That sucks, and I hope you get better soon. You did everything right, and still got it.

I don't know anyone who hasn't gotten it. I don't know if I've gotten it yet - I had a "cold" in December, and have felt fatigued ever since.

I took my fourth shot yesterday. I"ve been masking for two years, too, and I'm sick of it. My glasses fog up in the store. It's annoying. I take my glasses off, and then I can't see.

So now, I just don't go out much. Sometimes I've been cheatomg as I go to the store maskless during hours I don't think many people will be there, and whip it back on if there are more than a couple people around. But now I'm hunkering down. Again.

I mostly rely on expensive delivery services, anyway, and their abysmally paid workers, so no big change there. I try to feel a little better by tipping them better than I really can afford to do.

Most of us are lonely, now, too. I know I am. Except for those who just live in denial, which is now quite a few people for the reasons you've expressed. Blindness and denial have been American traits since the days of the American Revolution, which was itself, no matter what we may have been taught in school, our first civil war over slavery.

It isn't doomscrolling to suggest that the next phase of this might be death on such a massive scale that we won't have time to doomscroll.

It may not be covid, or if ba.5 or ba.777777 or whatever, but another virus is probably already germinating somewhere, and a certain segment of our society, a very large segment, has firmly established the ritual of vaccination denial.

But it's not the virus that will kill us, any more than it might be climate change. It's our own repudiation of logic.

Having said all that, at the risk of being a concern troll, I don't think it helps to doomscroll all the time. Sometimes we have to. Gotta get that opinion out. But it wears down the body. It feeds on itself.

We all die sometime. Seek out some spiritual answers, too. Humans have extremely limited capabilities. There's more out there in that great expanse.