like there are legit covid sceptics on this site saying shit like "lol just touch grass" and "you need to go out" while we are currently heading to another peak (https://biobot.io/data/). and most claim to not be "covid sceptics" with weak defenses of their treats like "i cant just put my whole life on hold" and "im not just gonna live in fear" :yea:
while these ppls presence on this site is enough justification for this post, i wanna add that i woke up this morning w a sore throat and had a slight cough yesterday thats getting worse. gonna take a triple test today (covid, RSV, flu), but im p sure its covid bc my gf's mom tested positive 2 days ago and she still doesnt wear a mask around the house. i cant skip work bc i have bills to pay (living alone, gf lives w parents), but im lucky and dont see many ppl at my job so i can distance and mask while working. ive never gone "back to normal": go out only when necessary, drive thru theatre is big for us bc of safety, always wear mask even tho NOBODY else here does and me and my gf get strange looks and sometimes these fucking crackers around here COUGH IN OUR DIRECTION. i sacrificed my social life for 3 years and bc everyone else is too selfish to do the same, i have to face a 1 in 6 chance of disability and a chance of hospitalization/death. i hate this country so damn much
so despite everything i got the :covid-cool: . from now on were taking covid seriously. n95 + cloth mask EVERYWHERE. even at her house bc we obv cant trust her parents. im not letting us take off our masks unless we're alone, no exceptions. UGGGHHHH it sucks, ive avoided this disease for 3 years and now im so afraid that ill lose some neurological function, get GI problems, liver problems, sensory disability, etc. its so horrifying and stressful. guys pls take this seriously. nobody else is but i expected more empathy from ppl on this site
Yeah I've had people walk behind me in the grocery store and cough into my head, makes me want to
:jokerfied: I visited in-laws for the holidays and we both got covid for the first time. They are all going out to eat, gyms, etc without masks so this is the price for spending time with family. Mixed feelings to say the least. The options really are be alone and never have a meal with friends and family, or get sick. This sucks.
i dont wanna get arrested for assault w deadly weapon so i think a good middle ground is carrying pocket sand to throw in the face of scumbags who do this
Similar feelings here. I went to visit my family, many of whom already have pretty shitty immune systems, and asked everyone to test before we got together. My siblings were fine with that and were glad I brought it up, and I got totally expected pushback from the 50+ crowd. They put up a fight that almost sent me back the night I arrived over taking the most innocuous of precautions (eg. my mom would only test one time but then was going to go to her office the next day where everyone is unmasked :deeper-sadness: ). One member of the family is still unvaxxed and arrived to the house on Christmas Day with an "upper respiratory infection" where they noted that they couldn't taste or smell, but they did actually test the night before and it was negative. Cut to 3 days later and I'm heading home feeling like a cold's coming on, which was my initial conclusion after testing negative twice, but a few days later I tested again and it was positive. First time getting covid. Too late to do anything for my housemate so now they caught it too, and I feel absolutely terrible about that. We've been so careful the last couple of years and it just feels so deflating to get got this way.
I called my parents and told them to test. They mentioned they were feeling feverish, and it turns out both of them and my chud grandmother got it as well. Curiously my sisters were spared despite everyone being together the entire day. The whole family's fighting with one another over who got who sick (the latest is my grandma's accused me of bringing it home because "masks never worked" :pain: ). I'm just sitting here, thankfully hundreds of miles away from all that, thinking about how weird the holidays were this year and how empty the whole affair felt to me in general. Throughout this last week I've become ever more perplexed as to why people's anger and frustration isn't being directed at the ones responsible for the hellworld we currently occupy. Why aren't there riots or mass protests and :gui-better: attempts going on? Why aren't there guerrilla campaigns to beat back on the obfuscation of vital information about this pandemic? Like I know we're pretty cucked here in the US, but even this has to have some kind of limit? Sooner or later the glut of preventable deaths and disability will reach an inflection point even amongst the most insulated libs and chuds out there, right?
Damn, sorry you had to deal with all that. Making no effort then arguing over who gave it to who, damn that's shitty. My family goes back and forth between cautious, then completely letting it hang out situationally. Oddly enough, I was the first with symptoms, and isolated for the last few days but tested negative on every home test. I'm assuming I have it bc my smell changed and I had a cough and high exposure. Everyone else kept going out to busy restaurants and family gatherings and now are all positive, so I might have had a cold, but definitely been exposed to covid between them and riding on a plane with unmasked people coughing the entire time.
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holy shit are you capable of being anything other than a condescending asshole?
Y’all really don’t like your contradictions poked at