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I think less about 'when this pandemic will be over' and more 'how I can figure out how to best adapt to this situation' because I don't have a huge amount of confidence in the response of the US (or much of the rest of the world either) to the pandemic but I need to figure out what I can do to best deal with all this nonsense.  I'm getting better figuring out exercise, but there are also...other problems I need to deal with beyond that.
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I have a lot of feelings about the fact that I feel more functional spending large blocks of time at home because I feel like I can actually devote time to a task, but at the same time feel less functional due to being cooped up all the time.

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Jan. 26th, 2021 02:47 pm
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I think the stuck inside aspect of self-quarantining is really starting to get to me.  I was really used to being outside a lot, but it's also easier for me to get myself to do something like go outside if it's to accomplish a task.  But I try to avoid going out these days for tasks if at all possible.  Also I always feel apprehension if I go outside without a mask these days even though my understanding is that outside is much lower risk than indoors.  Part of it is that it is sometimes hard for me to avoid people given the terrain in certain areas near where I live.  Like even when I go outdoors these days I feel so restricted and confined.  Also anxious.

The good news is I've been slowly adapting to getting more exercise indoors, so hopefully that will continue to improve so my muscles don't completely atrophy haha.
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Just came back from a walk, which I greatly enjoyed. I walked up to a nearby park and back.

It's kind of a pain to wear a face mask and face shield everywhere, but I do think it's a good idea so I always do it. While neither of those can guarantee that I won't catch covid-19, I think there is compelling evidence that they greatly reduce that probability, and that's good enough for me, especially since I try to do that in conjunction with physical distancing and frequent handwashing. I also understand that being outdoors, especially in warmer weather, reduces the chance of catching the virus. Since the main form of covid-19 transmission is airborne, being outdoors is probably usually going to tend to be better than being indoors since there's maximal ventilation.

I haven't really gotten sick with anything at all that I've noticed, so I think that my quarantine techniques have been pretty effective, since in recent years it's been fairly normal for me to get sick a few times a year. This quarantine period has so far actually been more like certain other periods of my life where I could go a year or more without getting sick at all. Probably because I've reduced my contact with other people even more than I did at those times. But now I think I actually understand *why* I got sick more in some periods of my life than others. When I was younger I used to think I didn't get sick much because I had a strong immune system, and while I do think my immune system is reasonably robust, I think it's much more likely to have been the intense social isolation. I was literally social distancing, lol.

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