I am really struggling this month with how to deal with Covid at this point. My family and I have been careful the whole time, done everything advised - remote school, masks, grocery pick up, vaccines, etc... and we've stayed healthy so far. My daughter and I both went back to in person school this fall, with masks (and mine mandated vaccines, too), and everything went fine. I had so much hope that life would keep churning along, we'd all learned to accept and live with Covid, and we were marching in the right direction. Then, of course, Omicron. My daughter's school reopened like normal on Jan 3 but I haven't yet sent her back (they had 3 snow days the first week and two days off the second week so she's actually only missed 5 days total so far). My school decided to go remote at least until Jan 24, at which point they will reevaluate.
I feel like I'm at some kind of fork in the road now. One half of me is ready to give up completely and just stop caring at all about getting Covid. I honestly don't know how much more I can take. I feel like I've been running for two years and I'm just ready stop. The other half can't relent control like that. Even though we're not high risk, every day I hear about more people my age (30s) with long covid symptoms - no taste or smell for months, weeks and weeks of muscle pain and fatigue, headaches, mental fog, etc... I know I'm extremely low risk for severe disease or long covid, but this virus is so unpredictable and I don't know that I'm willing to risk getting it right now when I know that the guidance being put out is more about the economy and what's politically feasible than the actual risk.
I'm so tired. How can we keep going on like this?