Vaccinated and Boosted? Omicron Is Coming for Your Sanity.

Covid confusion is the next public health crisis.

A year ago our focus was straightforward. The goal was clear; the end was in sight. Keep your mask on, open your holiday presents in the cold, and get vaccinated as soon as you can.

Now, the energy I once spent enduring isolation goes to reminding myself, as I skim the latest Omicron story, that this isn’t spring of 2020. That we know more about this virus than we ever have. And that I have three doses of Moderna coursing through my veins. (I got boosted at 6 months pregnant; I’m now 8 months and we’re both doing fine.)

The Omicron variant poses a new threat to our society. But maybe not in the way you’re expecting. Because if you’re reading this, chances are you’ve done done everything you can to protect yourself and those around you from the virus. Now, we must ask ourselves whether this habit of fear and caution, firmly entrenched in our collective consciousness over the past 22 months, poses an equally serious risk to societal wellbeing. The safest choices may no longer be the best choices. Our youngest, oldest, and most vulnerable have borne the worst of this pandemic. Even if we don’t know all the answers, even if we can’t be 100% sure they are completely safe from Covid, they deserve hope and peace. They deserve to enjoy life, free from fear.

Obsessing over the unknowns and doomscrolling NPR (sorry) for confirmation that your worst-case-scenario fears are founded doesn’t make you safer. (And let’s be real, if you’re reading NPR for covid news, you’re also triple-vaxxed and have an Amazon monthly ‘subscribe and save’ for KN-95's).

So maybe instead of getting that next dopamine hit from panicked headlines, try some of these alternatives.

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