How Are You Faring?

We’re more than six months into the shut downs from the pandemic and the continued masking and distancing. While safety is crucial, it can be warying to be restricted for so long.

I’ve become quite fatigued of all the COVID restrictions, and while I do them, I’m looking for ways to still be active while being safe. We went to an apple orchard a few weeks ago. I, reluctantly, took my daughter to Six Flags (open air, masks required, lots of hand sanitizer), and we’ve been out walking and biking tons. But I have to admit it’s hard being so out of the norm of what life has been for the first decades of my life.

I would love for them to get the testing capacity improved. There are several stories about the usefulness of fast tests that offer quick results of whether or not you’re infectious. With widespread quick testing, we’d really be able to get a hold on the pandemic, and tamp it down. When people don’t know if they’re sick, it’s too easy to spread.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like there’s a lot of movement on quick testing, so we’re going to be going through this much of the winter.

Right now, I’m fatigued, more so for my children than myself. Virtual school is hard. It’s hard not to see your friends, and kids don’t have the same perspective as adults. They view this as lasting forever. And while I know it won’t last forever, when you think about the amount of life a child remembers (usually they cement memories from age 7 on, with some getting bits and pieces), a year of their life (how long this pandemic will probably last at a minimum) is huge percentage-wise. A kid who is 14, with just 7 years of real memory would feel like they’d spent one-seventh of their life enduring this. That’s a long time. And it feels even longer.

So, right now I’m steeling myself for longer, but very frustrated at the lack of progress. How are you feeling?