danilo,
@danilo@hachyderm.io avatar

I don’t think it’s productive or healthy to spend a lot of time being righteous about this

But four years into the abject Covid shitshow, we now know conclusively who is:

  • a systems thinker
  • in solidarity with those who have less economic power
  • fighting eugenics and ableism
  • able to resist peer pressure
  • resolved in their convictions
  • thinking for the long term

spoiler: it’s our friends who still mask, it’s organizers who sweat the details of air quality

to the stubborn minority: ✊🏽❤️

susankayequinn,
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop avatar

@danilo Me and one other old(ish) lady at the Trader Joes, masking, giving The Nod to each other as we push through the crowded aisles.

It's never been more clarifying to me how very easy it is to hack the human psyche as watching everyone react through 4 years of pandemic

danilo,
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@susankayequinn honestly

I thought I was savvy to the workings of the world but I was taken quite by surprise on this one

angdraug,
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@danilo Long COVID should be categorized as disability, and everyone who got COVID due to their employer or school failing to use all available options to protect them, including allowing remote work and remote schooling, should be able to sue for compensation of workplace injuries.

danilo,
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@angdraug one HUNDRED percent

danilo,
@danilo@hachyderm.io avatar

it doesn’t take THAT MUCH to not fucking gamble people’s lives and I will walk around the rest of my life just a little shaken that we have been so misled away from these basic precautions

A before and after of necropolitics taken into visceral, concrete, daily reality

danilo,
@danilo@hachyderm.io avatar

The fact that the federal government did not use its power to demand a HEPA filtration system in every single public space

To set air quality standards

That young people are just made to raw dog it in vast clouds of reinfection…

How am I supposed to get over THAT one. It’s so simple. It’s so cheap compared to the long term bill we’ll have to absorb in an age of declining fertility. Even neoliberal reasoning gets you to the necessity of air quality intervention.

nonlinear,
@nonlinear@praxis.nyc avatar

@danilo yeah but also... Once people realized government won't be there for them they just... Whined some more?

Shouldn't we having classes on how to build your Corsi–Rosenthal Box? Like, anything that reclaimed our agency now that we know our governments can't help?

Are we just citizens and nothing more?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E2%80%93Rosenthal_Box

danilo,
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@nonlinear given how many hundreds of thousands paid with their lives or their long term health I guess I’m finding it hard to muster much contempt for the victims here

danilo,
@danilo@hachyderm.io avatar

greatest country in the world my entire asshole

danilo,
@danilo@hachyderm.io avatar

“school teachers are duct taping furnace filters to box fans and they work surprisingly well”

shithole. country.

dave,
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  • danilo,
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    @dave I’m so sorry, man, I can’t imagine how hard that disappointment in humanity gotta be hitting

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  • danilo,
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    @dave yeah, exactly. It’s the long term that really gets me about this

    Folks rolling the dice on time horizons they can’t even predict!

    shansterable,
    @shansterable@c.im avatar

    @danilo
    I get what you are saying.

    I am really disappointed in the ways my friends and family have accepted the propaganda that the pandemic is over and everyone can resume their pre-pandemic habits.

    I will never see them as the same people I once did.

    Jesus, how many times do I have to turn down their invitations to crowded indoor parties, huge indoor concerts, and dinners at packed restaurants? They just don't get it and they never will.

    danilo,
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    @shansterable oh man, the quiet toll this has taken on relationships

    The absolute sudden nakedness of priorities and values. It has revealed so much

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