It's just super frustrating seeing people who are supposedly my brothers and sisters, who I've been there to the hilt, who know that my partner is struggling, who know that I'm terrified. We've gone through the science and racial and class inequalities together and they've voiced how they should mask a hundred times. And then they come to meet me IRL totally fucking unmasked, without even a fucking apology.
Well, if you're "back to normal", I'll sit and watch you eat outside, but I'm not taking my mask off in front of you. I'll wait till you finish your meal, and I'll head home early. If I've complained about no masking two times already, you heard it enough, I'm not going to complain again.
Am I overreacting?
Edit: for those of griping that you're not allowed to do COVID minimisation in this comm. These would be valid answer:
- Maybe your friend forgot
- Maybe your friend was tired
- Maybe your friend was hung over
- Your friend made a mistake but you should forgive him
- I'm not yet fully covid conscious, but I'm trying
- We can't all be perfect. Hopefully they do better next time.
Not acceptable:
- Oh here's a tidbit about masks that's been disproven in the science literature 10x already
- Oh the chuds and libs aren't masking, and I feel peer pressured
Anyone out there who has gone "back to normal" when:
Is a
Full Stop.
Thanks for your response. And obviously I agree with you. It's just harder when I see leftists (MLs, Trots, Anarchists, etc) pull this. I just have much higher standards for them.
Everyone in the west is still susceptible to the liberal ideology of good vibes and tasty treats at any cost. Most of the people I know would spread COVID if it meant they get to go to a shitty bar or boring movie theater.
Welcome. As you should. These people are deeply unserious and should be ashamed of themselves.
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From the Guardian Last March
‘Alarming’ rise in Americans with long Covid symptoms
“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans | Institute for New Economic Thinking
Most people are eventually going to get brain damage from Covid
Long COVID is associated with severe cognitive slowing: a multicentre cross-sectional study - eClinicalMedicine
Covid, long term, seems to pretty much attack whatever weakness you've got. Cancers, Heart Issues, whateer, even stuff like Parkinson's.
COVID survivors may be at a greater risk of Parkinson’s disease–like symptoms in the future, researchers warn. What you need to know to protect your health | Fortune Well
Kids can get Long Covid
Study: Kids with long COVID have impaired exercise capacity | CIDRAP
Dogs (and probably other pets) can get Long Covid and if you check Google News, there's been a mysterious respiratory virus going around amongst dogs that if it wasn't covid related was probably immune disregulation related from covid.
Neurologic Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Transmitted among Dogs - Volume 29, Number 11—November 2023 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC (cw: animal testing)
Very useful resource. I've saved this comment for future use.
Word, there's much, much, much more out there obviously. This is mostly stuff I've posted here before. Raw studies rarely get as much activity as a rage inciting news article trying to erase reality.😅
I gotta say, you're one of my favourite posters on the covid comm. Thanks for everything you do.
One thing I've really woken up to is how mainstream media twists science research. This is probably obvious to us now, but it still shocks me how boldly the NYTimes and BBC demonstrate that their main job is ideology, not conveying information. We're seeing this now with trans health care, a lot of terrible research is being amplified and good research is being ignored.
Aww, shucks. Welcome and thankya. Means a lot!
Ah, yeah. I've a compsec background so I've always been fascinated by how information flows through the world and when I discovered the concept of manufacturing consent it was like a lightbulb going off. Still haven't read the whole book.😅 But knowing about it and watching the Bolivian coup happen in realtime and how our media and politicians responded to it was a big eye opener for me. And yet! For a hot minute i was still naive enough to think they were gonna do the right thing for Covid.🤦♂️
I used to love Chomsky, but I think he's really boring now. If you're gonna read Manufacturing Consent, I'd say go Inventing Reality by Parenti instead. He's such a better writer.
Yep, hard agree. Read Inventing Reality a couple years ago. Found an unofficial reprint on Lulu for my bookshelf.
I'll see if I can find you some actual studies when I'm at my desktop, but pretty much every legit article on long covid ends with a researcher trying to get people to wake up to the fact that everyone is going to get long covid and we're heading towards a future of healthcare collapse.
Even Bloomberg, while still in denial about the cause, can't hide that mass immune disregulation is happening.
https://archive.ph/mJiiq
How often do you read this comm?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37210689/#:~:text=We%20detected%20that%2024%25%20of,function%20and%20quality%20of%20life.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/06/debilitating-a-generation-expert-warns-that-long-covid-may-eventually-affect-most-americans.html
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They've accepted the lies of our enemies. Propaganda of a Class War that's telling them they're expendable fodder for the wealth of the Owners. Have you, as well? Are you and they disposable? I sure don't fucking think so.