My wife and I are mitigating until we're comfortable again. I don't think we're any more vulnerable than the next person. We just don't want to get it or pass it on. That means takeout dinners instead of dine in. It means masking and social distancing. It means frequenting places that observe mitigation measures even if they can't enforce them. It means vaccines and boosters as recommended. This is living with COVID. People who want to move on with their lives or pretend it's not here or that it's not serious are eventually going to lose favor with everyone else. Their world figures to get smaller. A lot of them are family, friends, and colleagues. I'm done talking to them about it.
As someone who is vaxxed and boosted but is nevertheless on day 14 sick with Covid (likely because I take an immunosuppressant injection every other week), thank you for caring. It seems like all the people bitching about “guilt” are really saying that yes, everything is open, but why can’t all you other people live like it’s 2019? Why are you working from home? Why aren’t there enough people to serve me my margaritas in exchange for a few bucks an hour plus tips? We’ll learn to live with Covid, but 2019 is never coming back. Sorry if that gives you the sads, but it’s true.
frankly I'm really tired of seeing friends and acquaintances whining on their IG stories about having to wear masks or posting screeds about "why it's cruel to children to make them wear masks" when their OWN KIDS aren't eligible for the vaccine yet. I just don't get it -- are they advocating for their toddlers to be able to live mask-free and be at even greater risk of health problems?
A lot of people work hard and don't need to be guilted every day especially when you've done everything you've had to do, vaccinations, boosters, masks, distancing and cleaning. It's hard enough supporting a family right now and trying to educate kids. I don't need to be made to feel guilty. Life is hard enough. We care but we're exhausted.
Are you still wearing a mask without bitching about? Are you protesting mandates? If not I'm not talking about you. I work hard and have done everything I can too, but I am going to keep doing everything I can to protect those who can't.
many of us are too busy working multiple jobs to survive and feed my family to do any of that, there's just enough time to wake up, work and then collapse and do it all over again. but i don't think people want to read about people guilting other people about all this stuff. we're all adults. there are ways to advocate for others without insulting those who've done all they can which is most of us. the pandemic shutdowns robbed many people including my wife of valuable work and income due to shutdowns, and the unemployment was a joke and hard fought to get a pittance. my 2 cents, now back to work :)
the people whining about "let's open back up" (when this selfish, braindead, money-horny country never even THREATENED to close down in the way that responsible, thoughtful nations did) deserve to be ridiculed to the fullest extent. nobody's liberties have been infringed for a single minute in the past two years in any meaningful way.
Michele isn't talking about work and loss of income, she's talking about dipshits complaining that they've been somehow restricted from luxuries like "going to concerts" or "sitting at the bar spraying droplets at the bartender," putting their own selfish wants ahead of the public health crisis that's literally killing three 9/11s worth of Americans every week. if you can't see the difference, that's on you.
i agree about the dipshits. What was very unfortunate about this entire situation is that the dipshits that want to sit at the bar rely on the bar to be open, and for the bar itself to be open, it can't be mandated closed, so those employees that rely on the revenue the dipshits generate can work and get paid and cover their expenses. For the government to say, you're randomly shut down, and NOT to say here's your entire salary or a replacement revenue so you can pay the bills that will still come due (heat, electric, rent/mortgage/payroll etc), here's all the food you'll need so you don't have to leave your house etc, has always been impossible to square. you can't lockdown for realsies anyway, and can't not hurt people in some way while also trying to protect them. that's why people are so angry. there's no way to lock down - those that can be locked down rely on those to serve them who don't lock down, and those people also need services provided by people who can't be locked down, etc. there's still work to be done and people need to get paid. but yes, the dipshits whining about not being able to get cosmos is not helpful. the employees or owners who had their livelihoods yanked away by governors exercising emperor-like powers without proper replacement provision should be very upset. the mental health toll of the lockdowns is very real. https://www.timesunion.com/churchill/article/Churchill-A-pandemic-story-of-addiction-and-pain-16844393.php
My wife and I are mitigating until we're comfortable again. I don't think we're any more vulnerable than the next person. We just don't want to get it or pass it on. That means takeout dinners instead of dine in. It means masking and social distancing. It means frequenting places that observe mitigation measures even if they can't enforce them. It means vaccines and boosters as recommended. This is living with COVID. People who want to move on with their lives or pretend it's not here or that it's not serious are eventually going to lose favor with everyone else. Their world figures to get smaller. A lot of them are family, friends, and colleagues. I'm done talking to them about it.
