Buckle up kids, this is gonna be a long chapter.
I got quarantined again. This is the third (or fourth, idk) time this has happened this year. And yet again, I was innocently contact traced by a moron who tested positive. Ok but here's the kicker this time around: winter guard championships are next Friday and I can't fucking go because my quarantine ends next Saturday. I already missed last year's championships because they were cancelled from covid. Now I get to miss it twice in a row. These past two years we have improved so much from the previous seasons, and it's just frustrating that we can't showcase our final, finished product. I'm letting my team down because I'm not there. Now we'll only have one person on saber, and a giant gaping hole where I would normally be. People also ask me a lot for clarification on counts and stuff, so I can't help there either.
My dad came to my practice yesterday and pulled me aside to tell me. Apparently I was traced on either Tuesday or Wednesday this week. My only hope was that I was supposedly traced on Tuesday, because then I technically wouldn't have to quarantine since I wasn't at school that day. (Spoiler alert, it wasn't Tuesday, it was unfortunately Wednesday) Anyway he told me not to tell anyone at practice, so that secret knowledge was eating away at me the rest of practice.
When I got home, I started assessing the whole situation. I was so furious I made a list of all the people who sit near me in my classes as potential culprits. I mostly know who sits near me, but I don't really pay attention to who sits behind me. I was very suspicious of one kid who sits in front of me in one of my classes because I noticed he wasn't there Thursday. I wouldn't have been surprised if I got traced by someone in that class- I unfortunately sit by a clump of stupid popular people who would probably get covid at a party where no one was wearing masks.
I woke up at 2 in the morning today and couldn't get to sleep. (I was playing games for an hour, so that probably didn't help.) I was still trying to process this whole quarantine situation. I read through the generic email the school nurse sends whenever someone gets traced, cautiously reading the details. It said I could return to after school activities Saturday, March 27 at 2:40. (School normally ends at 2:40 for us, but that isn't really necessary to specify here since there's no school on the weekend.) I opened a calendar to count the 10 days of quarantine. 10 days from Tuesday would mean that my quarantine ends next Friday. 10 days from Wednesday would mean that my quarantine ends next Saturday. That pretty much confirmed what I didn't want to happen. That's when reality started to set in.
Today when my dad got home, he said he heard who I got traced by. Apparently it was very likely (he never confirmed, but I'm pretty sure it was) a girl in my homeroom. He asked if she was in school on Wednesday. I wasn't completely sure if she was there or not. I already forgot about Wednesday, and she sits behind me (and I don't really pay attention to who sits behind me). I had to ask my homeroom friend (who is also in winter guard) is she was there and she said she was pretty sure she was there at school. That pretty much sealed my fate, or put the nail in the coffin, or whatever. I already didn't like her because she's a dumb popular girl, but now there's another reason to not like her.
It's so frustrating because I follow the rules- I wear a mask (and actually keep it above my nose), I try to stay away from people- but I get dragged down by the dipshits who can't seem to follow these simple rules. I'm suffering your consequences and I'm completely innocent.
And here's some stuff I heard my dad say that I agree with:
-If she took a covid test, why would she come to school?
-What does contact tracing actually do? I want to know the percentage of people that got traced who actually got covid. I guaran-damn-tee it's 0.0%.
You see, another funny thing is that this girl's mom works at our school. (I don't think she's a teacher, but I'm pretty sure she works at the school.) Wouldn't you, of all people, be more conscious of your covid child and not send them to school?
