The numbers are horrible<\/a>, both nationally and locally, although Connecticut\u2019s hospitalization and fatality numbers aren\u2019t quite<\/i> as bad as they were in April. And I\u2019m more-or-less minimizing exposure\u2014I am going to work, unlike in April, but my workplace is currently nearly empty, and we\u2019re not letting people just wander through like they used to in the Beforetimes. I\u2019m not imagining that every cough might be the End.\r\nIt feels, I think, like the kind of mental state where a person starts taking thoughtless risks.\r\n
I went in to a grocery store the other day for a small number of things that we kinda wanted that day, rather than waiting until the next big shopping trip. Not a huge thing, and I was in and out in five minutes without having to spend any significant time close to anyone, but it\u2019s something I don\u2019t think I would have done in April, when I was panicking. And while I\u2019m not making any travel plans for the next four months, I\u2019m doing my work as if I\u2019m going to be here the whole semester.\r\n
I don\u2019t know that we should be behaving exactly as we were behaving in April\u2014I mean, for one thing, we know a lot more about how this disease spreads and how it doesn\u2019t, and for another we some of the stuff we did in April didn\u2019t actually make much sense\u2014but I feel like we should be a lot closer to that kind of behavior than to October or June or sometime when the numbers weren\u2019t horrific and increasing. And yet, here we are, most of us unvaccinated and unlikely to be vaccinated for another month or three, and for some reason I\u2019m not panicking.\r\n
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I>
-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger is perhaps too panicked about the upcoming widespread political violence and the droughts to panic sufficiently about the pandemic right now.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20367,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366\/revisions\/20367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}