I understand (even if I don’t agree personally) with the widely cross-partisan impulse to want to forget the 2020 COVID / zombie-apocalypse-vibe period ever happened, but that doesn’t stop me from getting physically furious whenever I see the “better off now than you were four years ago” poll Q
I get asked in the most insulting ways every day at work why I wear a mask (I work at a popular, crowded, underground bar). I'm close to my breaking point by the willful ignorance to the ongoing pandemic and long covid.
If it's not a regular, you could just answer, "My partner's been sick & I don't want to spread anything to my customers."
I know it's annoying, & you shouldn't have to lie, but folks should think about the varied reasons for masking.
It probably wouldn't be good for tips though.
My neighbor wore a mask when she came for drinks on our screen porch because she'd knocked out a front tooth and was embarrassed, so along the same lines. She had to give it up in order to actually have a drink though...
🫂thiss (part of) why i get glowy with anger when labor orgs/leftists who claim caring about labor as praxis don't mask or worse, agitate against masking
ppl under capitalism are trying to survive +not be disabled, bosses wanna prohibit😷, least any of us can do= wear em in solidarity EVERY workplace
There was one time—and this was in the heat of the pandemic’s worst days, meaning that not masking was a form of petulant defiance—some dude asked me why I was wearing one, and I said “Well, I’ve got COVID right now* but I can take it off if it bothers you.” (*I didn’t.)
I like to sit around thinking what clever sarcastic comeback I will throw in their face the next time, even though I know when the time comes around again I will actually just be surprised and stammer and stutter some easily dismissed reply 😷
Talked with a waitress about this recently. I was masked, she wasn't but wanted to be.
I asked if the restaurant had logo masks and she said yes & she did receive 65-75% fewer questions when she wore a logo mask vs plain. She planned to go back to wearing one, w a logo.
Can you get logo masks?
not wearing one out anymore* but I see tons of people with public facing jobs who are.
if I had to Interact with so many people every day at work, I would too!
*if rates go up again, I will. if I feel sick I do
one fun thing lots of people realized is "I can do this one simple thing to keep other people from catching my cold"
of course, they've been doing it forever in East Asia.
fyi, most of the spread of covid (+plenty other less-dire yet not nice to have or gift) comes from folx who don't feel sick yet. we are better off ourselves, +better neighbors/community with eachother, if we mask consistently rather than waiting to know we already exposed or got exposed🖤
My father in law literally said it to me, today, to my face. When I pointed out this was literally untrue in at least five major ways, he basically came back with “nuh uh.” Came very close to throwing him out of my house
ME TOO! We have national amnesia. We never had any closure -- people act like it never happened because it's too hard. But leaders should commemorate the 1.13 million dead, including my family members, that TFG allowed to die. Remember Joe/Kamala at the 400k mark with lights along reflecting pool?
Our country's usually so good at that kind of thing -- but I suppose it's been weaponized/politicized, so maybe after Biden gets re-elected, there'll be less fear of reigniting old battles??? (If he doesn't, we have bigger problems lol)
How ANYONE can forget the feeling of, "Oh fuck, it's just us helping us; there's nobody coming. We're completely on our own, we don't have a society anymore" is completely beyond me. I can't stop thinking about it and no one else acknowledges it
I feel like 99% of people had their minds made up about how Biden's term was going to go before he was even inaugurated and have pretty much just stuck to their guns.
this is one of those things I hate myself for saying but I think the usual 4 year lookback shit is just nullified by covid, the entire planet went sideways on the basis of massive failure of a capitalist system bent on profit over people
I don't think that was especially Trump
that said fuck trump
Sheesh, just seeing you end this tweet with the lone letter “Q” is giving me flashbacks to the moment when the absolute worst conspiracists were at their peak influence
4 yes ago I was on a humidifier bc COVID w/ most likely a side order of pneumonia. No Drs no hospitals open in northern NJ. Unless you were dying you were on your own & it was a really narrow thing. Still alive. Sick AF but alive. Trump & Kushner left NY/NJ to die. I hope they rot in hell.
It would be so easy to forget the pain, grief, and loss of that year. But to do so would only hurt us even more than we are already.
And that damn man is responsible for all of 2020 and the chaos of the plague since.
I certainly will never forget the feeling I had when me and all of my friends got laid off at once and that was somehow a secondary concern behind "how do I get groceries without dying"
I will NEVER forget 2020 as the most nightmarish part of my life. The refrigerated trucks of bodies. the burials 3 deep in pauper graves, the thousands reported dead every day. The east coast was absolutely reeling.
It's a dumbass question. The issue isn't compared to last guy, it's what did each guy start with, and did they make it better, and against what obstacles? Most every D president was handed shit by his R predecessor & turned it around, and vice verse.
It doesn’t matter if people say “we are in a much different place than x years ago”. We remain in said apocalypse as such.
I too want to forget it and move on but if no major organization like the WHO is, then I will stay put until it is 100% collectively declared over with effort and reassurance.
We have a very strong propaganda force in that national media that has been burying 2020 while simultaneously acting like any inflation rate above 4% is an unprecedented crisis.
The news media are so bad it's a national crisis.
