Oh my Sal, so sorry to hear all the issues your family are going through.
I do wear masks inside almost always, mostly just to avoid being harassed. Around here we have lots of NAZIs, you know. I do much for my mom. We’ve both had trouble having the mask on for long time, as in groceries.
But I can now report my nephew had COVID due to Ocean City, probably gave it to his wife and MIL. Wife wasn’t tested but may have had it. Nephew had cold-like illness for few days. MIL got very stomach sick! But she is better now and never went to a hospital, BTW. Also my ex-SIL in CA had it, got over it. Probably got it from her son who wasn’t tested but again had some cold-like illness.
So that’s 3 definite cases which ultimately didn’t result in much horror. Then there’s my hubby’s employee, who had cystic fibrosis. He is now resigned, because the outlook is terrible...he needs lung transplant, so afraid he is a goner. But CF is terrible, and they don’t last long.
While I know some have had horrible outcomes, I’m still not seeing the Black Plague. And I don’t know how that compares to “regular flus”!
Give your mom a lift and let her know not nearly everyone gets it and dies, even my mom at 83 lots of COPD problems and breast cancer still goes out some with her mask and still hasn’t gotten anything. I do worry more about her than me, but there you go so far.
Not gonna be tough and say it’s not worn me down, because it has, but not so much from the physical part.
It’s the psychological refusal to accept any of this hysteria and the overwhelming desire to stand in stores and scream “WTF is WRONG with your BRAINS??”.
My frustration level is massive, by now.
It’s not my nature to just submit, obey and bend a knee, especially when I do not believe the actual “event” warrants this much histrionics.
My mom stopped going out completely, when the fear mongering talking heads told her to.
Didn’t help that my sister who lives far away kept giving her gloom and doom on the phone.
[she once worked as a receptionist in a doctor’s office so she is a medical expert]
From the beginning, I did all I could to show her it was okay to go out.
I gave her masks and gloves to make her feel “safer”.
But until a couple months in, I was buying groceries and leaving them on the porch and waving to her through the front door’s window.
I wish my dad was still alive.
He raised me to be his backup in stuff like this and honestly, I’m having to fill his shoes and I’m just not good enough.
If TSHTF, I’ll be the one up on the roof protecting the other two.
That’s just crazy and it scares me but it’s what I’ll have to do.
I do not feel at all adequate.
I know you live in a much more lib-infested area than I do so yeah, the mask nazis are much bigger issue there.
Haven’t really had any peer issues, just a few guardians of the doors.
So glad all of yours were relatively mild but the poor CF guy...just wow.
That’s never good, flus or not.