Dear old friend, trusted confidant, colleague (take your pick) of many years before this thing called #Covid came for almost everyone—
—almost everyone but me and my fellow rebellious information- and situation-privileged weirdos and outcasts who still wear an #N95 or at least #KN95 around anyone outside their household, that is, plus some tiny unstudied group of people who seem to have true sterilizing immunity—
I’m having a hard time lately with this damn #pandemic and you’ve always… 🧵
Yesterday I had not much to say. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have much to feel. And it all feels bad out there lately. (“Waves hand generally,” younger folks would say on Reddit.)
Today it has hit me in the stomach real hard that irreparable damage has been done to the lives of millions of people by this destructive and insidious virus that causes #Covid. And that’s not just from people with #LongCovid but also those of who still know #CovidIsNotOver and #CovidIsAirborne and all that shit.
2/ I am really, really tired of this. The masking, the avoiding everyone because of the masking, the being a weirdo and best forgotten because of the fucking masking. I haven’t breathed air around people outside my household without an #N95 for years. Years! It take a toll. And you know what’s worse?
All of you who gave up. Who gave in. Who knelt before the great god of Back to Normal even If It Most Definitely Isn’t.
It’s hard to come out and say this, but you’ve done real harm.
"I, for one, will be wearing an #N95 mask to #Drupalcon, and I encourage others to do the same, since the #covid pandemic is not actually over and many attendees will have medical issues that either make them extra susceptible to infection or make it potentially catastrophic if they do contract the virus."
This should've been mandatory if they really cared about inclusion. But, well.
I, for one, will be wearing an #N95 mask to #Drupalcon, and I encourage others to do the same, since the #covid pandemic is not actually over and many attendees will have medical issues that either make them extra susceptible to infection or make it potentially catastrophic if they do contract the virus.