Are we all crazy?

My family and I are going on a big trip in a few days. We started planning for it months ago with the understanding that all this “Covid business” would be good and done with. If you’re alive and present in the world you know that isn’t the case.

Scrolling through Facebook I see friends in the town I grew up with at events and none of them are wearing masks.

Another friend returned from a trip down south and said many people aren’t wearing masks.

I keep putting mine on. Even after someone I’m close with sent me a message stating the value of masks is really low. I am vaccinated, boosted, and my youngest has antibodies from Covid while the rest are also vaccinated because they can be.

In temperatures hanging out around ten degrees I walk outside with friends. I haven’t eaten inside in months at a restaurant because I’d have to take my mask off.

An article came out recently stating that those who are the least concerned and the most likely to go about their normal lives are those who aren’t vaccinated.

Which finally brings me to the pervasive question curdling in my mind. Are we all crazy?

It’s a question many people around me are asking. We are trying to follow the science but it changes and the professionals admit it changes – welcome to science – new information leads to new recommendations. But people are tired. People are bored? People are angry. They are done.

And yet…I am not. Call me to slow to change or call me overly cautious. Or maybe call me self-involved? I want to go on that big trip my family and I have been planning for months so I will keep my mask on. I will see friends outside. I will keep doing the things I have learned might keep me safe.

I have heard the hospitals are overwhelmed. The healthcare system is struggling. And all the science I read tells me – not yet.

But, am I crazy? Still circles through me and I think the question beneath it could be, am I wrong?

We don’t know everything. The jury is still out as variant after variant walk through. But for now I am taking it one day at a time. Today I will error on the side of maybe.