You miss activities we used to engage in. I miss not having to constantly hear how you miss them and constantly feeling gaslit for trying to be responsible and trying to take responsibility for the message I send and the activities I promote. I miss the days when people remembered the things we accomplished the prior year instead of jumping to the need to go back to pre-pandemic behaviors. I miss not feeling defeated at every step (and admit that this may be my white straight cis-male middle-class privilege shining through). I miss seeing some sort of hope for the future (again, privilege). I miss feeling good about anything I do.
You don't like the fact that I'm still masking. I don't like the fact that I have a higher risk of long covid. I don't like the fact that I have a couple comorbidities. I don't like the fact that the city I live in didn't reach moderate transmission rate or even high transmission rate when we had nearly stalled out our progress prior to the removal of mask mandates and saw the rates increase again. I don't like that masking has been made out to be some significant hinderance.
You're tired of precautions. I'm tired of people not taking precautions for more than a month or two at a time. I'm tired of the media, government, and individuals not learning from 2 years' experience. I'm tired of people not going past an initial statement, like "this other country has re-opened in-person schools" to get to the rest of the story, such as "along with having constant testing of all students and are also seeing another wave so they're doing a lock down the likes of which have not been even considered in the US."
You wish we could just go back to life the way we lived pre-covid. I wish I didn't have diabetes and could go back to not watching what I eat and not exercising. I wish I weren't getting older. I wish global warming weren't a thing and that war and genocide and discrimination didn't exist.