As someone who is vaxxed and boosted but is nevertheless on day 14 sick with Covid (likely because I take an immunosuppressant injection every other week), thank you for caring. It seems like all the people bitching about “guilt” are really saying that yes, everything is open, but why can’t all you other people live like it’s 2019? Why are you working from home? Why aren’t there enough people to serve me my margaritas in exchange for a few bucks an hour plus tips? We’ll learn to live with Covid, but 2019 is never coming back. Sorry if that gives you the sads, but it’s true.
frankly I'm really tired of seeing friends and acquaintances whining on their IG stories about having to wear masks or posting screeds about "why it's cruel to children to make them wear masks" when their OWN KIDS aren't eligible for the vaccine yet. I just don't get it -- are they advocating for their toddlers to be able to live mask-free and be at even greater risk of health problems?
A lot of people work hard and don't need to be guilted every day especially when you've done everything you've had to do, vaccinations, boosters, masks, distancing and cleaning. It's hard enough supporting a family right now and trying to educate kids. I don't need to be made to feel guilty. Life is hard enough. We care but we're exhausted.
Are you still wearing a mask without bitching about? Are you protesting mandates? If not I'm not talking about you. I work hard and have done everything I can too, but I am going to keep doing everything I can to protect those who can't.
many of us are too busy working multiple jobs to survive and feed my family to do any of that, there's just enough time to wake up, work and then collapse and do it all over again. but i don't think people want to read about people guilting other people about all this stuff. we're all adults. there are ways to advocate for others without insulting those who've done all they can which is most of us. the pandemic shutdowns robbed many people including my wife of valuable work and income due to shutdowns, and the unemployment was a joke and hard fought to get a pittance. my 2 cents, now back to work :)
the people whining about "let's open back up" (when this selfish, braindead, money-horny country never even THREATENED to close down in the way that responsible, thoughtful nations did) deserve to be ridiculed to the fullest extent. nobody's liberties have been infringed for a single minute in the past two years in any meaningful way.
Michele isn't talking about work and loss of income, she's talking about dipshits complaining that they've been somehow restricted from luxuries like "going to concerts" or "sitting at the bar spraying droplets at the bartender," putting their own selfish wants ahead of the public health crisis that's literally killing three 9/11s worth of Americans every week. if you can't see the difference, that's on you.
i agree about the dipshits. What was very unfortunate about this entire situation is that the dipshits that want to sit at the bar rely on the bar to be open, and for the bar itself to be open, it can't be mandated closed, so those employees that rely on the revenue the dipshits generate can work and get paid and cover their expenses. For the government to say, you're randomly shut down, and NOT to say here's your entire salary or a replacement revenue so you can pay the bills that will still come due (heat, electric, rent/mortgage/payroll etc), here's all the food you'll need so you don't have to leave your house etc, has always been impossible to square. you can't lockdown for realsies anyway, and can't not hurt people in some way while also trying to protect them. that's why people are so angry. there's no way to lock down - those that can be locked down rely on those to serve them who don't lock down, and those people also need services provided by people who can't be locked down, etc. there's still work to be done and people need to get paid. but yes, the dipshits whining about not being able to get cosmos is not helpful. the employees or owners who had their livelihoods yanked away by governors exercising emperor-like powers without proper replacement provision should be very upset. the mental health toll of the lockdowns is very real. https://www.timesunion.com/churchill/article/Churchill-A-pandemic-story-of-addiction-and-pain-16844393.php