I have exactly zero patience left for people that justify their risky pandemic behavior to me by saying I “just don’t understand how hard it is on our mental health to not be able to hang out together with others without masks. “

Do high risk people not have mental health needs?

Are we somehow magically more capable of going months on end with no social interaction than healthy folks?

Does this somehow affect us less?

We don’t need friends or social attachments as much as you?

You can miss me with that trash. This is JUST as hard for us, but we don’t have a choice.

You are just as capable of doing this distancing this as we are, you are CHOOSING not to. And that’s absolutely your right, but own that it’s a choice and that you are responsible for.

Every time you say maintaining strict distancing is “impossible” you erase the many many high risk families like mine that are still doing it.

Every time you say you just “need” the social interaction, you ignore that we need it just as much as you do. And yet we still press on

If you want to take risks and have all your friends over for a birthday party or a 4th of July bbq, fine. That’s your choice to make.

But stop justifying how much you must “need” it more than we do.