Colleen27
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- Mar 31, 2007
I totally agree.
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And I’m going to disagree with the sentiment from an earlier poster that people are all or nothing. Sure there are people on either extreme, but most of us want a middle ground. And some have gotten it. And some of us haven’t. While I think wearing a mask and social distancing should be a given and not a debate, it helps if things actually opened up. And in my part of CA, they still really aren’t. Yes, we have a lot of outdoor options, but when you add the wildfires and smoke, we can’t even go outside, so those are a no go. And for anybody questioning it, we are still having spare the air days and have had maybe 10 safe air days (and by that I mean not hazardous) in the last 60.
That’s my long winded way of saying that for many of us, we were good for the original 2 weeks, then 2 months, even 5-6 months. As we approach 8 months, the social isolation part of this is passing into unhealthy territory. And yes, for me, mental health is just as important to physical health. So while I’m not over it and I still limit what we do (my kids still don’t hang out with groups of friends, we don’t do any gatherings, we wear masks and/or keep distance from anybody outside our bubble), we are starting to loosen our personal guidelines. We will not be cavalier with our decisions, and I know there are plenty who disagree with me, but the restrictions in my state, especially in my county are too severe. They are not going to get compliance 8 months in because we’ve been doing this too long without really earning anything back - and the one time we did, it all got taken away when the guidelines were changed under this new tier system. (In California for reference).
I agree. I feel for you all out in California - my daughter's university just moved the spring & summer semesters to full remote and is "hoping" that at least professors will be able to work in their offices - they're not allowed to right now, even without support staff - and in their email to parents about it, they basically said that the only way fall of 2021 will be back on campus is if there is widespread vaccination by then. She's actually thinking about applying to transfer to a different school even though she loves her university because we don't believe that vaccination is that close, and she doesn't want half (or more) of her college experience as a lab science major to be done alone in her bedroom, watching labs on YouTube. And the crazy levels of isolation out there are leading us to take a risk we probably wouldn't have otherwise - my MIL, my 12yo and I are flying out on Friday to surprise her with a weekend visit, because she's been so down about this whole situation. Being out there has been better than being at home, where she's even more isolated from her peers on top of coping with the distractions of a very noisy family, but she sounded so dejected after getting the email about spring/summer that I decided to resurrect our planned fall visit after all. Hopefully the air quality isn't too terrible, because according to her, almost everything indoors is still closed (though she said the museums are now allowed to open at limited capacity, so I might finally get to the DeYoung while we're there).