COVID update - fighting cabin fever

[dreamshark]

It's now Day 8 for Lena (Days 4-7 for the rest of us), with Richard still evading infection. We're all feeling pretty good, with a few lingering symptoms, but we still can't go anywhere. Incidentally, Lena still tests strongly positive despite being over all her symptoms. I finished a full course of Paxlovid yesterday and now feel well, but still tested weakly positive this  morning. Amber is at Day 6 and also weakly positive. So I continue to be deeply skeptical of the CDC's horrible outdated isolation advice, which strongly implies that contagion "normally" ends at Day 5. This is absolutely not true. There is now data (which you can find on the CDC site itself if you search hard!) that specifically shows that 50% of COVID patients are still contagious at Day 5. 25% are still contagious at Day 8. It isn't until Day 10 that most people are finally non-infectious. Amber managed to change their flight home to Thursday, by which date everyone in her family should be past Day 10. It is terrifying how many people are flying these days after a completely inadequate 5-day isolation period. 

Amber and I resurrected an ancient iPad version 1 (from 2011?) and managed to find a few toddler apps on the app store that still work. This has kept Harris and Leo happy except for when they are fighting over which one gets to execute Humpty Dumpty or chop the tails off the Three Blind Mice (a particularly grotesque nursery rhyme game is a favorite). 

Meanwhile, Olin and Lena went out for a drive (in the rain, because they were getting desperate for something to do) and ventured out of the car at a deserted sculpture park long enough to get a beautiful iteration of the standard Minneapolis Tourist Photo. 

Comments

[spiderplanet]

That's an iconic "Cherryspoon" picture! Very lucky to get it without lots of people around.