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 Yes, sounds like maybe you also know someone with long Covid. It’s devastating, underreported, and rarely discussed. Brain inflammation, nervous system dysregulation, completely life altering. Thought you had another 30-40 years of career, inspiration and productivity? Long Covid says ‘fuck no, you’re done’. 

But more importantly consider this: we’ve built up herd immunity, Covid will always kick around with us now along with influenza and other nasty AF viruses (do not google ‘dormant virus DNA’ because we all have some and it be freaky), but seriously we are all less likely to have Covid mess with our cardiovascular and parasympathetic nervous systems as much as it did, when it first stepped out of the lab (whoops…I mean wherever. Don’t ask me. I absolutely wasn’t reading Chinese doctors’ posts in Jan 2020 when they were trying to get the word out before all of it was scrubbed from the internet in March - and yes, I am way too online) *ahem*

But. To be fair everything’s a risk. 
Even stepping outside your home each morning. But that’s okay. And more than that, it’s totally worth stepping out. Because all we have is the time to explore this world and live our best life and to love and be loved.
So live this life.