Covid Slump and a bit of Hope

We've been in a slump for our day to day life.  It's been too hot to go outside and easy to get lazy inside.  Quarantine has gotten long and lonely, especially for the kiddos.  They've done some video chats with their friends and youth group, but we are some of the few who are still quarantining strictly.  We've only visited with family members since this whole thing started back in March.

My hubby's job is pretty awesome.  They have been paying their employees despite missed hours due to Covid illness and they aren't taking their employee's PTO to do it.  They track how much they are paying this way and the numbers are increasing again.  Which means that the amount of pay being paid to employees with the Covid illness is increasing due to increased number of sick employees.

People in public seem to have forgotten Covid, or at least want to forget about it.  Our governor mandated masks for 30 days.  Prior to the mandate, masks were becoming less common.  Now people are wearing them again, but many not correctly and often haphazardly.

I see many posts about how masks are useful and others that state they are ineffective.  Now they have become an object of political unrest and controversy about whether or not we are being herded and controlled by those in power.

In all honesty, I don't know what to think about it all.  I wish it would go away.  I want to be able to take my kids to the park and on a vacation.  I want to be able to have play dates and field trips.

Some interesting news about Covid though....my hubby's arthritis doctor says that they have been studying how people on Humira and Enbrel react to Covid and the outlook is positive.  They have shown that due to their suppressed immune systems, they are not  getting as severe symptoms  because healthy people's immune systems have been attacking their own bodies with Covid.  Enbrel and Humira are both immuno-suppressants.

My hubby is on a different medication than those listed, but it gives a little bit of hope that if he does have to fight Covid, he may have a good chance of making it since Covid won't have a strong immune system to betray him with.  I don't know exactly how it all works, but a little hope is always nice.