I just found out about a covid forum called Still Coviding & Beyond. Does anyone have an invite? I feel like I'm signing up for a private torrent tracker!

Are there other worthwhile covid groups out there? Being permanently fucked up and unable to have a social life really makes one want to have people to talk to.

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I will say I am also super disappointed in zcc for same reasons already mentioned.

Glad it's not just me. Really feel like the mods have dropped the ball there. I've seen posts of people complaining about other people's precautions being too harsh and getting like hundreds of comments supporting their complaints. It's becoming Nazi bar type shit. doomer

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I signed up and made my first post in there. It got flagged by the auto-mod so I sent them a message. This is what they replied back:

"The post is up, as it has been for a while. We’re not typically able to respond to non-urgent questions about individual posts and comments. We clear the queue a few times a day. Thank you for understanding."

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

yea Yeah, that's basically all of reddit now, unfortunately. The automod flags my shit all the time and they don't get approved until the conversation has moved on.

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fuck that's bleak.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

sadness-abysmal

[–] mononoke 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It makes me very depressed to think about it all. If this is how low the bar goes after half a decade of struggle on a single front, how on earth does anyone expect any other "revolution" and its consequences to go? The disabled struggling for their survival carry the movement while the able-bodied fumble through it all and expect everyone to worship the ground they walk on for doing less than the bare minimum, often doing the same rug pull you see reactionaries do with sentiments like, "well I would have done this if you weren't so mean about it!" if there is even any acknowledgment at all. I'm not sure which is worse.

An utterly despairing forecast for everything else.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm right there with you. But, I try to remind myself that in the beginning people were largely on board with the 'flattening the curve' rhetoric and the mass majority were wearing masks, even if they were useless cloth things. We're living in a manufactured outcome and things can be pushed back with the same techniques they were undone with. Which means our true enemies haven't really changed and that allies can be won back. The path is there, it's just the longer this go on, the bigger the flame thrower we're gonna need to clear it. cool-zone