2020 Life Logs, Day 299: Covid Confusion
Date: Monday, October 26, 2020
Weather: Overcast with Misty Rain; High 57, Low 54 Degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, Falmouth, MA
When I picked Ollie up from school to take him home today, he told me Jonah didn’t go to school today. If you read last night’s log, you know Jonah had what is classified as a minor Covid exposure last Wednesday. No matter what kind of exposure you have, the recommendation is to wait five days to be tested. Otherwise, you will probably get a negative result, but you could still get the virus. The Vice-President had a major exposure on Saturday, but he was tested immediately and deemed negative. And until there was tremendous pressure, he was planning to go to the Senate tonight. How come the same rules don’t apply to all? It is so confusing. But Heather and Jed decided to keep Jonah home today to err on the safe side for other kids. They called the pediatrician to set up a Covid test since this was day five, but they were told “scheduling”, whoever that is, would call them to make an appointment. When I got home with Ollie they still had not been contacted. This is just not acceptable. If we are going to have children in school, we need to have a routine testing protocol set up for them if they are exposed. Even if Jonah gets tested tomorrow, he won’t get the results until at least Thursday. So he is going to miss an entire week of school. And when you only have school in person every other week, that is a big deal for an 11-year-old who desperately wants to be with his friends. It would be acceptable if we were all following the same guidelines, but we are not. Ugh.
I am not sure what the neighborhood in which Heather and Jed now live is planning to do for Halloween, but the Goldpebbles are planning their costumes whether or not they are going to go Trick or Treating. From a distance yesterday afternoon, Jonah showed me that he is going to be a deep sea diver. Heather has an old dive vest that Jonah will wear over his wet suit. Sam is too old to Trick or Treat, but he and his friend Robert are planning some scary surprises.
By the time Ollie declared he wanted to be a gorilla, it was too late to order a costume. But last night I found one at a Target off-Cape and Shadow and I went to pick it up today. I thought it was going to be too big, but it actually worked. Jonah and Ollie carved pumpkins this weekend and they are sitting on the front steps. So, some Halloween fun is happening at the Goldstones despite the Covid scare.
