How often do you receive pushback from friends over still taking the pandemic seriously? Is anyone who pushes back worth keeping as a friend? What exactly does your kind of socializing look like during this pandemic (i.e. virtual and/or outdoors and/or in indoor private settings)?
I'm trying to get back out there because I've been in a bad spot mentally and have found it hard to trust people more broadly, but the way I'm currently living is probably not healthy for me, and I feel like I do need some kind of support system beyond my family and the one friend actually still taking the pandemic as seriously as me. But as I try to get out of my house more, I need to figure out the kind of boundaries I want to set, the kinds of activities that I feel comfortable with (definitely a preference for outdoor stuff), etc.
Sometimes. Depends on the circumstances. For the most part the social bubbles I still touch on are pretty isolated, and everyone is really careful to isolate and do a PCR test after risky activity like traveling. The rapid tests are unreliable enough and limited enough in purpose that IMO it's almost better to pretend they don't exist, unless you absolutely MUST do something face-to-face (indoors) after reasonable suspicion of potential exposure.