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Oct. 17th, 2022 02:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckScott tested positive for Covid Saturday afternoon. I'm assuming that I'll get it because we've gotten the same vaccines on the same dates (most recent dose 21 September in hopes of maximizing immunity for UCon). My suspicion is that he was exposed at UCon, but it might have been exposure at work or, if it was closer to two weeks incubation, Cordelia's cold two weeks back might have been Covid. She tested negative then and had it at the end of August, so... Who knows?
Of course, if this was coming from Cordelia, I'd expect to have caught it from her directly.
I'm just hoping that Cordelia doesn't catch it. She was home this weekend. I got our nephew to drive her back to East Lansing. (Cordelia was vastly unimpressed with his driving, but her other options were hoping that magic would happen or accepting a ride with one of our friends.) This year's policy at MSU is that students who're ill will arrange accommodation with each individual instructor according to that instructor's procedures. Which is... Extremely unhelpful and open to instructors choosing to be assholes about it.
Cordelia and I picked up carryout from a Chinese restaurant before she left (since she could drive and I can't), and I stocked up on cold medicines for Scott. I couldn't stock up on cough/flu syrup for me because there are too many landmines in those. Mostly not even landmines in the active ingredients. Well, apart from the not-sudafed decongestant. That makes my brain run and run and run like a hyperactive squirrel.
I got enough carryout to cover multiple meals for me and Scott both. Assuming I'm not sick tomorrow, I plan to make soup. Even if I am, the soup I have planned is mostly a matter of dumping things into the instant pot. Barley, mushrooms, lentils, and some canned beans. The thing I'm not sure about is whether or not I'll be up to cutting up the chicken Scott bought on Saturday. Maybe I'll do that part tonight before I go to sleep.
Scott only worked two days last week. The vacation schedule was planned before he took the second shift job, but he'd forgotten that he'd scheduled Thursday and Friday off. He made some repairs to the ramp from the back porch to the driveway (one of the supports underneath had come loose and tipped over because Scott's father thought that screws down through the ramp to the supports would interfere with the ramp's functionality and therefore didn't let Scott anchor things properly), so there's no longer a soft spot halfway down. We got some things stored and some other things cleaned. I did some moving of books in the basement that I'd been intending to do for literal years.
We discovered during the book moving that three or four books had gotten a little wet and needed to be pitched. None of them are things we particularly care about. I'm just annoyed because, while I knew we were getting dribs and drabs of dry soil through the corner of that basement window, I hadn't ever seen signs of moisture there. We could so easily have lost books I cared about. I also pulled more books to donate.
We discussed trying to get rid of some of the furniture in the basement, and Scott had plans in that regard before he got sick on Saturday. At this point, who knows? I did ask Cordelia if any of that stuff appeals to her for a few years down the road, and she was unenthusiastic. Which is fair.
Cordelia will probably want any of the bookshelves that we manage to clear. At least, I assume so. Everybody needs bookshelves. Right now, though, we need to move the furniture so that I can get at the C-G author paperbacks and the H-S author hardcovers. I haven't weeded them at all. Ideally, I'll be able to shift everything enough to clear the dining room shelves for some of the board games Scott has stacked on the floor. He's weeding those, just more slowly than I'm weeding the books, because he wants to play each of them at least once.
I also need to drag him to the basement to weed his books. I wouldn't keep the Dragonlance books, but he used to run a campaign in college and has major nostalgia about them. There are a couple of other largish sets that are 100% his. I'm not touching them unless he tells me it's okay. I'm also not touching anything that's in that gray area of belonging to both of us. At least, I'm trying not to.
I'm also hoping to get my Yuletide sign up in before I get sick and have been looking at the tag set to decide what to offer and request. I filtered first for canons I was completely sure I have access to and/or can write. I've got a messy additional list of things I could offer but not all characters or not without prior review or not without acquiring the canon for review. Or all three. I'm weighing some things that I could buy but probably wouldn't if not for this and some things that I want to own but have considered too expensive to acquire all at once. I don't want to spend more than about $30, total, and that won't cover more than one or two of the things I'm looking at.
And, really, there are dozens (this is not an exaggeration) of things I can offer without buying anything. I'm just trying to judge the line between feeling meh about offering things because I'm tired versus feeling meh about them because I'd actually rather not write them this year. Sometimes, I feel meh about every fandom in existence because effort is hard, and that reliably changes once I have an assignment.
I've put holds on a few short things that the library has currently available. I'm willing to offer those because I'll have access long enough to review and take notes. (That's what I did with Brigadoon last year.) There are things I could get from the library but couldn't get in time; that is, there's no point in being 24th on a waitlist for a single copy when I need the story done by mid-December.
There are a few things I'd normally offer but didn't see in the tagset. I might have missed some of them in my rapid scan, though. There are thousands of fandoms there. I might make a list of those later and check specifically, but it's work, so I may not have capacity for it this week. The offers may end up being much abbreviated compared to what I originally planned. I don't think I'm up to reviewed Arthuriana or Aeschylus or Ibsen or Shakespeare. I don't think I'm even up to looking up the fairy tales that have been nominated.
Of course, if this was coming from Cordelia, I'd expect to have caught it from her directly.
I'm just hoping that Cordelia doesn't catch it. She was home this weekend. I got our nephew to drive her back to East Lansing. (Cordelia was vastly unimpressed with his driving, but her other options were hoping that magic would happen or accepting a ride with one of our friends.) This year's policy at MSU is that students who're ill will arrange accommodation with each individual instructor according to that instructor's procedures. Which is... Extremely unhelpful and open to instructors choosing to be assholes about it.
