On Monday, 86 schools in BC sent letters out to parents advising of an exposure in their school. My niece got an email from her son's school before lunch. At 1:15, the school called to tell her his entire class was going into quarantine. The exposure was April 6th, and they were not notified until April 12!
This family knows of three families who all caught the Brazilian variant. It's spread through the entire family. Thankfully none are in hospital! All these cases are in Ocean Park and the cases have been traced to people who travelled to Whistler at Spring Break!
The son who is now quarantined turned 10 yesterday! This was his second COVID Birthday. Last year everything was closed and his mom organized a drive by birthday party. What to do this year? There is nothing she could do as all his friends are quarantined at home!
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| A Krispie Kreme donut birthday cake! He loved it. |
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| It's a good thing they have a large backyard. It's going to be a long quarantine! |
What a wonderful seven day forecast! Last week when I knew it was really going to warm up, so I organized two outside social distancing lunches! Wednesday we would visit our friends in Maple Ridge. We were taking lunch and looking forward to finally seeing them. They live on a lovely large property. we would sit in their back yard have lunch and watch the horse and Emily the donkey. On Friday, my good friend Donna was coming out from Vancouver to our back yard for lunch. I was looking forward to a nice visit!
On Monday afternoon, Dr. Bonne Henry asked everyone to stay in their own community. The variant is greatly increasing cases and it transmits much easier than the first wave. Although we are all vaccinated, the thought of carrying the virus and giving it to a good friend, and listening to the advice of Dr Bonnie Henry, I made the difficult decision to cancel both lunches. Best to be safe!
