Should I keep wearing my mask or should I fling it in the closet? Should I balloon my bubble or keep it tight? Should I leave it all on the nightclub dance floor or stay busting moves in the kitchen?
With the recent lifting of most of B.C.91裸聊视频檚 COVID-19 safety measures, you may have been asking yourself these questions. Everybody91裸聊视频檚 answer will be a little different depending on their circumstances.
Steven Taylor, a professor with the UBC department of psychiatry, told me in a phone interview this week that when restrictions are lifted, most people 91裸聊视频渂ounce back91裸聊视频� rapidly to their old behaviours.
91裸聊视频淏ut that doesn91裸聊视频檛 apply to everyone,91裸聊视频� he said. 91裸聊视频淪ome people are very anxious or they91裸聊视频檙e slow to warm up and some people are highly anxious and are in need of treatment for their anxiety.91裸聊视频�
If you have a friend who91裸聊视频檚 anxious about re-opening, Taylor recommends asking them what they need and what would help them feel more comfortable.
91裸聊视频淒on91裸聊视频檛 go telling them 91裸聊视频榦h you should take off your mask 91裸聊视频� let me take that off for you91裸聊视频�. You want to enable their sense of control and let them do whatever opening up they want to do at their own pace.91裸聊视频�
When you91裸聊视频檙e indoors, consider wearing your mask to keep yourself and others safe. If someone doesn91裸聊视频檛 want to stand next to you, give them space. When you go in for the handshake or a hug, ask if someone is comfortable with that first. Essentially: use your COVID common sense and don91裸聊视频檛 be rude.
When April 8 comes around the B.C. Vaccine Card will be lifted and unvaccinated people will be once again allowed in all the spaces where the card is currently required. In those spaces, the topic of vaccination might be best relegated to the social realm of politics and religion 91裸聊视频� it91裸聊视频檚 not worth starting a bar fight over someone91裸聊视频檚 vaccination status.
As restrictions lift, your friends and family members who are disabled, immunocompromised or elderly will likely feel left behind. For them, it91裸聊视频檚 not a matter of comfort 91裸聊视频� COVID is a matter of life and death. Find ways to continue spending time with them in a way that they feel is safe. Don91裸聊视频檛 make assumptions about what they need. Ask them what they need and respect their boundaries.
Whatever you choose to do, enjoy this period of relatively reduced COVID transmission because it won91裸聊视频檛 last forever. We are very much still in a pandemic and cases are rising globally. The actions that we take today will have an impact on COVID infections 91裸聊视频� and restrictions 91裸聊视频� in the future.
Cole Schisler is a provincial reporter with Black Press Media.
READ MORE:
cole.schisler@bpdigital.ca
Like us on and follow us on .
