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
That's the thing tho, they absolutely did fuck it up, we had one of the worst death rates during the worst of it. And now it's "fine" in the sense that hospitals aren't overflooding. I can't imagine what conditions are different in the US that would create a huge wave. Looking at the official data it doesn't seem to be nearly as bad as this time last year.
oh well i take it back then, the bar is so low maybe the current conditions are unacceptable too, and only seem "fine" because of anchoring
Every Covid death past like February 2020 is too much, the world could have eliminated it entirely. However they didn't and it's here to stay now, what good will obsessing over it do for me and my community? It's not going away, we fucked up and we have to learn to deal with it and I don't think locking yourself up for the rest of your life is a good way to go.
your government fucking up doesn't absolve you of contributing to the spread. your neighbors being plague rats doesn't give you permission to be one too.
we could still lockdown for a couple months and be done with this but the capitalists simply wont.
immune compromized comrades will just die then. disabled comrades will get even worse. gtfo with this nazi shit, what the hell is wrong with you people
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oh wow, i bet nobody here ever thought about just getting help! you're definitely being well-meaning and not at all attempting to shroud your shitty insult with faux-friendliness
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i wish it was just your life that you were ruining, but you and your fellow plague rats are a huge part of why the rest of us have to fucking live like this
i'm not pretending anything. lest you forget, you were the one bullshitting people about how your ableist garbage is actually a heartfelt plea for us to please get help. "you just have mental issues, it's not a real concern!"
yeah fuck off with this shit.