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blood draw, ice cream, and temptation
It's not easy to keep being as cautious as I believe would be prudent for me:
I had blood drawn this afternoon to be tested for anti-covid T cells. The nearest place to have that done was in Waltham, which meant taking a Lyft there and back. I did that after lunch today.
The blood draw was quick and easy, and as long as I was in Waltham I walked from that office to Lizzy's Ice Cream, and came home with quarts of chocolate and black raspberry, and a pint of chocolate orgy. It's a nice walk, across the Charles River, and I decided that good mask + roomy store + very few customers on a weekday during school hours was an acceptable risk, since the Lyft ride home would be almost the same distance.
There aren't a lot of things I actually want to do that are within my current walking distance, since normally I'd have to walk both there and back, rather than just getting into a Lyft a fifth of a mile further from my apartment than if I had gone directly from having my blood drawn.
The problem is the temptation to think, well, I saw the dentist yesterday, and this is also medical. Well, I went to Waltham to have blood drawn, rather than paying for someone to come to my house and do it. Well, I'm already here in Waltham, and it's a nice day for a walk.
I had also let that line of thinking lead me to thinking that it would be OK for me to go see an apartment with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude and adrian_turtle, since it's only a block from my current location. Having thought about the rest of that, I told them that no, I would stay home and trust their judgment, just like with apartments that weren't in walking distance.
I cannot plan to not have gone to Lizzy's three hours ago. I can plan not to do that or the equivalent until conditions improve and/or that blood test tells me I have some protection against covid.
ETA: In line with the above, I've emailed Jo and asked her to please roll my Scintillation membership over to 2023. This is mostly making it official, and a little bit removing temptation.
I had blood drawn this afternoon to be tested for anti-covid T cells. The nearest place to have that done was in Waltham, which meant taking a Lyft there and back. I did that after lunch today.
The blood draw was quick and easy, and as long as I was in Waltham I walked from that office to Lizzy's Ice Cream, and came home with quarts of chocolate and black raspberry, and a pint of chocolate orgy. It's a nice walk, across the Charles River, and I decided that good mask + roomy store + very few customers on a weekday during school hours was an acceptable risk, since the Lyft ride home would be almost the same distance.
There aren't a lot of things I actually want to do that are within my current walking distance, since normally I'd have to walk both there and back, rather than just getting into a Lyft a fifth of a mile further from my apartment than if I had gone directly from having my blood drawn.
The problem is the temptation to think, well, I saw the dentist yesterday, and this is also medical. Well, I went to Waltham to have blood drawn, rather than paying for someone to come to my house and do it. Well, I'm already here in Waltham, and it's a nice day for a walk.
I had also let that line of thinking lead me to thinking that it would be OK for me to go see an apartment with
cattitude and adrian_turtle, since it's only a block from my current location. Having thought about the rest of that, I told them that no, I would stay home and trust their judgment, just like with apartments that weren't in walking distance.I cannot plan to not have gone to Lizzy's three hours ago. I can plan not to do that or the equivalent until conditions improve and/or that blood test tells me I have some protection against covid.
ETA: In line with the above, I've emailed Jo and asked her to please roll my Scintillation membership over to 2023. This is mostly making it official, and a little bit removing temptation.
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There are a variety of reasonable approaches here, I think, depending on both priorities and the health and risk factors of the people involved. At the same time, almost everyone may find themselves thinking things like "this did no harm last time, so it's OK to do it again" or, in the other direction, going from "this isn't safe for me, for specific reasons" to thinking that the thing isn't safe for anyone.
I took a Lyft instead of the bus to and from the dentist because the bus seemed riskier, but that also meant I wasn't tempted to stop partway and buy baklava or truffles. And part of why the bus seemed riskier is that I'd have needed two buses, each ride longer than the Lyft ride, because of how the bus routes are laid out. This is something where I am buying greater safety, and I can afford that in part because I'm not making the trip every day.
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Yay for ice cream and safer options.
It will be interesting to learn about the T-cells -- and very useful, too.