Vaccinated! (Still anxious.)

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🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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There’s no vaccine for Covid-19 anxiety. Nor is there one for those who aren’t ready to “go back to normal.” But, as Vox’s Sigal Samuel explains, there is hope. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here's the deal.
0:22.0	About a third of the population in the United States is now fully vaccinated.
0:25.7	And we can presume that a lot of these people were the types of people who were following
0:29.2	COVID regulations to at least some degree, social distancing, wearing a mask, only doing
0:34.6	outdoor hangs for a while.
0:36.1	And now is their time to get back into the world and celebrate, right?
0:42.2	Only thing is a lot of them are feeling anxious.
0:45.8	Hi, my name is Kuzet Gerardo.
0:50.5	I am 28 years old and I live in South East Michigan.
0:55.1	As of this week, I'll be fully vaccinated.
0:57.0	I'm feeling most anxious about being bad.
1:04.0	It's like I know that I'm safe and all my friends are vaccinated or will be very soon fully
1:14.8	vaccinated.
1:16.1	But I just feel really wrong in guilty and I don't want people to know that I'm interacting
1:21.8	with other people.
1:28.1	I guess I'm wondering, is there anyone who can just give me permission or is there a way
1:34.6	to trick my mind into giving myself permission to go out and reintegrate into the world?
1:41.6	Or am I wrong for even wanting to?
1:47.4	With a new stage of this pandemic comes a new stage of pandemic anxiety, the anxiety of
1:53.0	returning to normal to help us work through some of the challenges today.
1:58.0	We've got Segal Samuel, reporter here at Vox, who recently reached out to a ton of
2:02.8	Vox readers to discuss this very subject.
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