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Originally Posted by Discombobulated
Hello my friends, yes I hear you this does feel never-ending.
@ rechu that is so frustrating that you have this issue booking leave. Hoping that will change and you can somehow get the break you want and deserve. I too treasure memories of our last one night break in January 2020, before covid hit England, we saw two Chinese people wearing face masks at the train station which seemed so ridiculous at the time!
We've had 2 covid cases at work, not connected as their shifts didn't coincide, one of them doesn't know where she caught it. Thankfully both double vaccinated and only mild symptoms. I worked quite closely with one of them and have been taking lateral flow tests regularly since. So far I'm clear. Lots of cold viruses going around too but so far I've evaded them too thankfully.
Cases still high here. I wonder if because vaccinated people who get infected often have only cold like symptoms they may be inadvertently spreading covid?
Weirdly I don't even feel anxious these days but I think I've got so used to this odd pandemic it feels like normal now. |
Thanks
. I accepted this freelance situation in December of 2019, so before Covid. I asked about time off and it seemed okay to coordinate it a few months in advance because that is what we usually do anyways when we need to make plane and lodging reservations. I had no idea that we were soon going to be facing a pandemic, lockdowns, etc. at that time.
I was able to get away in February 2020 because I was doing fewer projects a week, so I got them done earlier in the week. I did have to agree to check my messages a few times on the weekdays, just in case there was something like a client question or similar. Fortunately, nothing like that happened.
A friend of mine and her husband were also lucky enough to be able to do a getaway right before Covid showed up here. They went camping in late February/early March. They got back on March 2nd - the day before the first Covid case was discovered here.
We are definitely in a new wave here. There are major outbreaks in several soccer teams here. Isolation hotels for people who have been exposed or who have Covid but can't effectively quarantine from home are at high occupancy all of the sudden.
The presidential campaign has also been impacted. Most of the candidates were at a debate on Tuesday and one of them turned out to have a fever. Yesterday he tested positive. The candidates now have to quarantine. Contact tracing is going to be complicated considering how many campaign events they have been attending lately.
I guess only our virtual candidate is not affected. We have a candidate that is running from the US. He owes child support and if he comes back here, he can't leave the country. He keeps saying he will come back soon to finish the campaign. The latest excuse is that he has not been able to validate his vaccines.
The congress is being affected too since many of them had contact with the candidates who are in congress. It was possible to do virtual votes while we were in the state of constitutional exception, but not now. They are supposed to be taking up an impeachment motion against the president, which has very strict time frames. I am not sure what will happen with that.