A bizarre thing that just occurred to me is because of the Russia news, Covid response is effectively over now. We have completely stopped talking about it, and when we’re done with the Russia stuff, we are not going to start talking about it again.
Basically everything is already open and mask mandates at this point are essentially private business dress codes, so the only thing that was keeping any semblance of an actual mitigation strategy afloat with people talking about it, which we won’t do any more.
Not that what is happening in Ukraine isn’t a humanitarian atrocity but it will likely lead to far fewer deaths than have occurred because of Covid, a thing still killing thousands daily and we have all forgotten about in like 24 hours.
To reuse a phrase from the title - a funny thing just occurred to me. I can't remember the last time I saw a covid segment on CNN or MSNBC. Has it actually been more than a week for me? I have no idea. My sense of time has been destroyed. In any case - it's very odd but typical of American tv news. War is the brightest, shiniest object imaginable and it's going to get far more viewers.
That’s ok, mentally I feel like I’m still in 2015, brain is absolute mush :deeper-sadness:
What you say about war is true though. Especially if it gets any hairier. For example, I think I heard something about Biden’s Supreme Court nominee - I had forgotten all about that shit and it barely registered when I heard it.
It's goofy to quote yourself but I'm going to anyway. I said this ~30 minutes ago in the war mega...
I think I turned the TV on just now at exactly the same time you did lmao
Seriously, cable tv news, give me the war back.