@BlackAzizAnansi absolutely. What’s worse is when you are afraid for people who are high risk that you care about. It’s such a helpless feeling to watch people being so careless.
@BlackAzizAnansi Yes. Every week, if not every day. It’s heartbreaking, and I resent the people in power who not only chose this path, but manufactured consent for it
@BlackAzizAnansi Yes.
I went to a picnic outdoors that moved inside (to a house I judged to be well ventilated with lots of open doors and windows and a house fan running) with a relatively small group of people. And someone commented more than once that it was nice to see me without a mask and it was the longest she had ever seen me without one (these were work colleagues and I only unmask at work to eat lunch outside). Grr. Arg.
@BlackAzizAnansi All the time. Even told someone today the whole thing has me swinging wildly back and forth between depression and rage, and I just have no idea where it all ends.
@shayz0rz@BlackAzizAnansi Peiple refuse to believe it’s still a risk. My networking group found a lovely place outside, fully shaded with fans and heating with good food, beer/wine, and free parking and people are arguing we should move inside with crappy food and no booze because they want AC- nevermind 1/4 of our members are always our sick with the “flu”.
Drives me utterly bonkers, the overblown use of "lockdown," (which, we never even had one in the US!!) to mean ANY mitigating measure including wearing masks or social distancing.
@shayz0rz@BlackAzizAnansi is is easier if you are an old lady, you just never leave your home. very boring, but protects from covid. I used to go to church once a week, but stopped after I caught covid. no way to know, but I think I caught it on the bus.
@AliceMarshall@BlackAzizAnansi I really wish I could just not have to leave the house. The fact that even doctors' offices are not safe now, though…Even if I didn't have to go to my office for a certain number of hours a day, it'd still be totally screwed up.
@shayz0rz@AliceMarshall@BlackAzizAnansi I'm effectively housebound, but even though walking a 30min round trip to my doctors could knock me out for two weeks, they won't do phone consultations anymore and when I go they don't mask.
I don't understand how doctors can be so cruel to their patients.
@shayz0rz@AliceMarshall@BlackAzizAnansi don't even get us started about medical offices! OMFG cancer centers with no masking, regular practices with masking signs but they're ignored or staff wear masks under their noses....
@BlackAzizAnansi I don’t assess anymore. I just wear a mask everywhere, so I don’t have to think about it. What keeps me sane is that at some point, probably not too long now, so many of the people who give me looks or ask why I’m still masking will be disabled or dead. The problem will resolve itself. And I will be gracious, by simply not giving a fuck. They don’t exist in my universe anymore.
@BlackAzizAnansi No, but...
I'm a motorcyclist with PTSD-driven hypervigilance, and have been since the '90s. To the extent that I was going to crack, I did that long ago.
This is just one more thing on the list, for me. It's not even a different kind of thing: compensating for the rank carelessness and selfishness of the general public.
If I'm around other people, or I'm somewhere people could be, I'm constantly assessing that entire class of risks.
So... not me personally, but I get where you're coming from, and you have my sympathy. It's a really fucked situation, and sooner or later it'll show you exactly how long your fuse was.
@BlackAzizAnansi I deliberately made myself simpler rules to lessen the cognitive load. I'd rather wear a mask more than I need to than continually monitor how many people per square foot are near me on the sidewalk.
It's still a lot of assessment and tracking and communication, though. :(
@BlackAzizAnansi 💧️ no but only because the risk is now permanently assessed to be "very high, strong precautions" so the respirator stays on everywhere and i rarely go out
i understand this is a position that not many can safely manage
@BlackAzizAnansi It only gets worse as no one else does any risk assessment, even less management anymore, which demands that I increase my risk management. No one wants to test & I'm past giving them the benefit of the doubt. They're not testing because if they "don't know" then it could just be a cold. It's such a blunt self delusion that it's dizzying. I blame our governments for failing but I also reserve a lot of blame for the plurality of people who care more about convenience than safety
@BlackAzizAnansi 100%! only advice I have is to seek for your covid aware group. having that small group, often online, and sometimes in person and masked makes a huge difference
@BlackAzizAnansi no, but it gets old. And acting on the assessment is hard. One has to be relentless because the virus is. One has to turn down invitations and offend people if one finds oneself at risk.
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