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If you're still trying to avoid Covid while 99.9% of the world are trying to share it directly with you, you have my utmost respect.
It's exhausting, I know it's exhausting.
And it's isolating, and it's thankless, and it's unceasing.
You're doing it in opposition to the will of family.
You're doing it in opposition to the will of friends.
You're doing it in opposition to the will of your employers, and the media, and your government.
For some of you, you are certain that this is a question of life and death - yours, or those you love.
For some of you, this is a question of right and wrong.
You may have been mocked, shunned, patronised, dismissed, belittled, humiliated, bullied.
You may have been asked the hardest of questions.
You may have been put in impossible situations.
But you're still going.
Because you know that you can reduce the risk of infection.
And you know that it's worth avoiding infection.
And as long as those two facts remain constant, you know that it's right to try to not catch it and not spread it.
Whether you're doing this out of desperation, or hope, or strength, or fear, or courage, or you don't know how you're doing it, you have my respect, and love.

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