I’ve been virtual since March 2020. I now have a new therapist whom I have never actually met in person. I do FaceTime (or a different glitchier online platform/same concept) with her whereas it was just phone with old T.

I have been a frontline HCW in the covid trenches from the start. So I’ll own my bias upfront but it strikes me as bizarre and a bit precious that while teachers, for example, are expected to assume the risk of seeing 30-90+ kids a day (some of whom are crap with masks), therapists who see maybe 4-8 people per day, and could easily screen them, are not returning to in-person work. Now almost everyone in our area is at least partially vaccinated and we’re getting closer and closer to fully vaccinated. We are in an area where delta/lambda haven’t really hit (yet), the case rate is low and society has reopened to a great extent. Plus we could always go back to online if/when necessary.

For a time the vaccine wasn’t easily available, for a time kids were distance-learning and parents often had to work from home for that reason, for a time we were in a major crisis. But now none of that is true and I honestly have nothing but contempt for therapists’ unwillingness to buck the eff up and provide a decent service.

I find it galling that they would expect vulnerability from their clients while they are so intensely risk-averse that they cannot even show the fuq up under the most controlled and sanitized of circumstances. Imagine if they were called upon to show actual courage.