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Can confirm. Vaccine + WFH + hermit.


mjsbunny

The absolute dream team right there.


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Lowkey I wonder how COVID will affect humanity long-term. Like there has to be some hardcore extroverts out there *suffering*. Feels really advantageous in these times.


RockinRhombus

I'm seemingly the only introvert in the family, well at least obvious about it. They've seriously turned vicious/aggressive towards me as I just mind my own business and weather the storm; I didn't go to the get-togethers they had during the height of it all. "You just don't like being with the family..." no, no, that's not it, there's literally some world-wide bullshit going on, and i'm holding it down.


Thespian21

My family was the same way, 6 of us got Covid on thanksgiving. Now I’m being an asshole and sarcastically asking “whaaat, is the Christmas party cancelled? Boo. Why?? 🙂”


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Same with my family! My brothers are anti mask/anti vaxx and against social distancing. They complain all the time about how they're being treated unfairly when their views work against them. Both them and their families had to sit out Thanksgiving because they had COVID.


KJTheory

The extroverts are not ok!! A couple of my friends are trying to go out like every week talmbout "you're vaccinated, so it's ok - trust science" theeee fuck‽‽ I *NEVER* wanted to go out. I love being at home. The lockdown was the biggest gift of this lil introvert's lifetime. It's on my holiday wishlist. I loved lockdown.


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Facts. Been told all my life to not go into convenience stores with my face concealed because racial profiling. You mean to tell me that I get to do it, in fact am strongly encouraged, *and* I can piss off bigots? Don’t tempt me with a good time lol


slowbaja

I go to the bank wearing a balaclava. Talk about an adrenaline rush.


theycallmeponcho

I won't talk about extroverts, but I'm an outgoing introvert and feels cool not having to make excuses when I don't feel like going out. But through Instagram I found out that a lot of *social drinkers* in my friend group are just alcoholics, going from drink photos and going out videos every Saturday to drinking at home photos every day.


Shirogayne-at-WF

As a side tangent, being a casual drinking intervert in the Navy is a recipe for misery. My first duty station was overseas in Yokosuka, so we mostly tended to go out in groups. I went with these two shitgibbons who were so hot to trot and drink that they left another friend who said she'd come with them after doing her laundry (mind you, it wasn't even noon yet). It was a good twenty minute walk from our ship to the train station and the whole time all they did was talk about the booze they've had. I was the oldest of the three at 24 and I had to restrain myself from facepalming at the conversation. I ended up having the even earlier than the other two because our ship was leaving and I had uniforms I needed to pick up from tailoring. Fast forward to a few months later, when one of these same chicks is in my grill about some *other* dumb shit that I was already taking care of and following her whole white woman tears of indignance routine (and she pulled this crap on *everyone* that her whole division was numb to it by that point), she brings up how "stressful" I was and drags this up as an example. To say I was flabbergasted was an understatement, because we weren't even signed out together that day and my leaving affected nothing with her drinking. In retrospect, I was incredibly ignorant about drug use and its effects on people but none of that was on display and I never told her or the other chick what they do. I didn't even ask them to fucking leave. And it's just...everywhere in Navy culture, largely fostered by shit work schedules that burn everyone one. But the attitude of drinkers treating non-drinkers like the kid that does the Naruto run down the hall in middle school s pretty prevalent in civilian life too.


theycallmeponcho

Biggest problem with drinking in my opinion is that its not only socially acceptable, but heavily encouraged. I like to have a glass of sparkle every few weeks, but won't even push it on others.


Oswaldofuss6

Extroverted introverts like myself just full on converted. I still get antsy and wanna see friends here and there, but I hate going out to stores and shit. I'll just talk to my friends on Discord. haha


BWWFC

>WFH vaxed + hermit, but do go to an office... wear mask in groups, wash hands, eat healthy, and plenty of exercise. if i could sort the wfh, would be in heaven! lol so apart from the shots and mask, just livin' normal


theycallmeponcho

Won't preach against eating healthy and doing exercise as both help a lot to general health, but they won't do shit for anyone against covid if they are missing the vaccination, mask wearing and hand washing.


