And by the time we knew the important, action-relevant information like transmission vectors and all that jazz, we were already used to being afraid, and we failed to adjust.
This sentence is basically true of me as well, but without the emotional valence. My version:
And by the time I knew the important, action-relevant information like transmission vectors and all that jazz, I was already settled into a rhythm of pretty intense lock down, and I failed to adjust.
In retrospect, I wish I had spent more time traveling to to see and talk with people I know in other parts of the country. I did consider this, but I concluded that I shouldn’t.
3 concrete things that I failed to account for:
Quantitatively, how bad it is for me to catch COVID in expectation, and especially how likely I was to get permanent chronic fatigue (which is a very bad outcome).
How effective P100 masks are (I now think of them as “it’s as if you’re vaccinated for as long as you’re wearing it, which gives a different tenor to my sense of risk.)
That I could rent a minivan, and set it up for sleeping in so I wouldn’t need to pay for hotels or deal with the communal spaces of hotels.
This sentence is basically true of me as well, but without the emotional valence. My version:
And by the time I knew the important, action-relevant information like transmission vectors and all that jazz, I was already settled into a rhythm of pretty intense lock down, and I failed to adjust.
In retrospect, I wish I had spent more time traveling to to see and talk with people I know in other parts of the country. I did consider this, but I concluded that I shouldn’t.
3 concrete things that I failed to account for:
Quantitatively, how bad it is for me to catch COVID in expectation, and especially how likely I was to get permanent chronic fatigue (which is a very bad outcome).
How effective P100 masks are (I now think of them as “it’s as if you’re vaccinated for as long as you’re wearing it, which gives a different tenor to my sense of risk.)
That I could rent a minivan, and set it up for sleeping in so I wouldn’t need to pay for hotels or deal with the communal spaces of hotels.