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obviously it& #39;s fantastic that everything is slowly starting to reopen, and i want to get back to normal life so that i can see my friends and go to restaurants and all that, but part of me just feels this looming sense of dread that i can& #39;t fully place.
part of it is that it& #39;s not clear to me that conditions have changed really at all in order for quarantine to end safely. without the massive contact-tracing infrastructure that never materialized, what prevents the number of cases from skyrocketing again after reopening?
but also i think a bigger part of it, at least psychologically, is that i had mentally prepared myself for this pandemic to disrupt my entire year, maybe even more, and it& #39;s unsettling to potentially have another life shift of equal magnitude in the opposite direction.
as a person who copes by making plans and maintaining a high degree of certainty in what& #39;s coming next and how that affects everything else, let me tell you, this year has been deeply inconvenient
i wish to god that there were any amount of consistency in the messaging right now around the pandemic and what comes after it. we& #39;ve been in it for months now, and it& #39;s still mindblowing to me how completely and absolutely this whole situation was fumbled.
anyway!!! i have been making a big effort to not follow the news as closely as i normally do because lately it just makes me feel like i& #39;m losing my already mostly-gone mind, but i wanted to share these thoughts in case some of you feel like you& #39;re losing your minds, too
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