I pondered what, exactly, I’d done wrong. I’m vaccinated. Yes, hospitalizations are on the rise in some places, including the county where I live, but almost entirely among unvaccinated people. My accuser said I should be feeling ‘rage against unvaccinated people’ for forcing the CDC to put these new recommendations in place. Maybe I should, but I don’t. I feel mild annoyance. But I can’t control what people in the Ozarks or Coastal Alabama or on the Florida-Georgia Line or more than 40 percent of Washington DC do with their bodies.
And yes, I know some fully vaccinated people have contracted COVID. I realize it’s possible — I know some myself. If it happens to me, I’ll get tested if I have symptoms and then I’ll go to bed until those symptoms are gone, like I did when I was sick before COVID. But at the moment, I’m not sick. I’m not hurting anyone. So leave me alone.
The irony is, I’m not even against masking indoors. I still do it on airplanes and in airports, in doctors’ offices and when I take rideshares. I’m not really interested in wearing masks in grocery stores or restaurants or libraries. But if I go to a place, and they require a mask, and I need what they’re offering, I’ll put one on. I’m not going to get into arguments with clerks or managers or whoever; I mostly save my arguing for social media. If they ask me to put on a mask, I either will, or I’ll leave without a fight, depending on my needs and my mood.
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