Thanks for this post. You honestly made me feel less crazy.
I sometimes wonder if I'm off in paranoia land. It's hard not to have those thoughts when most people are out living their pre-pandemic lives and I feel like they see me as some kind of bunker-dwelling survivalist. For a span of time, I was taking more precautions than a person I know who is an organ recipient and is on immunosuppressants, and that feels really strange. With new variants of Covid that are more problematic though, said friend is back to being as restrictive as we are, which really sucks.
I definitely feel this. Most people seem to be happily back to normal and I'm always wondering what information they're getting or whether I'm the one reading the information wrong. But my friend's kid still can't get out of bed. And she was totally healthy before.
I'm like that with the risk too. I want an endpoint to isolating and masking because the former is killing me and the latter is going to kill my career. But I feel like it's irresponsible to unmask now, given the information I have.
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Date: 2023-02-05 09:26 pm (UTC)I sometimes wonder if I'm off in paranoia land. It's hard not to have those thoughts when most people are out living their pre-pandemic lives and I feel like they see me as some kind of bunker-dwelling survivalist. For a span of time, I was taking more precautions than a person I know who is an organ recipient and is on immunosuppressants, and that feels really strange. With new variants of Covid that are more problematic though, said friend is back to being as restrictive as we are, which really sucks.
I definitely feel this. Most people seem to be happily back to normal and I'm always wondering what information they're getting or whether I'm the one reading the information wrong. But my friend's kid still can't get out of bed. And she was totally healthy before.
I'm like that with the risk too. I want an endpoint to isolating and masking because the former is killing me and the latter is going to kill my career. But I feel like it's irresponsible to unmask now, given the information I have.