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.
No meetings in-person since last November, except with my parents once after my mom burst into tears on a video call. As for friends, all of the things I used to do with them (TTRPGs, video games, movie nights) can be done online, so we're still doing that. Some have started doing some stuff IRL again, but they're also being generally cautions (wearing masks at work, when getting groceries, etc) and are 100% aware that the pandemic is not "over" and in-person meetups are dangerous no matter what precautions they take.
Given that COVID seems likely to be around for ever because our governments can't be asked to prevent mass death, I'm probably going to re-evaluate in the new year if I want to start doing IRL stuff too with small groups, especially given that I got it anyway after they removed the mask mandate at my work.