Yup, this is the part that I am trying to get my brain wrapped around, after I can let go of the (irrational) fear. I think that the fear for a lot of people, myself and my kids included, was that with less activities to do, the fear of the unknown was allowed too much head space, literally. Not in any way minimizing the severity of the illness for some people, but without testing everyone the data that we have isn't totally accurate for the total number of asymptomatic or lightly symptomatic cases, which makes the overall picture look more grim if you are only focused on the numbers of serious infections and deaths; of course, time will tell, and this is the whole world learning about a new virus in real time. My daughters finally had a light bulb moment of "hey, mom was a pharmacist and has been exposed to germs since before we were both born" and thought of every day during every flu or illness season that I came home from work
without performing a major decontamination Star Trek style and immediately picked them up for snuggles and hugs and nursing
in my work clothing and everyone still stayed relatively healthy for the past two decades, so I was *finally* allowed to hold the baby again last night!! I am still likely to stay a bit more cautious in the future, but I am confident that my introverted life will return to normal. And I am still planning a summer 2021 Disney trip which would be great if the Mary Poppins attraction was ready by then