published : 14 Jul 2021 at 04:00
3 A medical worker takes care of a Covid patient in an isolation room. Blanket isolation eliminates the non-symptomatic needs of patients. (Photo by Apichit Jinakul)
My children have Covid-19.
That s not a sentence I thought I would write. My children have… tantrums, wrestling matches, too much chocolate, more screen time than recommended. That s what lockdown life in the pandemic has meant for us.
Our nanny last month tested positive for Covid a few days earlier with symptoms of fever, body aches and chills. Our house scrambled into action (out of our own social responsibility as the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA)-operated hospital that diagnosed her did not track nor trace us for further testing but that s a different story). We swabbed the adults who had contact with her to avoid putting our children through such an uncomfortable procedure.