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Question for the extroverts who are still masking:
What things are you doing to form bonds with people and connect while being safe? What is working for you?
I run games online and have met with friends at concerts where my wife and I are masked. It’s still hard. I’ve also tried outside group activities like run clubs, but then they want to go get pizza together and I don’t want to be eating inside. I’d love to meet people with similar attitudes about Covid. I tried CovidMeetup.com but I wasn’t making a lot of connections. I’d love to hear what you all do.
Please boost if you can.
@LoganFive I wish I had advice instead of just sympathy! I am so so extroverted and I'm still so bitter over having to mask everywhere. I force my friends to eat outside with me whenever possible and stay away from crowded places outdoors. Whenever we're inside, the mask goes on and stays on. It's maddening and there have been exceptions, which I usually regret instantly haha. I just wish that other people would mask when they were sick so I didn't have to mask when I was well.
@LoganFive (I got COVID from attending a convention, even though I stayed masked the entire time, to the point of dehydrating myself. It became long COVID. So that stinks.)
@lucky Honestly, I appreciate you writing at all. It’s nice to know I’m not alone in this struggle.
*blue heart emoji*
*high five emoji*
And Im terribly sorry to hear about the Long Covid. Have you recovered or is it ongoing?
@LoganFive it's ongoing, but I've been improving in leaps and bounds! I'm actually returning to work next month -- just two hours of teaching, but I'm very excited to do it. Connecting with teenagers while not catching their diseases is another very hard problem, haha!
@LoganFive I have board game days at my place (masking required). It’s easier to enforce such things when it’s my own space
@LoganFive mostly I gave up on finding other COVID cautious people. When I do find them, it's a fantastic surprise. Instead I tell people I'm COVID cautious, I don't eat or drink indoors, and suggest an alternate activity I can do safely like meeting up for food on a patio, grabbing tea to go and sitting outside. In my city there is also a group that does mask required meet ups, and I have found other COVID cautious people on occasion doing things like Coffee Outside.
@Kellyshenanigans How did you find this group?
@LoganFive oh, it's Mask 4 Mask Queers in Halifax and they have instagram and facebook accounts (hopefully they're moving off those soon) and they advertise. I went to their mask required tent for the Pride parade.
@LoganFive Halifax still has mask required spaces too, like mask required performances at the theatre, and masks are required in healthcare spaces whwn there are higher levels of disease around.
@LoganFive
I've been going to some events where the requirement is rapid test that afternoon. Sometimes I still wear my mask at those events, but there is no one looking at me weird, because everybody is known to be cautious or cautious-friendly, or they wouldn't have been willing to do the rapid test, right? Some of these events include meals, and I take my mask off to eat.
Anyway, my local dance group is friendly towards Covid-cautious people, and mostly they don't suggest meals after dancing.
@nosrednayduj How did you find these events where people do rapid tests beforehand?
@LoganFive
Our test-in-advance-of-the-event grew organically from the cautious people at my dance group. We did a lot of "zoom dancing with nonexistent people" during the most lockdown part of the pandemic, and we also did minecraft dancing which is sort of crazy, but surprisingly works to move your avatar around. Obviously you don't get any weight when you interact. What we're doing is square dancing, so it matters less about exactly what the body is doing and more about exactly where it is going.
Then we gradually got the idea that we could get together in groups of four or eight outdoors, and as things progressed we were willing to dance indoors with masks, and then some people were like "I'm tired of the whole mask thing" and other people were like "okay will you test", and now we are in the state where for some dances we have a check on the current wastewater data to decide whether we need to test, and for others we always need to test. And then there's a couple of social events that have a lot of the same people which adopted similar rules.
@LoganFive
I'm also extroverted and Covid cautious but a lot less so than you. I really need to be around people but as much as possible, I do it in spaces where there is a lot of flowing air. When quarters are cramped or crowded, I'm masked. Also, online gatherings have totally saved my sanity. I have some lovely communities of people with all kinds of interesting common ground. That helps tremendously.
@LoganFive
I try to live as normally as possible. Walking with the dogs I meet & greet neighbors (unmasked), I sing in a choir (masked except for performance, other members careful about illnesses), committee work - masked, city commission (unmasked, good separation & excellent air quality), hosting outdoor dinners for friends - unmasked, neighborhood "Bacchus Nights" - outdoors (unmasked), demonstrations - outdoors (masked if close proximity). Completely masked for travel. We are still Novids.
thank you for sharing and same.
still masking indoors and meeting outside but wish there were more outdoor offerings and people who would happily adjust for those who need it but also to protest themselves 
