(I don’t actually expect anyone to write and tell me things or give opinion on this, but like if you do happen to have info, I always will take it!)
For a while, the media was framing it as a disease for gay men. I think we’ve all, by this point, hopefully moved past stigmatizing gay men, and also thinking this virus doesn’t affect everyone.
And there aren’t abundant vaccines for this. So, to my knowledge, they are not open to the general public yet. (I did google this to confirm, and I also called my local pharmacy just to like doubly doubly confirm.)
So, unless y’all know something I don’t, the vast majority of the population basically doesn’t have access to the vaccines yet.
I’ve already adjusted my life so very much just for Covid. But one of the things that has felt reasonably safe much of the time has been swimming when there’s no one else in the pool.
I love swimming! I want to get better at it, so hopefully someday I can do an ironman. It’s also a great exercise, and is good for whenever you have an injury or if things change for you as you get older, so I think it’s a good thing to get in your body.
I dunno. I like swimming for multiple reasons. And I like the hot tub!
From what I’ve been reading, right now, it seems the CDC is saying it’s ‘not waterborne’ and that you should be okay in pools and the hot tub… But like… will we be? Or are there enough surfaces out there, etc? How safe are we, really?
I don’t want to start getting all conspiracy-theorist or whatever, but there’s been so much downplaying of Covid in America. Also, there’s already been so much downplaying of Monkeypox! Many sources have been telling us it’s only going to be a disease for gay men, but that’s obviously not the case.
So, I’m likely to be more conservative on protections than the CDC or other major American sources would say right now.
Anyway, I don’t know if it can be spread in the pool or not. I’d probably be fine.
And I probably won’t stop swimming like completely. But I’m tired of everything being so stupid dangerous – and things that didn’t ever used to be dangerous!
Riding rollercoasters and bungee jumping and stuff like that is supposed to be fun and dangerous!
Going to the grocery store, or sitting in your building’s hot tub is supposed to be BORING. I’m tired of their being more weird virus-y things all the time.
Why is this happening? Is it the world becoming more connected? Is it the anti-vaxxers? Is the world ending? Like, what’s happening?
I kept thinking there was an end to all this, but I don’t know where that end is!!!