Poster suggest that some folk flourished during 2020—incl. someone close to them—while many others were traumatized. Implied is that those who want to still talk about covid don't recognize just how triggering events surrounding its emergence were.
As 2019 came to an end, there were two types of people: those accustomed to their life being shattered, and those for whom that would be a new experience. Pieces are still being picked up.
Am decidedly not linking to or direct quoting OP. Ain't about them.
This is about the challenge we—who want to work toward better—face as we grapple with the apparent ease with which so many have returned to #normalcy.
That apparent ease disguises profound unpreparedness to deal with anguish of loss. Both an unpreparedness to deal with that anguish in the moment, and to deal with the pain of that anguish in retrospect.
That so many welcome offer of escape… is to be expected.
This National Day of #Mourning, as indigenous peoples of these lands commemorate their ancestors—including those in living memory—and speak truth of both history and future of ongoing resistance, Usian white settlers have burned carbon to honor and re-enact gluttonous dysfunctional #normalcy, willfully spreading infectious disease—in manifest emulation of their forebears, known no more deeply to them than as caricatures of myth—hastening far too many they profess to love… to status as ancestors.
Friend feels exhausted yesterday, complains of a cold, goes for a nap.
Four and a half hours later, they wake, still feeling lousy. Up a few hours, then back to bed. Wake 15 hours later. Think they have flu.
They've had confirmed #covid19 ten times now; yet #mourning#normalcy is hard work—harder all the more in society that demands we never #grieve what we've lost.
So it's a cold. It's the flu.
Yet normalcy is dead.
Yet we have yet to bury it.
We only got so many #spoons.
"Delusional isn't quite the word to describe the characters of On The Beach—they often recognize that their behavior is irrational. Instead, I think Shute makes clear that they simply don't know how else to act."
So long as #Leftist sentiment fetishizes work and workers, as definitive of exploited virtue, those rendered unable to work, by structural harms, will continue to be tossed aside.
Defenestrative fascism is, by necessity, dependent on #EgoValue investment, of the self-identified worker, in #normalcy, without which #disaccommodation#classposture would be illegible—is the fear of becoming lumpen that assures its certain eventuality.