For All Of Us: A Great Message!

I'm an 80+ year old physician hoping to visit Zihuat on Jan 15 but still very conflicted. Here's a good inspiration from the NY Times this week.

"Dr. Robert Wachter, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at UC San Francisco flew to Florida to be with family, wearing an N95 mask and keeping the vent above his seat open. He brought a rapid test kit that he used when he woke up with a sniffle. He is fully vaccinated and boosted, as was everyone else at the holiday dinner — which, he said, cut the chance of contracting the virus by 95%.

Before Omicron, he said he started thinking and writing about our response to the pandemic. He recognized that “a version of COVID will be with us forever. It will ebb and flow, but it will never go away completely.”
Then it hit him: If he does not do the things that bring him joy now, when he’s vaccinated and boosted and the world is not locked down, he never will.

And, barring some dramatic change, that is no way to live."

Keep in mind he’s vaxxed and boosted, wore an N-95 mask and tested himself. So while he did what he intended to do he took reasonable precautions, including only being around others that were vaxxed and boosted.