Quatantine chronicles.

Jan 19, 2021, 11:09 AM

Today's episode:

Confirmed exposure episode #4, day 10.

Anyway we're all negative! Awesome news, life once again returns to new normal. However, we now learn the school has a NEW POLICY. No returning to school in 10 days even with a negative test. NOPE. Got to wait out the entire 14 days now, no matter your test results. So point is 2 of 3 kids still at home through next Monday. Doc's also requiring a 10 day wait for even testing kids, that's new.

Tomorrow's episode will be SIL's test results. So halp me Gawd if she's positive I will crack. See, she was exposed officially to her parents with us originally (previously we were all exposed to her husband in November....that was episode 2), but also in her school classroom and with teachers/students, unpteen ways (school shut down totally now btw). She's one of only like 2-3 teachers there NOT to get sick and/or test positive. If SIL positive that then resets our quarantine now for a guaranteed 8-9 days for one kid, and for us as well, until we cook 5-7 days and get a test, so hopefully only ANOTHER FUGGIN 10 days.

Best case SIL is negative and we return to new normal next Monday. Worst case this goes through next week.

Meanwhile FIL and MIL both still are sick, but not bad. FIL's had two negative tests now, and MIL had one and it was positive. I'm starting to think the tests are pointless. Anyway, about to say screw it and only get a test if someone feels sick. I know that's too late then, but whatever. This quarantining stuff is for the birds.

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Our (school inside source) is awesome. She will tell you what no one else tells you.....this was how the source explained it (and I sure hope they don't fire her).

See, when the new semester started (last week), a LOT of online students opted to return to the classrooms. Parents had the option to change from online to in person over the holidays in our district anyway. As such, they can't socially distance adequately anymore, in the classrooms or on the buses, etc. They're having to double bus routes, and son of gets home an hour later on the bus now. Therefore, when a student is exposed, they're opting to keep them out even LONGER THAN NEEDED EVEN WITH A NEGATIVE TEST RESULT, simply to keep student numbers down in the classrooms and on the buses. They're trying not to go back to the hybrid model apparently but still go back to it effectively another way. By keeping students quarantined forever, they're effectively keeping numbers down to near nybrid-model levels and preserving the social distancing needed. They're offsetting the new online students who are now in the classrooms.

So when covid gets bad in an area, enough students are quarantined to effectively keep the class sizes down to a near-hybrid model level.

I don't see this approach ending well, but that's the reason according to the source.

Quatantine chronicles.

Heyboss, it could be worse.

get the big10 involved to reduce the quarantine time***

Wife figured it out.

Anderson has something similar going on

Our daycare has a 14 day policy for ANY symptoms

Yeah, that's normal. But you can buy a week off of that

Is Biden going to quarantine us all again?

This seems like overkill to me.

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