Ahhh I just can’t stay home anymore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are currently in isolation with COVID (suspect omicron as our symptoms have been mild, even the unvaccinated kids) and I am thrilled that we will be able to go back to relative normal after next week. It’s like my anxiety over COVID has evaporated. No more N/KN95s, no more fear about school illnesses, no more desperately trying to find rapid tests. We’re free!

I certainly hope you’re right, but I don’t understand why you think you’re “free” when so much is unknown about the virus and the situation is constantly changing. You know that many have had it multiple times, right?

Pardon my light hearted language. I’m looking forward to not being aggressively concerned/anxious about COVID and my children for the next 2-3 months. For the first time in two years. Still feels great.

Ignore them, PP. I'd feel the same as you. We're waiting on PCR tests for the family now and I sincerely hope they are positive because we've already been sick for 7+ days so the worst is already over. I'd love to be able to send my under-5 kid back to school feeling like they have at least a modicum of protection and be able to just breathe easier for a while. We had originally hoped to travel a bit this spring after staying close to home most of the last two years.

Anyway, ignore PP. You see the silver lining and you should get to enjoy it, at least.

[Anonymous]

I think we're probably going to take a break on extracurriculars and visiting with friends unmasked for a little while. My six-year-old keeps asking me what was the point of her getting a vaccine if she had to quit gymnastics again. I just feel so bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we're probably going to take a break on extracurriculars and visiting with friends unmasked for a little while. My six-year-old keeps asking me what was the point of her getting a vaccine if she had to quit gymnastics again. I just feel so bad.

You are truly a horrible parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unvaxxed family and living life normally. Spent a week down south with family and everyone we were with has been vaccinated and came down with it the day we left. We’re all still negative. Can’t make this s*** up. But life is good!

Imbecile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are currently in isolation with COVID (suspect omicron as our symptoms have been mild, even the unvaccinated kids) and I am thrilled that we will be able to go back to relative normal after next week. It’s like my anxiety over COVID has evaporated. No more N/KN95s, no more fear about school illnesses, no more desperately trying to find rapid tests. We’re free!

Until you get it again, in 90 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we're probably going to take a break on extracurriculars and visiting with friends unmasked for a little while. My six-year-old keeps asking me what was the point of her getting a vaccine if she had to quit gymnastics again. I just feel so bad.

You are truly a horrible parent.

Right back at you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a massive meltdown yesterday. Kids have their first shot, second shot in two weeks, so that's good.

Now 3 weeks of kids at home (due to the weeklong snow school closures), plus working from home for more than 1.5 years now has really got me. I take the kids out all the time (playgrounds, hikes, skating) but I need more adult interaction. We saw my parents over the break but that didn't feel like "enough" especially because they didn't really want to do anything the whole time they were here. I feel like my friends have mostly disappeared, and the ones that remain - I'm not comfortable eating inside a restaurant and they're not the types to want to go for a hike or something outdoors. So?

My husband told me yesterday to plan a day out or a weekend away, but I'm not sure what I'd even do right now or who with.

I feel this. So tired of teleworking with my spouse and being around him constantly, I feel like friendships have all dried up as my single friends are back to YOLOing and going to bars and dining indoors and working out on gyms (many have had COVID breakthrough infections) and we don’t see each other because my little one is not eligible for vaccination and they don’t want to come see me outside around a nap schedule,
And we have little in common new - with my Covid precautions being a new point of difference between us. And with my mom
Friends it is impossible to get together with multiple kids and work schedules/nap schedules/weather/lack of bathrooms and changing tables at outdoor locales When everyone is well and no one has a cold or is quarantining. I look like I’ve aged a decade, feel like I have no friends anymore, bicker constantly with my spouse and kids, and want nothing more than a week at the beach alone. I’m so deeply fatigued and depressed from years of risk analysis to every aspect of my life, trying desperately to keep everyone healthy and productive and do my job from my living room,
And having little support. I feel like a shell of my old
Self and that I’ll never get back to who I used to be.

With all due respect, why don’t you just stop? You are making yourself miserable and it’s a self created problem. I have no idea how healthy people have gotten in the grip of this level of psychosis but the only way to end it is to literally just stop doing it. Detox from this covid cult lol

[Anonymous]

How can I detox from the cult? My office has been closed for 2 years. My spouse’s office has been closed for 2 years. Our youngest is not vaccinated and our pediatrician is encouraging us to follow this level of precaution with regards to socializing. I’m not making the guidance up, I’m trying to follow it. At this point I don’t care if I get Covid and part of me wants to just get it over with, but my youngest is not vaxxed and we are trying to avoid getting it as we don’t want to be overwhelming the health care system right now when it’s so taxed. If I had older kids who were all vaccinated and could wear masks we would able to do more but those of us with kids under 2 who can’t be masked or vaccinated have nothing but bad options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unvaxxed family and living life normally. Spent a week down south with family and everyone we were with has been vaccinated and came down with it the day we left. We’re all still negative. Can’t make this s*** up. But life is good!

Imbecile.

My BIL is institutionalized, has been his whole life, and he’s an angry guy who insults anyone around him. Your attempt at an insult comes across same way his does. <slight empathy for how badly your life actually does suck> <smile> <wink><move on>