Definitely wouldn’t want the full version of this illness. I’m on Day 4 and woke up in the middle of the night with a fever. It’s probably more like a flu than a cold as it is definitely not something I could just ignore and go to work with even if I wasn’t required to self isolate. I’m spending my days in bed.
My daughter is good. Her worst day was Day 3 when she was vomiting and had a pretty high fever. She’s on Day 10 now and feels well enough to return to school today. My son is still fine. I’m not sure he is going to catch it. He’s really really good about wearing his mask and spends much of his time in his room these days so I’m hopeful it will pass him by. He also doesn’t play sports like my daughter so isn’t around his peers without his mask. This is the one time I am happy he “hangs out” with his school friends online and not in person like my daughter.
My sister has been a huge help making sure my kids are fed and driving them to school. She is still negative and thinks that will probably continue. She is pretty convinced she had Covid back in January 2020 before they were testing people. She had gone to Europe and on the way home was in Customs for a couple hours with two plane loads of people from China. When she got back home, she got really sick about two days later. Self isolation was not a thing back then but she was so sick, she just did it naturally. I remember I didn’t see her for at least a week…maybe two. She had a fever and some sinus issues but mostly a cough that didn’t go away for a long time. Anyway…she thinks that she probably has more immunity than most with three shots and natural immunity. My BIL has been spending the last week mostly in the basement working on our house plans and has been sleeping on the couch in case my sister has it. He left for Calgary yesterday and won’t be back for a week so I think he will probably avoid it as well. He had to go to deal with some issues related to his dad so won’t be in contact with groups of people when he is there. By the time he gets back, our house should be Covid free.
Covid is pretty crazy up here. A year ago, I didn’t know anyone directly who had it. Now I know a ton of people who have had it. We have far more people in hospital than we did a year ago. I had to cancel a Saturday test drive of the car I have on order and the guy I’m dealing with told me I was the fourth person that week who had to cancel because of contracting Covid. I hate to think how things would look if our vaccination rates weren’t so high and we didn’t have some restrictions and a vaccine passport system. Sounds like they are hopeful those things will be able to be lifted by June in time for the summer. Fingers crossed.