Cordelia and I picked up carryout from a Chinese restaurant before she left (since she could drive and I can't), and I stocked up on cold medicines for Scott. I couldn't stock up on cough/flu syrup for me because there are too many landmines in those. Mostly not even landmines in the active ingredients. Well, apart from the not-sudafed decongestant. That makes my brain run and run and run like a hyperactive squirrel.
I got enough carryout to cover multiple meals for me and Scott both. Assuming I'm not sick tomorrow, I plan to make soup. Even if I am, the soup I have planned is mostly a matter of dumping things into the instant pot. Barley, mushrooms, lentils, and some canned beans. The thing I'm not sure about is whether or not I'll be up to cutting up the chicken Scott bought on Saturday. Maybe I'll do that part tonight before I go to sleep.
Scott only worked two days last week. The vacation schedule was planned before he took the second shift job, but he'd forgotten that he'd scheduled Thursday and Friday off. He made some repairs to the ramp from the back porch to the driveway (one of the supports underneath had come loose and tipped over because Scott's father thought that screws down through the ramp to the supports would interfere with the ramp's functionality and therefore didn't let Scott anchor things properly), so there's no longer a soft spot halfway down. We got some things stored and some other things cleaned. I did some moving of books in the basement that I'd been intending to do for literal years.
We discovered during the book moving that three or four books had gotten a little wet and needed to be pitched. None of them are things we particularly care about. I'm just annoyed because, while I knew we were getting dribs and drabs of dry soil through the corner of that basement window, I hadn't ever seen signs of moisture there. We could so easily have lost books I cared about. I also pulled more books to donate.
We discussed trying to get rid of some of the furniture in the basement, and Scott had plans in that regard before he got sick on Saturday. At this point, who knows? I did ask Cordelia if any of that stuff appeals to her for a few years down the road, and she was unenthusiastic. Which is fair.
Cordelia will probably want any of the bookshelves that we manage to clear. At least, I assume so. Everybody needs bookshelves. Right now, though, we need to move the furniture so that I can get at the C-G author paperbacks and the H-S author hardcovers. I haven't weeded them at all. Ideally, I'll be able to shift everything enough to clear the dining room shelves for some of the board games Scott has stacked on the floor. He's weeding those, just more slowly than I'm weeding the books, because he wants to play each of them at least once.
I also need to drag him to the basement to weed his books. I wouldn't keep the Dragonlance books, but he used to run a campaign in college and has major nostalgia about them. There are a couple of other largish sets that are 100% his. I'm not touching them unless he tells me it's okay. I'm also not touching anything that's in that gray area of belonging to both of us. At least, I'm trying not to.
I'm also hoping to get my Yuletide sign up in before I get sick and have been looking at the tag set to decide what to offer and request. I filtered first for canons I was completely sure I have access to and/or can write. I've got a messy additional list of things I could offer but not all characters or not without prior review or not without acquiring the canon for review. Or all three. I'm weighing some things that I could buy but probably wouldn't if not for this and some things that I want to own but have considered too expensive to acquire all at once. I don't want to spend more than about $30, total, and that won't cover more than one or two of the things I'm looking at.
And, really, there are dozens (this is not an exaggeration) of things I can offer without buying anything. I'm just trying to judge the line between feeling meh about offering things because I'm tired versus feeling meh about them because I'd actually rather not write them this year. Sometimes, I feel meh about every fandom in existence because effort is hard, and that reliably changes once I have an assignment.
I've put holds on a few short things that the library has currently available. I'm willing to offer those because I'll have access long enough to review and take notes. (That's what I did with Brigadoon last year.) There are things I could get from the library but couldn't get in time; that is, there's no point in being 24th on a waitlist for a single copy when I need the story done by mid-December.
There are a few things I'd normally offer but didn't see in the tagset. I might have missed some of them in my rapid scan, though. There are thousands of fandoms there. I might make a list of those later and check specifically, but it's work, so I may not have capacity for it this week. The offers may end up being much abbreviated compared to what I originally planned. I don't think I'm up to reviewed Arthuriana or Aeschylus or Ibsen or Shakespeare. I don't think I'm even up to looking up the fairy tales that have been nominated.
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Date: 2022-10-17 10:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-17 03:36 pm (UTC)It's very unlikely that Cordelia was the vector if it was two weeks later that Scott got sick. It's usually much shorter than that.
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Date: 2022-10-17 09:55 pm (UTC)If I can do any driving to pick up anything for you, I'm happy to. I've had a Covid exposure on Saturday, and Corbin is currently home full-time (but he likes rides in the car), so I'm somewhat hampered in what I can do, but I want to help if I can, so please let me know.
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Date: 2022-10-17 11:37 pm (UTC)It's like the opposite of that old Zinn cartoon about a pill that compresses the suffering of an entire cold into less than a second.
I won't be surprised if they go the other way on recommendations to me given that I have more risk factors, but who knows?
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Date: 2022-10-18 03:23 am (UTC)https://epicresearch.org/articles/paxlovid-significantly-reduces-covid-19-hospitalizations-and-deaths
"Key Findings
"In an unadjusted analysis, patients who are prescribed Paxlovid are about two times less likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 and about four times less likely to die from COVID-19 than those who might be eligible for Paxlovid but did not receive a Paxlovid prescription.
"Fully vaccinated patients over age 50 who were treated with Paxlovid are about three times less likely to be hospitalized than those not treated with Paxlovid.
"Patients aged 40-49 are about two times less likely to be hospitalized when treated with Paxlovid, although results vary depending on vaccination status."
I have not researched this myself, but I thought it sounded pretty compelling.