The Desire For Normal-ish

I've noticed recently that things are coming back.  Covid wise I mean.

Like "first time in two years" holding this event.  And people are travelling again.  Yes, I know many folks kept travelling or had to keep travelling but I mean the rest of us.  People going on holidays again.  Not just an odd person here or there but lots of people.  Travelling.  Airplanes.  Vacations.  (Some of them due to "use it or lose it" type policies I'm sure but still.)

Events are seemingly happening.  Festivals and such.  And could this all change?  Well, yeah, unfortunately, but things are planning as if they're going ahead and it's... weird.  To me anyway.

Like I have one "social media" friend who has always volunteered at music festivals and just did her first one in a couple of years, with plans for all the others over the Spring/Summer season.  I suppose people are feeling more comfortable with how things are?  Planners and organizers and health officials?

I'm more in that sort of neutral "well this is just how it is now so what am I going to do" sort of space of not really being sure.  Still wearing my mask in most places, may be doing that for ever?  or for a long while or until.... I don't know?  But I also went over to C-Dawg's parents' place for the first time since pre-Covid and none of us wore masks so that's new for me for sure...

But it's strange to be seeing people on holiday/vacation or work travel.  My friend down in the states just went back to the tech gathering thing she was at when Covid first hit.  She actually had a good friend get sick with Covid-19 at that conference two years ago and die.  I suppose I'm a little shocked she felt ok to go back.  But I can't know what's in the mind of others so I'm just trying to mind my own choices, you know?

Do we accept a pandemic risk and go back to gatherings and groups?  Do we accept trying to live with all of this?  I don't know and it's not really my choice... not my job, you know?

But it's weird.  It's weird and I don't know how I feel about it, but I do know where my comfort zone is/isn't and that's just that.

Sigh.