I’m getting very good at coming up with very very gentle and soft and nonjudgmental and nonantagonistic ways of very casually mentioning that COVID exists and taking precautions is a good idea. People still treat me like a horrible freak for it anyway but I’m getting good at at least making myself look pathetic and meek in the process which for some reason makes me feel better about my total social exclusion from public life
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I can't ever find a way to phrase it that doesn't just end up with me saying "and anyway that's why it's cryptoeugenics"
I go for it from themost basic angle; "I haven't caught anything in the past couple years, it's great. Being sick sucks" and most of the time people get it
I remember way way way back like three years people who hadn't been sick in an entire year being all excited about how great that was, before they all seemed to decide that being much more sick much more often than ever before was actually better, really, when you think about it, than not being sick at all was.
my favorite phrase in the past year has become "because the covid cases are really bad right now". the reaction i tend to get is "oh my god, i haven't been keeping up, very insightful, we should take precautions!" people aren't generally keeping up with numbers if they're not already taking precautions; and it isn't really a lie even imo, even if we are relatively at a trough at any given time