I'm a neurodivergent, asocial person. Always have been. Though i still have had a few friends during my life. I managed to get by for a while with just the 2-3 people I talk to, but recently I've started to get really lonely. The way i've made friends in the past has been someone approaching me, not the other way around though. I don't know how to make friends/acquaintances with other people on my own. Me growing up with the internet probably played a role in my lack of real life social skills, i'm guessing

  • Ivysaur [she/her]
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    6 hours ago

    It is not a difficult proposition to understand, and one people like me have been trying to tell anyone who would listen about for years; none of you listen. COVID spreads via the air we breath and in spaces with elevated CO2 (e.g. indoors) this is especially so, as the same air is recirculating. Whenever you share a space with someone who is not, at minimum, wearing a respirator at any time they are around other people, you are both taking a risk at being infected and becoming a disease vector for others. Asymptomatic infections are more common now than ever, so you may not even know you're sick or feel anything. The best and easiest way to improve the odds for yourself and others not being infected and possibly disabled for life by Long COVID is to avoid doing things in crowded indoor spaces where it can be avoided, and if it really can't be avoided, then everyone should be wearing N95 or better quality respirators anytime they will be around one another. Anything other than this at the bare minimum increases your infection risk, and the risks of everyone around you.

    Is this to say that there is absolutely no responsible way to attend any sort of group event

    Unless everyone or at least a majority in attendance are on board with mitigations, in the midst of a global pandemic that has not ended, that is correct. Sorry.