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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like I’m walking uphill through mud every day. Between uncertainty at work (we’ve postponed return 4x), school, childcare, the future, the grocery store (I couldn’t find chicken anywhere last week) and the prolonged social isolation of the pandemic, I’m not coping very well. I’ve stopped drinking, cut back my caffeine, am scaling back my expectations, trying to get outside every day, etc. but it’s not helping. Anyone else? This isn’t depression, it’s just....I don’t even know. I see my single childless friends putting on KN95s (or not) and living their lives but with two unvaccinated kids I just can’t justify the movies, a bar, indoor dining, air travel, window shopping, and everything else I desperately miss. [/quote]

People will get really judgmental about your choice to isolate or not, but look: it seems like even hardcore countries like e.g. Israel, which has made everyone boost at least once, is giving up and letting people just get omicron...  And it looks like boosted people are getting it.

I think that ultimately you have to make a tradeoff. It's bitter cold outside this weekend, but in the 40s you can probably meet someone else for an outdoor fire pit event and let your kids run around with others outdoors in poofy clothes, at the very least.

I don't know what the demographic here on DCUM is, and they may not be that visible to you in your social group, but a lot of moms and families are quietly going out and doing stuff, because the kind of eternal slog is hard and perhaps quite harmful. I know because I've been doing that and meeting them at playgrounds as late as December (on days when it was 50s).

So I think finding something where you trade a small delta in covid risk for a large return on mental health you should do it.

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