I am finished with covid

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californialove wrote:
Fair enough, I probably should wear it more often, but you can walk through the hallways in this building and nine times out of ten not see anyone, because they're all imprisoning themselves in their rooms. It feels incredibly foolish to be wearing a mask with no one around--if a tree falls in the forest . . . Secondly, in what normal universe--accept maybe traffic situations--is it acceptable to just yell at a stranger?
Everything in daily life now feels like a non-negotiable dictatorship in which you can't really stand up for yourself. So I am also wondering whether the angry feelings of this era will ever subside, or this is just how the US is now. If it's the latter, I'm very afraid, and it does more or less leave me inclined to run to the open arms of the far right, which has many issues of its own but seems to be the only social/political outlet that has a bit of agnosticism about giving up regular movement in the name of public health and cloaking that renunciation in high-flown moral language about how it's your "duty" and you're a bad citizen if you don't comply. Some have criticized our weakness for politicizing the virus, but I don't know how you can't when things like masks are so heavily moralized, and invested with such emotion (which I am also guilty of doing too I suppose, because I no longer believe, like others here, that it is a small thing).
Start your own country. You won't be missed.

Same to you sista

californialove wrote:
This evening in the lobby of my apartment building I was not wearing a mask, but had it around my wrist for going in the elevator, or in case I knew I would have to get close to anyone. This guy walking in screamed at me, "What's the point of the mask, dickhead?" (Perhaps I'm late to the conversation on this, but this kind of thing has not happened to me a whole lot this year).
What will it take for people not to treat each other like this, and just admit--as one other poster on here said--that it's dehumanizing to have to wear a mask everywhere you go? I am a graduate student in a large city, and living in a world where you pretty much aren't allowed to be anywhere without this overarching form of control imposed on you is just wrong.

Yeah, it's crazy. Sometimes I feel like i'm in some dystopian movie. Never would I have thought people could be so entranced. Like there's zombies walking around. It's 2020 for gods sake! You'd think people would know a little more. Put 2 and 2 together. There's so much information out there and it's so easy to communicate with others. Yes, the information we are receiving from our major information sources is a singular focus and act in unison, with no in depth analysis and no debating about the issue, but it just requires a bit of critical thinking outside of that cacophony of information pushers/salespeople. Perhaps hard to do for many since they tend to lean on what they deem the "all encompassing authority" to do their thinking for them.

But it almost seems like its done on purpose. To have one group argue with another group. The corporate state has tasted the juicy fruit of pervasive populace control. Even though it makes far less sense to be imposing controls at this time than it did 8 months ago, they may or may not let go of that easily. This could easily go on and on, in an incrementally greater form even, and if it does, I am not sure if the good people can network effectively enough to be able to wrest away control from the state. Has to get past censorship and imposed rules. Certainly not going to do this through Twitter or Facebook. Good times.

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