I'm not sure there's a force in the universe strong enough to convince someone in the United States that they weren't, in fact, locked in their houses for 1.5 years.
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I'm not sure there's a force in the universe strong enough to convince someone in the United States that they weren't, in fact, locked in their houses for 1.5 years.
The "lockdown" fantasy is so entrenched across the country that people you *actually know* were going to clubs in June 2020 will look you in the eye and say with intense earnestness that they'll never "go back" to being trapped in their house for a year.
They have to justify their current nonsense with an invented past trauma.
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@johnzajac That's just bizarre. I mean, people did lose track of time during lockdown, and there was a weird time-distortion going on:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MH4TVYT1OYQ
But trapped in their houses for a year? Just no.
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I mean, just read any article about the early days of COVID: they're like, "after 1.5 years of lockdown, people were really hurting".
I feel like people need this mythology that they did the thing they didn't do, because "I locked down and COVID still didn't go away!" justifies their current fatalism.
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@johnzajac @CppGuy It is beyond bizarre. But that whole obsession with identifying as “oppressed” that Christians and white people have is beyond bizarre. I always thought their pandemic delusions was just more of the same.
The most privileged people in this country already insisting and cosplaying as some imagined “oppressed” group naturally adopted fictional “lockdowns” as part of their excuse why they don’t (refuse to) even pretend to care about anyone else. Or even admit that other people exist.
Because insisting they’re entitled to infect, disable, and kill other people means they are not good people.
News flash/spoiler: they are not, in fact, by very definition, good people.
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4)replied to John last edited by
@johnzajac meantime, we remain locked in our house since 2020 because on average not a single fucker out there cares about not casually spreading airborne disease
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Johnreplied to mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4) last edited by
Yeah, this is a source of constant bitterness for me.
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4)replied to John last edited by
@johnzajac us, for the past several years, when asked 'are you still isolating?': is there still an ongoing pandemic?
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Shaula Evansreplied to mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4) last edited by
@atax1a @johnzajac Same, except I am an "I" and not a "we", which carries its own set of hardships and privileges.
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4)replied to Shaula Evans last edited by
@ShaulaEvans (we're plural and referring to ourselves as a collective; even though we live with a partner,
we
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Shaula Evansreplied to mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4) last edited by
@atax1a @johnzajac CF the friend* who, when I told them that I have been living in full solo isolation this entire time, and well into the fifth year I am sometimes struggling, took it upon themself to inform me that at the beginning of the pandemic when some people were in lockdown for as long as two weeks, it was "really hard on them" and I "need to understand that."
Yeah, no. I don't need to understand that, thanks.
*Former friend.
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4)replied to Shaula Evans last edited by
@ShaulaEvans @johnzajac full solo isolation for this long would have us screaming from the rooftop. we're already climbing the walls tbh
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Shaula Evansreplied to mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4) last edited by
@atax1a Got you.
In return, I was referring to physical bodies within a home, and not plural vs non-plural status.
I'm glad your partner is there for you and I hope the living arrangements work well for all concerned.
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (4)replied to Shaula Evans last edited by
@ShaulaEvans we figured, just had to clarify. our partner has a literal masters degree in public health, we consider ourselves extremely lucky. the universe is funny like that.