A COVID Scare

We ended the year with a COVID test. Both my husband and I were having symptoms that could be COVID. No, we did not lose our sense of smell. But we had others. Also, his workplace had a cluster in the last three weeks, but he is religious about his PPE. Three weeks is the limit when you could potentially show symptoms from science. We have not been so happy ever to have a simple cold. Yes, my chest tightness is due to my asthma, not COVID. It happens every time I get an upper respiratory infection. So there is an inhaler. This is why COVID could literally kill me.

Here is the point. Five of his coworkers are out. We had a negative test. We are aware it is a picture in time. My doctor recommended that we retest if he still had upper respiratory symptoms in five days. His have mostly resolved.

At least one of his co-workers was not that strict about maks wearing. He also believed a lot of the conspiracy theories around COVID. Yes, apparently he caught a hoax. So he at times used his mask as a chin warmer.

PPE works so does social distancing and washing your hands.

Then came the tracking from work, not the health department. It happened before we knew either way. They did because his employer is national. One of the questions from the contact tracker was whether he has dined in a restaurant in the last 14…