{"id":1538,"date":"2022-11-22T07:45:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T13:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:14","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-care-about-covid-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/11\/22\/what-does-it-mean-to-care-about-covid-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean to Care About COVID Anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2022\/11\/covid-pandemic-personal-risk-behavior\/672186\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>) After nearly three years of constantly thinking about COVID, it\u2019s alarming how easily I can stop. The truth is, as a healthy, vaxxed-to-the-brim young person\u00a0who has already had COVID, the pandemic now often feels more like an abstraction than a crisis. My perception of personal risk has dropped in recent months, as has my stamina for precautions. I still\u00a0<em>care\u00a0<\/em>about COVID, but I also eat in crowded caf\u00e9s and go mask-free at parties. Heading into the third pandemic winter, things have changed. Most Americans seem to have tuned out COVID. Precautions have virtually disappeared; except for in the deepest-blue cities,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2022\/10\/americans-no-longer-wear-masks-covid\/671797\/\">wearing a mask is, well,\u00a0<em>weird<\/em><\/a>. Reported cases are way down since the spring and summer, but perhaps the biggest reason for America\u2019s behavioral let-up is that much of the country sees COVID as a minor nuisance, no more bothersome than a cold or the flu.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Atlantic) After nearly three years of constantly thinking about COVID, it\u2019s alarming how easily I can stop. The truth is, as a healthy, vaxxed-to-the-brim young person\u00a0who has already had COVID, the pandemic now often feels more like an abstraction than a crisis. My perception of personal risk has dropped in recent months, as has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}