As I sit in my office building for 8 hours with a mask on, listening to people around me act like it’s over. I am counting down the seconds till I can be back in my house, safe and sound.
i’m one of 3 people that still mask out of like 70+ at my spot
Yeah, I’m passed the point of expecting anyone to respect my mask, I’m gonna keeping doing what’s is right for me and my family. It just kills me to hear people act like it’s over while I’m sitting right there lol.
Keep fighting the good fight!
I’m kinda lucky, my workplace has a much larger proportion of maskers than it sounds like the average. Still probably lik 5-10% at most, although it gets noticeably more common when something ‘starts going around’ for a week or two.
it gets noticeably more common when something ‘starts going around’ for a week or two.
This is amazing honestly… I would never expect that kind of response. Most of the people I work with come into the office coughing and eating cough drops like crazy, then they go home early begrudgingly.
I still mask everywhere, and am usually the only one. Someone is sick every other week with something or other, and it’s so demoralizing. It scares me because people I care for have had it multiple times and each one has developed some additional medical issue in the last 3 years. Yet there’s no precautions taken, no thought to being sick a week out of every month, no concern for the persistent coughs and memory issues. I can’t even address the fact that it puts vulnerable people at risk still, that masking shouldn’t be just a personal choice but one made in solidarity with every comrade.
Yeah, it’s very demoralizing. My wife and I are also the only maskers and are dealing with the long term effects of getting it once, I cannot imagine the people who keep on willfully getting it.
100% with you on masking in solidarity and definitely appreciate the couple of people I know who will when I’m around.
Pre-vaccine COVID was significantly scarier, especially in the early incarnations of the virus when the death rate was at its highest.
We’re getting back to flu being the predominant lethal strain of disease… which fucking sucks, because masking and hygiene and distancing had put the biggest dent in flu mortality in my lifetime. But its becoming a poor / vulnerable / elderly disease problem instead of a People Who Matter problem, because there are so many effective (expensive) interventions available to treat it at onset.
Don’t get it twisted, this conversation was not between people who understand the nuances of public health. It was the treat brained people who yearn to be in the office and eat shitty pizza with their colleagues.
COVID is still scary, I wouldn’t be wearing a mask 8 hours a day at my email job if it wasn’t. I also like avoiding the flu and all the other illnesses that we as a society have deemed okay to spread to each other.
This was merely a rant post because it pains me to sit at my desk behind a bunch of people who minimize my concerns and experiences. I totally see your point tho, and don’t mean to belittle it.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202404159
Researchers at TAU and the University of Lisbon have developed a nano-vaccine against COVID-19, delivered via nasal spray without requiring cold storage. Preclincial studies show the vaccine was effective against all major SARS-CoV-2 variants.
Hopefully this brightens your day.
We’ve been wishcasting the nasal vaccine for a long time, I wont let my hopes up until thats passed stage 3 clinicals
I have heard rumblings of this. Definitely a bright spot.
We’re getting back to flu being the predominant lethal strain of disease
the flu being equally lethal as covid is partially driven by covid weakening immune systems
The post-COVID degradation of general preventative care and the anti-vax hysteria might be playing a role, as well. How many hospitals don’t have enough saline to treat the influx of flu-victims during the peak of the season? How many clinics and ERs have simply shuttered due to skyrocketing costs and skinflint insurance companies? How many elder care facilities have lost too many staffers (traditionally popular jobs among now-unwelcome migrant workers) to function as anything except morgues?
Even absent the threat of COVID, domestic society is being hollowed out by finance and private equity.
I know that feeling. In elementary education we’re all still “recovering from COVID” as if the significant lapses in student academic success were caused by kids coming to school with masks on for awhile and not gestures broadly at everything including the virus that affects cognition.
Remote classes is another thing that gets blamed. Never the virus with known long term effects.
It can get in your brain and stay there causing inflammation and long covid, and tons of people didn’t vaccinate their kids because “it doesn’t hurt kids”.
I’ll say it as a shorthand for the year and a half I didn’t have to work sometimes.
Yeah, fair, I totally see the way it’s been adopted like that. Still just irks me at times.
I agree. I prefer “the height of the pandemic” to talk about that year and a half of
timeWelcome to the 57th month of the pandemic.
Welcome to the 57th month of the pandemic.
eternal septemberforever februaryYeah, I definitely try to use that terminology as well.
It’s gonna seem quaint when we’re scavenging the corpses of the h5n1-mpox-vid hybrid.
Me looking at median life expectancy charts worldwide
just a casual 10% above normal nothing to see here folk’s
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as we all know the liberal government knows whats best and never use their power to further an agenda that harms anyone
Is this sarcasm or COVID minimalism?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
