@augieray I feel the same way. I also see my friends...

@augieray
I feel the same way. I also see my friends posting photos of themselves maskless at crowded indoor events.

I gave up on posting links to COVID research studies for the benefit of my friends on Facebook. Why should I?

One recent Facebook post by a friend in her late 30s or early 40s stated she now has to take medication for plaque buildup in her arteries. She expressed surprise to find out from her physician that COVID can cause that. I told her that I had been reading about that for at least a year.

Mass media currently suppresses the data, but it is out there for anyone to find. People have their heads in the sand right now. I'd like to say they will pay attention when the longer-term deleterious effects of COVID become impossible to ignore, but I think they will continue to enjoy the bliss that ignorance affords them until they become disabled or die an early death.

A couple of days ago I posted to Facebook this graph of the COVID ppm in the wastewater from my area. One friend commented, "Well, I am convinced, I will now stop drinking the waste water in Whatcom County." I did not find that comment funny at all. I have given up, to be honest.

#COVIDIsNotOver

Like 11 Nov 2023 at 22:48 | Wall-to-wall | Open on c.im

4 comments

Andrew Pontious

@shansterable @augieray Yeah, just about everybody I know posts pictures like that.

My entire social circle, such as it was: gone.

Lonely time.

11 Nov 2023 at 22:52 | Open on dice.camp

Shannon Skinner (she/her)

@apontious @augieray
I ask myself almost every day:

Am I the one that's cray cray?
Am I overreacting to COVID?

After all, these folks having great maskless fun in the crowded indoors seem to be healthy and doing well.

Will I feel vindicated 2 or 3 years from now, or will I feel that I missed out on the fun because I was too risk averse?

I don't know.

11 Nov 2023 at 23:31 | Open on c.im

Augie Ray

@shansterable @apontious I don't know, either, but I'd rather be safe and find out than be risky and do so.

12 Nov 2023 at 0:54 | Open on mastodon.social

LakeRNistired

@shansterable @apontious @augieray We are the correct ones. The rest are playing in a fantasy world. 5-10 years from now this will be very apparent as people die in their 59-60’s from cardiac/cancer diseases. Covid is a mean SOB and people don’t want to change their lives to protect themselves. Very sad.

12 Nov 2023 at 2:00 | Open on mastodon.online