I just answered a text from Montgomery Internal Medicine in preparation for a routine appointment, labs, and a flu shot tomorrow morning. One question was "Have you been in contact with anyone in the last seven days who tested positive for Covid?" I could answer "No" and thus was given a "green pass" to show at the door tomorrow. However if they had asked the same question with eight days I would have had to say "Yes." Our grand-daughter's boyfriend tested positive for Covid this week. He is not very sick fortunately and is trying to isolate under the circumstances. We had dinner with him and our son's family a week ago. So Covid has reached our inner circle of family and friends.
Yesterday I went to our grand-daughter's Princeton Ballet performance. We wore masks when we entered the student center. We were not asked to show proof of vaccination. It was lovely to see her dance in a live performance. A week or so ago I watched our grandson's college choir in a taped performance. That was also lovely to watch but was not even in front of a live audience at his school in Troy, New York.
On Wednesday this week, Jim gave his Society of Biblical Literature presidential address in front of a mostly student audience at Princeton Seminary so it could be videotaped for those who were not attending the annual meeeting. He will give it again live next Saturday in San Antonio. The audience was all masked and it is assumed vaccinated if they were seminary students. We joined a group for pizza and drinks at the home of one of the professors afterwards--a rare social occasion for us.
We continue to wear masks when we shop for groceries or go into CVS for prescriptions. I am hesitating to fly with Jim to San Antonio this week but don't want to waste a very expensive plane ticket. He would like me to accompany him and it is easier to travel with a partner. The weather will be mild and the riverwalk is lovely. However I am dreading hours of mask wearing in airports and planes and really hoping travel will be smooth. Stories of fewer TSA agents are not encouraging. I am not really fearful of contacting Covid or if we do, getting very ill as we are vaccinated and even have our boosters. Plus we will try to eat outside and packed receptions at the convention are not taking place. I would avoid those anyway.
So this is a blog written when there really is nothing to blog about but I wanted to record the fact that Covid is still a part of our lives.
At Katie's workshop they asked the same question, except it was for 10 days, so she had to answer "yes". They eventually let her in but she had to wear a scarlet letter of sorts for a while there.
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