Stress and anxiety and Covid-19Honestly some of us need to just calm down. And I understand it, as I've been relatively OCD my whole life and a bit of s germaphob. But in the end, letting these things bother us to the point we can't go in a store to get necessities or run errands and dealing with the stress of worry regarding this takes in many cases a similar toll than actually getting infected. Plus anxiety and stress wear down our immune system as bad as anything.
Part of it is we are home board and have nothing to do but read and watch everything Covid we can. But as the article says, for a lot of us the best thing to do is turn off the Covid for a while. Take your mind off it and only go back to make sure there are actual emergencies we need to worry about. Stay home, binge watch a show, exercise, cook, have a back yard family camp out, enjoy family movie night, rekindle romance with the spouse or boyfriend/girlfriend, clean out a few rooms, throw out stuff in the closet, reorganize the garage, etc. And when you go to a packed store, just relax. Wash hands afterward, don't touch your face. Think about this for a minute, there are already plenty of very serious and urgent pathogens at every grocery store as bad as or worse than Covid. Ever get meat? I seem to always get chicken "juice" on my hands. Salmonella anyone? I have had that before. No thanks. So I don't panic. I finish shopping, wash my hands when I can and move on. As one on an immunosuppressant, I've learned to cope and go on. Nothing they say to do to prevent Covid is any different than I already do, and I do anything and everything I want. I just use my head.