Is it back to normal? Or not?

If I look at a normal day in my working department it feels like a normal day again as if 2020 and 2021 have never excisted. September is always a busy month because there are still some people enjoying their summer holiday but all the programms are back to normal, just with less people.

I usually tried to bug em myself in September back in the days because it was always just a grind and a big grind and felt like a neverending grind. But I am fully experiencing the September mayhem and it almost feels like there aren't any covid issues. Or are there?

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Because I work in healthcare I am one of the people who get tested more than others most likely. I really don't find this a bad thing because I do come across a lot people in general closer to the physical distance range than normal people would be comfortable with. Ans also because a lot of the patients I see do not always have a choice to weapon themselves against covid because of underlying conditions or pregnacies or auto immun diseases or whatever. I feel I shouldnt be making the choice for them, so I get tested a lot even on the side because I see so many people and I also see so many vaccinated people still getting this Delta-dude.

Again also fine

But I am noticing the trend again in how fast we are complaining again about all fo these futile things like we shouldn't be happy a bit more that some parts are back to normal again.

This week alone I have heard people whine about their flight delay of an hour (dude be happy you were able to fly again in general), that it is too warm or too cold or too rainy or too dry (hey we Dutchies are master in complaining about the weather), or that the bridge was opened again...

While on the other side of this I have a lot of patients who have delayed surgeries of all kinds. These can be new knees or hips which they have be walking around with for months with pain causing them to become less and less mobile. Or these can be cancer related patients who all of a sudden now have gigantic tumors because they weren't operated on first. But I also see a large group now of patients with internal issues caused for instance bacterias shooting from teeth to heart valves leaving gigantic damage there, or patients with their diabetes totally out of control because their GP wasn't as available in covid times as before.

The secondary damage is big and we are dealing with it now.

So the combination of this seemingly neverending workload on people in combination with everybody falling back in their old complaining habits is just....I don't know. It seems we haven't learned that much from this past 1.5 year in some aspects.

Locking myself up in the garden over the weekend with some beers to regenerate again and take a step back from covid and crypto and all of these time consuming elements, yes...Thats seems like a fantastic idea. Happy weekend all guys!