My thoughts around the anxiety of this moment. All of us on campus, students, professors, staff are experiencing a new vector of risk compared to what many have gotten used to over the last several months

obviously in some ways risk has increased but in other ways it's similar but just "feels" different for a variety of reasons. One thing that helped me when I would have moments of anxiety through out the summer is remembering this:

The virus doesn't change its behavior based on how nervous you are about it. It doesn't become more contagious, it doesn't make prior low risk behaviors more risky