I don't know if it's that I'm not afraid. Or that I'm sick of the bullshit and this seems like as good a way as any to make it stop. Sort of like your vax. You know there is a risk (no matter how small), but you do it to get on with life. If getting the stupid virus will get people to shut up and let me carry on- I'm happy to quarantine for two weeks and get it over with. Hell, I'm salary and could work from home (I just chose to go into work since the start of this. Yes, I'm "essential." But the other two in management "worked from home" for a couple months. I decided I would rather go in each day. What message does it send to the workers? You are disposable and I feel that it is worth the company risking your life- but all of management would rather stay home, thank you...)
I know what you are saying- but my mother keeps a diary. two weeks before it was officially in Canada, she wrote an week of entries about how sick she was. I remembered thinking that she might have to go to the hospital, and kept an eye on her. The only other time that I demanded she go to the hospital, her appendix had already burst and she was crawling up her stairs. This was not quite that bad- but it was getting close. I'm positive she had it- and I took a day off work at the same time. I think I can count on one hand how many days I have missed "sick" since I started working.
So, maybe I didn't have it- maybe I did. Maybe I will be shocked how bad it is. But I'm happy to (prance?) through the Covid ward at the local hospital and kiss their sickest patient. I have been done with the fear for a very long time. I just don't have the stamina to keep up any level of anxiety.
I don't know; the first case of covid in this country was reported about 20 miles from me, you might remember, and I remember in the initial panic rush for testing only about 10% were coming back positive, which suggests that 90% were sick, thought they might have it, but didn't.
Currently we are vying with SF for the most-vaxxed city and you still see more than 90% wearing masks at the store, that is silliness in the other direction. I miss my mask; I think I look hotter with it on
