Well, it's quarantine season out there, what with the first truly global pandemic since the Spanish Flu of Aught-18. Erica recently discovered that someone at her office has a suspected case of COVID-19, so we took it upon ourselves to hunker down for a whole fortnight at home. I've spent the last several weeks larding up our larder with all manner of frozen goods, bottled water, and disinfecting agents, and here we finally are. It looks pretty grim out there, so while I did feel a bit foolish in the beginning stage of the buying spree, I (lamentably) feel decidedly less so now.
The virus usually shows up first as a fever within 4-5 days of infection, but can lie dormant inside you for up to two weeks. Basically, we need make the following deadlines to ensure we don't have the bug:
1.) If we don't have a fever by tomorrow, we likely didn't contract the virus on our weekend getaway to Memphis (cool city, cool trip!)
2.) If we don't have a fever by Wednesday, we likely didn't contract it from Erica, whose last day at work was yesterday.
3.) If we don't have a fever by Friday, March 27th, we are almost certainly in the free and clear as long as we aren't exposed after that. It scares me even to even type this out, since I've spent only one day cooped up in the house/backyard, and that last date seems...man...really far away right now.
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| Juju enjoys a *lengthy* swing |
Tomorrow is James' birthday, poor kid. What was going to be a blockbuster morning spent marching in the downtown St. Patrick's Day parade, an afternoon at Dave & Busters, and an evening being feted by friends, is now a long-ass day spent at home with his mom and dad and annoying baby sister. We're going to put up a bunch of decorations, feed him ice cream and pumpkin pie, and do our absolute best to make him feel special. You only turn six once!
Erica has made a nice schedule to give our days some structure. And here it is:
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| Sorry this is sideways |
We did have three possible punctures in our otherwise hermetically-sealed day: a FedEx lady came by with a package (from China, no less), and I had to sign for it with her pen. Nora dropped off some tupperware but didn't come in, and James' teacher came by with the books and supplies he'll need to do some schoolwork during the reprieve. His school is off until April 13th. Mine has moved to "E-Learning" indefinitely.
Friends, please stay clean out there.
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