I FINALLY GOT TO USE THE ‘well i don’t trust the government’ AGAINST AN ANTI-MASKER THIS WEEKEND
i was buying wood at the camp ground and the store clerk pitched a bitch fit about not being able to understand me through the mask and then rolled her eyes and informed me we don’t have to wear those anymore bc the mandate’s already been lifted
AND THE LOOK ON HER FACE
WHEN I LOOKED HER STRAIGHT IN THE EYE
AND SAID
“oh, well I don’t trust what the government says. I’d rather make up my own mind.”
UNO REVERSE MOTHERFUCKER
ID: tweet from @ShotgunWife with text reading “just some ideas” followed by a meme image of a generic, black mask overlayed with the following text.
keeping wearing a mask because it’s fun…
use these lines when asked “why are you wearing that?”
“it’s a free country, I ain’t no sheep, no government gonna tell me when I can wear a mask, my body my choice, it’s for religious reasons, I’m just ugly fuck off.”
The last line of text in the image reads “now it’s our turn”.
/End ID
Not from “it’s a free country” states of America but that’s very satisfying to think you can use those lines :3
One shift in the public pandemic discourse that has been very noticeable to me is that people on the Left/progressive/taking-COVID-more-seriously side of things are much more willing to be nuanced than they were, say, from two years ago through fall 2021. There’s more of a recognition that there is such a thing as too much paranoia and/or restrictions being too stringent, that the experts get things wrong enough that there’s room for doubt on the effectiveness of certain rules, etc. There’s much less of a “if you disagree with me, you don’t care about human life!” attitude in response to disagreement. In particular, I was at a party of very socially progressive people recently where two of them were teachers who were talking very openly about just how badly children/teenagers/parents have suffered from remote learning in public schools – on social, mental health, safety, economic, and educational levels – and it struck me that this most likely would have been a dicier conversation a year ago if anyone in the room got some idea that the teachers were suggesting that these harms came anywhere close to the value of HUMAN LIVES.
And this is a good thing. But I’ve been feeling more and more heartbroken and gut-twisted over just how badly children and parents of children have been harmed by all the remote learning, especially in light of a lot of mutterings that it seems not to have mitigated the spread of serious illness as much as previously insisted. And I keep thinking about how the generational wars 10-20 years from now are probably going to have a lot to do with a new generation of adults (the one that comes after Gen Z) who have suffered pretty serious trauma from how messed up their schooling was during an intensely socially formative period of their lives, to the point that they’ll bear a grudge against the older generations for screwing them over so badly.
But… (here’s where I veer into more of a very speculative stream-of-consciousness thought and away from the very heavy issues at hand)… if this new generation adopts the same kind of political/social “moral purity” mentality that my generation has developed and retained, then we can point out to them that such a mentality (justifying everything in terms of mitigating risk to human lives from the virus) brought about the (arguably) botched response to COVID that screwed them over in the first place.
I have been under the weather since September 7th. I spent much of my birthday weekend sick and resting, knowing this was more than just allergies. Long story short I have been tested TWICE for COVID-19 and both times have come back negative. I’ve been extremely fatigued, congested, sinus headache, dry cough, chest pain no doubt due to coughing, easily short-winded. So, I guess I could understand why they thought Covid, but when a test keeps coming back negative shouldn’t you look at other illnesses that STILL exist?
I’ve had enough after the last two days I have nearly fallen on my ass from sinus pain and dizziness added to the fact that it has hurt to cough and breathe at times. Got back into the doctor this morning and went through the covid precautions again (questions, vitals taken, ect) and demanded an answer. I’m tired of feeling tired and like crap. You don’t miss how easy it is to breathe when you can’t through your nose and its hurts to breathe through your chest.
Finally the answer is a nasty sinus infection, which I’m no doctor but I’ve been asking if this was it for the last week with the answer of I don’t think so. I’ve had plenty of sinus infections, bronchitis, and walking pneumonia in my life to know what this feels like. I know I sound cranky and I 1000% am lol. I havent had a decent amount of sleep in over a week and my body aches.
So, here we are finally getting the strongest antibiotic she can give me with the premise that with Harvest coming up that I need to be careful with my exposure to pollutants because it could turn into worse.
Many places are removing masking requirements. And I’m here to ask, if you are young and able-bodied, please keep wearing a mask anyways. We’ve known for two years that masks protect othersmore than they protect yourself, and that masks work when most people are wearing them. If only at-risk individuals are masking, they’re moreat risk.
Protect others. Help disabled people exist safely in public. Wear a mask.
Anyone who is still worried about catching COVID-19 but has lost trust in the CDC after The Great Data Culling in February should check this organization out.
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