This weekend, I held a baby for the first time in 15 months. It was delightful and dreadful simultaneously, highlighting the emotional vertigo of pre-post-pandemic life (we’re not there yet, but close!). For we who are fully vaccinated, the doors of freedom and socializing have suddenly sprung open. However, we carry the scientific unknowns of conflicting and incomplete information regarding variants and vaccine efficacy and the emotional baggage of internalized fear of bodies and germs, of harming and being harmed. ...