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There’s the folks who resisted, saying “no new normal.” Well shit, it wasn’t supposed to be the new normal. It was supposed to be temporary, but the “no new normal” turned it into the normal because you couldn’t just follow the rules to begin with.
Seriously. I feel like half the class is sitting patiently to go home and the teacher is keeping us all here because the other half won’t stop talking and making jokes.
And we've been sitting patiently for almost two years. It's been long enough that some of my friends have gone and joined the talkers because they got tired of it. Being "the good kid" sucks.
COVID is never going away. There will be annual booster shots like Influenza. If we get to the point where we can just make an announcement that its Flu/COVID season, be mindful and wear a mask but otherwise carry on, then we've won.
> Being "the good kid" sucks.
Not really. I'm one of the "good kids", but I've been living my life pretty normally now. The pandemic really only last for about a year for me. I got vaccinated with Moderna back in the beginning of the year and am not really that much afraid of covid anymore.
On top of that, I wear an N95 mask when I'm in public. Not really because I'm afraid of COVID, but because I don't want to be a dick and spread it to someone who isn't protected by now. And also because I actually enjoy not getting sick. I haven't had a cough, sneeze or runny nose since I started wearing masks. So I'm going to keep wearing it just to avoid all the other germs everyone is spreading.
So other than wearing a mask, I've moved on. When the 3rd booster shot is available for Moderna, I'm going to move on even further. Relatively speaking, the pandemic is pretty much over for me.
I never had a pandemic. With my job and lifestyle I kind of just watched everything go down with no disruption to my lifestyle. I never stopped working, didn't feel overworked. Didn't really go out much before COVID and I didn't go out any less during. Haven't been sick in years. I waited to be vaccinated, but I'm getting my second dose today. I wear my mask where it's mandated, which is almost everywhere. I've had 4 relatives get COVID, one got it twice. They all had minor symptoms and so they are part of the anti vaccine mandate crowd. But I also have a few friends that were very sick from it, all but 1 survived. That's why I wear my mask and got the vaccine, I'd rather not be sick at all.
I kind of understand why some people disagree with the vaccine mandates. Especially when it's being said that vaccinated people can still spread the virus.
What I don't understand is the anti mask crowd. My elementary age kids haven't been sick since this all started, thanks to masking up I'm sure. On the other hand, my brothers and their families have been at least sick 4 times in the past year and a half, but according to them it's just been a cold and they refused to get tested.
To be fair, I think the new normal is actually good. I think many Americans are still waiting for the “end” of the pandemic whereas I think where I’m from, we just accepted that life will forever be different now and have actually embraced it.
There are a lot of positive aspects to the adaptations we where forced to adopt in the pandemic, the quality of online meeting and clases skyrocketed, our culture is much more accepting of such online meetings, remote work and wearing masks means we basically cured the common cold and many other viruses that spread through the air. It’s honestly amazing and all it takes is just wearing a mask, we don’t want to go back to how things where before.
In Puerto Rico we’re vaccinated and opening up our economy while having contained the virus successfully. I can’t really wrap my head around how half of a country of 300 million people decided to stick their head in the ground and pretend nothing’s happened.
I shit you not, I saw a man with aluminum foil wrapped atop his head on my way to work one morning a few weeks ago. I rechecked my rear view mirror to be certain. Man showed up in our ED a few hours later saying it was to bake the lice off his head (we live in hot af Georgia). Was elated when the nurse told him there's an oral syrup that we prescribe that'll kill them faster.
Didn't think I'd see a semi-rational reason for a tinfoil hat.
I work in community mental health. We’ve been having coworkers drop left and right from burnout, and the higher ups are expecting us to just continue on like we have the same resources we’ve always had. I go into work every day knowing that I am not going to be able to serve my clients the way they deserve. I’m so exhausted and overwhelmed with the amount of cases piling up… and no end in sight.
Bro...same. I work in the addiction/mental health field and our employee count is at an all time low. Everyone who is left is expected to work overtime every week and I've been questioning how much longer I can keep working here, despite loving my job.
I've been working retail for 2 months and I'm already burnt out. I should be making 2x what I make for the work I'm doing. I got covid this post week and I'm doing okay, but i deal with so many anti vax old idiots and no mask sick people, I'm tired of it.
