Thanks, shitheads. Glad you're able to eat burgers in restaurants and don't have to feel uncomfortable around your unmasked family members so people like me can have a much harder time.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    What’s the solution?

    Wear masks and hang out outside. It's not complicated. It's not aids, it's literally sitting in a park or on someone's porch.

    This is the easiest shit in the world.

    1.) Wear a mask

    2.) Go outside

    People act like they're being asked to cut out their own liver. It's extremely displeasing.

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      It has certainly been very revealing of peoples priorities and the power of capitalist hegemony - people fundamentally feel they cannot socialize without spending money. It is not enough to socialize for free in a park, you gotta buy a burger at the same time and also have your desires catered to by not wearing a mask and not feeling guilty about it.

    • Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Totally agree, but it fucking sucks living where it's too cold to hang out outside for like a third of the year. Plus having to go into work and being the only wearing a mask. Like I can't be safe and socialize comfortably but I still need to endanger myself to pay rent :doomjak:

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        "feeling skittish"

        Bro it will literally disable you for life if you're healthy. If you go in with a compromised immune system you are utterly fucked.

        "Hey we're going to the guns get shot at you club where they shoot guns at you. There's only a 10% chance that you'll get shot with a gun and permanently crippled. Why are you being such a pain in the ass about this?"

        Like "Don't get upset when people ask you to hang out in a context that won't literally kill or disable them" is burying the bar near earth's molten iron core.

        • macabrett
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          2 years ago

          Thanks for sticking up for me on this. It feels weird to have someone try to twist negative experiences into positives for no real reason.

        • hahafuck [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Bro it will literally disable you for life if you’re healthy.

          Leaving aside the truth of it, I don't think this is in line with most people's perception. But also I think the risk assessment is more betting they won't catch it than figuring they'll be fine if they do. My experience is more people overestimating how bad the infection is while vastly underestimating how contageous and ubiquitous it is

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I think a lot of people are just fundamentally incapable of understanding their own mortality. Like they know disabled people exist, but either they've never seriously thought about what that means, or they're riddled with Calvinist brainworms and believe in a Just World.

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