Lucky To Be Lucky

We got the dreaded school email saying Judah was a close contact of someone who had tested positive for Covid. However, Judah was seemingly asymptomatic and moreover; we were scared to test him. Judah doesn’t need/want to be home all week suffering through Zoom classes. Of course, they don’t do Zoom classes anymore. You just stay home and quarantine. And now that it’s the end of the year, there’s no ‘homework’. So it’s sort of like a mini staycation with room service.

I’m getting ahead of myself, but we know all this because where Judah will often have a runny nose this time of year (see pollen), he woke up two Mondays ago with a cough. Not a civilization-destroying world-ending cough. Just a wee cough.

Pam: We should test him, right?

Steve: Yeah. I’ll get the Binax.

He was positive.

Not so fun fact: Turns out two of his teachers were out with Covid as well. And our neighbors had it, too — although they were a few days ahead of us.

At first we didn’t know what to do. Rather, we moaned and groaned right away. We knew to do…