It's been five years since the pandemic hit, and three years since the last time COVID hit our family, but it's hit for real now. My five year perfect-streak has been ended1.
My daughter came home from day-care sick on Monday and I started feeling bit crummy late Thursday afternoon. Lo and behold, not only am I positive for COVID, but so is everyone else in the family. The kids are mostly okay — the baby had a fever on Tuesday but has been fine since then, and my son has no symptoms — but my wife and I both have fevers and aches and fatigue and coughs and the whole nine yards. Let me tell you, having two healthy and rambunctious children home from school while the adults have COVID is the absolute worst.
Anyhow, I got a Paxlovid prescription. So far (< 12 hours in) it's not doing much for the symptoms, but everything tastes like rusty nails now. Yay.
Stay safe out there, nerds.
Note: While I have not, to the best of my knowledge, had COVID since testing became available, I actually think there's a good chance that my wife and I both had COVID already — in late January 2020. Eva came back from a prison trip and we both came down with a virulent and miserable flu. This is before COVID was officially in the US, but it still seems likely to me.
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