I advocated lockdowns combined with strong social safety net protections and a thorough testing regime and the person still said "yeah but the other effects." When I pressed as to what effects, they said "well children won't be able to socialize." Like yeah.... that's bad, but you know what else can effect a child's mental health: mommy/daddy/granpa/grandma/etc dying from a totally preventable pathogen.... Jesus and this person is in "academia" doing anthro and shit....
The fact that mass death is ocurring in the USA is more fucking damaging to my goddamned mental health than having to sit at home, WTF
judging by how weird and aggro everyone is in public these days I'm 99% sure everyone else is feeling similiarly unless they're dyed in the wool reactionary psychos
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