Covid Quarantine

 Julia and I have now been quarantining five days.  Today is day six (or as the CDC would call it, day five because Monday would have been day 0).  I've spent the entire week in bed or on the couch and mostly sleeping or reading.  Already read 4 books in 7 days.  

Julia has been her cheerful awesome self.  We've loved listening to her talk with other friends who are home on quarantine due to having Covid or being exposed.  She has handled the quarantine as best anyone could.

Today is her indoor soccer game and she was so upset to not be able to play.  She hasn't had symptoms and has dealt with being home without complaining one time.  She had a lot of pressure from soccer friends to come (so sweet that they miss her and that they wanted her there).  She felt like they wouldn't have enough players if she didn't go.  Plus another girl on the team was diagnosed with Covid, but is going to the game to play today.  Not sure the circumstances.  Possible she had symptoms earlier and out of quarantine.  Could be vaccinated and be able to follow other rules.  Who knows.  But it made it really hard because then Julia felt like she should be able to go to the game.  And she's not necessarily wrong.  Because who really knows if she's contagious or not.  And who knows if these new CDC guidelines are helping or not.  The unknown and uncertainty over what in the world we should be doing and whether it's working is incredibly frustrating.

Best we could do is let her stay home in case:

1 - she was contagious

2 - the school won't let her out of quarantine until Tuesday so she really shouldn't be leaving the house (and hasn't)

We talked about integrity and doing what we've been asked.  And that's hard too.  Because we wonder if what we're being asked to do is the right thing.  Honestly not sure.  But figure that it's best to err on the side of caution and follow what the school has asked us to do.  It's hard.

I hate Covid.