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Shit. Lake Oswego. That was quick.
Feb. 29th, 2020 10:20 am Today's COVID-19 news: an "unexplained" case has popped up among the staff in an elementary school in Lake Oswego, Oregon. My daughter lives about 10 miles from Lake Oswego, and teaches in a different elementary school in the Portland area. When the family got together in Oregon over Thanksgiving/Christmas, we declared a Lake Oswego Day holiday and had a family dinner at the Lake Oswego Grill as the twins' first trip to a restaurant. We liked the restaurant and planned to go back there again.
I knew this was going to be bad, but somehow I thought it would be a little longer before it got that close to me. Richard and I are leaving for another baby-sitting visit in 10 days. I doubt that the virus will have gone epidemic in Oregon by that time, although I'm sure there will be some more cases. I'm not deeply worried about catching it on this trip, but we have another trip booked in May. Who knows where things will be by then?
The one silver lining is that (at least so far) this disease is not killing children, or even making them very sick. But it is entirely possible that children will turn out to be very effective asymptomatic spreaders. I guess Oregon will be the test lab for that hypothesis, since I think this is the first US case in an elementary school.
ETA: Just looked at the map, and it's more like 6 miles as the crow flies (there's a river in the way). Fortunately, this one doesn't seem to be spread by crows. I hope not, since most of the birds in Milwaukie are crows. I've always found that a little ominous.
I knew this was going to be bad, but somehow I thought it would be a little longer before it got that close to me. Richard and I are leaving for another baby-sitting visit in 10 days. I doubt that the virus will have gone epidemic in Oregon by that time, although I'm sure there will be some more cases. I'm not deeply worried about catching it on this trip, but we have another trip booked in May. Who knows where things will be by then?
The one silver lining is that (at least so far) this disease is not killing children, or even making them very sick. But it is entirely possible that children will turn out to be very effective asymptomatic spreaders. I guess Oregon will be the test lab for that hypothesis, since I think this is the first US case in an elementary school.
ETA: Just looked at the map, and it's more like 6 miles as the crow flies (there's a river in the way). Fortunately, this one doesn't seem to be spread by crows. I hope not, since most of the birds in Milwaukie are crows. I've always found that a little ominous.
