I’m Not Ready to Return To “Normal”

This is the “new normal”?

It does not feel like a post-Covid world to me yet! We’re bracing ourselves for a return to work and school during a 4th wave with the Delta variant. Some people mask and vaccinate. Some don’t. People are dying. Our nervous systems are alarmed.

It is tough being a person with an activated fight response. It is also tough being around people who are in fight mode. We know from neuroscience that we don’t have great access to our higher level cognitive brain when we are in fight/flight/freeze. That explains a lot of the behavior we see in our world right now. Having an explanation might help us feel compassion, but it doesn’t reduce the risk or make it that much easier to bear.

The first day of school this year feels different. If you live in a school district or state where masks are not mandated and you feel not enough is being done to reduce risk for students and teachers, you are going to have a lot of heightened emotions. Fear. Anger. Outrage. Grief. Some people in this situation have already lost family members and friends to Covid and now have no choice but to send their unvaccinated grade school children into a risky environment. This is the “new normal”?

Is your company also “ready to move on” and get you back to work in person? Is this based on science or…