Why'd you leave Canada, if I may ask?
I can travel wearing the Halo to visit my brother's family (in the UK) and my parents (in Hungary) but that's all. Otherwise, by and large, I don't go anywhere any more. I can't. That's the new reality. I wear a positive air pressure respirator to risk such activities as boarding a bus. And while it's quiet it's not silent so cinema, theatre etc is totally out. You can't possibly imagine how lonely life became even for an introvent who has worked from home all his life. I didn't quite get suicidal over the 2022 holidays but let's just say I understood why suicide statistics climb up over the holidays and I decided this can not be borne any more and changed things so it's easier to visit what few family I have left. I have no other human contact than these visits every few months. Sometimes I don't leave my apartment for several days at all and if I do, it's mostly for lonely walks (very rarely the post office or the pharmacy). The few friends I had in Vancouver got lost during Covid -- and I know no one in Malta. (Perhaps this helps explaining some of my recent post history.)
Luckily shots from 3rd were mRNA and those were uneventful.
I'm sure you've done testing for your health, but it can often be very difficult to do thorough testing in Canada. In my experience, you reeally have to press your doctors to get thorough testing, beyond just cursory basic panels for e.g. liver, immunity, etc. I understand they're triaging and saving public resources, but it's not ideal for patients.Likewise, a lot of OHIP-covered tests aren't the most up-to-date, which causes an industry for naturopathic tests to try and fill the gaps, but you obviously have to be careful which of those tests are actually good or not (but still there's some good non-OHIP covered tests you can do too).
idk, obviously I don't know too much about your health, but if I were in your shoes, and in a sense I can relate (going through my own health journey, but aren't we all?), I would be doing as much testing as possible to try and identify root causes and get those fixed. I expect that is what you are doing, but I know how hard it can be to navigate the health system and actually get proper testing.
In regards to your point on variant meaning vaccine resistant, that's a good point. Vaccines (the current iteration) necessarily have to try and predict the strains they're targeting, because the viruses evolve so quickly. But there's specificity and more generalized types of immunity in the body. We've got lots of immune systems and they're tuned in different ways. You can probably get more in-depth testing to see how these specific, relatively independent immune systems are functioning in your body if you want to try and figure out how at-risk you are for covid or long-covid. Again, I'm sure you are doing significant testing as obviously you care a lot for your health, but I would encourage you to press your primary care doctor to do more in-depth testing, and also consider some of the naturopathic tests (ignore their solutions, just use their lab tests), because they can also provide valuable insight into root causes.
There are some of us who stay largely indoors and only leave the house for essential visits, with a respirator. I’m one of those people.
I don’t know if you’re able to find a local community that’s cautious too.
But if you want to talk, I have contact details in my bio.