth that my husband and I are also enjoying.
I asked some friends to send healing last night because yesterday he said he was feeling much worse and I got scared. I pictured an angel over him during the night, although it's hard to send healing when it's someone so close to me. My friends are powerful healers, though, and this morning he announced that he thinks he's turned a corner. He even got up and went for a jog in the woods.
I took a covid test yesterday and it was negative. Am keeping fingers crossed that my husband and I don't get it.
Good news though: on a New Year's Day Zoom with extended family, two nieces said their live-in bf's got covid and they did not. That information, along with the information you are posting here, is encouraging for people whose roommates get covid. So keeping fingers crossed. And keeping an eye on my sweet son's health. We are all triple vaxed, thank God. and so far, we both feel fine.
@jeanne-mayell It goes without saying but let me say it anyway - Light, love, healing, and protection to all of you and yours :-)
@dannyboy Thank you, dear friend. I am teaching the Become Deeply Intuitive class tonight and while I am very well now and it's just 5.5 hours away, I really would like to stay healthy for the duration of this course. If anyone here sees me getting sick, don't tell me! Don't want to know! I'm determined to bull-doze my way through any covid-ness. (good image for a Taurus, right?)
@dannyboy Thank you, dear friend. I am teaching the Become Deeply Intuitive class tonight and while I am very well now and it's just 5.5 hours away, I really would like to stay healthy for the duration of this course. If anyone here sees me getting sick, don't tell me! Don't want to know! Ha ha! Don't even try to look, okay? I know there is a lot of talent in this group but sometimes it is just fine not to look. Ha ha!
I'm determined to bull-doze my way through any covid-ness. (good image for a Taurus, right?)
Jeanne,
You might consider a room HEPA filter. They are good at capturing viral particles that could be otherwise be inhaled.
Also, I have been beating the drum about good masks here but this article has some new info:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/why-you-should-upgrade-your-face-mask-to-an-n95.html
The inventor also said that one can heat the masks to 162 degrees (most ovens low is 175) for 10-15 to cleanse, if masks are scarce.
My boyfriend got boosted today. Like myself he had no side effects from the booster. Very happy for him.
Today I woke up so very anxious about my little job and got a reprieve with the school district closing today.They called it a snow day (no snow) and also a staffing shortage with not enough subs due to Covid. Not sure why they are opening tomorrow but tomorrow, unless after school clubs are cancelled, I will have to go where it is very Covid-y. I am scared.
I am just hunkering down again here and feel fortunate to have seen family and/or dropped off gifts to porches last week. I am pretty reclusive so this is not a hardship for me. I did however have to say no to meeting my boyfriends mom now as she is not vaxxed. That didn't feel great, but I can't take a chance on infecting her. She is 80+ years old.
Awaiting my order of upgraded masks. My friend in health care suggested this. He is in health care w elderly folks and has been tested 250 times. Yesterday test 251 came back positive. That really shook me. Another friend responded that we are all going to get it which alarmed me. This is hard on this anxious girl. It's like I felt reading about SIDS when I was pregnant. I have to walk away from this kind of info/comments.