Opinion: So far, my husband and I have tested negative. But this is a small house. There is no separate bathroom and we are depending heavily on our vaccines to protect us, writes Julie Lewis
Christmas morning this year for our family began with a question from father to child: “Have you got your test back yet?”
On Christmas Eve, one of my 19-year-old daughter’s best friends sent a text. “I’ve tested positive to COVID.” The friend has been working in a bar in Darling Harbour and had dropped in to watch a movie at our house on Wednesday.I did worry about whether that was a COVID risk now that Omicron has made Sydney its new home. But given my daughter herself has been working as a waitress in a restaurant in Enmore, I thought it only slightly lifted the risk.
When the text arrived, Grace took out one from the medicine cabinet and tested herself. Two lines. Positive. Even knowing how likely that was, it was a shock. A sobering one. Christmas would be very different this year.Instead of making eggnog, which is her favourite thing to do at Christmas, Grace and her father began trying to find a testing clinic still open. They made it to the RPA clinic with 20 minutes to spare until closing time. It was a three-hour wait.
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