Clean out your desk. It's nice how the non-profits send us those free cards and address labels, but they do pile up. Especially if you just toss them in your desk. I have such a stack of pretty Christmas cards from the World Wildlife Fund. No need to buy any this year.
I didn't leave the house at all yesterday, the weather was so miserable. Not healthy. Today I'm going to the Senior Center Thrift Store to work for a few hours. It's the first time back in almost 2 years. The work is dull, but in the company of other people. Between the weather and Covid precautions, life becomes socially isolating, giving too much time to obsess about mostly non-existent problems.
All of us are struggling to some extent with getting back to normal. Check out this article in the New York Times about how the pandemic ends. When life's rhythms should finally return to normal.
In a highly vaccinated city like Seattle, the hospitalization rate for vaccinated people has been slightly above 1 in a million. In places like Seattle, Covid already resembles just another virus, with a lower hospitalization rate than the flu.
Obviously everyone doesn't live in Seattle. Everyone has to decide on their comfort level, but eventually the costs of organizing our lives around the virus exceeds the benefits. Covid now presents the sort of risk to most vaccinated people that we unthinkingly accept in other parts of life. Like getting in a car.
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