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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think isolating for 2 years did this OP. That’s a really long time and most people didn’t actually do that. It’s not a judgment, it’s just maybe a partial explanation why it did so much damage to your psyche. We were still careful-ish (masking and not going to crowded indoor events) but by summer of 2020 we were seeing friends and so were our kids. The mental healthy effects started to scare me more than Covid. We didn’t end up catching Covid until Oct 2022. [/quote]

DP.  I appreciate you being respectful in stating this position. Many people are much more judgmental, which is one of the most infuriating parts of the pandemic. Yes, many of us who exercised caution and significantly curtailed our activities due to COVID, whether due to personal health, caring for an elderly family member, a sense of community greater good, hope that sacrifice would lead to schools reopening, or whatever reason, have wound up struggling in our work, social, and family lives for a variety of reasons associated with isolation. Those who resumed more normal lives sooner tend to have little sympathy for these struggles as if listening to public health guidance at the time was some sort of personal failing or weakness. [b]The harm caused by isolation was not considered in public health decisions[/b] and has not been acknowledged or discussed enough, leaving individuals feeling unsupported as they try to rebuild their lives. [/quote]

I am someone who locked down hard in March 2020 but was resuming normalcy by spring 2021, traveling out of state and no longer masking unless somewhere mandatory by summer 2021. As soon as the adults in our house were vaccinated we went back to quasi-normal life because I started to realize that the only metric public health officials cared about were COVID deaths. When you think like a hammer everything looks like a nail.

I remember getting some pushback and snarky comments from friends who were still isolating and masking everywhere. In retrospect I’m not even upset with them because I think public health officials did a real number on people and there was definitely some significant anxiety at play when people were lashing out at anyone who wanted COVID restrictions lifted. It was a really weird time and I hope if anything like this happens again we’ll take a more wholistic approach rather than an unbalanced weighing of just numbers. [/quote]

Most people were traveling summer 2021. Your friends must skew very conservative with Covid.

In our circles, everyone was traveling in 2021. I know we did a lot of road trips and drove to Florida. I think everyone we knew at least went to the beach. [/quote]

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