The Authentic Eclectic
Be Patient With Pandemic Parents, The World Is Scary Enough Without Having To Take Your Kids Out In It
We know we have to adjust, but let us do it in our own time
We have officially opened back up here in NSW, Australia. As of yesterday, masks and check-ins are no longer mandatory in most places, and proof of vaccination is no longer required.
Yesterday there was also a massive spike in positive Covid cases.
Although I’ve always been the type to err on the side of caution, I never used to think twice about getting sick. In fact, I was always the sick kid. If there was some kind of bug floating around, I’d catch it. I always had a sniffly nose or a sore throat, for many years, that was my ‘normal’.
In what could only be considered a blissfully ignorant mindset, getting sick and death never reconciled in my mind—you had to get cancer or some other kind of horrific disease to die, not catch a cold. And I especially never considered that going out while infectious with one of my many bugs could inflict such a fate on someone else.
But that’s how we all lived, we soldiered on. We showed up to the office coughing and spluttering until it ran through the whole floor and risked…
