A serious note about today's world...

[Jake Starr]

Dude, as a Dad, i'm so glad to hear that your daughter is safe and it came back negative.

I've done everything I can to keep my girls safe and with my wife pregnant with our 2nd (my third) we make sure we are doing everything we can to stay safe and protected.

I still refuse to let our kids go into any store with us. it's only Amanda or myself who goes and gets anything.

I can say it's definitely been the first time in her six years I've been super scared.  She's been sick growing up, flues and such, and she's fallen and taken bumps and bruises, but being about to be 37 myself, I remember getting those same bruises.  I've let her out of the house.  This was a freak encounter at her gymnastics academy, where they wear masks, sterilize everything, carry antibacterial, and the girl was completely asymptomatic.  From what the academy says, for one she feels terrible because it was literally my daughter and one or two others in that class directly exposed, but she literally doesn't know where she got it.

I'm a firm believer in you can't "Nerf the world."  But with a pregnant wife, I completely respect being on a completely higher scale of lockdown.  The worst part about it, since she was asymptomatic and was negative, was how stir crazy she got.  We didn't quarantine her from mom and dad, but we did so from friends, family, etc.  Now we just want her to go away and play some more ha ha.

It's scary.  It's real.  I have very severe allergies in my sinuses, so I, a lot of times, can't smell or taste much.  So I've had to really focus on that and make sure it's this God awful Kansas wind, and not something I need to isolate from my family for.