And why am I, the person who wears an N95 for 90% of my work day, at risk from everyone else in my office who never wears masks and flies overseas and parties and eats out in restaurants and ignores the pandemic.

While work, a hospital, drops mask requirements so everyone's just walking around, pretending there's no COVID, and friends who used to care about it catching COVID no longer care. Why is it so abnormal to want to avoid catching a virus that WE KNOW causes organ damage?

@NurseIngrid2 Missing family weddings 😢

@Colleen20783144 😞 I'm sorry.

@NurseIngrid2 I was thinking this today - as the sole mask worker at my medical centre.

@Rebeccarama1973 Keep strong. We are keeping ourselves and our patients safe

@NurseIngrid2 Same. And, due to high risk condition, I quit work, only go ‘out’ for health appts, the limited socialising is outdoors. But still so so sick of it. My heart goes out to people like yourself, teachers, etc who are working in such hazardous settings. 💛

@PlagueAvoidant And mine to you. I hate that we've made it so unsafe for many. No collective community at all.

@NurseIngrid2 I have limited contact with the outside world. I'm fortunate to have a job as a cat sitter, which means no contact with humans, only cats, and I bring an air purifier to my visits. My teen son is in constant danger of being infected with covid over & over at school. It's awful.

@annemariepoet It is.

@NurseIngrid2 I hear you. It is so exhausting and so saddening. I want to be carefree and 'live my life' without being infected against my will and then pass it on to anyone else. I'm usually the sole masker, but today, I was one of three people masking in my lecture. A day for celebration!!!

@amandajcouch Indeed! (And how sad that we are so happy with so little)

@NurseIngrid2 Hypochondria is a disease in itself. Best of luck.

@NurseIngrid2 COVID will be with us forever - I hope you enjoy your mask.

@NurseIngrid2 Walking around in fear of death is death itself.

@NurseIngrid2 Yep. Holding out with you

@NurseIngrid2 @BlairWilliams26 I am hearing you. I wear a mask when out of my home and in public, and do not go anywhere that I will be expected to remove the mask, not to a cafe, not to the pub, I have a heart condition and 18 months ago Covid almost killed me.

@NurseIngrid2 So feeling you. Same here.

@NurseIngrid2 Then STOP!! You should know by know if you assess the risk properly and not just based on what you read on Twitter that the risks now are much lower than they were so you apply the same level of ‘assessment’ every time you get in a car ? The risks are far higher from that!

@NurseIngrid2 I hear you sister