Pendell

I'm just blocking people who I feel are the least bit aggressive about how others are now coping with a post covid world, or going out of their way to misrepresent data. I still mask every time I'm out because I think it's what we should have been doing pre covid. I also dont' think twice about taking my mask off at a restaurant to slurp down a bowl of noodles.

Respectfully, whilst I understand the sentiment, COVID is not just a flu-like virus. It is a coin-toss, with heads you are fine, and tails you are disabled for life, or at the very least suddenly susceptible to a lot of viruses you weren't susceptible to before.

We're beginning to see the fallout of this, as suddenly were seeing new waves of infections from viruses that weren't so serious before, due to decreased immunity within the general populace directly related to COVID.

I've had friends disabled by COVID when they were practically healthy prior. There's no way of knowing what it will do to you. We're mostly lucky the virus isn't just straight up killing people anymore.

Likewise, people like me have to live in fear, in part, due to no one taking any precaution. I have unspecified immunity issues (likely autoimmune, hard to diagnose) and a myriad of health issues which put me at severe risk if I were to ever get COVID. The vaccine alone incapacitated me for 24 hours and gave me a fever so bad I became delirious. — I'm being forced to take on additional responsibilities because society wouldn't take on theirs.

I know it's exhausting. I know trying to be "responsible" feels like a lost cause at this point. I don't have answers, either. My own boyfriend doesn't mask.

But this very fatigue is why everyone stopped trying to prevent the spread to begin with, too. I don't think that should be discounted.