Oh, and we want to introduce kid and spouse to our respective overseas families and we’ll do the civil wedding in the fall and wanted local family and friends to come
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I’m also feeling weirdly chill - though I will note I am back to masking at the rink full-time because I skate with kids too young to be vaxxed. But like, I’m just proceeding as I have been: work from home, unmasked group gatherings but only outdoors, masking inside places like grocery stores. I’m running (outdoors) without a mask. I am going to the lobby of my building and in the building elevator without a mask.
But like…unless they won’t let us in/flight gets cancelled, I’m still planning on an international trip in a month. We’ve gotten KN95s to wear while flying, mostly because I don’t want to get stuck in one of the most expensive countries in the world, unable to re-enter the US due to an asymptomatic breakthrough case.
I dunno. I keep wondering if I should be more worried?
I don’t have kids, but I am helping out a friend going through chemo and am in their house (wearing gloves and mask indoors). I’m also immunosuppressed - and I got the J&J vaccine which is less effective against delta. So I’m sort of waiting for someone to tell me if I should get an mRNA booster and hoping they decide if I should soon so I can get it 2 weeks before my trip.
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well, with that, masks are required indoors in public places again for ages 5+ in my county, starting August 13th.
Wonder if this means I have to mask up to check my mailbox again 
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I have been pretty chill since earlier than most people were freaking out.
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I am very comfortable with my own mortality. Any number of things could take me out any time. I hope it isn’t covid, but if it is I have had a great life.
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My household is fully vaxxed and (knock wood) we don’t have any underlying issues that would increase our risk of complications.
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So far we have seemed to avoid infection, if not exposure. DH managed to fly from China to the US via Seoul, which was in the middle of a massive outbreak and where very few people in the airport or on his flight were masked, on 2/27/20 and as far as we know he never got covid. We do strongly suspect our DS was exposed at that same time and maybe infected via one of his roommates who had a horrible respiratory thing but could not get tested at that point as they were only testing people with known exposure. Later they figured out that there was transmission going on during that time period on the UW campus.
We masked when it was required earlier, and are doing it again now. I may go back to primarily grocery pickups rather than going into the store as I have been doing for the last few months.
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Gonna be the lone dissenter I guess. I’m freaking the fuck out. Back to not going into stores again and rethinking some planned trips/get togethers. Husband’s work just announced they won’t be stopping curbside service so that’s a good thing. They were supposed to return to clients in the clinic with no masking required this week. I guess the 1400 new cases in our area last week and the smaller regional hospitals just outside our county turning away ambulances might have finally gotten through to them.
I’m honestly not sure my mental health can take the isolation for another 6 months.
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We don’t have the vaccines, the hospital space, the anything to survive if a more infectious strain gets into our community. I’m worried. Isolation is working for us but it’s the only thing we’ve got going for us.
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There’s also the fact that when husboo and I discussed if we should worry, we do specifically referenced Florida numbers as a case where we’d worry; but we aren’t sure about the in between space. We’re taking precautions (and a lot of the precautions that people here are resuming we’d never dropped).
The mental health if we lockdown again is a big worry
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If I lived where you do, I would be freaking the fuck out too. I’m so sorry things are so bad there. 
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I’m less worried in large part because I’m in the vague north east and we’re doing fairly well up here. The rest of the country, I’d be back to worrying a decent bit. Not as much as I had been, but still taking a lot of precautions.
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We planned a vacation for the week of Labor Day and I’m hoping I’ll feel OK flying for that. The vacation itself is going to be driving up the east coast in a rental car, eating a lot of lobster rolls, fishing charter (fiancé has never fished!), walking around cute Maine towns and checking out lighthouses. Hoping things are at least open enough to get takeout. Overall it seems like a fairly safe trip for two healthy vaccinated people as long as we mask on the plane, in hotel common areas, while in line for food, etc.? Or am I out of my mind for even attempting this? Sigh.
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Both Virdi and Hill note that they’ve watched some of their colleagues struggle to adjust to remote work, but that this struggle hasn’t necessarily led to enlightenment about the importance of accessibility. “It’s the little comments people make about how devastating it is to not be able to be in person, or how they’re not having an adequate experience because it’s remote, that makes me realize not only are they having a difficult time, but they also don’t seem to really understand the access it’s providing,” Hill says.
As Virdi notes, “If there’s one thing that has been consistently, universally learned this pandemic year, it is that access is only made possible when it benefits able-bodied workers. All other times, it seems, it is an inconvenience.”
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I am more exhausted than either freaking out or feeling ok. I’m just so tired.
I don’t have kids but do help care for my elderly father who has multiple health issues.
I’ve tied some of my behavior to transmission rates in my county. So, for example, when we were below 20 cases per million I stopped wearing a mask in the gym. We are up again now, so I started masking at the gym again. If we get over 150 cases per million, I’ll stop going to the gym. I’ve been doing social things outside and unmasked. I am currently unmasked in staff areas of the library where I know everyone is vaccinated but will mask in public areas. I basically never stopped masking inside public buildings, so I’ll keep that up.
While I think the risk of covid to me personally is pretty low, 1. I really don’t want to give it to my dad and, 2. it would be such a clusterfuck if I got it and had to stay away from work.
I am planning a trip to the Grand Canyon in October. Aside from the flight there, almost everything will be outside and/or pretty isolated. I really hope it will happen, but again I just feel so beat down and tired.
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I accidentally read some covid threads over on MMM. Do not do, if you still want to have any faith in the goodness and unselfishness of your fellow man/woman. 
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Hey, kid, I’m right down the interstate if you need me.
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I appreciate the heads up, I was going to do my monthly check over there today.
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I now only read people I have always read. Haven’t left the unread replies in like a year.
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O noooooo! Sum up?
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I’m going to guess it was general healthy cis male libertarianism of I got mine, fuck you.
Just a shot in the dark based on the years reading over there.
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My last career was working with people with disabilities to obtain employment. Employment numbers for this population is dismal and even our agency where this was our entire purpose was not very accommodating to our employees with disabilities. Ugh!
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This mostly. Related to vaccines/masks/not my problem if you get sick etc etc. I understand frustration and being ‘over’ the virus. I don’t understand blatantly and loudly not giving a shit what happens to other people.
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