Blue-checks are afraid of life getting back to normal. Really. They are tweeting this to their followers right now.

Emily Ramshaw, co-founder and CEO of @19thnews, tweeted on Friday night that she “panicked about life inching back toward ‘normal'”:

Suddenly, today, I panicked about life inching back toward “normal.”

I don’t want to travel endlessly for work. I don’t want my weekends to be over-committed with activities. I don’t want to miss bedtime with my kid. I don’t want to wear blazers — or, hell, even shoes.

— Emily Ramshaw (@eramshaw) March 6, 2021

You see, there have been many “liberating” moments in the past year that counter all the truly awful parts:

This year has been heartbreaking, depressing, paralyzing — in almost every way.

But some things about it have also been liberating, and I have to figure out how to cling to those things in a vaccinated future — even when others expect me not to.

— Emily Ramshaw (@eramshaw) March 6, 2021

The NYT’s Taylor Lorenz agrees:

The thought of going back to my old routine horrifies me https://t.co/gwxwaH4rIG

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) March 6, 2021

As does former HuffPost editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen:

Yes to this. A thousand times yes. https://t.co/dVLvRA9wOl

— Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen) March 6, 2021

Security expert Garrett Graff says he’s “terrified about returning to the life I had pre-pandemic”:

I started to feel so much of this this week too. I want to travel and eat out so badly—and yet am terrified about returning to the life I had pre-pandemic. https://t.co/ijRyah6jFm

— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) March 6, 2021

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Conservative Mindy Finn feels this way, too:

I feel this in every way. I finally cleaned out my closet of heels the other day and put my beloved slipper collection in their place. Then, I cried tears of joy.

— Mindy Finn (@mindyfinn) March 6, 2021

https://twitter.com/mindyfinn/status/1368039732559699969

And CNN’s Brian Stelter says “this is exactly where” his wife is “right now”:

this is exactly where @JamieStelter is right now, and i think it helps to hear other people say it too

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 6, 2021

With all due respect to all of these blue-checks, GTFOH.

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