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After two years, much of the world seems to have given up on keeping a pandemic posture.\u00a0 I haven’t touched on COVID-19<\/a> in the blog in a while because I find it to be so frustrating. In the United States we’ve had strong anti-vax<\/a>, anti-mask<\/a>, and anti-science<\/a> movements.\u00a0 They’ve really hampered efforts to “flatten the curve” of hospitalizations and keep COVID-19 from overwhelming the healthcare system<\/a>.<\/p>\n Infection and hospitalization rates have dropped recently, so even the most vigilant have relaxed.\u00a0 Few people wear masks into stores; most employers are cajoling people back on-site.\u00a0 If there is going to be another resurgence of the virus, now is the time.<\/p>\n So, of course, the entire family is now COVID-19 positive.<\/p>\n We fell in a fairly orderly fashion: Megh, Alpha, me, Beta, one per day.\u00a0 The only family member not affected appears to be Butter-the-dog<\/a>.\u00a0 I don’t know how to even tell if she is infected, but there’s evidence that she can<\/a>.\u00a0 So far she seems fine.<\/p>\n We think we’ve traced it back to an outdoor event the past weekend in Concord to re-enact the “Battle Road”<\/a> from the American Revolution.\u00a0 There was a crowd, and not everyone was masking – sadly, including us.<\/p>\n There have been a number of COVID-19 variants, and we seem to have caught a fairly recent one, Omicron, based on both the speed of infection and nature of symptoms.\u00a0 It’s been fairly mild for us overall.<\/p>\n We also visited Baba on Sunday, after infection but before contagiousness. Megh has been feeling guilt over the possibility of infecting her, but (so far) she has tested negative and seems fine.\u00a0 After this much time it’s unlikely she’ll contract it from us.<\/p>\n As a side note: my boss Terry, and his mother, also both tested positive for COVID-19 this week.\u00a0 I work from home so it’s just coincidental timing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After two years, much of the world seems to have given up on keeping a pandemic posture.\u00a0 I haven’t touched on COVID-19 in the blog in a while because I find it to be so frustrating. In the United States we’ve had strong anti-vax, anti-mask, and anti-science movements.\u00a0 They’ve really hampered efforts to “flatten the … Continue reading “COVID Strikes the House!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[107,165,541,429,112,310,113,751],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-alpha","tag-beta","tag-covid-19","tag-meghan","tag-minuteman-national-park","tag-mom","tag-patriot-days","tag-quinn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-MT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}