The Covid Addiction Phenomenon

Because what will we do when it’s over

Laurie Livingston Nave
5 min readFeb 17, 2022
Photo by Diego San on Unsplash

My husband and I had Covid pretty early on. That adventure in itself was quite a story. Especially the part where a stranger was way more worried about who I might have infected than the fact that I couldn’t breathe. Yeah, she was a real peach. I should have known then…but I digress.

Now it’s over 18 months later. I am vaxxed and boosted, I follow my employer's guidelines for masking indoors except when I am alone in my office. I wash my hands…a lot, and sanitizer is always at hand. When my sibling found out he had been exposed 4 days before our family Christmas, I understood the wisdom of canceling the plans. And I have never been to the Qanon website.

All that is to say I am not running around naked spitting on people. I get it. I’ve done the work.

However, in a somewhat recent conversation, I observed a strange phenomenon. I thought maybe it was just a bad day or an isolated incident. However, it has become more pervasive as of late, and I am wondering if a new epidemic is emerging as a result of the two years of two weeks to flatten the curve.

I call it Covid addiction.

If you objectively read the studies done concerning the Omicron variant, it was very clear from the beginning that Omicron was…

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Laurie Livingston Nave

The downhill trip is more fun than the uphill. A 50+ year old mother, wife, nerd, musician and writer. Follow me at https:www.laurienaveauthor.com