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obviously it'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't fully place.
part of it is that it'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'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'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've been in it for months now, and it'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'm losing my already mostly-gone mind, but i wanted to share these thoughts in case some of you feel like you're losing your minds, too
in other words https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1265776939823816704
