President Joe Biden said he believes the Covid-19 pandemic is "over" in an appearance on CBS' "60 Minutes," but acknowledged the US still has a "problem" with the virus that has killed more than 1 million Americans.
I talked to my brother today and he more or less tried to pathologize my continued caution with COVID, so that was fun.
On one hand, I think he meant well (he had the same risk calculus as me until a few months ago) and that it came from a place of care, and he said that staying cooped up isn't good for my mental health (I don't disagree). But uhh also, COVID is literally giving people brain damage, and we have no fucking idea about all the long-term ramifications of a virus that can affect all of our organs, and what we do already know is not good at all. And then just started saying shit how one of his friends told him there was a study about people saying they were suffering from long COVID and how many of them had actually never gotten infected at all, and I was like "dafuq, you actually believe that?". I'm not doing this shit because I like it, I'm trying to minimize the number of times I get COVID (ideally never) until we have universal vaccines and/or nasal vaccines that can seriously reduce spread and/or genuine treatment for long COVID.
And regardless, me just engaging in higher-risk activities isn't necessarily going to clear up my mental health issues, I'm not just going to unlearn all the ways we've been repeatedly lied to over and over again about the severity of this virus just because I'm doing More Things™. I want to work toward doing more activities than I'm doing right now, so I think he does have a point. But I want to be smart about it, too. And living my life like it's 2019 still does not strike me as very smart.
Edit: it also seems like this continued aversion is hardly exclusive to a leftist like myself, I peruse the coronavirus subreddit and routinely see pro-caution articles/comments upvoted highly
I'm sorry to hear that, I'm hoping for the best for you and your household! :meow-hug:
Yes, that's the other thing, I've had the flu before and that fucking sucks, i.e. feeling sick for like a week, if not longer (and obviously not trying to equate COVID with flu, COVID is considerably more dangerous). Not sure what your experience has been like, but I see online anecdotes all the time from people who were young, healthy, boosted once or twice, who still say that COVID kicked their ass after the fact and that they were utterly miserable. Why would I want that to happen to myself up to a few times a year? Getting sick sucks.
I talked to my brother today and he more or less tried to pathologize my continued caution with COVID, so that was fun.
On one hand, I think he meant well (he had the same risk calculus as me until a few months ago) and that it came from a place of care, and he said that staying cooped up isn't good for my mental health (I don't disagree). But uhh also, COVID is literally giving people brain damage, and we have no fucking idea about all the long-term ramifications of a virus that can affect all of our organs, and what we do already know is not good at all. And then just started saying shit how one of his friends told him there was a study about people saying they were suffering from long COVID and how many of them had actually never gotten infected at all, and I was like "dafuq, you actually believe that?". I'm not doing this shit because I like it, I'm trying to minimize the number of times I get COVID (ideally never) until we have universal vaccines and/or nasal vaccines that can seriously reduce spread and/or genuine treatment for long COVID.
And regardless, me just engaging in higher-risk activities isn't necessarily going to clear up my mental health issues, I'm not just going to unlearn all the ways we've been repeatedly lied to over and over again about the severity of this virus just because I'm doing More Things™. I want to work toward doing more activities than I'm doing right now, so I think he does have a point. But I want to be smart about it, too. And living my life like it's 2019 still does not strike me as very smart.
Edit: it also seems like this continued aversion is hardly exclusive to a leftist like myself, I peruse the coronavirus subreddit and routinely see pro-caution articles/comments upvoted highly
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I'm sorry to hear that, I'm hoping for the best for you and your household! :meow-hug:
Yes, that's the other thing, I've had the flu before and that fucking sucks, i.e. feeling sick for like a week, if not longer (and obviously not trying to equate COVID with flu, COVID is considerably more dangerous). Not sure what your experience has been like, but I see online anecdotes all the time from people who were young, healthy, boosted once or twice, who still say that COVID kicked their ass after the fact and that they were utterly miserable. Why would I want that to happen to myself up to a few times a year? Getting sick sucks.
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