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I'm fucking bummed out about it you all, I feel like hardly anybody is masking or shielding or taking real pandemic safety precautions and it's just wild how much the social normalcy needle has moved. Some of these people I really care about and it genuinely doesn't feel like they have bad intentions with it but it is an implicit acquiescence to eugenics and negligence of high risk people, probably due to social pressures, and it just scares the shit out of me to see people go with the flow on that when I know these same people to be generally empathetic, critically thinking, etc. Like I wonder if I'm wrong but when I look up any info about covid cases (hospitalizations still in the thousands in the u.s.) or when I think about long covid impacts... I just don't see any good evidence for dropping precautions.

Even if you think the numbers are dispersed enough that it couldn't affect you in your day-to-day activities, how do you know? You don't know if you could catch an asymptomatic case at the grocery store or something, pass it on to someone else who has an immunocompromised loved one, or anything like that. It's just... not a good gamble, and it's not okay to take other people as collateral in your "personal choice" making. And I know the state has abandoned us and that's a big fucking part of it but I really wish people would get real about that and take realistic measures to mitigate harm rather than, idk, deciding it's fine? FUCK.


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in reply to @skychimera's post:

I've heard a lot of people talk about feeling betrayed by other people's indifference. It's no surprise when the government chooses to let people die to try and keep the stock market up. It hurts a lot more when seemingly most of society joins in with enthusiasm.

Yeah. For real. I think it's manifestations of the same thing. It hurts a lot more to face it on the direct interpersonal level. And also I think a lot of people have had their choice taken away from them due to government-issued *return to normal" that forces them to work in person, etc., no mask requirement. // and idk what it is, I guess it just hurts that all throughout this pandemic, I saw brief CDC mentions of how higher-risk people should take more precautions, but the general able-bodied public hardly seemed to take that to heart and consider their own actions? I just want people to consider shielding higher-risk people as a social practice. // and I'm tired. Sorry. There's a lot I think about this and I don't have all the words for it.