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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At this point the level of denial and insistence on running back into the buzz saw of these COVID waves can only be understood as a form of collective trauma response. You think you’re “moving on” but you’re actually performing a kind of dissociation. It’s so sad to watch.[/quote]

Way to pathologize people simply living their lives and doing normal things.[/quote]
It is pathological to not adjust how you live your life and what you call normal activity to a changing environment and new set of risks.[/quote]

What you don’t seem to get is that people HAVE made the adjustment. We’ve adjusted, stayed adjusted, and moved on. It’s just that our adjustment is not “mask all the time, isolate at the slightest sign of a cold symptom, avoid restaurants and travel, etc.”

My family wears masks when required, if we have cold symptoms, or when around an immunocompromised friend or family member. We do rapid tests if we get symptoms and PCRs if symptoms persist or we are about to do something higher risk (travel for work, go to a wedding). But otherwise… our lives are normal. We go to restaurants, socialize with friends, attend concerts and weddings, travel. We don’t think about Covid most days— only if we are sick or have a reason to take extra precautions.

We have moved on. That doesn’t mean we e forgotten Covid exists, it just means it’s one of many factors we consider in our daily life, and rarely the top consideration. That’s not pathological. It’s reasonable. [/quote]

If you moved on, why are you posting about it?   Clearly you have not moved on.  [/quote]

Eh, mostly I’m bored and I find it fascinating to watch y’all freak the eff out every day about how some new variant is going to kill us all, or how long Covid is secretly killing babies, or whatever.[/quote]

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