Literally 7 months ago I used to eat in indoor restaurants and feel fine if some lib unmasked next to me on the train. Now I seeth in rage anytime someone tells me that covid is over or that we need to go back to normal. Maybe it was the 4th late night trip to the emergency room. Maybe it was hearing "I can't breathe" and "I'm afraid I'm going to die" several times a week for months on end and trying to be the main person of support for the first time in my life. Maybe it was repeatedly reminding workmates that I have a vulnerable person at home and them mostly not being arsed to mask up around me.

My partner was 40 when she got covid this year for the first. She was vaxxed and boostered. She worked out. She had zero health issues.

Really, I just want people to stop pretending that covid is nothing or that we can get past it. I get that realising our own mortality is terrifying and that people naturally want to react against it. I don't want anyone to be stressed or paranoid. I just want to push back against any lib complacency that we can live with covid like most Westerners are doing.

  • dismal
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    2 years ago

    But at this point who knows

    Lol right, like such a massive part of the nightmare is just the fully intentional lack of data surrounding the virus, and how opaque theyve been about how bad the spread/hospitalizations/deaths are, have been, or are getting.... i get that they made that choice because they fully know theyre just casually committnig genocide via passive biological warfare.... i guess what really astounds me is the publics reaction (or lack of one) to all this shit

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      i guess what really astounds me is the publics reaction (or lack of one) to all this shit

      Manufacturing Consent works, and really when it comes down to it, it's just another aspect of Capitalism that's killing us. And if they're not willing to face that....

      Case in point, telling us it's about personal responsibility and then removing all options and information that allows us to save ourselves. :who-did-this: that's Capitalist standard operating procedure right there.

      • dismal
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        2 years ago

        oh yeah , by now everyones numb to it, i can hardly connect any kind of feeling to the crumbs of data i find linked to off like twitter or whatnot (besides some kind of panic or rage that boils just beneath the surface of my consciousness, if it specifically relates to long covid and what it could or is doing to people), i kinda was thinking along the lines of the beginning, the first year or so where it was still fresh to people and wouldve (or shouldve( made most normal people angry to see their government just killing off and disabling the people who needed protection the most with little care or thought.... i guess i really just underestimated how little the [amerikan] public cares about others lives (having been hit by a car like 5 times now i should know this better than most)

    • kurremkurrak [any]
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      2 years ago

      I genuinely think part of it is that if Westerners recognized that what is currently going on is genocide, they'd have to recognize that their ancestors committed genocide by spreading smallpox etc. They'd rather remain in denial.