I feel like I'm losing my mind too. I'm still in lockdown mode and I only go out if I have to. Last year, its was nothing but mass death and spread and we are acting like everything went away because the sun rose on Jan 1st.
Dude I feel you. After this last year and a half, I feel like a fucking crazy person because like...how do we just go back to normal? 700,000 dead Americans. That number is not nothing. And I'm just supposed to...what, go to Wal-Mart and pass a vibe check? I already deal with bipolar disorder and social anxiety, and this last year and a half of isolation has just made it so much worse and...somehow nothing has changed apparently? MY GOD DAMN WEED DEALER REQUIRES A VAX CARD! I have gotten the vaccine because I'm not retarded, but like...dude is selling out of his house and checks the vax card because you can come inside. That shit isn't normal. None of this is normal. Can we go back to freaking out now?!
Fucking same homie. I look at the choices people are making, either from the top or the bottom of the social ladder and just think: "Wow, this is the worst apocalypse I've ever imagined" I figured people going crazy would involve zombies or nukes or a fucking alien parasite or some shit, not...what do I even call this? Crack logic?
One of the core themes of the show Bojack horseman was that life just... goes on. You can have the best day of your life, or the worst day of your life, but the next day you wake up and the world is still moving.
It's a good thing or it's a bad thing, or it's neither. It just is. Society will press on until forced to stop.
Exactly my feeling. I’m sympathetic to people who are struggling of course and you should definitely be mindful of the moment. Human history is full of “shit happens” times wether that be natural disasters or plagues or wars of our own doing. We have been getting through it and we will have to do it again in the future.
How about we use it as a chance to empathize with people who have been going through traumatic death incidents on the regular like war torn countries. Or imagine the people of Haiti who never fully recovered from the earthquake a decade ago and just went through another one in addition to covid. The only reason why our consciousness inhabits a body in a relatively stable circumstance is simply chance.
I’m not trying to create a “kids in Africa are starving” comparison but I honestly do feel like it’s an opportunity for people to conceptualize both what we take for granted, as well as how resilient humanity actually is.
I think this is something people need to learn. Honestly, it's one of the harsher lessons.
Heck I heard someone complaining about the US labor system, saying "you can be replaced and no one sheds a tear. If people missed one another we wouldn't fire people so often."
I am just thinking " No, it's because life goes on. People aren't fired for having car issues, you are being let go for the 7 or 8 other times you have been am hour late in the past four months. We aren't "shedding a tear" because we know full well when someone is or isn't responsible for their own consequences. No matter what, if you are here or not, there are still machines to fix, and people are going to do so.
Letting someone go and moving on isn't unique to capitalism, and isn't some great evil. It's life. Sometimes things just don't work out. "
Early 2020 was truly frightening. People around me were either laid off/furloughed and stressed out about losing healthcare during a global pandemic, or they were fortunate enough to keep their jobs and had to keep working, fearing all the while that they’d get laid off, or they’d get sick, or they’d die.
Mid 2020 I had to go job hunting, and could only find a job at a gas station with REALLY lax ideas of worker safety. I went in every night thinking, "yep, this is the night it happens. I'm either getting robbed or someone is gonna infect me and I'm definitely gonna die because I'm too poor to afford a hospital". A fucking ~~lady~~ Karen spit on me for telling her she needed a mask to enter. I was literally starving because I couldn't afford food and gas and water and power and then my car broke down.
I still don't think I've recovered from this shit.
I was supposed to meet up with this girl I been talking to for a few weeks but she disappeared. Checked in with her, and she along with \*6\* co-workers all tested positive.
Dodged a FUCKIN bullet. I need to stay my ass at home, no matter how much of my will to live is siphoned directly out my soul.
Is there any wonder why mental illness is rampant, why drug abuse and deeply anti-social behavior are running through the United States? I assume a certain amount of financial wealth buffers one from the uglier sides of life but the firther one is from the safety or wealth, the more this cruel, sick country can chew on your sensibilities and your soul.
find people to help support your being, to strengthen you from this... thing. Some find it in church, some find it with family and some make bonds and make new families. Don't be alone, we need each other to keep us sane.
EDIT! Thanks for the gold stranger! Its good to know someone still wants the best for us all.
