anonrerising | 1: Let There Be Salt

How’s everyone dealing?

Well enough so far. Had a scare with a couple of friends getting sick, but they're okay now.

Co-workers around me keep getting scares all the time and continue to go to work like dumbasses. The person i work closest with had one of their family members nearly directly exposed to Covid and yet they STILL came to work despite feeling unwell. They were sent home and weren't allowed to come back until they tested negative. They did, fortunately.

Very few people are actually wearing their mask properly (not covering their nose, taking it off to talk, taking it off at any point not outside). Karens keep bitching about long waits and out of stock product like we aren't short staffed AND short-supplied. People keep taking their children and infants into stores like it's not a big deal. If it weren't for mandatory masks, I'd swear that over half of them wouldn't be wearing one at all.

My friends have had a couple of scares in being in contact with people who are in direct contact, but they've been fine it seems. They're being careful and sensible. My family, on the other hand, is a bunch of dumbasses who're off having bbqs and family gatherings like none of the older folks are at risk of dying from it in a very small and crowded house despite a scare they had a week before. They're upset my household won't go, but everyone in it is exposed to hundreds of people daily. Why. Just...Why.

We're literally one of the worst hot spots for Covid in the US and they're talking about opening schools again... Ha. No.

All in all...I'm actually handling this a lot better than I would if all of this had happened last year. It's the stress of other people being so reckless and stupid really makes me wish I could be the one to be stuck in my house for two weeks and be away from people without losing my job.

In a Nutshell: Wear the damn masks, don't yell at the essential workers, be patient, wash and sanitize your hands whenever you enter/leave a place of business, stay home if you can, and don't listen to the nutjobs that are saying Covid's a conspiracy crafted by the government. It's not. Please. Thank you for reading my rant and thank you OP for asking. Stay safe and healthy.

must suck living in fear constantly from the flu

Please don't make light of COVID. Yes, some people just suffer a really bad flu and then get better.

I work as a medical dispatcher, and I was hired JUST to handle transfers of COVID patients in my state, because there are people needing intubation in an ICU but are sitting in the ER because there's no room. My job is calling every hospital in the state, trying to find empty beds to put these patients in. Most of them are ICU.

I've been facilitating transfers of tiny ass 94+ year old women back home after long stays in the ICU, and I cheer every time those battle axes survive. I see folks my age get admitted for regular beds and get sent home a week later without needing intubation.

But that's not the case for everyone.

It wasn't the case for the 37 year old man who laughed and complained about wearing a mask and died three days after getting COVID. https://www.insider.com/ohio-man-veteran-died-coronavirus-mask-facebook-posts-2020-7

It wasn't the case for the 4 year old I was trying DESPERATELY to find a PICU bed for- he died while I was spending hours on the phone with every hospital in my state trying to find an open bed for him. He was exactly three months from turning five.

It wasn't the case for a friend of mine from high school. She was in band with me, and had strong lungs and a strong immune system. She got COVID and recovered- but she suffered a common lasting problem with the virus, blood clots in her lungs, and she passed away at the age of 36.

So maybe for you, it might be a bad flu. For other people, it's literally life or death, so don't mock people scared for their loved ones and themselves.

a flu that has already killed one of my relatives

In week 1 of a six week lockdown and I've honestly kinda forgotten what its like to go outside for no reason at all haha
Haven't really been out for fun since like, March
At least I have cute face masks coming in the mail so I can feel a little better going to the shops

I currently live with two cancer patients, one of which is elderly, so I only go outside to forage food for the week. I am just glad the uni I go to is giving us way more online classes to select from this summer and fall semester so I can still be on time for my degree whoooo

im an """essential""" worker and boy am i jus PISSED at people who suddenly think masks are optional

literally had one fuck without a mask and i asked him to put it back on and he was like "what are you, the principal?" like yes so put it on or get the fuck out of my store

im so fed up and tired

and we recently got rid of a certain service that was primarily used by elderly (who always end up being the biggest assholes) so its also just great! fun! having to explain that as of a week ago there's no one who can help them

bUt MuH bReAtHiNg!

That attitude is just vile. Someone's opinion on the necessity of masks doesn't even matter - policy isn't made by the frontline employees getting bullied, or often even by management/owners in the case of state mandates. You want to complain to the government, fine, but in the meantime don't take it out on the people making it possible for you to have any vestige of normalcy right now.

learned through this thing that my neighbour, who was my best friend in childhood, is hardcore ecofascist and wrote on instagram about how covid-19, the tsunami from 2004 or all the wildfires in australia and california recently are just "mother nature purging unnecessary humans from the world"
she also called herself "guardian of nature" and promoted right-wing politicians while claiming that "everyone who knows her knows she doesn't believe this politically, but these people need a plattform for their truths"
to say I am disappointed is an underestimation.

ughhhh that sucks. :/ ecofascists are scary. if you read between the lines they literally just want poor people in the global south to die.

Turns out my mother is an eco-fascist. She is incredibly contemptuous of any woman any where in the world who has any children at all, even if they live in situations where marital rape is common and birth control is non-existent. And yet... despite living in a country with socialised medical care and birth control available for free, she still somehow managed to pod SEVEN of us. But that's different, somehow. Though in reality it's always been really clear that she doesn't even like children, not even us. She just doesn't like humans.

....bro, i am so sorry

Thank you, sincerely. It's a lot better for my blood pressure now I only have to see her a few times a year.

ayrt
I haven't talked with her for years and nowadays i just evade her in the neighbourhood. i treat her as if she has covid-19 because she often goes to these "we all hug and sing songs together"-demonstrations in crowded cities against the lockdown
finding and reading her instagram was eye opening tho, and she's so full of illusions about the world and some downright scary and misanthrop.
(we are european btw)

well ive spent half the year (so far! oh boy!) as an essential worker so im mostly numb at this point. but i did have a big ole meltdown in my car in april over all the animal crossing whinging. i distinctly remember screeching "you dont have real problems!!!" at twitter

i work in an electronics dept

when animal crossing came out i could not believe the way these people behaved over an out of stock game

that there is literally an unlimited stock of the digital ver of

also im still dealing with people trying to buy nintendo switches its like 2017 all over again

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