today’s a day to lay down and stare at the ceiling while thinking about the level of cognitive dissonance people are going through about covid and their resistance to taking relatively easy, personal measures to protect themselves and the people around them (to say nothing of pushing for systemic solutions). i had a teaching assistant that was studying work and disability in 2022 while not masking. both professors i had that semester ended up canceling class cause they got covid, which, even if they WERE masking, you would think would make them think twice about what the uni/govt claimed about the safety of the air on campus. a group gave a presentation about the effect of widespread uncontrolled covid on undocumented workers and not a single member was masked. very much a “we’re not gonna make it”/cassandra moment. i think when you get told multiple times “i know you’re right but i don’t care anymore, you’re mentally ill and need social fixing for caring still” something fundamental about your capacity for social relations breaks in you. but at the very least i think that, if you say something like that to someone, you have to stop claiming that you love them. and if you can’t trust the people around you, it makes sense to mask as often as possible
