This fucking sucks so bad.
We are famously strict about viral precautions. We've lived unwillingly in protective status since our Feb 2020 #SARSCOV2 infections & haven't gotten it again since. The virus left us all with some chronic health issues, but I have full blown sequelae and really can't afford to get it again.
Thanks to the lack of precautions by most of the rest of the world, my husband has been feeling ill & just got a positive test.
Sniffles with fatigue. 5 days post exposure.
@chargrille I am SO sorry!!!! IRL, my family, too, is absolutely the most covid-cautious family that OTHER people know and still my husband got covid last year (and gave it to me). I still trust layered protections, but I also know the reality that one-way masking and NO institutional layers still leaves a lot of holes for covid to sneak through. 😠
I hope your husband has a truly mild case, a quick and full recovery, and that the rest of your family remains covid-free! 💐
@ikuo1000 Thank you. Yes, we'llcontinue to take all our layered precautions - in fact, we'll have no choice but to find ways to double down.
This is definitely *not* a 'give up, nothing you do matters' post - it's a "we all have to do more, together," kind of post.
People def shouldn't sit back & wait for those of us with CFS/metabolic disorders, heart conditions, etc., to do it for everyone else, though. People who are healthy need to see their futures in us, & take an interest in themselves.
@chargrille Yes, absolutely!! Getting covid last year just made me all that more committed to NOT getting it again!!
And totally agree, I wish more healthy people would understand that they may be 1 infection away from being disabled and would join this fight against covid. So many people just never understand something until it happens to them, and then it'll be too late.
Erin Conroy
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