I have asthma/am high risk because of my cancer history as well, and was extremely closed off during the height of the pandemic (the rules were also much stricter in the UK). Still, once I was vaxxed I chose to get on an aiplane as soon as I was allowed to visit my Mom in America. At first I was freaked out to be in Florida in 2021, it felt like a Covid free for all. But the extreme change made me relax a bit more, we cannot sustain that level of stress and anxiety about Covid forever, that can't be healthy either. I have flown twice since.

I don't mask in shops anymore but I don't go to bars and restaurants as much as I used to either, I am in the tricky position of never having knowingly had Covid/not knowing how badly it would hit me. I get people who are scared of it, but what can we do, it's not realistic to avoid people forever, masks don't really work unless everyone is wearing them and even then, I caught bacterial pneumonia wearing a mask on a plane. I just feel like there's nothing we can do but get vaxxed and hope for the best. I agree we have to enjoy our time on earth, that was a big lesson some people took away from the pandemic and others seem to have gone the complete opposite direction. It's sad to lose friends and loved ones over it though, I haven't dealt with that, it must be frustrating.