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.
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)