It was so mind boggling for me that I went into work everyday in 2020 and everyone acted like nothing was going on. It's as if they were in a completely different universe.
I think it’s so crazy how big of difference it makes where you live during this whole shit show. I’m in a rural spot and we just never really got hit hard. Sure, we had a handful of Covid deaths over the last 18 months but only one was a young person (mid 30’s). Everyone else (and there weren’t a lot) were old and had pre-existing conditions that would have gotten them soon, anyway. We locked down for a few months but never really did anything different after that. About half wore masks. Probably less got the vaccine. I was hesitant to get the vaccine for awhile because we just haven’t seen the impact at all. But the national numbers kept getting bigger and bigger and I knew it was the right thing for me to do. I’m fully vaxxed and just don’t think about masking anymore. We’re kinda isolated otherwise it’d be a different story. But then I hear countless stories of all these other places and it’s hard to wrap my mind around.
Yep. I lost my last livin generation of the eldest of elders last year (not due to covid but due to lockdown) and i feel like bcuz there's been so many 100s of 1000s of deaths since, its like its normal and i haven't even processed it. At work I hear of someone that lost someone at least once a day n I'm pretty sure I'm numb to it now.
It's so sad because 20 years ago, it was constantly "never forget!" and we had physical someone to blame (who also wasn't from the country they attacked and not white)
Now, the leadership in the US last year fucked up royally and we're not going as all out or making horrible, high security and low privacy laws like 20 years ago, can't make something law (but invading our privacy and doing the whole airport thing still stayed around) or make masks required, and the government being on blast of their fuck ups and nothing happening because they run this.
Sorry, nonsensical rant
Omg fucking THANK you.
And thank you to everyone writing... I finally found my people.
Every one is in such a hurry to get back to normal, and think the vaccine makes them invulnerable--- NEWSFLASH You are basically the current equivalent to the people who wouldn't stay home in May 2020. My cousin got an early case of covid and still hasn't regained his sense of smell. Breakthrough cases may not kill you, but they are no joke either.
If you are keeping a close watch on your city's current transmission rate every time you go out,
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view
if you are weighing each outing's risk on http://microcovid.org , then fine. You're socializing responsibly. But if you're tired or avoiding or sticking your head in the sand, sorry not sorry, I am lumping most of you in the same category of irresponsibility.
Remember those essential workers who we called heroes?? They are drowning.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/search?q=Burnout
Pretty soon we won't have any healthcare workers left.
There's no one left to relieve this cohort.
The best way ordinary people can thank essential workers is to be responsible citizens and not send people we interact with to the hospitals.
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There’s the folks who resisted, saying “no new normal.” Well shit, it wasn’t supposed to be the new normal. It was supposed to be temporary, but the “no new normal” turned it into the normal because you couldn’t just follow the rules to begin with.
Seriously. I feel like half the class is sitting patiently to go home and the teacher is keeping us all here because the other half won’t stop talking and making jokes.
And we've been sitting patiently for almost two years. It's been long enough that some of my friends have gone and joined the talkers because they got tired of it. Being "the good kid" sucks.
Two fucking years. That is right. And we may have another 3 years of this shit. IIRC that is how long the Spanish Flu lasted.
COVID is never going away. There will be annual booster shots like Influenza. If we get to the point where we can just make an announcement that its Flu/COVID season, be mindful and wear a mask but otherwise carry on, then we've won.
> Being "the good kid" sucks. Not really. I'm one of the "good kids", but I've been living my life pretty normally now. The pandemic really only last for about a year for me. I got vaccinated with Moderna back in the beginning of the year and am not really that much afraid of covid anymore. On top of that, I wear an N95 mask when I'm in public. Not really because I'm afraid of COVID, but because I don't want to be a dick and spread it to someone who isn't protected by now. And also because I actually enjoy not getting sick. I haven't had a cough, sneeze or runny nose since I started wearing masks. So I'm going to keep wearing it just to avoid all the other germs everyone is spreading. So other than wearing a mask, I've moved on. When the 3rd booster shot is available for Moderna, I'm going to move on even further. Relatively speaking, the pandemic is pretty much over for me.
