Outside of political slogans it’s hard to find a more hated phrase than “The New Normal”.\u00a0 Not only has it been profoundly overused, but people who didn’t (and still don’t) understand anything about medical science used it as an insult against all COVID related measures.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, things have gotten a lot better since late 2020.\u00a0 COVID hasn’t gone away, but the new variants are a fraction as dangerous as the first ones we saw.\u00a0 Live music is back.\u00a0 Family reunions are back.\u00a0 Things look a lot more like they used to, for better or for worse.<\/p>\n
Bu there’s one area where things are very much not like they were in 2019\u00a0 \u00a0This weekend my husband and I got have been struggling mightily with respiratory infections.\u00a0 He sounds more like bronchitis, I feel more like a sinus infection.\u00a0 But we are both coughing and our taste buds are a little “off”.\u00a0 \u00a0So yes, we have both taken more than one COVID tests and they are all negative.\u00a0 Hubby looked at me right after we’d gotten done swabbing our snot-filled noses and asked “Is this the new normal?\u00a0 Every time you have a cold you have to take a COVID test?”\u00a0 And I answered “Yes it is for now.\u00a0 I don’t know how long.”<\/p>\n
Now if you are a smart person, or at least one who cares about their fellow man, you are pleased to hear that we are making sure we aren’t transmitting COVID.\u00a0 We both work with immunocompromised people.\u00a0 If you’re screaming right now that this is government overreach, or mass paranoia, or something involving a pizza place in Connecticut, you’re an idiot, or at very least very selfish.<\/p>\n
So no, I don’t love shoving Qtips up my nose.\u00a0 I don’t love having to tell my boss, HR, and everyone else I tested negative every time I have a sniffle.\u00a0 But I get it.\u00a0 This IS a new world.\u00a0 There is no going back to the world of 2019 no matter how hard you try.\u00a0 This IS the new normal and we need to embrase it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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