@ButtBidet
@hexbear.netI just do Twitter for COVID, I think I avoid a lot of bullshit by not following too many politics, although I'm definitely not blaming you.
Ya I'm basically off of FB and , and onto Hexbear and books. My mental health has been so much better.
Not saying you're wrong, just wondering what we're doing differently. Maybe since I only follow COVID stuff and use Blue Blocker?
Anyhow, I fully support you leaving that place.
I don't see why that gives you the right to tone police and concern troll a person who has a legitimate fear of death. I think a better answer would be compassion for her.
I'm not saying it's easy, but somehow me and the handful of COVID conscious people I know have gotten used to stepping out to take a drink. Honestly it doesn't feel difficult after doing it for years. But I know that everyone's place is different.
Me wearing a mask around when nobody else is feels more like virtue signaling than anything
I don't want to beat up a fellow Marxist, but who cares what conservatives and libs think? Mask to protect you and your family. Those people who you're worried about judging won't give a fuck when you or your loved ones are disabled.
The covid comm on hexbear has gotta be my favourite place. We also broke no bs and minimisation.
Never give in. Those who pressure you won't take care of you if you become disabled from Covid.
So much of my journey from being a liberal to a communist was figuring out that my middle-class (and middle-class aspirational) friends would drop me in an instant the second my life faced the tiniest of difficulties.
It's pure fantasy to imagine that any of my old family or friends, short of possibly two people, would give a fuck about me as a disabled person.
I gotta say, wearing an N95 all day was a lot easier after doing it long enough. Some silly part of me doesn't want to go Flomask because of the opinions of strangers, but really I need to disregard this.
Every time I want to forget COVID, my partner has another bi-weekly breathing crisis that's been going on since her infection in 2022. My best friend has been out of work since she last got Covid in 2020.
People that give me shit about masking are the grossest boomer reactionaries that I know, and I revel that I piss those knobheads off. Granted my situation is maybe easier than most, I'm white, tall, old, and have professional credentials. I think it's probably harder to fuck with me than a lot of other people.