Feeling so down today. I have been strong for so many months but with the news of the variants, I am completely lost. I don't know what to do anymore. Even with the vaccine, seems to be no way of winning against covid.
I think, as a society, and personally, we are going to need to accept that we are not going to "win." Covid is not going away. It is here to stay, and we will need to recalibrate our feelings of risk around it. We all do risky things every day; we take sensible precautions to mitigate the greatest and most easily-eliminated risks, and then we forge ahead with our lives. We need to do the same thing here.
exactly this. we haven't eradicated influenza, it kills people every year, but we don't shut down to prevent those deaths. you get your flu shot and life goes on; COVID will probably be in this category as well.
I think, as a society, and personally, we are going to need to accept that we are not going to "win." Covid is not going away. It is here to stay, and we will need to recalibrate our feelings of risk around it. We all do risky things every day; we take sensible precautions to mitigate the greatest and most easily-eliminated risks, and then we forge ahead with our lives. We need to do the same thing here.
exactly this. we haven't eradicated influenza, it kills people every year, but we don't shut down to prevent those deaths. you get your flu shot and life goes on; COVID will probably be in this category as well.
oh god. what now?