I know today, for the first time, when I stopped by my sister's house to help my niece set up a printer for her virtual school sessions, I wore a N95 (have started wearing them now my last couple trips out instead of my usual double-masking).
They didn't bat an eye when I apologized. My sis, BIL and I are all double-vaxxed and boosted and my niece is double-vaxxed and just became eligible as of Walensky's signoff yesterday (she will be 16 in February but can now get a booster at 15 and is right around the 5 month post-dose 2 mark so they have to schedule her for that). However their block is apparently raging with COVID (she got some texts from her neighbors alerting her to their positives along with their kids who hang out with my niece).
My sis has RA and recently had a hip replacement that ended up getting a staph infection from the hospital (they sent her a certified letter apologizing 
), so she is now on all kinds of infusion antibiotics (has to do it for 6 weeks with a complicated at-home setup using a PICC line), let alone being immuno-compromised due to her RA meds... and my BIL is in dialysis 3 x a week. My sis was suspected to have contracted COVID this past fall (positive antigen and inconclusive PCR) so to be safe, they had put her on the monoclonal antibodies right away back then.
I sure as hell don't want to contract this (like you and many others, stuff like this goes right to the lungs and I had that experience of pneumonia and in the hospital on IV steroids about 10 years ago near the tail end of the swine flu pandemic - and had never done the flu shot before that but have every year since), nor do I want to pass it on to my most vulnerable family members. Have been trying to stockpile a few things to reduce the every 7 - 10 day trips out and want to just cocoon until this surge runs its course. 
I know we are all pulling for you to recover quickly. 
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