Oh great.

[nwhiker]

Perry is home for deadweek, he's rowing almost every morning and only has to drive up Wed and Fri for classes so it made sense.

But.

His coach tested positive for covid.

Crap.

That said, most rowing is outside and Perry missed Wednesday. That said, this afternoon, they were erging inside and the coach was there. So blah. We shall see.

ETA. The real bummer is that Perry is quite good about wearing his mask. He only takes it off once he's out on the water in the boat solo. Normally his risk of exposure would be pretty low, but he wasn't able to erg this afternoon with the mask and took it off. He's tasting tomorrow morning, but I'd expect him to be negative until the early next week. Fingers crossed he stays (-) since he's supposed to fly to Florida on Saturday. And fingers crossed his coach doesn't get very sick. I didn't find out until just a few minutes ago that he tested because he was feeling like crap this evening.

One of the realities of Covid: up until Omicron, I think there was a possibility of avoiding catching it. Now with all these super-transmissible strains and so very people masking, I figure our not having already gotten it is not due to anything we're doing but to sheer luck. Luck may have run out, this is our closest contact so far.

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[camelsamba]

All of Zane's housemates caught it right around graduation. The first tested positive the day after he moved back to CT, then the rest followed a few days later. They were good about isolating and Zane never got sick. We had been at a BBQ at their house but were primarily outside, and never had any symptoms so never tested. (Actually, Matthew did one test since then, but I forget how close it was to that weekend.)

[camelsamba]

Do you have one of those tracking/notification apps on your phone? I do, and got a notification about 15 days after that BBQ, telling me I'd potentially been exposed 8 days earlier. Annoying thing, it said "8 days" but wasn't precise about which day. Did it work out to Tuesday or Wednesday? That Tuesday I'd been near a large group, but outdoors. Wednesday at most I'd been to a grocery store. But I did not get notifications about all of Zane's housemates; perhaps they aren't using the app. On the other hand I talked to a friend who tested positive a day or two after we'd both been at parkrun but not necessarily in proximity for very long. He does have the app, but I didn't get a notification. He thinks it starts from when the positive PCR test is reported; I think that's goofy if true, and that it should backtrack at least 24 hours since aren't people contagious before they show symptoms?