Whenever people and the mainstream media talk about "The trauma of COVID" they always mean the lockdowns and not the... you know... millions of deaths.
Well I have trauma about the deaths. I have trauma about the way our society was manipulated into sacrificing a huge chunk of the population with a smile and a wave, and how we just don't talk about it.
This same society still expects you to be horrified by the violence of 9/11 or whatever when the US alone was experiencing a 9/11 level of death every day and the disease is still killing, we just don't bother recording the spread anymore. What the fuck is wrong with people?!
I literally get (for lack of a better word) triggered when people talk about how hard it was to have to have to wear a mask or to not get a haircut or some selfish bullshit. Or when they act as though their kids remote learning for a while ruined them or something. It's all so petty. They just don't give a shit. They'd kill millions for a haircut. It makes my heart sink, my eyes glaze and I start dissociating.
Imagine if this was the blitzkrieg, and instead of going to bomb shelters people were just like "I'm sick of hearing about these bombings, I'm just going to pretend they're not happening and leave it up to fate." And then the bomb shelters are all closed and even the people who still wanted to take shelter are left to fend for themselves. What madness would have that been if they had done that during WW2? Dragging people into the street to be bombed?
I don't care if you were sick of lockdowns or restrictions! Fighting a pandemic should have been like fighting a war, we should have been doing everything we could to survive!
I am scared of these people. These brainwashed puppets. These eugenicists. If they can do this, well... it makes me feel surrounded by monsters. Like I can't trust anyone.
I was listening to The Dollop podcast about old timey public health guy John Hurty, and in it they mention the town he was in had a small pox outbreak, and after about four years people were just like
"It's just small pox, gotta alive your life", so I think it's partly just a human trait to be able to normalize horrible things. Especially if, like back then, there's not much people think they can do.
And there's been a huge push to normalize covid, because keeping it at bay is expensive. Countries like China, Vietnam, DPRK, New Zealand, and Austrailia were largely successful, but with every other country on the planet giving up and encouraging the spread of it, there's not much anyone country can do except strict isolationism. Really, we could put a huge dent in transmission rates with indoor air cleaning and having people wear properly fitting n95 masks, but the powers that be decided that's too much trouble, and it's easier to tell people that getting sick all the time is good for them, so now we have to wait for science to do magic with better vaccines.
I try not to get mad that so many people gave up, or even regressed, but it's difficult. Especially when I'm personally and professionally close to vulnerable people who are still dying and being injured at alarming rates from this shit. It's like if everyone decided indoor smoking should be a thing people should do everywhere, again.