Today I’ll go back to work after a two week break because of getting Covid. My wife got it a week before me and needed two weeks as well to get back feeling relatively ok. Luckily our one year old son was only ill for two days in the midst of that.
The benefit is that we now both get the Corona QR code for having survived the virus, as we didn’t get vaccinated. It feels a bit weird that all of a sudden we are welcome in restaurants and such again. When they open, as we are currently in another lockdown in the Netherlands.
I think that for the future it will be vital for our sense of well-being to learn to adapt to crises that completely disrupt our lives. We will need to start teaching people how to deal with such things mentally if we don’t want to end up with a society that is even more confused than it is already.
I wonder in what world my son will grow up.
How are you feeling now?
Yep, the passports are ridiculous and I suspect, are one of the reasons that there is so much spread. Vaccination used to mean "don't get the disease" - now it is about lowering symptoms. No one gets a "mild case of Polio". Vaccinated people still carry and spread.
Mental health is going to suffer at scale - best thing is to do what we can to build resiliency in ourselves and those we care about.
No such thing as mild myocarditis either lol
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After working a few hours I feel quite tired. Luckily I don’t have to work this afternoon, tomorrow will be my first full work day. I guess it will take some time before I feel like my old self again.
No doubts about the vaccine though, I’m not going to get that for sure. I don’t envy the government. They try to tell people that got vaccinated that it didn’t work well enough to protect them and they need a booster shot. In some cases there is no protection at all. And at the same time they try to convince the ones that didn’t get vaccinated yet, that the vaccine is a really good idea to protect you and those around you from the virus.
Our minister of health went so far as to say that our personal freedom to decide over our own bodies should never be more important than the safety of people around us. Also we should not hesitate to try to convince those around us that are still in doubt about getting vaccinated or not.
Two very polarizing comments, that are completely opposite to what the Netherlands is known for abroad, that personal freedom here is always protected. If this thing goes on for a bit more, perhaps another variant of the virus, more booster shots. Then that personal freedom might come under real attack even here.