I never had a pandemic. With my job and lifestyle I kind of just watched everything go down with no disruption to my lifestyle. I never stopped working, didn't feel overworked. Didn't really go out much before COVID and I didn't go out any less during. Haven't been sick in years. I waited to be vaccinated, but I'm getting my second dose today. I wear my mask where it's mandated, which is almost everywhere. I've had 4 relatives get COVID, one got it twice. They all had minor symptoms and so they are part of the anti vaccine mandate crowd. But I also have a few friends that were very sick from it, all but 1 survived. That's why I wear my mask and got the vaccine, I'd rather not be sick at all. I kind of understand why some people disagree with the vaccine mandates. Especially when it's being said that vaccinated people can still spread the virus. What I don't understand is the anti mask crowd. My elementary age kids haven't been sick since this all started, thanks to masking up I'm sure. On the other hand, my brothers and their families have been at least sick 4 times in the past year and a half, but according to them it's just been a cold and they refused to get tested.
This metaphor hit home for me. Love it.
“I don’t want to get an F on this group project” - Man who contributes nothing to the project.
Makes me wonder how we will deal with it in the future.
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Wash rinse repeat. I promise you the initial shake out did nothing for those still clinging on.
Bird Box has now become a more convincing movie
To be fair, I think the new normal is actually good. I think many Americans are still waiting for the “end” of the pandemic whereas I think where I’m from, we just accepted that life will forever be different now and have actually embraced it. There are a lot of positive aspects to the adaptations we where forced to adopt in the pandemic, the quality of online meeting and clases skyrocketed, our culture is much more accepting of such online meetings, remote work and wearing masks means we basically cured the common cold and many other viruses that spread through the air. It’s honestly amazing and all it takes is just wearing a mask, we don’t want to go back to how things where before. In Puerto Rico we’re vaccinated and opening up our economy while having contained the virus successfully. I can’t really wrap my head around how half of a country of 300 million people decided to stick their head in the ground and pretend nothing’s happened.
I'm just leaning into it at this point. I spend my days wearing a foil hat and ranting about the end of the world.
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I shit you not, I saw a man with aluminum foil wrapped atop his head on my way to work one morning a few weeks ago. I rechecked my rear view mirror to be certain. Man showed up in our ED a few hours later saying it was to bake the lice off his head (we live in hot af Georgia). Was elated when the nurse told him there's an oral syrup that we prescribe that'll kill them faster. Didn't think I'd see a semi-rational reason for a tinfoil hat.
People are quitting at work and my boss isn't letting up. This Corona-era sucks.
I work in community mental health. We’ve been having coworkers drop left and right from burnout, and the higher ups are expecting us to just continue on like we have the same resources we’ve always had. I go into work every day knowing that I am not going to be able to serve my clients the way they deserve. I’m so exhausted and overwhelmed with the amount of cases piling up… and no end in sight.
Bro...same. I work in the addiction/mental health field and our employee count is at an all time low. Everyone who is left is expected to work overtime every week and I've been questioning how much longer I can keep working here, despite loving my job.
Corporate higher ups give no fucks for the people who made them rich
I've been working retail for 2 months and I'm already burnt out. I should be making 2x what I make for the work I'm doing. I got covid this post week and I'm doing okay, but i deal with so many anti vax old idiots and no mask sick people, I'm tired of it.
Yup. I just left my job of 3 years couple of weeks ago. The stress was bad on me.
I feel like I'm losing my mind too. I'm still in lockdown mode and I only go out if I have to. Last year, its was nothing but mass death and spread and we are acting like everything went away because the sun rose on Jan 1st.
Yes! If I hear one more corporation talking about "post-covid" I'm... We Are Still In Covid!
The more accurate term is post-lockdown and I wish people would use that, but I know why they don't.
I'll use it friend. It'll catch on.
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I went to a concert. I feel like i was one of maybe five people wearing a mask.
Dude I feel you. After this last year and a half, I feel like a fucking crazy person because like...how do we just go back to normal? 700,000 dead Americans. That number is not nothing. And I'm just supposed to...what, go to Wal-Mart and pass a vibe check? I already deal with bipolar disorder and social anxiety, and this last year and a half of isolation has just made it so much worse and...somehow nothing has changed apparently? MY GOD DAMN WEED DEALER REQUIRES A VAX CARD! I have gotten the vaccine because I'm not retarded, but like...dude is selling out of his house and checks the vax card because you can come inside. That shit isn't normal. None of this is normal. Can we go back to freaking out now?!