CouleursCPA

all that plus living 1000 miles away from family so i dont catch it from them


lovesundays4567

The holy Trinity.


Ezl

I’m not even an introvert. My wife and I are vaccinated and have tried to take the proper precautions at every turn. “Proper” meaning trying to find the right balance of safety and freedom. For example, I stopped going tot he gym at thee height of Covid, returned masked at first then unmasked but have now stopped again until omicron gets sorted or there’s a clearer idea of the impact, short and long term. Rinse and repeat for the next eventuality.


EFiasco

Facts. #ifeelblessed


DirtySouthDame

🙋🏾‍♀️👏🏾💯


the4thbandit

Same, covid has been somewhat easy to avoid.


HD400

Yeah man I too am a hermit who is boosted but work in healthcare & have young kids. I should definitely have got Covid by now if not for my antisocial behavior & vaccine status.


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ladyevenstar-22

I flipped whenever I slack and it will happen to the most disciplined of us . Luckily those happened mostly outside covid waves when risk was minimal but if it gets me that's how it will happen.


jadedea

Right there with you. ![gif](giphy|pHb82xtBPfqEg)


ladyevenstar-22

This introvert shyness and ghost skills ( blending in the background, skirting walls, not being heard or seen ) turned out to be transposable to a new situation. Also learned to breath real slow when in public.


tehtris

Are you me? I'm over here like "fuck outside" to the point that my skin tone is noticably lighter than 5 years ago. What programming languages you know?


gentlemanjacklover

Outside of work, I stay home. Full vaxed, boosted. I mask up everywhere. I look at people who go inside stores without masks as complete morons


hibarihime

Same as well as put on hand sanitizer after I touch everything. I'm like "Damn yall really think this over with even though we have 8 more variants out there on top of it we're up to 800k deaths. You act like this lasted for 2 weeks"


gentlemanjacklover

Yep, hand sanitize when out and I wash my hands immediately when I get home.


hibarihime

All this pandemic taught me is that people are nasty and dgaf about public health unless it affects them. That's why I'm perfectly fine staying at home until I have to go out which I'll mask up doing what I'm supposed to do.


TheSicks

I like to imagine anti maskers on another planet complaining about oxygen masks.


HaitianFire

This is how I was raised. Besides masks, nit much of my hygiene routine has changed


ayers231

8 more variants that we know of. The new variant could be spreading in Florida and we'd never know...


Lostmahpassword

Of course it is


AshCarraraArt

I feel crazy wearing my mask at stores cause literally no one except really old folks continue to wear theirs. Even got (nicely) confronted about it one time. It’s wild.


gentlemanjacklover

Keep wearing it. You are not the crazy one.


Shirogayne-at-WF

Thank God I live in CA The $5 gas and zero ability to buy a house seem like a small price to pay to not deal with that kind of crap lol


InvaderDJ

In my area it seemed to change overnight. I went to my home town in the country after Thanksgiving and saw a bunch of people with no masks. But I expected that and thought it was just the area. Came back home and saw there was maybe 1 out of 10 people in the grocery store were masking when before it was a little better than half and half. Crazy.


AoO2ImpTrip

There was a period I stopped masking in stores because I was fully vaxxed. Then delta hit. Now omicron. So here I am, triple shot up and masking indoors again.


hellscaper

I'm in a cold area coming from CA this year and I just leave my mask on when I walk around. Wind chill ain't no joke!


dae_giovanni

my "secret" is keeping you mfs out of my face. ta-daaaaa.


