garnigal | At least Covid is keeping Emerg Quiet?

I've been annoyed with my parents for a few days. They started looking around for a new car specifically a Rav4 hybrid. They looked at one the next town over, but naturally the one they ended up buying was in Belleville, a city about 4 hours away on the main transit corridor. They decided to go up a few days early to visit friends in Almonte, near Ottawa (which was/is a major Covid hot spot).

It's like they totally forgot there's a pandemic.

Since then, we've been trying to decide if we are skipping Christmas.

They stopped on their way home last night to show off the car. I told them they had to mask. That's when they mentioned that Almonte is actually one stage lower than either their home or ours, and even Ottawa is having lower case numbers. I'm a little less concerned now, though it still isn't reassuring that they don't see the risk in larger numbers of contacts.

Anyway, they stopped at the park where VV was playing, we admired the car, then Derek texted. He needed to go to ER because he had a number of appendicitis symptoms. Mom and Dad ended up driving him. He was home around 3 hours later (really quick for our local ER) after blood test, urine test and ultrasound. They suspect he passed a kidney stone, but he's still very sore and bloated and usually the pain goes away immediately after passing the stone, so we are still on tenterhooks a bit.

Hopefully the weekend is quieter.