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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was me Thursday night. Like exactly. Except I didn't even have a runny nose -- just like a little tickle at the back of my throat. But DH and I had a mini date at a bar before childcare pickup, and DC of course went to childcare. I saw all the lines for people getting tests and saw the case count at 508 for DC for the day and felt super panicky.

I took a rapid test. Negative. In the morning, I have DC a rapid test before school. Negative. My DH took three tests (two rapid and one PCR) earlier in the week due to a possible exposure at work, all of which came back negative, so he refused to take another test.

We're all a little on edge. Here's what we're doing:

- DC is going to school next week unless they close it. This one was a hard choice and I still don't feel 100% on it. I could probably handle keeping them home BUT I have a specific very good reason for them to go (like, unimpeachable reason I don't want to share here). But if they go and catch Covid, that sucks. I don't know. I don't know! They are probably going.

- We have a reservation to go out do dinner on the 23rd to kick off our holiday festivities. It's tradition and we didn't do it last year. This will almost certainly get canceled unless something changes between now and then.

- We are staying home for Christmas, but that was always the plan.

- We have a short trip (driving) planned for the week between Christmas and New Years, and we are definitely still doing that. It's near both restaurants/city stuff and also outdoorsy stuff, so if cases are bad we'll just do hiking and outdoorsy stuff and get take out for our AirBnB or to picnic. Weather is supposed to be warm and nice so this is not really a loss.

- We have several social commitments around New Years and those will be game time.

I think you just have to do your best. We're not getting much guidance from the government or from schools/employers (or any, really). We are fortunate in that we have no plane travel scheduled (not a sacrifice on our part, we hate holiday plane travel and avoid it no matter what, Covid or no) so I feel like it's a bit easier for us. But still not easy! Agree with PP that at least Omicron appears to be mild. And we're vaccinated and boosted. I'm not really worried about getting it, more about exposing others or messing up someone else's holiday.[/quote]

We are on the same page!

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