{"id":49030,"date":"2022-11-14T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49030"},"modified":"2022-11-16T20:36:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T01:36:19","slug":"permanent-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49030","title":{"rendered":"Permanent damage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An email late Sunday night came from #1\u2019s preschool, stating that someone in my my child\u2019s class had just tested positive for COVID.\u00a0 They were at school on Friday same as my daughter.\u00a0 But not only was my child exposed, this past Friday was also a special day in which several of the classes had a singing day where they all got together, and parents were invited to watch the children participate on the stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

So instead of one child exposing a classroom of 13 kids and three adults, this child instead exposed four classes, all their teachers, and all parents who came, including me.\u00a0 Despite the fact that I still mask up in public places and large groups of people, this doesn\u2019t change the fact that not just one of my kids, but both of them, since I had brought #2 with me, were exposed on top of the nearly 60~ish people that were present on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seeing as how #1 was already showing some sneezing, coughing and runny nose that I originally thought was just another run of the mill cold that she seems to get every single month, now it\u2019s probably most likely COVID, but it\u2019s something that has yet to be determined, because trying to swab her nose and run a rapid test is about as difficult as Left 4 Dead<\/em> on expert mode, and two days past exposure, it\u2019s already too late to try and protect ourselves in the house.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another email Monday morning confirmed the spread, as both of #1\u2019s teachers had tested positive and class was effectively cancelled, which was fortuitous considering we had already kept #1 home for safety purposes to begin with.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the world we live in now, where COVID is still all over the fuckin place, and the vast majority of people just accept the fact that everyone is bound to get it at some point, and they\u2019re somehow okay with that.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then there are people like me who get pissed and get mad over the spread of a plague that has basically killed six million people since 2020, and we\u2019re the ones<\/em> told to get over it or accept that it was bound to happen, when people continuously spread the disease like it were the common cold.<\/span><\/p>\n

No, I won\u2019t accept it or get over it.\u00a0 I will always be upset, I will always be mad, and I will always be frustrated with how the world is being so inconsistent and cavalier about coronavirus.\u00a0 And even more so when it afflicts my family, because people are so stupid, so selfish and so ignorant to the fact that we live in a world where a potentially lethal virus is just floating all over the place and we\u2019re okay with not masking up and protecting ourselves because it\u2019s uncomfortable or it\u2019s hot or fogs up our glasses when we wear them.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m the one who has to disclaim that I\u2019m the social outlier these days, that I don\u2019t feel comfortable in crowds or clam up when I see anyone sneeze or cough out in public because I want to be safe or keep my kids safe.\u00a0 And yet, I\u2019m the one who has to be concerned about the optics of not wanting to go into the office or into a crowded conference room, because despite the fact that people and businesses all like to talk a big game about how they take health and safety seriously, hardly anyone is actually demonstrating it in their actions.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s frustrating all the people and business out there that pretend like they care about people who try to take care of themselves or their families, but there are all sorts of inadvertent consequences to those who actually do.\u00a0 It\u2019s frustrating being an outlier who still takes things seriously, and being seen as a paranoid pariah instead of someone who is just trying to be safe.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think this is what we call some permanent damage on account of the pandemic, and I don\u2019t believe I will ever be able to readjust to a life being like it was pre-COVID, and it\u2019s frustrating that I\u2019m the one who is treated like the weirdo.\u00a0 Because I value safety.\u00a0 Seems legit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An email late Sunday night came from #1\u2019s preschool, stating that someone in my my child\u2019s class had just tested positive for COVID.\u00a0 They were at school on Friday same as my daughter.\u00a0 But not only was my child exposed, this past Friday was also a special day in which several of the classes had … Continue reading Permanent damage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,194,45,71,83],"class_list":["post-49030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-coronavirus","tag-fail","tag-famiry","tag-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49032,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49030\/revisions\/49032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}