WOOOOOOOO!

My wife just tested positive for COVID the second time this year and we are sooo mad. We are so sick of other people and their total disregard for each other. Even tho we don’t know for sure where she got it, we were at a small gathering last weekend where someone showed up sick without any sort of warning. They said it’s not COVID and something about how its just their sinuses, you know, the normal brushing off of obvious symptoms.

Then on Monday I had to go to the office for a meeting and overheard 2 different people saying they weren’t feeling great… They both ended up going home and neither of them showed up the next day, but a third person did show up the next day, also complaining about being sick… I really just don’t understand why!

My wife and I do everything we cant to be safe; we wear masks in public, we make our concerns known, we have canceled and changed plan in order to keep in line with our concerns and comfort.

Why do people insist on going to work or to gatherings when they can admit they are sick?

Why does nobody give a shit about anyone around them?

I hate people, I really do, but I still don’t go into social situations while sick and if I had to I would wear a fucking mask. It’s that fucking simple, yet no one has the common courtesy to not bring their fucking communicable disease into public.

Fuck people.

FUCK

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UPDATE: Just got an email from one of my colleagues who just tested positive for COVID. He was in the office Monday, complaining about feeling sick, but waited 4 days to test because “he didn’t even think about COVID until someone else mentioned it.” Mind you, this person sees me with a mask on EVERY DAY, but didn’t think about COVID…

I really really hate people and am thinking about leaning into the hermit life. Just me, my partner, and our cats; everyone else can fuck off.

  • FishLake@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    27·
    7 months ago

    Why does nobody give a shit about anyone around them?

    Because people are told everyday, endlessly that everything is fine. The media will continue to downplay or not even mention COVID. They are beholden to the capital forces that have determined public health is antithetical to the profit motive. So people who are otherwise able to stay home and take precautions (like masking) are pressured not to and told to come back to work because “COVID is over. Coming back to work was what we did before COVID.” I’ll quote what wopazoo@hexbear.net said to me after I posted about getting it.

    You cannot get people to return to pre-pandemic behaviors without eradicating the thought of the pandemic in their mind. Eliminating masks, the symbol of the pandemic, is necessary to achieve the ends of a reversion to pre-pandemic behavior.

    Edit: I’m also sorry that you guys got it. I wish it didn’t happen to you. Please take care of yourself.

    • borlax [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      9·
      7 months ago

      Very good take and depressingly correct. I sometimes get lost in the sauce and forget that my expectation of average people is a little to high.