This week our high-risk household is celebrating (commiserating?) 365 days in quarantine.
If you’re wondering what it means to go back to “normal,” I share your confusion. In so many ways we’ll never be the same.
Here’s what I think our new normal looks like.
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If you’re wondering what it means to go back to “normal,” I share your confusion. In so many ways we’ll never be the same.
Here’s what I think our new normal looks like.
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(2) Because I have two children too young to be vaccinated, one of whom is high risk, our new normal includes wearing masks for the foreseeable future.
There will be no birthday parties. No sleepovers. No family gatherings. That’s the normal this country has left us with.
There will be no birthday parties. No sleepovers. No family gatherings. That’s the normal this country has left us with.
(3) My new normal likely includes struggling with fierce agoraphobia and anxiety.
Continuing to track our exposure and limit interaction is the only weapon I have in the face of a red state government that insists on dropping mask mandates ASAP.
Continuing to track our exposure and limit interaction is the only weapon I have in the face of a red state government that insists on dropping mask mandates ASAP.
(4) Our new normal is struggling with the decision of whether or not to send my daughter, who is 9 and has the same high risk genetic disorder I do, back to school this fall.
She has no friends her age. Her little social world has shrunk to YouTube and MineCraft.
She has no friends her age. Her little social world has shrunk to YouTube and MineCraft.
(5) Our new normal is struggling with whether or not to send our teenage son back to school this fall for his junior year even if he’s vaccinated. What about the variants? His exposure is our exposure.
This year he was supposed to learn to drive. Get a job. All that is gone.
This year he was supposed to learn to drive. Get a job. All that is gone.
(6) Our new normal is wondering if we’ll ever travel again. I had hoped to take the kids to national parks, more international trips. All that seems quite out of reach at the moment.
My husband isn’t even eligible to be vaccinated yet.
My husband isn’t even eligible to be vaccinated yet.
(7) Everyone keeps talking about getting us back to normal but for high risk households, there’s no normal to get back to.
The last year has proven this country has no compassion for the vulnerable. That we’re disposable. I don’t know what to do with that.
The last year has proven this country has no compassion for the vulnerable. That we’re disposable. I don’t know what to do with that.
(8) A year ago the governor told high risk folks to hunker down and come back out when it was safe. And then proceeded to abandon us as case counts exploded.
It’s never been safe for us. It’s still not.
It’s never been safe for us. It’s still not.
(9) I know the anti-mask crowd loves to talk about freedom. So let’s talk about it.
Your refusal to endure the inconvenience of a mask means I don’t have the freedom to leave my house safely. You’ve made your comfort my burden to bear.
That’s our new normal.
Your refusal to endure the inconvenience of a mask means I don’t have the freedom to leave my house safely. You’ve made your comfort my burden to bear.
That’s our new normal.
(10) In our new “normal,” certain people (even children) are still prisoners in their own home and this country shrugs and moves on without them.
So rush out to greet your new maskless “normal.” I’ll still be here. At home. Surviving the best I can.
So rush out to greet your new maskless “normal.” I’ll still be here. At home. Surviving the best I can.
(END) Thanks for stopping by for our Tuesday thread.
Please keep double masking. If not for you, than for us. Thank you!
Please keep double masking. If not for you, than for us. Thank you!
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