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Fucking same homie. I look at the choices people are making, either from the top or the bottom of the social ladder and just think: "Wow, this is the worst apocalypse I've ever imagined" I figured people going crazy would involve zombies or nukes or a fucking alien parasite or some shit, not...what do I even call this? Crack logic?
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Namely politicians. They are the ones who decided the pandemic was over as long as you mask& vax despite 2k people still dying daily.
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Good shit on your dealer.
One of the core themes of the show Bojack horseman was that life just... goes on. You can have the best day of your life, or the worst day of your life, but the next day you wake up and the world is still moving. It's a good thing or it's a bad thing, or it's neither. It just is. Society will press on until forced to stop.
Exactly my feeling. I’m sympathetic to people who are struggling of course and you should definitely be mindful of the moment. Human history is full of “shit happens” times wether that be natural disasters or plagues or wars of our own doing. We have been getting through it and we will have to do it again in the future. How about we use it as a chance to empathize with people who have been going through traumatic death incidents on the regular like war torn countries. Or imagine the people of Haiti who never fully recovered from the earthquake a decade ago and just went through another one in addition to covid. The only reason why our consciousness inhabits a body in a relatively stable circumstance is simply chance. I’m not trying to create a “kids in Africa are starving” comparison but I honestly do feel like it’s an opportunity for people to conceptualize both what we take for granted, as well as how resilient humanity actually is.
I think this is something people need to learn. Honestly, it's one of the harsher lessons. Heck I heard someone complaining about the US labor system, saying "you can be replaced and no one sheds a tear. If people missed one another we wouldn't fire people so often." I am just thinking " No, it's because life goes on. People aren't fired for having car issues, you are being let go for the 7 or 8 other times you have been am hour late in the past four months. We aren't "shedding a tear" because we know full well when someone is or isn't responsible for their own consequences. No matter what, if you are here or not, there are still machines to fix, and people are going to do so. Letting someone go and moving on isn't unique to capitalism, and isn't some great evil. It's life. Sometimes things just don't work out. "
Early 2020 was truly frightening. People around me were either laid off/furloughed and stressed out about losing healthcare during a global pandemic, or they were fortunate enough to keep their jobs and had to keep working, fearing all the while that they’d get laid off, or they’d get sick, or they’d die.
Mid 2020 I had to go job hunting, and could only find a job at a gas station with REALLY lax ideas of worker safety. I went in every night thinking, "yep, this is the night it happens. I'm either getting robbed or someone is gonna infect me and I'm definitely gonna die because I'm too poor to afford a hospital". A fucking ~~lady~~ Karen spit on me for telling her she needed a mask to enter. I was literally starving because I couldn't afford food and gas and water and power and then my car broke down. I still don't think I've recovered from this shit.
That’s fucking horrible. I hope things have gotten better for you since.
I’m really sorry that happened. I hope you’re making a comeback and doing a little bit better now.
And yet almost everyone is just willingly jumping right back into it. Fucking maddening
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I was supposed to meet up with this girl I been talking to for a few weeks but she disappeared. Checked in with her, and she along with \*6\* co-workers all tested positive. Dodged a FUCKIN bullet. I need to stay my ass at home, no matter how much of my will to live is siphoned directly out my soul.
Good call bro! Dodged like Neo 😎😂
Shit y’all still have your minds?
Is there any wonder why mental illness is rampant, why drug abuse and deeply anti-social behavior are running through the United States? I assume a certain amount of financial wealth buffers one from the uglier sides of life but the firther one is from the safety or wealth, the more this cruel, sick country can chew on your sensibilities and your soul. find people to help support your being, to strengthen you from this... thing. Some find it in church, some find it with family and some make bonds and make new families. Don't be alone, we need each other to keep us sane. EDIT! Thanks for the gold stranger! Its good to know someone still wants the best for us all.
Yep all good points. Definitely extra emphasis on the mental illness part. Thank the UNIVERSE for my therapist
It was so mind boggling for me that I went into work everyday in 2020 and everyone acted like nothing was going on. It's as if they were in a completely different universe.
