It’s hard to even write this right now, but our launch date is going to be postponed a while. We found out today that we have to go into a 14 day quarantine because a close contact tested positive.

We haven’t been Covid crazy or anything but we have tried to be as smart and responsible as possible. We haven’t eaten in a restaurant in months, instead choosing takeout or delivery. Summer’s work provides Instacart (seriously awesome) as a benefit so we haven’t even really gone into stores for grocery shopping, etc. We have skipped the few group events still happening out of an abundance of caution. Basically we have stayed home and kept to ourselves when we possibly could. But apparently, this wasn’t enough.

Ironically, we heard this weekend that one of the full time families we follow caught Covid not while on the road, but from a family member once they came home to visit. Their experience, coupled with ours, is really causing us to rethink our holiday plans this year. Your social distancing is only as effective as your family members’ social distancing. I suspect that there will be a great many new infections over the holidays from family members getting together. Not spending the holidays with your family seems like a pretty drastic step to take to stay safe, but it may be just another thing that 2020 takes from us.

Anyway, hopefully we all come through this testing negative and/or remain asymptomatic. The quarantine has really messed up the last of my work caseload and may delay us pretty significantly. We will work it out, work through it, and keep on heading toward our goal.