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.

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  • clover [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      It's goofy to quote yourself but I'm going to anyway. I said this ~30 minutes ago in the war mega...

      I wonder how many cable tv news viewers are at me right now. Biden’s doing the dog and pony show of presenting this supreme court pick to the nation and I couldn’t give less of a fuck. I’ve got CNN and MSNBC on mute. I’m impatiently waiting for them to go back to Ukraine already.

      Ninja edit: MNSBC is back to Ukraine!