Looking at the recent discourse has made me really upset.
Covid is still a massive problem that is killing people, and almost no one is taking it seriously
It so so hard to do anything when you're worried about dying, and not in an anxiety disorder way. edit: stop speculating about what medical conditions I have, thank you kindly
I've accepted that there is basically nothing I can justify doing during bad weather that involves people outside my 3 person bubble (it used to be larger, but folks have decided to be less cautious without communicating about it) both in a moral obligation and a personal safety sense, and that's despair inducing because the way things are going this is a "live with it the rest of your life" sort of thing
I want to go out, I really do. I miss hanging with friends. I miss going to concerts and parties and drag and commie shit. But I can't, and not in a "something is wrong with me" sort of way. I've tried to find new social circles who take the pandemic seriously. It's been an exercise in having my boundaries pushed and my (these next two words are the one part of this post I encourage you to make fun of) evidence based perspective on the pandemic pathologized.
And I know this will be alleviated when the weather outside is suitable for outdoor masked stuff, but god, I haven't been able to see people besides my partners since the holidays, and there is still months and months left until I can hang out with friends again.
I'm so fucking tired. I can't keep going on like this without my mental health deteriorating and I can't stop acting like this without being reckless with my body and abdicating my responsibility to others
Honestly I think working construction the entire pandemic and therefore never getting to work from home or stay home with pay or anything really jaded me. Being the only one wearing a mask and the only one to refuse to work in crowded areas with unmasked workers got to be a serious depression vector.
I'll still be the only one wearing a mask in the grocery store but it feels so pointless when I'm basically forced daily to expose myself to possible infection. I was afraid to get boosted because everyone was saying how it knocked them on their ass and I couldn't afford to miss a day's pay.
So basically I've had to choose between feeding my family or protecting them from COVID for the past couple years and it's stressful.
Seriously, I see no reason to live your personal life safer than what your economic life is forced to be. My wife and I did the shut-in thing before getting covid 3 times just from work and the grocery store. Covid tests exist and are suppose to be a good indication of virality. Everyone I know is triple vaxxed and masks outside. But I'm forced to interact with 300+ people a day that corporate doesnt force to mask, IE none of them (but me) wear one.
I have long covid. This pandemic will probably kill me. Im not gonna die locked in my house telling my friends I'll see them Never.
The people talking about staying locked in their apartments and acting like getting covid is a personal moral failing have a whole different kind of privilege than the ppl "going out"
to avoid exposing others you fucking jackass
consideration for other human beings?? on my leftist website???
fucking disgusting, report to the wall at once
I work retail, there is no "avoiding exposure" for me lol
this has always rubbed me the wrong way. I know there are some people who have to be isolated for health reasons. But for those who don’t have to, to have all their needs tended to by gig slave workers while they do their 2-hours-of-actual-work-a-day bullshit WFH job, to then look down on the rest of society who doesn’t have that insane privilege just feels wrong.
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If you work around hundreds of unmasked consoomers (once again i work in the busiest street and commercial district in my city) and think it's a "masking around three friends" skill gap and not luck, you're either delusional or finding ways to feel better than other people
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