wenrob
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 14, 2008
We were told to act like everyone had it. It’s hard to get out of that mindset. I live in a large, densely populated city. Our county has 2.2 million people and 6,845 cases as of this morning. I clicked on my zip code today and we have/had…85 cases. The more I learn to look at the numbers in a pragmatic way the less scary it feels.I think the one lingering negative from all of this is going to be the paranoia. 99.9% of the people you pass do not have CV. Except for parts of large, dense cities, it been that way from the start. But now that we are conditioned to assume that everyone is going to pass on CV, it's going to be a while before true civility returns, and by that I mean not crossing the street every time you encounter a stranger, the mask-shaming, all of that. It can't come soon enough IMHO.
As I’ve said in other threads what has changed for me is that I’m no longer terrified of it. I have a healthy respect for it and I certainly don’t want it but I no longer let “what if” rule my day and keep me up at night. I’m still leery about going out and about because as mentioned above we’ve been trained everyone has it but I’m ready to start working my way out into the world again.