I haven’t even caught the thing yet, and I’m sick of it. I’m glad I had the booster last week, even though the new variants blow right through it. It might still make the difference between a bad date with Ms Rona and the full Captain Trips experience.
I’m one of those weirdos still getting around in public with a face mask, at least when indoors. I can understand why almost nobody else does, though. We’re all over it. Unfortunately, I got this whole collapsed lung thing going on, so it’s the devil’s facepants for me.
I suspect we’ll all be back in them before too long. The gubbermint seems to be not-so-quietly shitting itself over the winter wave. I read a projection of a thousand deaths a week coming soon, which is probably behind the new booster release.
Anyway, long story short, I’m over it. You’re over it. I wish we could go back to normal end-of-the-world programming.
I find myself really missing the days when WA was the Independent Sovereign Nation of Westralia and we were being accused of being cave people and a hermit kingdom and we could give the filthy eastern plague states the middle finger as we pointed to our status as a COVID zero hermit kingdom where we were living it up like it was 2019 and the science boffins were only warning us that we were overdue a pandemic, and not living through one.
My father passed away last year and his funeral service was standing room only. I'll never not be grateful to Supreme Leader for Life Mark McGowan that I didn't have to navigate the trauma and grief of that loss and organise a funeral during a lockdown. We didn't even need to wear masks on the day we said goodbye.
I've never stopped wearing the mask, and it shits me that people won't/can't wear one for whatever pathetic reason they can come up with. Don't get me started on the dicknose peeps or those people desperately trying not to catch chin covid.
I'd say the reluctance on the part of govt mandating masks allies with that whole 'we have to open up the economy' thing that is beloved of sections of our legislators, and their donors. As a habitual mask wearer I can't understand the reluctance of some folks to wearing the things, particularly in light of the virulence of both the Spicy Cough and/or the latest flu variants.
As you say, people are over it, but I’m a little surprised how resistant the gubbermint is to bringing back the mask mandate, at least during peak viral season.
I find myself really missing the days when WA was the Independent Sovereign Nation of Westralia and we were being accused of being cave people and a hermit kingdom and we could give the filthy eastern plague states the middle finger as we pointed to our status as a COVID zero hermit kingdom where we were living it up like it was 2019 and the science boffins were only warning us that we were overdue a pandemic, and not living through one.
My father passed away last year and his funeral service was standing room only. I'll never not be grateful to Supreme Leader for Life Mark McGowan that I didn't have to navigate the trauma and grief of that loss and organise a funeral during a lockdown. We didn't even need to wear masks on the day we said goodbye.
Ive seen an article that has titled it The Forever Plague, partially how it seems to fu#k over your T and B cells.
I've never stopped wearing the mask, and it shits me that people won't/can't wear one for whatever pathetic reason they can come up with. Don't get me started on the dicknose peeps or those people desperately trying not to catch chin covid.
I'd say the reluctance on the part of govt mandating masks allies with that whole 'we have to open up the economy' thing that is beloved of sections of our legislators, and their donors. As a habitual mask wearer I can't understand the reluctance of some folks to wearing the things, particularly in light of the virulence of both the Spicy Cough and/or the latest flu variants.
Just came back from a lovely vacation and half the fam are wiped out with it.
Including me.
I cannot, in any way, recommond this fucking thing.
As you say, people are over it, but I’m a little surprised how resistant the gubbermint is to bringing back the mask mandate, at least during peak viral season.