Coronavirus update

It's really strange because both a lot of things seem to be happening and nothing seems to happen at the exact same time. Since the last update two months from now the big family update was that we decided to send L & J to camp. It was a different camp than normal with rules to prevent the spread of COVID and for a long time things worked out great! We would drop them off at 8am and pick them up at 5pm. They enjoyed camp and we enjoyed being able to do work during the day.

And then their camp counselor tested positive for COVID and camp ended. Here is the timeline:

• Thursday, July 2nd - the last day L & J were in camp with the counselor who ended up testing positive
• Friday, July 3rd - because it was the day before the 4th of July we took them out of camp in the morning before they went back that afternoon to participate in the "water games." We then got a call and an email saying that their counselor "has been in the same facility as someone who tested positive for COVID-19."
• Sunday, July 5th - we got the following email:  "We wanted to make you are aware of the counselor in the program who got tested for Covid-19 on Friday’s results, unfortunately the results came back as positive." That email ended camp for L & J. They would need to be quarantined for 2 weeks and then we were going to pull them out the last week as an extra precaution before our trip to Florida with my parents and sister's family.
• Wednesday, July 8th - we take the girls to a parking lot at Nationwide to get tested for Coronavirus. After waiting in a car line for about 45 minutes we got L tested....it was supposed to be both girls, but for some reason the hospital didn't have the test request for both L & J, so we could only get L tested. This was not a fun experience for L. They put a swab in her nose and scraped around for 10 seconds. Everyone was rewarded with ice cream after.
• Friday, July 10th - we got the call saying Lucy's results were negative! This was great news even though the two caveats were that there is a good chance the the test could be a false negative (and she actually is positive) and it didn't matter in terms of going back to camp. We were told that both girls still needed to stay away from camp for the full 2 weeks of Quarantine. Nothing like paying for a full 7 weeks of camp, while only getting 4 weeks. We've had a lot of experience in paying for things (CMEC and camp) that we don't end up using

Anyway, we are now doing the work / kids at home balancing act like before. The good news is that after we make it the next two weeks, we will have some time off in Florida.

This whole thing has been so weird. On one hand it was great that we were able to get L tested (and that her results were negative) and that the results came back in only two days (I've heard its a lot more in other areas). The bad news is that camp was still canceled and the potential for a false negative is still scary. People could get a negative result and then go around infecting other people. This virus and entire situation is just so strange to be dealing with and I just hope that it ends soon.