I still mask. It's starting to make some people I encounter in public angry as we enter into the Year of Our Lord 2025. Some dude started bitching at me in the store a few weeks ago, and I decided to try hissing at him like Nadja the vampire on What We Do In The Shadows, and he shut right up.
Wearing a mask is a sign that you're sick and are willing to take measures to prevent others from catching what you have. What a sorry state of affairs we're in where you're judged for doing something so considerate. I'm sorry you have to put up with their shit.
I'm not even sick most of the time. I just don't want COVID again even though I'm super vaccinated and only had one very mild case. I still want to take that precaution. It affects nobody but me and I'm always surprised how indignant the people who have said something to me are over it. But at least most people leave me alone, apparently in conservative US states they'll scream at you and threaten you from their car windows.
It has been depressing to realize that if the zombie apocalypse ever comes, a significant portion of the population will either ignore it or actively try to become infected just because they don’t like being told what to do.
In the past I always thought the characters in zombie movies were always portrayed as too dumb. After covid hit, I realized that they were portrayed as too smart.
In those movies, the dumb ones are already shuffling about the street.
When I was a teenager, the discussion was always "would you survive the first wave," and my friends and I were never sure if we would or not. We didn't realize the bar for that was whether or not you would run towards the zombies..
As scary as the lockdown was, it was an interesting year of protests for BLM and labor movements. Once everyone had a lot of time on their hands, they started to take action on import topics.
Now I feel like most people are back to the grind, and as a whole we don't have the time to quickly make changes we want to see
I fucking loved the lockdown. Masks? No more faking facial expressions. Social Distancing? I didn't have to pretend to care about people or make small talk. "Working" from home? So simple and I got to spend a year home with my new baby.
It was glorious and I miss it.
Maybe the owning class wants everyone to be overworked, because it keeps the people from getting political
A plot point in Brave New World, although as dystopias go it's a surprisingly kind one
I'm still burning through my massive pile of masks and I have noticeably been sick less. Maybe it was not a bad idea?
No it was not a bad idea my good sir.
We actually managed to drive one of the strains of the flu virus to become extinct in the wild.
Kinda sounds like you were hoarding, that part wasn’t such a great idea.
It's not many back then because all family members were using masks
Doubtful. I still have two boxes. After a bit they weren't hard to get. We didn't know how long we would need them.
If the future is anything like CDDA then I will be thriving. I'll be scavenging solar panels while rocking a Linux t shirt and a wizard hat
I put on my robe and Linux hat
Just like the simulations
That nose crushing mask must be painful!
This joke again. Honestly it worked best in text form.