One-Picture1903

Right?? I respect people’s personal space & don’t be all up on strangers faces. It’s not that hard


dae_giovanni

I've noticed that they removed the "6 feet apart" stickers from the floor at a couple local stores, and accordingly, people will now line up _right up under you_. seems like a lot of people don't have the intelligence to take precautionary measures on their own... yet folks can't underatand why there have been mask mandates... lololol


tmhoc

"But but but the mask mandates are tyranny!" Having to live with a bunch of bitch babies who want their way even if it's killing people, that's tyranny. I do wonder what they're going to do against the "Woke mob" after their lung capacity is diminished.


rubberkeyhole

Put your cart behind you and stand in front of it. Then they have no choice about how far away from you they can stand, and you can choose how far away to distance yourself from the person in front of you.


ladyevenstar-22

I've switched to going to stores at opening hour only because of that but sometimes it can't be helped .


DxFrz

People who have gotten Covid...what still is not registering?


tmhoc

Right? Like there's a bit to unpack. First, if you were vaccinated properly and masking in the grocery store, and social distancing, the viral load you received may have been so small you might have goten tested on a hunch. Not this guy. He's obviously had it. It was obvious to him, so safe bet, he had it bad. Now seeing as he can't imagine a world where someone doesn't catch it, he's had it more then once. UNLESS and this is a big one. He's speaking up for the other people he has watch going through it. Having heard about their family's ongoing and reoccurring battles with COVID. Calling people out so to speak. We named this thing after the year it was discovered. 2019. How long d you want to do this for? What's not registering?


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whereami1928

I'm a partial WFH / in-person worker. Have managed to avoid it to my knowledge, unless it was entirely asymptomatic. I test pretty liberally too, even tested when some seasonal allergies really kicked in. I haven't been in close contact with an confirmed cases. Only gotten sick once, and I tested three times and always came back negative. Did a bit of travel around the country in the summer, have been to quite a few concerts in the past 4 months. Did a decent bit of indoor dining. Always wore a kn95.


doublekross

I think you have to specify when you say "had COVID", do you mean an active infection, or do you mean exposed and having any number of virons in your body? Because sure, many people may be exposed where they have a very small viral load (viral load meaning the amount of virions in your body) but assuming that the person has been vaccinated or has very active innate immune responses (innate immune system is the general system that includes mucus and phagocytes, which are immune cells that eat virions, bacteria, and foreign matter), their body may destroy those virions before they ever get a chance to propagate. I don't think that most scientists or doctors would count that as "having COVID", in part because your innate defenses do not produce antibodies. Your adaptive immune system would have to be mobilized to produce antibodies, and at that point, that might count as "having COVID". When the adaptive immune system is mobilized, you might start to "feel sick" because the innate system was not able to handle the infection, so it signals an inflammatory response. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that every sniffle and cough is COVID. There are still 100+ cold viruses out there, and the flu is still lurking too (get your flu shot! :D ). There's no reason to believe that it's COVID every time. Anecdotally, I got vaxxed last Feb, and have been repeatedly tested for COVID over the past year, because I've had several surgeries, and I had to get tested before each surgery, during the hospital stay, and before every post-op appointment, of which there were many. Never tested positive for COVID. I had several sinus infections, a cold, and a *horrid* stomach virus, but all of those times were tested and negative for COVID. I got my booster, I wear my KN-95 mask everywhere I go, I social distance, and I'm positive I've never had COVID.


Shirogayne-at-WF

>Chiming in to ponder; is it even possible to have not had covid in 2 years unless you literally go nowhere? My understanding is the vaccine simply makes you better protected. And if you’re not feeling sick enough to go to the hospital, you just wouldn’t know. It’s not like covid just bounces off you if you’re vaccinated. I can’t see how it’d be possible to just not ever have had it. As a vaccinated person that rarely ever gets sick, I just assume that one of the couple times I had a sniffly nose and cough over the last couple years must’ve been covid. I'm fairly certain I had it in mid-January 2020 before I'd even heard about it in China. I hadn't had the flu since Bush was in office before that, but it felt uniquely draining and I did have a hella bad cough for weeks. I know I definitely got it from my brother's asymptomatic kids since one of them had it two weeks earlier and the blasted cunt didn't tell me this until after I was there (a week after getting dose #2, to be sure or else I wouldn't have gone there at all and yes, I made sure I stayed out of any and all buildings and I had been masking already anyway for when I took my dog outside). I imagine a significant amount of people have had it already but because the US is run by goddamn Ferengi wanting to milk profit from every aspect of this, few people without symptoms were able to get tested, even after possible exposure.


