Coronavirus Pandemic Day 159 - There's No Escaping

We took Genius Kid's car to him over the weekend. He's about to change duty stations.

Originally, he was supposed to have leave in between assignments. He planned to fly home and take his car with him to his next assignment. But with the pandemic, no one's allowed off base.

So we drove his car down to Texas with the plan to meet him at the base's visitor center. Guests are not allowed on base right now either. And to top everything off, the night we got to our hotel, we found out GK's sergeant had been exposed to COVID-19, and he may have inadvertently exposed the entire platoon. They were awaiting word on the sergeant's test results.

Then, there was our very careful 1300-mile trip. I had a reusable Halloween grocery bag full of paper towels, tissues, antiseptic wipes, disposable latex gloves, cloth masks, disposable masks, a giant bottle of hand sanitizer, and Ziploc bags for safe disposal of all of the above. And we used everything.

We took meat, cheese and drinks in a cooler for the first day along with granola bars, bananas, nuts, and buns in a Wonder Woman reusable bag. Our couple of stops for gas and a bathroom break were at Pilot Truck Stops along the way. I swear they had the cleanest bathrooms I'd ever seen.

Everyone at our hotels in Memphis and San Angelo took safety precautions seriously, including providing masks and hand sanitizer for guests.

We saw GK for about three minutes, only because his sergeant's test had come back negative that morning, and GK's doesn't face a two-week quarantine. The heart-breaking part is we couldn't do more than first-bump. This may be the last we see him for a couple of years.

This fucking virus sucks, but we all did what we had to in order to prevent exposure. But to play it safe, DH and I are quarantining ourselves for the next two weeks and keeping our fingers crossed. I can't bitch too much. I have books to finish.