Masking and touching.

[serafaery]

Been reading too much about the current (delta) variant and what it's doing to undervaxxed communities, and keeping my mask on at work today, per WHO and California recommendations, even though I'm in a highly vaxxed community in Oregon. We can catch and spread delta without even knowing we have it. The problem is the willfully unvaxxed, making things more dangerous for vulnerable people like children and the immunocompromised who can't get vaccinated. I totally get not wanting to be told to inject oneself with something relatively new and not thoroughly tested, though. It just makes it really scary for me to work - my biggest fear is unknowingly harming someone else. I did everything I could to prevent that by getting vaccinated - I'd be much more likely to spread something without the vaccine - but masking up indoors just feels extra responible, at least today. I might change my mind tomorrow, we'll see. It's just hard. All this crap makes me not want to work in person at all anymore. Unless it's something more valuable, like massage? I miss touch so much that I keep daydreaming about taking up massage therapy as a vocation, even though deep down I know my body would reject the stress of that work. Sigh.