COVID Day #4, Bixi, and total changes at work

 It's been 4 days now and I still feel weak. It's cyclical, I feel ok for a few hours, then I feel horrible for the next couple of hours. It's just not great. My calf were killing me this morning, along with the usual headache, painful cough and lack of energy that takes my breath away when I climb a set of steps.

Sabi had some fever last night. However, except for a cough, she seems better today. Mathieu is ok.

Even though I'm not working there was an emergency meeting this morning for the entire science department. We are being split in two, all 110 of us. Rebecca is going to healthcare which really sucks as I loved working with her. Amy is now my direct boss which is great. In some ways I'm getting higher in the hierarchy. However I will miss working with Rebecca.

Finally, Bixi is now around us. There are bikes near our IGA, and more at the dep. the other way. That's so... different.

Mathieu tested negative. I brought him over to Ollie's where he's going to stay for a few days.

Sabrina has Covid-19

I am feeling so weak, and covid is so painful. My throat, my chest, my muscles, everything hurts so much. This is the first time in decades that I've been sick for more than two days. I don't really deal well with that. I'm also emotionally fragile, something I find really weird. Sara texted me to offer some soup and I started balling like crazy. I blame it on the lack of sleep and my inabilities to heal correctly as for as still have responsibilities to take care of.

The tough one is that Sabrina also has covid. She tested this morning and spent pretty much the entire sleeping and fighting a fever. I feel bad for my daughter who took care for me these past few days. It's okay, we'll get through it.

Self-Isolation Day 20(1) - Just a normal work day

The world passed a big milestone today, with over a million cases of COVID-19 reported. We'll get over it one day, but it's going to hurt.

One of my work friends made a gloomy post so I had to start a video conference between the four of us (Jeff, Thierry, Aakash and I). They are my friends, my very good friends and it felt good to talk with them. I will initiate more of these short conversations because I need them a lot. I never thought I would need so much social interaction.

I completed the chapter 02.06 - Battle of the Bards draft tonight. Caroline already did a first editing pass. It's a bit silly, as is the entire book, but I chuckle at times when I think about it.

So tonight we have... (Note that per million, Canada has 299/5 cases/deaths, and the USA have 740/18. That's significant.

Self-Isolation Day 20(0) - April Fool's :)

We're all working and the kids are doing what they have to do for school. We are isolated, but we are also functional, which is great. Of course today we learned that this self-isolation may last until July so we'll out it goes.

Or maybe it was an April Fool's thing and we're all stuck at home for the next year and a half.

Nevertheless, spirits are high here and were further lifted by Sabrina who decided to hide little pigs all over the house. Every now and then I found one staring me right in the face.

I've reset the total days of pure isolation to 0 because I had to go get our meat and vegetables order at Sevelin.

This is our current count... We went up by 130k in the span of 1.5 days.