How often do you receive pushback from friends over still taking the pandemic seriously? Is anyone who pushes back worth keeping as a friend? What exactly does your kind of socializing look like during this pandemic (i.e. virtual and/or outdoors and/or in indoor private settings)?
I'm trying to get back out there because I've been in a bad spot mentally and have found it hard to trust people more broadly, but the way I'm currently living is probably not healthy for me, and I feel like I do need some kind of support system beyond my family and the one friend actually still taking the pandemic as seriously as me. But as I try to get out of my house more, I need to figure out the kind of boundaries I want to set, the kinds of activities that I feel comfortable with (definitely a preference for outdoor stuff), etc.
One of the groups I used to hang out with—mostly libs—I no longer really see, because they got "tired of" wearing masks. Their attitude became, "If you want to wear one, that's fine, but I won't," which is not the way it fucking works.
The leftist groups have stayed very conscious and respectful of everyone's COVID concerns, though, so all good there.
I hate going to the store now, because there'll be like 2 people wearing masks, and everyone else doesn't hesitate to breathe their 'rona germs all over the place, and only back away for social distancing reluctantly when I give them a nasty look or explicitly ask. Still never eat out or anything.
Went to the store and there were people pretty violently hacking coughs without a mask.
No one wants to admit they're sick and everyone is a typhoid mary. We can't even do the asian pre-pandemic thing of at least having courtesy to wear a mask if you have any sort of sickness symptom.
Meanwhile I still see people with "Fuck Trudeau" bumper stickers and giant :kkkanada: flags waving from their 50k+ trucks (for vaccine reasons that don't make sense, not for cool reasons), and there are still 'protesters' with signs that say "mandate freedom" even though we got rid of every single precaution possible.
Canadians really are just diet americans.
One of the things i dont miss at all in canada is dealing with people who have 90k pickups with "fuck trudeau" stickers on the rear windshield. They tried to run me off the road nearly every time.
Hmm, I've been thinking about getting involved with my city's Foods Not Bombs chapter (:im-vegan:) to potentially meet some comrades. I know that being a leftist doesn't preclude someone from still taking the pandemic seriously, but my assumption has always been that those who still are deeply concerned about the pandemic and care about the plight of the immunocompromised/high-risk are disproportionately left wing.
Yes. FNB kicks fuckin' ass. DO IT!!! I was involved with a local chapter for a while before the pandemic, and then for a little while during but people kinda went off and did their own things and it fell apart again. I've been in a community farming group the whole time though, and that's cool. Growing and sharing fresh produce rather than fully cooked/prepared stuff, but still along the same lines.