I’m fairly responsible when it comes to Covid. Are there people taking more precautions than me? Definitely, but I feel like I am further than the majority of the population. I wear a mask anytime I go in a store, I practice social distancing, and I am counting down the days until my booster vaccine. But I also don’t wear a mask outside, and I don’t hole up from the world. I have learned to loosen up on restrictions for my child, and we’re making it work so far.
What I can no longer handle is how every single conversation that I am in, no matter what the initial topic, turns into something about Covid. I don’t give a shit. At this point, when somebody brings up Covid, no matter what the angle, my eyes glaze over, and my brain immediately turns off. I don’t care what governors are doing, I don’t care about people not getting vaccinated, and I don’t care about variants.
It doesn’t matter. None of this is going to affect my actions at this point, and I feel like, no matter what precautions (or lack thereof) we are taking, we are all pretty set in our ways. I’m going to mask up if I am basically anywhere with strangers. I had a guy come in to discuss work on our house, and I wore a mask in my own home. It takes minimal effort, and it minimizes my chances of catching something, and more importantly, passing it onto my son. No updates on the virus or what certain states are or aren’t doing is going to change this. Covid has reached a stage of subconscious thought at this point. I put on a mask without thinking. I keep distance without thinking, and I don’t actually think about Covid throughout my day. My precautions have become as normalized as walking. I manage to walk without repeating in my head, “Left, right, left, right, left…” and despite not thinking about it, I still do things correctly most of the time (we all stumble every now and then).
On the other hand, the one thing I will listen to is vaccine talk. Give me that sweet, sweet vaccine talk. They should have a study available on the trials for children younger than five by the end of 2021. You want to talk about progress on vaccinations for more people or better vaccines? Hell yeah, that’s the good stuff.
But even once my son gets vaccinated, it still isn’t going to really change anything. I would say I will be slightly less vigilant in trying to keep his mask on if he just isn’t having it, but even he is getting used to wearing a mask anytime we go to stores or travel. It’s just not that big of a deal anymore. So instead of focusing on Covid, let’s talk about the important things, Japanese professional wrestling, Iowa wrestling, and women’s freestyle wrestling. Hell, I’d even talk about Greco-Roman Wrestling. Anything but Covid.