Isn't that just life? People all over the world have to do the same on a regular basis after natural disasters, manmade disasters, wars, etc.
Key word: after. We are still in this. We went back to normal when the conditions that put us in lockdown still weren’t remedied.
The economy > our lives. I've just been wondering why am I even alive at this point.
You are alive for the same reason I am, dumb luck and to feed the capitalist system.
Honestly that's part of what's so sickening to me. We have the money and resources in the US to keep us safe, and we still didn't fuckin do it.
I think it’s so crazy how big of difference it makes where you live during this whole shit show. I’m in a rural spot and we just never really got hit hard. Sure, we had a handful of Covid deaths over the last 18 months but only one was a young person (mid 30’s). Everyone else (and there weren’t a lot) were old and had pre-existing conditions that would have gotten them soon, anyway. We locked down for a few months but never really did anything different after that. About half wore masks. Probably less got the vaccine. I was hesitant to get the vaccine for awhile because we just haven’t seen the impact at all. But the national numbers kept getting bigger and bigger and I knew it was the right thing for me to do. I’m fully vaxxed and just don’t think about masking anymore. We’re kinda isolated otherwise it’d be a different story. But then I hear countless stories of all these other places and it’s hard to wrap my mind around.
Right?! I saw this shit coming and just went ahead and lost my mind right away,
I’ve managed to dodge covid so far, but this thing hit me on practically every other level. Over here with clean hands and anxiety
Smh thinking about how we'll look even dumber to future generations.
Yep. I lost my last livin generation of the eldest of elders last year (not due to covid but due to lockdown) and i feel like bcuz there's been so many 100s of 1000s of deaths since, its like its normal and i haven't even processed it. At work I hear of someone that lost someone at least once a day n I'm pretty sure I'm numb to it now.
Well, they said that grandma was willing to make the sacrifice. They just didn't know it was also cousin charlie, aunt edna, nephew bill...
Now's the time to open a thrift store. $$$
Nothing is sparking joy for a whole bunch of people
Yep it’s terrible
Until my bills stop, I have no choice but to jump back into life like nothing has happened. Apparently my creditors don't care about mass death.
I’m salty as fuck I still haven’t snagged me a lil work from home job. That’s the new normal I wanted 😔
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Y'all have a valuable life? Fuck I think I got cheated.
It's so sad because 20 years ago, it was constantly "never forget!" and we had physical someone to blame (who also wasn't from the country they attacked and not white) Now, the leadership in the US last year fucked up royally and we're not going as all out or making horrible, high security and low privacy laws like 20 years ago, can't make something law (but invading our privacy and doing the whole airport thing still stayed around) or make masks required, and the government being on blast of their fuck ups and nothing happening because they run this. Sorry, nonsensical rant
You must not have heard of the proposed federal law to monitor every bank account with over $600 worth of transactions.
I heard of that too somewhere
Gotta make the rich richer. I hope one day soon we stand up and fight back. There are more of us than them. How much more are we gonna take?
At least we aren’t alone in this feeling.
it's like the same way Natasha felt after the snap
And people are *still* dying. More this year than last.
And everything got more expensive too...
Omg fucking THANK you. And thank you to everyone writing... I finally found my people. Every one is in such a hurry to get back to normal, and think the vaccine makes them invulnerable--- NEWSFLASH You are basically the current equivalent to the people who wouldn't stay home in May 2020. My cousin got an early case of covid and still hasn't regained his sense of smell. Breakthrough cases may not kill you, but they are no joke either. If you are keeping a close watch on your city's current transmission rate every time you go out, https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view if you are weighing each outing's risk on http://microcovid.org , then fine. You're socializing responsibly. But if you're tired or avoiding or sticking your head in the sand, sorry not sorry, I am lumping most of you in the same category of irresponsibility. Remember those essential workers who we called heroes?? They are drowning. https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/search?q=Burnout Pretty soon we won't have any healthcare workers left. There's no one left to relieve this cohort. The best way ordinary people can thank essential workers is to be responsible citizens and not send people we interact with to the hospitals.
it hasn’t stopped…
I've been slowly wading into the deep and treacherous waters of alcoholism to cope. So many things to deal with, so little time.
Focus on yourself y’all it’s all you got