My friend who's also a therapist says they actually use the phrase "Covid Fatigue" in the mental health field. It's not exactly depression or anxiety; more like a tiredness that comes from having to remember and think ahead with pretty much everything we do, and frequently discovering that Covid has either changed or prevented our normal preferences from coming to fruition.

Yes, it's funny how often it was in the news that the pandemic would potentially die down during the summer, only to come back up in the late fall and winter... and ta-da, here we are, and everyone has conveniently forgotten that message from back in the spring.

I think the "limbo effect" is taking its toll... too many people just waiting and seeing rather than making resolute decisions based on assumptions they choose, and then moving forward. That was one of the things I was mulling over, yesterday: getting to simply deciding that we will probably be in some kind of lockdown till the end of 2021, and then moving forward as if that's a FACT rather than feeling immobilized by "yeah, but what IF...?"