The major difference now is that I feel safer doing some shopping instead of ordering everything for delivery, and I can hang out with a few other vaccinated people. It will be awhile before I start going to restaurants although I used to eat out (cheaply) fairly often because I was too lazy to cook, or movies or concerts or anywhere there are a lot of people indoors. So my relatively solitary existence will continue in more or less the same way, just with more flexibility.

Some old bandmates and I got together to play some tunes last week. All of us are vaccinated but it was the first time in well over a year I've rubbed elbows with a group other than close family. It was fun seeing each other and sharing tunes but I was glad to get home afterwards - a bit rusty in the socializing department I suppose.

-Team Not Yet

forward to it. Seriously, there is nothing to do around here except for one RW beer/liquor oriented dive bar that is just not appealing. Everything else is in the 15-20 mile range. If it turns out there is a nice place to drop in maybe once or twice a week I would enjoy that option. As long as it is non-smoking it may be a nice addition to the socially desolate climate around here.

I've been in both camps over my adult life.

Typical slowdown in going out having a family.

Now I'm planning on being more social going forward. NYC and my old NJ haunts have lots to do.

because the occasional Trumper was just so damnably uncivil and they didn't all wear the hats so you'd know who they were so you could avoid them.

Any transition back to a full social life is just not going to happen, I never had one in the first place. I might shop more often than every six weeks, maybe even every two weeks, but that might push it.

It's shocking how easily I weathered several lockdowns. Opening the door will be the tough part.

Because I am retired, but I have thought of going out to work part-time when this is all over, but we still have some pretty high numbers here.

I also live in a warm climate so I have never totally been confined to the house and have continued with my nature walks and bumped into the usual people I chat with. I adore them and their dogs and as a rule, we have all been very respectful and kept our distance from each other. Other than a brief chat with a couple of neighbors, I don't need much more socializing than that. I have my husband and my pets so I am basically good to go and I definitely feel blessed. I have a lot of empathy for those who had to continue working throughout this whole thing and being in constant contact with others.