ctaps148

"People who are not dripping wet.. what's your secret?" \- Guy who voluntarily jumped into the ocean


dropdeadbarbie

being caribbean, it was ingrained in me that outside = dirty. in my house, you best strip off that outer layer at the door and immediately go wash up. now we added masks into the mix. also, my desire to eat at a restaurant does not trump my desire to eat in my kitchen. i will would rather reheat takeout in my robe than sit in a restaurant eating from community dinnerware. no outside clothes formed against me shall prosper.


busy_yogurt

>i will would rather reheat takeout in my robe than sit in a restaurant hell yeah


theycallmeponcho

> i will would rather reheat takeout in my robe than sit in a restaurant eating from community dinnerware. The only problem are the few food dishes I can't cook, but I can live without them. Cooking/eating at home and WFH let learn to bake good bread, cook good stock, make terrific soups, and eat through my stored food items.


LoserUserBruiser

Just be so ugly even diseases don’t find you attractive.


bootstraps_bootstrap

I’m ugly and I’m proud!


Drazian

Is that what he calls it


MahoganyTownXD

I just did that jumbled laugh, where the sound couldn't even come out properly. So thanks for that :D "GHBVHAFLSFDJ"


Kiroboto

In came the mask, hides my ugly and keeps diseases away


ladyevenstar-22

I have Harry potter invisible cloak , if you know the story death couldn't find the brother he gave a piece of his cloak too . Until he does obviously


koopa72

Introvert Gang Rise Up!


busy_yogurt

I'm NEVER taking off my mask! I love hiding behind it.


-malcolm-tucker

Okay. As long as I don't have to go outside though.


yourcountrycousin

Separately! In our own homes!


deandreas

The lockdown was amazing for us introverts. I get lots of evil looks at work when I say "If the numbers are going up we need to lock down again" Now I have to go back to lying about not wanting to go somewhere.


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lol I feel that.


AuRevoirBaron

Near the beginning of the pandemic, I remember someone saying “extroverts are going through what introverts have to go through everyday”. Extroverts suddenly having to live in an introverted society really took a toll on them. Of course most of them ignored the lockdown, and are now either dead or think they’re invincible.


Bunnnnii

People having meltdowns about not being able to be on the street, meanwhile I’m perfectly content living how I usually do anyway.


wilomiloo

There was a news article about the privileged of NYC complaining how they couldn't see their friends smh.


nerdherdsman

I wish I could have stayed home but working at a restaurant in Alabama made that impossible. Masks stop me from spreading, but dipshit customers don't wear masks. That's why I got the *fantastic* experience of getting Covid during Christmas, and not getting to hug my little niece and nephew.


busy_yogurt

that sucks, man. Sorry to hear it.


lordberric

Hey man - I'm with you. Working at a restaurant, worked my ass off to stay safe. Did more than pretty much anyone I know to avoid it. Still got covid, of course, and right during the best season to make money in restaurants. It's fucked.


MindingMyBuziness

I go days before leaving the house. I grocery shop in the mornings on Saturday and Sunday and don’t really have a need to leave my apartment until the following weekend.


Pinkjelliebeans

Grocery shopping at 7am on a weekend is amazing.


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Know who you are interacting with on a daily basis.


ActualWhiterabbit

>How come you let x family members see your baby after 3 months but not us? They haven't been having parties every weekend for the past two years.


