I'm hanging in there. My pet is having tooth problems. So that's been quite a stressful hit to my finances, but if I can make it a couple more months without bottoming out my bank account I think I'll be okay. Finding a couple CC people nearby, even if they're almost an hour drive away, has been helpful towards weathering the everyday feeling like i'm living I'm in a foreign land. The bright side is there's no expectation of me showing up for the trainwrecks of holiday meals, so that's a treat. Lol.
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my family is used to me not attending any christmas things or seeing them at all by now so at least they don't guilt trip about it anymore. continuing to mask and distance in my homes common areas as i've done for years.
always nerve wracking round this time of the year though cause i know someone will be sick in the home like every year previous. and yet no pattern recognition from them let alone any precautions will be taken, just me and my partner trying to protect ourselves. every year that passes i'm more worried our luck in not getting covid (afaik) will run out.
otherwise i think i enjoyed the holiday, made some paper christmas lanterns with my partner while we had a christmas story (1983) on repeat.
very lonely most times (it's just my partner and i through all of this, no one else). i just really suck at talking to people but i know there's many of us still masking out there (whether on this site or in the world). another year always feels heavy though so i feel you comrade.
ANOTHER YEAR of this
Hang in there homey and it's not another year of this, it's forever, but it's ok. After a while it sinks in that covid sanity basically means skipping out on expensive and bullshit virus vectors. Movie theaters? Good riddance. Same to movies in general, but if you must watch them, do it at home. Flying to some stupid event? Make a phone call instead.
Anyway, if you want to talk, we're here. What's on your mind?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/the-people-who-plan-on-wearing-masks-forever.html
I know its forever to mask. I could mask in my sleep at this point. Its doing it alone in a society that treats me like a leper that's got me down. That and doing it all alone.
That article is an absolute hatchet job. I read he even lied about talking to Taylor Lorenz, which is ridiculous because she'll talk to anyone about covid.
Thought I'd throw the thread up to see how everyone else was doing. Holidays have to be stressful for those of you with families that aren't masking or taking precautions.
I'll have to look at the article again but I bookmarked it some years ago thinking it was ok at the time. Nobody hassles me about wearing a mask around here: do you get flak about it?
Yeah I know what you mean about family members. It's a problem for me too, but nothing has happened yet as far as I know.
I've heard of Taylor Lorentz but don't know who she is beyond what a quick web search just told me. Name collision with Taylor Swift I guess.
OH YEAH. Tons of dirty looks like I've got the bubonic plague.
I'm sorry to hear that. It's almost never an issue around here. I generally have some spare masks with me and offer to give the person one if they say something about mine.
part and parcel of living in the south.