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People irl seem to dissociate when I even mention covid, like a trauma response that makes them completely shut down and mentally disengage with blank stares like some pavlovian response. I get questioned about my mask by strangers, medical staff, checkout people, etc. all the time and have had better responses telling people that I've got terrible allergies.
Edit: scrolling through a couple other posts and seeing how active the sub is was... horrifying.
Except their trauma was having to think about others for a brief time. And couldn't go to a restaurant....
I recently saw a genuinely dispiriting article celebrating a long-time local bowling alley by telling the cute anecdote of how they secretly let regulars in to bowl during lockdown, and then using it as an analogy to segue to an anecdote about the original founder doing some trivial act of transgressing corporate rules 60 years ago.
Like jesus, I know none of you fuckers care now, but the fact that we are retconning the past too? Disgusting. Our lockdown was not strict and lasted like a goddamn month or two, it wasn't a harrowing experience, and it was woefully insufficient, not some overreaction or triviality. I'd say it saved lives but because of liberal cowardice and dipshits like those business owners and their customers, it really only delayed a few deaths.