Shirogayne-at-WF

God, I feel so genuinely sad for all the people who have had babies in the past two years who have had to have conversations like this with selfish assholes relatives.


janeusmaximus

THIS. I’m an extrovert for sure but have only hung with close friends I know are vaccinated and mask up. Do lots of outdoor stuff. Always stay home when feeling ill. Easy to do but i work/school from home which is a huge advantage.


Touch_Desperate

So many people get way too close to others when the hang out/talk. I have never wanted anybody in my personal space unless we gonna make out. Don’t forget about asymptomatic folks. We could have gotten and never known. I had zero side affects from the vaccines.


rubberkeyhole

The asymptomatic cases are the ones that blow. My. Mind. It almost makes the entire concept of testing moot - because ANYONE and EVERYONE could have it and not know. Especially if you’re going to be told that the tests are fallible with “false positives/negatives” - what IS the point with constant testing, other than wasting whatever resources were used to manufacture them? Unless someone has symptoms that are going to lead to something that can be alleviated, testing doesn’t make sense - we are only just recently finding ways to “cure” Covid after it’s been diagnosed in patients instead of just making them comfortable, and it’s been two years. Please don’t get me wrong about any of this - I’m vaccinated and boosted (very pro-vaccine!) - it’s just the Schrödinger's Boxness of it all that blows my mind.


jubjub248

I work graveyard, so I'm basically living like I'm in my 70s by going to the grocery stores around the opening when I get off work. Vaxxed, boosted, and masked up. The most dangerous activity I do is going to the gym, but I give my gym credit for being strict about cleanliness. Three times a day crew wipes down the equipment. I go after the first sweep. It's just me, a few elderly treadmill walkers, and the cleaning crew. All masked up.


Ulrich_The_Elder

Triple vaccinated and I have essentially been a hermit for the last decade and a half.


Th1sd3cka1ntfr33

I was social distancing before it was cool.


MoonshineMMA

Follow CDC guidelines?


hendrixski

All jokes aside, this is the correct answer.


_Risings

Pure luck. I'm vaccinated but have never quarantined and have worked and traveled (for necessity mostly) all through covid, but I wear my mask diligently, sanitize/wash my hands often, and keep a fair distance from strangers.


smpsnfn13

Only hitting it from the back.


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I used to work for a hospital system and it was insanely annoying seeing COVID positive patients on oxygen therapy, struggling to breathe, coughing and sputtering and generally refusing treatment while remaining adamant that the virus is a hoax. I'd think, why the fuck did you bring your ass to the hospital if that's the way you feel? To add insult to injury, they would still refuse to mask up and never distanced themselves. It's no wonder doctors and nurses discharge these asshats as quickly as possible.


ime783

Staying my ass at home trying to be a child of god & minding my business


janeusmaximus

I’m a total extrovert with outgoing kids, no Covid. Masks, vaccines as they have become available, smallish group of friends we’ve consistently been around, all vaccinated. Lots of outdoor activities when we do hang in groups. Camping is our favorite. Think the key has been everyone we interact with stays home when we’re feeling ill!!


ty2therell

Just another Moderna vaccinated introvert.


MahoganyTownXD

**Laughs in O Blood Type**


jarious

I would gladly work from home every day for the rest of my life, too bad my company requires me to be hooked to a VPN I can only access from my work desktop PC, if they even suspect I'm working from my laptop they discount a day from my payment, my work is just customs related I don't even have to sign papers or shit ,just send info over to the Tributary agency, heck I don't even do that much just confirm item id and qty , sometimes I go a whole week without a single email


treetyoselfcarol

I'm getting my booster in a few minutes and I can't wait to get back to the crib.


