To begin, I am quoting @luckytran@med-mastodon.com at https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/109906529338983851 in this #retoot:

Post by Dr. Lucky Tran. "It's important to say that higher risk people deserve joy too! They deserve to participate in the full range of public life. That's why masks also make sense in many settings beyond essential spaces, and why we need to keep trying to reduce #COVID spread with other measures such as cleaning indoor air and developing better vaccines." Posted on Feb 21, 2023 at 23:35

What defines someone being in the “high risk” population for COVID-19? The updated list from CDC is available at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-care/underlyingconditions.html. I won’t say how much I score on that chart. I will say that it is not a happy chart to look at.

I don’t need to worry about having a social life, I think. Thankfully there aren’t many ways to have a social life here.