What I’m most afraid of is long Covid
I’m still wearing my mask most of the time when I’m indoors with other people and I’m still reluctant to do much traveling - although I make an exception for visiting my grandkids! But I’m not doing this because I’m afraid of catching Covid and dying in a hospital. Rather, it’s that I’ll catch Covid (and I never have so far), “recover” from it after a bad week or two, but then have lingering effects that never go away. My reason for this attitude is entirely due to my work. Almost everything I do for work involves writing in some way (including writing a book on cybersecurity, which I hope to finish in the near future), and the rest requires paying close attention during online meetings. I’ve heard from people who have had (or are having) Covid that the worst part for them was the “Covid fog” (as one person put it), that doesn’t allow them to concentrate or think straight. Frankly, that frightens me more than anything else, since, being independently employed, I will have no ...