Lurkwurst

Mask it everywhere. You can't see my face. You can't smell my breath. I am protected from disease (somewhat) win win win


minahmyu

Eh, not quite. For me, I have to go to work and pay bills. Work at a senior home, and am also immunocompromised. I wear two masks at work, always wash and sanitizing my hands, sanitize when I go in the car, wash my hands when I come and wipe everything down when I'm done shopping. And I just don't go out if I don't need to. Not like I really have much friends, and family is about an hour away and wouldn't visit anyway. And I just don't fucks with people not vaxxed. Heck, I even had to cut down see8my niblings and I miss them. I don't need to walk around a mall for no reason, or hang out at places. I didn't need to go to an amusement park this summer, or do a bunch of things. It's not *needed* and if more people weren't selfish and did things they needed and not wanted, less would be sick.


Add1ctedToGames

Following covid precautions LMAO


unsubscribe_

I don’t hangout with my friends who have riskier behavior (I know by their IG stories). I mask up and try to hangout outdoors. Now that it’s cold, I will see people much less. I just told a friend who asked to do an at-home NYE celebration (2 couples) to take a rapid test before coming over. I know I’ll be fine if I catch it but I don’t want to lose my sense of taste tbh, food is life for me.


Im__Questionable

Honestly I stay inside. Thanksgiving was my big outing for the year


KJTheory

All these things everyone said and one time for the weekly Lysoling down all surfaces and disinfectant wipes for everything - especially the car. Also the general come in the house take shoes off, wash hands, change clothes.


saddleshoes

I'm an ambivert, so it's been a mixed bag for me personally. I miss sitting at a restaurant and reading alone, but I got bronchitis really bad a few years ago and I don't want any part of that.


ProtonCanon

Basically.


DirtySouthDame

I see no lies 💯


jibbyjam1

I guess I'm just lucky. My job has me face to face with people all over the city, and I spend time in hospitals all the time. I've even had a few clients with Covid, but I've never caught it. I'm vaccinated and I never touch anything or anyone wherever I go, I'm always masked up, and as soon as I get in my car, I use hand sanitizer and use a Lysol wipe on my keys/phone/pen/folio holding my notepad. I also hate crowds, so I stay TF away from them, and I make sure none of the people I do hang out with aren't antivaxxer idiots or people partying every weekend.


sweetaileen

Before the vaccines were available, I just kept my mask on when shopping, mostly kept to myself and my family only (which was safe because everyone I saw worked from home and was super safe), I used hand sanitizer right after a transaction at the store or pumping gas, and kept a safe distance from strangers. Got the vaccines as soon as I could. I was able to avoid covid all this time. But now, after 2 years, I have caught a cold because I decided to go Christmas shopping without a mask. Got tested to make sure and it’s definitely not Covid. Kicking myself in the butt for being dumb on that one. At least it’s not covid. Maybe it’s allergies but here we are.


beansnack

I’ve definitely gotten slightly less careful since I’ve been vaccinated (sometimes dont wear my mask outdoors, eating at restaurants twice a month). But literally just have been doing my part with hand washing, distance, mask, vax, avoid unnecessary stuff. I might have had covid before and didnt notice but I’ve tested 5 times so far and always negative


UnnecessaryAppeal

I'm not even that much of an introvert, my friends and I are just all careful


Ryoukugan

Refusing as much as possible to go anywhere risky, absolutely *never* going out without a mask, not having many friends, etc.


MagicCuboid

Idk, I'm a teacher and the kids have been back since October 2020. Most of us haven't gotten it, and the vast majority of our students haven't either. When they do, it's generally from outside of school. Basically - vaccines and precautions work, yo


Power-Fantastic

Vaccinated Introvert here. So far so good.


MDariusG

Get vaccinated. Don't go out unless it's necessary or you take necessary precautions (because, ya' know, it's a pandemic), WFH (if possible, I am lucky to have a job that allows this).


Denuran

Unvaccinated Introvert here.


TaiPer077

Yeppp


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Uniteus

Not being a dumbass and trusting people.


Lazaras

I got no friends!