How is Covid affecting your hobbie?

[TofuTofuTofu]

i don't think COVID has had a huge impact on me snake-wise, although I got into snakes during the pandemic. Like Boger, until last fall I was getting only delivered groceries and such, although once the school year started, I started going back into grocery stores again, but doing nothing else in public still. In February I got sick and stayed sick for 6 weeks, which was totally COVID although tested negative. Started as insane stomach cramping and fever, but then moved to just my asthma getting so bad, making me go on more medications to manage it, for an additional 6 weeks, and all this time I still had a fever for over a month! I have no idea where I would have picked it up; must have been fiance being a teacher and high school students being stupid and not wearing masks; I have had contact with literally no one else. Or, I just got it in a grocery store from some person not wearing a mask and, I dunno, coughing into my eyeball or something? Most COVID is spread for asymptomatic people, and, since being vaccinated, it has taken me some adjusting to not immediately feel rage when I see people not wearing masks. You not wearing a mask impacts others; that's the thing that people who don't mask, don't realize. You not wearing a mask has killed people, because it prevents susceptible people from going to the hospital. My dad is a lung doctor and he had more than one patient die from being too scared to go to the emergency room because of COVID, and then delaying treatment for their chronic lung conditions until it was too late. Your actions affect people! COVID has just like highlighted how selfish and ignorant people are, to me, to be honest. But like I said, now that I'm vaccinated, and that vaccines are more widely available (at least here), my attitude is a bit better... Last weekend I removed the sign from my door saying I would not answer the door unless you were wearing a mask. I have eaten indoors in a restaurant like... three times... since being vaccinated.

I lost a good amount of income from not being able to work while sick (also was unemployed for about 6 weeks at the start). But the beginning of the pandemic, over the summer, was kind of nice for me because like... I got engaged... I was unemployed so got to spend more time with my pets and I had time to exercise more and stuff... I dunno. But getting like a really bad COVID made me just, pissed. it took me SO long to get better; I had residual effects for about a month in addition to the 6 weeks I was actively sick. Like I said, just because you weren't affected by it, you transferred it to someone else like me, who, until now, was fine. If you're not fully vaccinated, you have no business not wearing a mask. I still wear one in public, but, it feels like more out of habit now. I'm waiting until I don't feel weird about it.

Aside from that, I have done the curbside vet thing. My herp vet is still doing curbside vet, as is the vet I go to for the rabbit rescue I volunteer for. I don't really enjoy it, only because I can't speak with the vet as easily and find I forget some questions I have when they call me on the phone in the parking lot (and the vet my rescue uses will often not even talk to me at all lol). My herp vet is okay... Bringing him our Japanese rat snake this week for his checkup. I just prefer actually going in because like, with my big adult iguana, he gets so much rage, and sometimes the techs are scared of him or need another person (me) to help restrain him properly. Also, my rabbit literally went into GI stasis from going to the vet without me last summer, because he was so stressed out. This didn't happen when I was there in previous years. So, that necessitated an emergency vet visit at 3 am a few days later, and a big chunk of cash on my then-COVID-unemployed self. Sigh. I get why the vets are still doing curbside, though; I'm just not taking my rabbit in for his yearly checkup until they change that.