Self-Care At The End of February 2021

[dewline]

I see some of you reporting that you've gotten your first doses of whichever vaccine's been lined up for each of you.

Congratulations on still being here, and getting to this point. I hope to join your ranks in due time. My mother is likely to get hers first out of my immediate family, and given the present situation and the relevant statistics, I think that's as it should be.

It feels like incremental progress, creeping progress...and I worry about many of us - me included - falling into a new normal worse than I was expecting before the Pandemic. Despite the efforts of so many to build a better normal across the world's nations, which I see playing out via your blogging, and the news services I keep track of. Among other sources.

I'm not giving up.

I'm confessing to still worrying.

Going to keep writing, keep drawing, keep doing my photography. This is a promise I make to myself, with you as witnesses.

Comments

[thewayne]

The problem is that even if you get your second dose and wait the appropriate interval, the worst thing you can do is stop wearing your mask! There is no evidence yet that you cannot colonize a covid infection in your front nasal passage and continue being a spreader!

Gotta wait until we achieve herd immunity levels before the mask-burning parties can commence! (and even then I'm keeping mine, too much of an investment)

[dewline]

I doubt that I'm going to dispose of any of my masks after we're done either.

[sabotabby]

I've about 50% given up getting mine before I either catch regular covid, or supercovid mutating into something completely vaccine-resistant. Sometimes I get hope and that just makes me sadder.

[agoodwinsmith]

I witness your promise to yourself.

[dewline]

Thank you.