This surprises me- I had seen that with omicron, 15 minutes was vastly overestimating the time of transmission. Some articles seemed to say minutes or seconds.
In other news, it takes A LOT of spit to fill a vial for a covid test. But better than a nasal swab. (Son goes for his swab soon.)
We wore P100s until we were fully vaccinated, with him teaching in person with no masks, distancing, or contact tracing and we both came through it with no infection (then). Stepped down to KN95s from Project N95 with vaccination, and did fine until Omicron. Whereupon probable mild (me) and asymptomatic (him) infections - though he ate with his dad, so not masked the whole time. And I caught it from him.
But yes, we (both independently) researched it as well. P100 just filters out anything as big as that virus.
Day seven! Lots of coughing, but definitely on the mend. I never got a test, partially because Iām in Washington DC, and partially because I donāt care.
The schools in the local area have been closed because of āsnow,ā but Iām pretty sure 3 of the 5 days was because of the rampant amount of COVID thatās going around.
Our trash service this week was initially delayed because of the snow, then ultimately cancelled due to Covid-related staffing shortages. This is my first real service impact of the pandemic. Fortunately it is winter, so the alley wonāt smell too bad. But many of my neighbors fill an entire toter with trash each week, so Iām not sure what they will do between now and Wednesday. Iām imagining lots of bags in the alley for the raccoons to tear through. Then all the trash will blow into my yard, because thatās where the prevailing winds take everything.
Last week was garbage and we were too sick to get everything out. We are doing a romantic trip to the dump today, which will also help if pickups become impacted.
We have enough rapid tests (4 boxes) that we could surveillance test ourselves once a week for the month of January. But Iām kind of at the point where I donāt want to know (and Iām very very over sticking things up my nose. They make me sneeze all day).
I will probably suck it up and do it because I work in person but UGGGG.
My whole german school (all age ranges in one building in different classrooms) was moved online āfor a week onlyā (I was likeā¦hmmm this feels like march 2020) and then today we got a note that our instructor has covid and she canāt even teach via zoom tomorrow.
My little mask enforcer. We were in target and a lady walked by without a mask on. Bella pointed and started yelling āno mask no maskā 
I am 
about the last one on each list
I am super worried about getting covid in my 3rd trimester, when it can possibly cause Bad Things because of affecting the placenta, so there is a temptation to not be quite as cautious because what if I get it later and itās worse???
We chose to have a covid outbreak and now we are talking about having covid positive nurses work in covid wards because otherwise there will be not enough staff.
The change from a few weeks ago when we had no covid to now is really jarring.
It looks like primary school is going to be delayed where I am now for a week or two. This will give parents the opportunity to vaccinate their children before the school year starts but my daughter who starts school this year is still four so will need to wait until her birthday in March.
75% of tests were positive in my city last week.
holy kittens
I canāt even. 
I got my booster shot today!
We currently have very few cases as our borders are still closed but I feel more comfortable now with the borders opening in February. Even though it freaks me out a bit
Whoa.
Me: Kid2! Guess what I got for you!
Kid: what?
Me: a Covid vaccine appointment for TOMORROW!
Kid :Whoo hoooooo!
Kids should not be this excited for needles
To be fair, some people are estimating (based on made up or presumed numbers (like we are probably only capturing 10-20% of positive cases at this point because of the lack of testing available and the fact that home tests donāt necessarily get reported anywhere)) that 1-2% of the population of my state is being infected right now. Every day.
Youāre raising smart kids.
