Yay, sj!

Boo to falling drinks and isolation, Hec. May they both stop soon. Well, spilled drinks can actually stop right away.

Fingers crossed, Laura!

Hec, from what I've read you can still test positive for ages after you're no longer sick or contagious. You might want to check with your doctor to verify. I'm sorry about the drink spills. ltc managed to spill an entire glass of water just before her grandparents showed up.

I had wonton soup for lunch because the tree sex has apparently started, and I'm snuffily too. Next is a long shower and then meeting up with thessaly to do some errands, which we haven't done in ages.

Good luck with some negative tests soon Hec! And yay negative tests for LTC.

Work is very frustrating right now. Not so much because of anything big or actually terrible just a lot of “nibbled to death by ducks”. And the fact that I keep having headaches does not help.

I need to get my ducks lined up for work. They are a hot mess right now, my water fowl.

Meanwhile, it's lovely here, and we ate lunch on the screened in porch. And, yeah, tomorrow it will be 40°cooler and rainy. Ah, well.

Test results finally came back and were negative. ltc is with her grandparents, and everything is right in the world.

Yay!

The recommendations are that I don't need to isolate 5 days after symptoms stop but I'm just leery of exposing Matilda because it will wreak havoc with her school schedule (and she just started softball, and they barely have enough players to field a team. So any absence on her part would probably be a forfeit.)

"An abundance of caution" etc.

I’m I know what a difficult balance all of this is with kids. I just wanted to make you aware of the fact that you could continue to test positive for a good long time. Yay, softball!

David I hope you get a negative test soon!

sj - glad tlc was negative and can see her grandparents

happy birthday laura

yay for good reviews.

I'm back from mom's. I came back and some of my Wish stuff got here, predictably I ddin't look at the dimensions and some stickers are tiny but I'll make it work. Had a nice time with Mom, went thrifting and found a kind of Hoosier style cupboard that , if there had been any room in our house for it I might have considered it... although getting it from Brevard to here would be a pain in the ass.

According to this NPR article from a week ago I can come out now:

Another small study from Japan found that virus levels were highest on days three through six, and then gradually started to drop off. After 10 days, nobody in the study had infectious virus detectable on a PCR test.

And a third study, of 260 vaccinated health care workers in Chicago, found that overall, 43% were testing positive on rapid antigen tests five to 10 days after infection with omicron – even though they felt well enough to return to work. The rates of positivity "were higher on day six and seven and lower on days nine and 10," says study co-author Dr. Emily Landon of the University of Chicago Medicine.

Given all these findings so far, Landon says if you can't test again to exit isolation, waiting "eight days is a lot safer than six days." Just keep wearing your mask though day 10, she says.

After 10 days, you can consider yourself good to go, says Chin-Hong. He says multiple studies have shown that "there's very little, if any, transmission after day 10, regardless of the variant." There's one notable exception to this rule of thumb: If you're immunocompromised, you should wait 20 days to exit isolation, because research prior to omicron has shown that these patients tend to shed virus longer.

My coworker just said they won't even test her for three months after having covid, for what that's worth.

My coworker just said they won't even test her for three months after having covid, for what that's worth.

I'm on day 10 and I haven't had symptoms at all for like six days. I'll use a rapid test and stay masked to go into places, and will probably avoid going to a bar or restaurant for a little while longer but I'm feeling okay about it.