Professor where I work holds an annual party at her house for returning grad students. I turned down two invites as part of my virus-avoidance strategy. She (who recently recovered from her mild case...) made a funny face yesterday and said I could just hang outside and wear a mask. I told her you can't drink wine with a mask on, but that wasn't really the reason - I didn't elaborate on the fact that I'm not really interested in small talk with folks I don't know well anyway, it's torture at the best of times, but masked and outside in the fall chill, um, double nope. I'm 4x vaxxed and looking forward to the next booster but still wear the N95s pretty much everywhere I need to be indoors that isn't my 3x HEPA filtered office space. I'm also nearly 70 and am really not interested in getting it or any of the other lovely things going around right now. Also I think I'm just not a fan of people in general anymore... Hold the line folks, the pressure's building to just get on with things, but I'm DOING IT MY WAY. 😎
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Beam, I so hear you. 4x vaxxed, getting bivalent (+flu) tomorrow, and never indoors without an N95. I hardly ever see another person wearing a mask. Still watch the "daily numbers" and I ain't talking Powerball. I've seen cases & deaths decline nationally but already NY looks like it's rebounding and my mostly blue PA county case numbers never really went down, which is disconcerting to say the least. Everybody's like "Oh, have you had it? How many times?" as if they were referring to poison ivy or a hangnail. Not a party animal by any stretch, but will miss the freedom of outdoor interaction when winter closes in. Won't miss it enough, however, to take it indoors. Do it your way, Beam! I'm doing it my way too. And for anyone who mocks us, I have 2 words and they aren't Happy Birthday.