It seems pretty clear that this thing is here to stay, and the few remaining zero covid countries are gradually loosening restrictions. I’m getting very doomer sitting here realizing this thing is probably not going to ever going away. So how are you adapting to the new reality and living with covid while trying to stay healthy?
So far I'm just wearing a mask and washing my hands a lot and that's worked so far. I haven't caught it yet. This can't go on forever, letting covid spread is destroying our workforce. If anything this seems to be speeding up the fall of capitalism. I feel sick to my stomach to think how many lives were thrown on the fire so some fat cats could profit.
The west seems to be eating itself.
I'm with you. I haven't gotten it yet either, but I know I will eventually. I really just try not to think about it too much and keep wearing my mask / limiting exposure
At this point I have a hard time remembering what it was like pre-pandemic tbh
this isn't the first time this happened the influenza outbreak of 1911 also happened in a capitalist system
Different viruses, different time period with different circumstances. We live in a densely populated, highly mobile world now with travel the easiest it's ever been. Couple that with a virus that spreads faster and has a higher kill rate than influenza ever did and you get our current mess
I don't know it seems to have barely changed anything at a societal level and it's not like the dead are at an unmanageable level. the system is doing fine
The dead are at an unmanageable level, where I live there are so many sick that we can't get our stock because there aren't enough people to deliver it.
Watching an elderly man with crusty mustache lick his finger every single time he leafs through his wallet and silently deducting a year from his maximum lifespan.
I hate that :grillman: habit so much. I've seen it defended online as "bills can be sticky sometimes" but no, it's bullshit. I can divide sticky bills without some TV-trained pretentious and unhygenic gesture.
TV trained? You mean they only do it because they saw actors doing it on a show?
I highly doubt it emerged from the ether fully formed across the western world, especially because it is 90% done by older Xers and Boomers when I see it.
I believe it is a performative gesture that, yes, they picked up from people on TV decades ago.
I used to spit habitually when playing baseball because I saw professionals do it, not understanding as a child that it was because they were packing a lip of tobacco. So yeah, I could see these people developing a weird quirk because the guy from gunsmoke counted his dollar bills that way or something equally dumb
That's exactly how I see it, too.
I mean, we're not immune to performative actions that we see done by other people, on screens or otherwise. I just find the money gesture both gross and pretentious and I hate it every time I see it.
My best friend as a child spit all the time too as he was a baseball fan and I think I developed the habit for a little bit
and they only dab on their tongue for a split second. The inside of your mouth has a five second rule.
It doesn't count as a gross unhygenic licking of fingertips applied to a dirty piece of highly-circulated paper if it's just a quick lick. :think-about-it:
I have long covid from the first wave and I literally don't know what to do for the rest of my life. I've been isolating for two years. There is only one person that I ever see in real life, and that's a relative who brings me groceries. I have a couple friends that I zoom with, which is nice, but it's not enough. On top of the extreme fatigue I am just so fucking lonely, but I don't know how to fix it. When I got covid I had an intractable migraine 24/7 for 8 months and everything in my life fell apart. If that happens to me again on reinfection I will be totally nonfunctional and looking into ways to kill myself. On some level I am truly panicking, honestly, at the prospect of never being able to participate in society at all.
i am so so sorry :meow-hug: Don't really know what else to say, but I feel for you
Thank you, that does help :meow-hug: People in my life are so in denial of the situation that I can't get any support from them because just describing the extent of the problem makes them shut down.
I believe it, my friend refuses to believe in long covid even when his own uncle is dealing with it. I think people just don't want to recognize how bad this thing really is, and how badly we've responded to it, so they stick their heads in the sand
I enjoy the Jokerfying fact that Pandemic II has proven to be inaccurate regarding just how fucking stupid society's response would be to a pandemic. :joker-gaming:
I spaced out all my shots so I've had pretty good effectiveness from that. I've not been sick yet, but a lot of my friends/roommates have largely given up on caring so I guess it's a matter of time until I get it.
Honestly I may have already gotten a mild case but didn't realize it.
I dunno. I feel it's out of my hands. I'll likely be wearing masks to stores and whatnot for the foreseeable future, and I'm not sure what else to do besides to try to keep away from anyone I know that might be at risk if I've potentially been exposed recently. Honestly, even if I don't go somewhere people are masking my roommates are so... Not really much options.
I live in Taiwan and there's single digit cases of covid (omicron) here. Medical masks work if the vast majority of people use them.
if countries don't do or have the following it'll be hard to stop it from spreading:paid (or partially paid) sick leave
cheap / free healthcare
a way to properly do contact tracing (checking into locations via QR codes)
mask mandate (when there are cases)
quarantine and testing of people flying in from other countries
probably a way to prevent spread of disinfo/misinfo if that's a thing (for example, people or entities saying "masks don't work")
maybe a culture of saving money. otherwise you'll want to work despite getting covid just to pay the bills.I’m probably just going to die of it eventually I guess 🤷♂️ Like wtf am I supposed to do about it? I’ve already had it multiple times and I don’t have the ability to hide from the public because of my job and even if I did what kind of life is that. The people who actually have control over the levers of power have chosen to let the woodchipper run while we all fall into it and unfortunately the masses of us who can stop it don’t know it so we’re all confined to this hellish reality
I wear masks in shops and got vaccinated that's about it. I can't just hole myself up for the rest of my life
