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.
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.