Two kids and one grandchild are traveling in different countries as the Omicron variant of the virus is beginning to rage.  As I see it, there are two ways of looking at it:  1.  OMG – why have they left their safe homes?  2.  thank goodness they are in places where the variant hasn’t been discovered yet.   We seem to have been one of the first to have imported the variant because, allegedly, a woman who tested positive at the airport ignored the command to go into isolation and went down to Eilat.  Who knows how many people have been touch by this?  Even one who had been triply vaccinated.  So maybe it’s good that some of our kids are not here.  in the meantime I’m staying home and worrying.