Fuck I can't open dating apps anymore. Every time I see a motherfucker in a restaurant or unmasked at a concert I get pissed as fuck that they are willing to kill people like me for shallow consumerism.
It sucks to be a disabled zoomer right now, when so many people my age who 2 years ago were full on pro ACAB are now willing to murder disabled people for the most surface level shit. I never felt happier eating in a restaurant pre-pandemic or drinking in a bar, that shit was alienating as fuck. Even friend hangouts they were fun but not worth killing people over.
This has been a horrible year. A horrible period, I hope these eugenicists get retaliated against in some manner even if it just looks like a bunch of people starting to mask again cause they see too many loved ones dying.
If it makes you feel any better the last time I got laid I got crippling megacovid and now I feel tired all the time and my mom frequently throws me money to survive because I will sleep for 14 hours and can barely exist
r/cfs is refreshingly aware of long COVID and its consequences. They're very pro-mask, too
I'll also throw in /r/covidlonghaulers, /r/masks4all, and /r/zerocovidcommunity as being pretty decent COVID-conscious spaces
Disabled millennial here... this was the worst year of my life. I've never felt so disposable. I love you, comrade.
:meow-hug:
Same. I haven't left the house except to get groceries since 2020, and the only reason I was out of the house in 2020 was [redacted]. It's awful. Like even my family hasn't made the slightest effort. When I go out I'm wearing a half-mask p100 respirator and close fitting safety glasses and I look like an extra from a post apocalypse b-movie, but better that then having my brain fried by Covid.
I've just basically accepted being single. I'd like to date but I have no idea how I'd find anyone worth spending time with in this hellhole I live in. Single solidarity, fellow zoomer :rat-salute:
It's going to be a long, bitter, frustrating winter. Hold on to what you love, because hate can't keep us running forever.
...And for the love of God stop bring sick children into supermarkets.
There’s a selfish part of me that doesn’t want people to start wearing a mask again just yet. I want to connect with people who simply use their brains to mask up and not listen to what some old man says on TV. If everyone starts doing it again because it’s mandatory, then it’ll be difficult to gauge who will be trustworthy in the future.
Ya, I was just gonna say this. Masking has really shown me who's the lib and who's a comrade in my circle.
Although obviously everyone needs to mask.
I want to also shout out all of the people who said in 2020 that they would continue to mask after COVID when they were sick because they realized that they got fewer illnesses, only to completely forget about it in 2022.
Special mention to all of the people in the store who see I'm wearing a mask and they suddenly start coughing near me.
I'll get on a bus and it's not even like i can feel safe next to someone who's also masked, because it may be that they have COVID. The rules are not to stay home if you're contagious, only wear a mask if you are and feel ok to work.
Yeah like tbh I am definitely going to use the question of how people approached COVID this year and may be next year as a way to vet future comrades, friends, and partners. I believe the way a person handles this pandemic especially this year is a good indicator of how they might handle more intense situations, which is key thing to note especially for partners and comrades.
Yeah, I'm just gonna take an L for the next few years and keep to myself for a bit. See how this all plays out. Trying to get my vehicle up to snuff so I can go back to being nomadic and hide in the woods with my kindle for weeks at a time.
"I will finish this rubbertramping conversion before the end of the pandemic" I told myself in 2021. Bad news, still not finished. Good news, pandemmy isn't either?
Took me like 8 months to find the vehicle i wanted, got it just before Halloween last year. Threw myself into converting it... and then got covid just before new years. All my mental focus went out the window and I'm just finally starting make progress again on it now. Fucking a.🤞
I'm pretty sure I haven't had COVID but I also find it so incredibly hard to focus on big projects now... I know that feeling.
I don't know how anyone gets anything done anymore.:this-is-fine:
Feel like those west-Germans in the '60s and '70s who realized a lot of their family, etc. were Nazis and society chose to do nothing about it. Wonder if there's anything we could learn from them.
yeah i don't know how i'm going to find anyone under these conditions and my material conditions under capitalism.
i'm not suicidal yet but long-term i can't see living for multiple more decades being worth what we're going through.
Good thing we have a Solution for this up in socialist Canada. Unfortunately, it's a Final one. :yea:
Solidarity.
edit: part of me wonders how many fully vaccinated relatively healthy anti-mask liberals have gotten long covid or died from covid in the last 1.5 years or so. A pro-vaxx twitter page relentlessly ridiculing them could save lives. On the other hand, I legitimately feel bad for these people even if they are fucking bastards.
I am taking the pandemic response personally, Anthony Fauci and Joe Biden know who I am and are on a mission to prevent me from being a slut and finally uniting the greater northwest polycule
Meant to send this last night but was having trouble accessing the site.
I basically gave up on dating apps, I hate using them as is, and it's a lot of effort to try to find people who are also COVID-cautious. I've realized that a partner who is still COVID-cautious like me is an absolute imperative.
Like tbh, I don't even want to bother with someone who is respectful of my COVID boundaries but is "back to normal" outside of our interactions, seems like that could eventually be a point of conflict if a relationship were to develop. Especially since I'm looking for a long-term relationship. I've heard so many anecdotes of relationships being destroyed, or kept intact but having become very strained because the people in the relationship don't see eye-to-eye on COVID.
For trying to find friends and partners, I'm basically exclusively looking at COVID-conscious communities on the internet now. Quite a few subreddits are COVID-conscious, some of which have already been posted below. There are a couple Discord servers that are good too, including Death Panel Podcast. For dating specifically, Covid Meetups has that option. There are also a number of Facebook (LOL Facebook) groups that use the "Still Coviding" name, and there are multiple dating-oriented groups among those. Seems like these spaces usually end up having quite a few leftists, too. Lots of immunocompromised folks, too, who will especially empathize with you.
I didn't have much faith to find someone any time soon, but I actually did meet someone recently in my area from one of these spaces who's really cool, and it's going really well so far. So you never know!
Team incel but not in an incel way stand up!
/joke I think the secret is to get really, really in to latex and gas masks /joke
Just show up at the club and people are like "Hey are you wearing a chemical warfare suit to the club?" And you're just like "No, no, that's ridiculous. This is the cool new kink for cool kinky people."
Haha funny joke
(Uses foot to push chemical warfare suit out of view, leans against the wall, whistling nonchalantly)
In South Africa literally no one wears a mask anymore. Haven't seen one in months
Though excess deaths are at normal levels, so almost no one is dying of COVID. Because we unironically did herd immunity in the end...
Lots of people struggling with the long COVID as well.
It's very bad
https://www.samrc.ac.za/reports/report-weekly-deaths-south-africa
