Variolation, part 4: Secondhand

[brin_bellway]

[cw: illness, (arguably) venting]


(part 3)

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I tried to talk her out of it. I did.

I told her I could go to the butcher for her. I told her she could borrow my respirator if she really wanted to inspect the available Passover briskets herself. She wouldn't listen. All she listened to was the last-ditch attempt to at least get her to wear our last medical-grade surgical mask. It does not appear to have been enough.

It might be a cold. She says it feels the way a cold feels to her.

We'll find out.

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Meta-Boss seems to be upset that I gave him only 4.5 hours' notice of not being able to work this week. As if it were up to me. As if I wanted this.

He can blame the government if he likes: they *have* tightened the rules on when asymptomatic housemates need to quarantine. It looks like it might be specific to higher-risk zones like ours: the province-wide stuff is still saying self-monitoring, while the county-level stuff says to self-isolate.

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(edit: part 5)

Comments

[brin_bellway]

It might be worth noting that when I say "higher-risk zones like ours", I mean higher-risk *by Canadian standards*. We've been hovering in the 6.5 - 8.5 per 100k per day range for the past six weeks or so, ever since the post-Christmas rush ended.