Whenever people and the mainstream media talk about "The trauma of COVID" they always mean the lockdowns and not the... you know... millions of deaths.
Well I have trauma about the deaths. I have trauma about the way our society was manipulated into sacrificing a huge chunk of the population with a smile and a wave, and how we just don't talk about it.
This same society still expects you to be horrified by the violence of 9/11 or whatever when the US alone was experiencing a 9/11 level of death every day and the disease is still killing, we just don't bother recording the spread anymore. What the fuck is wrong with people?!
I literally get (for lack of a better word) triggered when people talk about how hard it was to have to have to wear a mask or to not get a haircut or some selfish bullshit. Or when they act as though their kids remote learning for a while ruined them or something. It's all so petty. They just don't give a shit. They'd kill millions for a haircut. It makes my heart sink, my eyes glaze and I start dissociating.
Imagine if this was the blitzkrieg, and instead of going to bomb shelters people were just like "I'm sick of hearing about these bombings, I'm just going to pretend they're not happening and leave it up to fate." And then the bomb shelters are all closed and even the people who still wanted to take shelter are left to fend for themselves. What madness would have that been if they had done that during WW2? Dragging people into the street to be bombed?
I don't care if you were sick of lockdowns or restrictions! Fighting a pandemic should have been like fighting a war, we should have been doing everything we could to survive!
I am scared of these people. These brainwashed puppets. These eugenicists. If they can do this, well... it makes me feel surrounded by monsters. Like I can't trust anyone.
Same. I’ve found it helpful to remind myself that these people are unwitting victims of a very intense, incredibly well-funded and well-backed propaganda campaign whose murderous influence outweighs that of even the jingoism that followed 9-11. We entered a new, unexplored era of consent manufacturing for social murder during the pandemic.
No, people simply embrace it. Empathy is hardly in our (western) culture. Many people really only think about the horror of masking or not being able to go on vacation when they remember the quarantine. https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
This. I have family that has gone full in on being plague rats and they have developed several severe or disabling new health problems by now. But if I ever mention that covid might have an impact on this I can see them mentally dissociate in front of my eyes.
Collection of stuff from a family of four:
Kids ADHD has gotten a lot more disabling.
Migraines
High blood pressure that needs meds
Gerd, so bad that they have had to adopt to a restrictive diet.
Insomnia
Fatigue
Constant never-ending coughs all round.
And they are constantly sick. With all the things.
And talking to them now they rarely remember things that we have just talked about. They just seem to be becoming a bit disabled in a cognitive way.
But they can't wear a mask or even consider they might be fucked or say the word covid out loud. The things they get are never covid because "it's over".
And they yell and get angry at me for asking for covid safe gatherings because it "ruins vibes".
These were previously very healthy middle class people who think of themselves as smart people.
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They have zero awareness of the huge Christmas covid spike because no expert officially told them to worry. No media said they should care. So it literally does not exist.
Yet they all did have it over Christmas and gave it to me and my partner and since we test, we know. In their mind they just had a bit of a cold, no worries in coming to Christmas dinner with family that is high risk. My partner got very sick and was told last week that he now has diabetes. My longcovid stuff got so much worse. They fully think my pots symptoms and such are just in my head I am sure and they don't have to see the daily struggle. Talking about it is fully stigmatized so they don't have to hear about it either.
I have posted a few links to our family chat from time to time:
Hospital statistics that still do exist that show how the numbers in the last 6 months were so much higher than ever before during the pandemic.
Wastewater chart showing the huge wave over Christmas to justify some caution.
Statistics that show how far more people have died in the last two years than the two before.
Scientific info on how it is not just a respiratory virus and that one can be asymptomatic or have something like a headache and it can still be covid.
What longcovid is. I have it, my partner does. Despite all the vaccines and precautions. I am terrified of the next time I get it.
That masks work.
But they were told on 2022 that masks only protect other people, that covid is just a cold and is getting milder and that vaccination saved us all and this is where they are stuck. Despite their own bodies deteriorating from repeat infection. It is super difficult to come to terms with.
Based on some tests that were used in a study posted a couple months ago, covid does a number on a person's ability to control urges. If you spend any serious time around people in the early stages of dementia, you'll notice it's almost like their behavior regresses back to a child-like state of no longer controlling the things they know they shouldn't say or suppressing emotionally charged responses. Add to that the stress of capitalism and I think a lot of folks are just fucking losing touch with reality. For a lot of people, even before covid, if their echo chamber isn't maintaining their focus on a narrative, I don't think they hold onto it. Long Covid is probably only making it worse.
I got pretty bad GERD starting in like 2020 or 2021, but never had a COVID case (that I know of). Wonder if it's related.
Absolutely seems to be "going around". It made mine a lot worse as well and anecdotally been hearing it a lot in the computer touching factory circles. Nobody is making the connection though and if you ask if it might be due to covid, you get the dissociation & denial response almost always.
People suddendly think it's totally normal for healthy 30-50 year old bodies to start falling apart just because age or something. I mean bodies wear sure, but sudden onset high blood pressure in a 35 year old fit exercise junkie for example isn't exactly typical. Or Gerd so bad they are basically disabled by it.
Mine (heartburn, reflux, etc) was really bad a month after I had covid for about 6 or 7 months. Like 24/7 wake up in the middle of night stuff. And then one day it just stopped, along with some random heart rate increases that I eventually realized were related. Didn't even occur to me it was covid till it all turned off like a light switch. The strep, on the other hand, had my alarm bells ringing.