Hey everybody, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Dachie and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 231, what I learned during COVID quarantine.

If you don't follow me on Instagram, you might not know that for most of September, my family was hold up at home with domino positive COVID tests.

One got it and then another and another until all five of us were positive. My kindergarten age daughter was home the longest for over three weeks and the rest of us at least two.

I purposely paid attention during our time at home because I have a feeling a lot of us are going to go through bouts of this and I want you to have some tools.

I want to share what I learned, not like I'm an expert at quarantining or something, but more to offer some comfort and solidarity and practical help to ease the burden a bit.

If you're in the situation at any point in the future. So I wrote down the big things I learned and there were 10, I love around number when it happens like accidentally like that.

So I'm going to share 10 things I learned during COVID quarantine and frankly even if you're not in the situation, I think hearing what people learned from challenging situations is always helpful to me.

You can find encouragement or comfort or ideas from someone else's experience, even if you were experienced a centered around something completely different.

So even if you don't have COVID, this is still an episode worth listening to. Now for some context, my husband, cause and I are both vaccinated.

We have three kids who aren't old enough to be vaccinated yet. They're five, nine and 11. Cause is a middle school counselor and I of course do this.

All of our kids are in public school and virtual learning isn't set up as easily now that the kids are back in our county created a separate virtual school for students who chose to learn at home for this school year, like after in person instruction came back.

So a lot of the virtual learning resources went there. So there just wasn't a lot when we were in quarantine. I will also say that our experience has to be seen through the eyes of our own resources and support systems and privilege.

We all have computers so everyone could do their thing at the same time they needed to cause and I both could adjust our work and we weren't financially affected by having to take so much time off.

We have our own transportation, you know, so we could do grocery pickup. We have amazing friends and family who brought us food and buoyed our spirits.

We have a house with a yard on a quiet street where the kids could still play outside. And none of us got so sick that we couldn't function. The symptoms were fairly mild and even when somebody hit their peak, no one felt really bad for more than a couple of days.

So all of those things are important to remember when I share what I learned not everyone has it as easy as my family did and I just want to recognize that up front.

Okay, so that's the context and here are the 10 things.

First, two things will likely change often. Medical advice and your emotions. So we got a little bit of slightly contradictory information from the health department, the school system and our doctor's office during our weeks of quarantine.

On like whether or not somebody should isolate or just quarantine as a family. When a quarantine could officially be over, stuff like that it was very, very small, but it wasn't always exactly the same.

Now this episode is not about giving you medical information. Number one, because it keeps changing and number two, because I am not qualified to do that.

But as Delta does its thing, I imagine doctors and scientists continue to learn the best ways to protect both people and their livelihoods. And then some rules are going to be different from state to state.

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