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I decided to log back into my old Mastodon and saw someone describe a 16-person (IT WAS ACTUALLY 100 but still) international gathering in 2023 as a "potential super-spreader event" and now I remember the sort of thing that made me quit the platform


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Yeah I muted #CovidIsNot almost immediately because it's legitimately distressing and unhelpful for me. At least peoples' tendency to tag heavily there means it's easier to filter and I really only saw it in the trending section.

never heard of this hashtag and anyone posting in it can slap their balls. forgive my harsh tone but the whole movement is hypochondria fearmongering shit only privileged shut-ins who don't want to and don't have to go outside believe. completely absurd to think another lockdown or me individually choosing to wear a mask is going to keep anyone from getting covid. these people aren't just a cramp, they're an active hinderance to good messaging.
i guess it's lucky in a way that none of this and none of what they do can matter any more, though. the happening-con is at "it's over" and has been for years. the idea that it isn't is a weird bloomer-doomer larp. who they are hurting most of all is themselves. (which, lol, deserved.)
you know what actually would have prevented covid from becoming a pandemic? what the actual only thing is? electing hillary as president. nobody wants to admit it because it's gross and sounds like something a resist lib would make up but it's true.
to clutch pearls over people carrying on with their lives on the 99+% probability that Nothing Even A Little Bit Bad Will Fucking Happen As A Consequence is just... bizarre to me. like, what are the odds some terrible car crash will happen because you went out. that's just the surface of the implications of chaos theory here.
in sum: these people are dumb fucking crybabies high on guilt tripping others
(oops :3)

I haven't looked at the mastodon tag so I don't know how bad the claims are there but a lot of the people who are upset (in general) are immunocompromised and many of them can't get the vaccine, so covid is still a problem and a potentially deadly one for them. I also think long covid even for mild cases of actual covid is still a huge issue. people I know are still getting it and their long covid lasts for months. covid's not "over". it's just not going away. and being masked can still save people's lives.

I also muted and don't look at such tags because they're distressing, and I do think a fair few of the upset people have an unrealistic standard for the entire world never going outside or interacting with people again, which is guilt-inducing.

But your comment here is extremely shamey and uncompassionate.

i certainly don't think covid is over. if that is what is being put into the mouths of the staggeringly immense majority of the population that has decided to go on with life, that's probably just incorrect by and large. there was a pandemic, there IS a pandemic, and world leadership utterly failed. this should make you angry at the people responsible. this should be something you never forgive them for. but it's not something we can eliminate now.
with all due respect how immunocompromised someone is should have no bearing on their ability to grasp reality. i'm not going to infect you- some toilet-licking nuclear chud completely undeserving of life out of the many who outnumber me is. it's toxic behavior to browbeat the people who actually locked down when it would have mattered and fruitless and delusional to think anything can be done now. i'm very sorry to the people who have had to shut in for years, dealt with debilitating long covid consequences, or died because of this, but i'm not going to tell people they're right and in the right when they're wrong and in the wrong. if people out there can spread an ideology of guilt trip that helps nobody, then i can have my ugly little vent on my own cohost page.

and just on the facts i disagree with you that me masking can save lives any more than me choosing not to drive or me eating vegan (human lives, i mean). i hardly see anyone else anyway- my life is in a stagnant place right now. i guess at the grocery store but if i pick it up at the grocery store where am i going to go to spread it? back to the grocery store?
i remember masking for three months after everyone else stopped. i didn't stop for any particular reason other than it was more trouble than it was worth. i'm sorry but i live with someone who to this day has refused to get vaccinated. i know who the spreaders are and i know who gave me delta. i've never transmitted covid to anybody and there's no reason to believe my actions now would give someone covid.
i went to furry weekend atlanta, a 10,000 person gathering, totally forgot that masking was even a thing and nobody else was doing it except one of my roommates who had a home situation and wasn't totally sure they didn't have it. i did a search on twitter for fwa covid and scrolled back far enough and sure enough maybe a few dozen people got it when you factor in all the people who didn't say so on twitter. other (less deadly) pathogens seem to have spread more. if you tracked each of those very mild covid cases, many first-timers among them, i doubt any of them passed it on at all, much less to someone vulnerable (i guess maybe going through the airport). that was at a supposed "superspreader event". and these people want to tell me going outside unless i have to is unconscionable. it's pathetic and a lot of the time it's coming from socially anxious shut-ins who have found a new thing to project their social anxiety onto.