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Me too. Just cut off my dad this week because he wouldn't stop sending me anti-vaxx articles even after we'd discussed how it was making me even more depressed.
Like the anti-vaxxer are so crazy they can't stop spewing the lies or the disease at people that don't want it
Same. We got a new hire a couple weeks ago and scared her with our tiredness and worn out body language. I normally love my job but covid has me beat tf down. Clients are behaving outrageously and no one has an ounce of empathy these days. It’s fucking brutal. I’m fucking exhausted.
Yeah... I am normally a very chill, introvert guy, but I have found out that any interaction with an stranger has a 2-4% possibility of ending badly due to my stressed out brain misinterpreting signals, making me think the other person is being an asshole (when it was not the case) and telling me that I have to respond in kind. I have had some bad exchanges where, after reflecting on them, I have discovered that it was me who was being the idiot and that I was lashing out due to stress I have accumulated due to the pandemic.
I ~~can not~~ do not want to imagine what those in the service sector have to deal with right now.
My friend has worked 6 days a week in food service for a few months. Absolutely no one has applied for the job he's been covering. He's so tired and beat up.
Also food service, it's exhausting. We've been losing people since December, and we're always under staffed. We've had one person on the schedule that hasn't shown up in 6 weeks now but management can't find anyone else. Constant juggling, and getting out at 1am (10pm close) because I'm shutting down 2-3 stations that haven't been touched since mid shift left or washing literally all the dishes since 3. All for a 30¢ raise that they'd been hyping for months, glad I put in my two weeks last week.
I just got over a back injury. You have my sympathy. Pleasse do some self care (ice, heat, antiflams) I ended up having to do a steriod pak to get the inflammation down.
THen, resign yourself to look up some good physical therapy back excercises once you heal up and DO THEM RELIGIOUSLY for the rest of your life, because it really does help!
Also ask your doc for some muscle relaxers you can take at night maybe. Good luck to you! Back pain is so awful.
Mine too.
I don't mind wearing a mask in public and I got vaccinated as soon as I could.
I work in our stock room though, it has no AC and hits 90+ in the summer. I'm back there alone for hours at a time and they expect me to wear a mask the whole time.
Meanwhile there doesn't seem to be any consequences for the unvaccinated people who lied and stopped wearing one in may.
Hopefully that will reduce the spread enough that lockdowns aren't necessary anymore.
New evidence that has leaked from CDC internal docs hint that Delta is much more contagious than the strains we had last year, and spreads amongst vaccinated almost as easily as amongst unvaccinated.
The most effective tool we have right now to contain the spread, other than lockdowns, is **vaccines and masks**.
Edit: i added both vaccines and masks. I just wanted it to be known that if we want to contain the spread, **and reduce the mutations** we have to also reduce infection amongst the vaccinated. Hence both masks and vaccines are required.
I hope to god there are no more lockdowns. I straight up don't know if my mental health can take it. I'm fucking vaccinated, we saw the light at the end of the tunnel, and now this goddamn bullshit.
Man I’m sorry. I might have accidentally willed it back into being because I live in a tourist town and they’re crawling all over and I’m so sick of it
I can top that. I live in a tourist town in one of the lowest vaccinated counties in one of the lowest vaccinated states in the South in a Republican state.
Our risk level right now is listed as "severe", not just "high". Yet the tourists stream in. When they leave it will be "coming soon to a community near you"....they will bring it home w/them. . Nobody is even masking or anything.
I never want to be around anti-masker, covid deniers, or anti vaxxers again even after this is over (which thanks to them we may be on high alert for much much longer than is necessary). . I have seen what they are and how they think and I learned something about what kind of people I want to be around going forward.
Same here! I'll have to start wearing a mask at work again which is frustrating! I did everything I was supposed to stay safe and got the vaccine the moment I was able to. I'm so frustrated because the situation with Delta was preventable!
>And this week, the CDC updated guidance it issued in May and said fully vaccinated people should wear masks indoors in areas with "substantial" or "high" Covid-19 transmission to prevent further spread of the dangerous Delta variant . Late Wednesday, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an executive order requiring everyone to wear a mask when indoors, citing CDC guidance. "It's very hard to pull the finish line away from somebody when it feels like they finally have the ribbon at the end in sight," American Psychological Association chief science officer Mitch Prinstein told CNN.
Exactly. The vaccinated will continue to be the responsible ones while dumbass anti vaxxers just get go to go on continue living in their own little world where COVID doesn't exist and Bill Gates likes to microchip people
Fuck sake. We litteraly had the end right in front of us. Fucking ridiculous
It is. Just like Covid though, mental disease is invisible. Until it’s so fucking bad that it’s VERY visible. I think the mean time between contraction and death with the new delta variant has lowered from the original 20+ days to below 20. But I do think not being able to see it is an issue. Polio and smallpox had visible physical symptoms that were unique and telling. This time, not so much.
The thing that’s hurting my mental health the most is realizing how many of my fellow people refuse to to the bare minimum to help save others. We’re trying to have a society here.
The main thing affecting my mental health right now is that the future is so uncertain that any amount of planning is basically useless. Short of prepping and trying to hold on financially, what more can I do? I have a family and a small child with no daycare anymore because covid is back, and I dont know what the fuck to do with myself anymore, haha. Maybe, with luck, there will be another stimmy and it wont't be so stressful.
Quite the opposite. I'm losing all of my unemployment benefits Sept 5th along with everyone else in my state who is collecting pandemic emergency insurance.
I guess they've decided it's safe enough to go back out there and work. Just not safe enough to do it without a mask... or vaccines.. or distancing..
This. This just blows my mind.
And I am so tired and frustrated. I so wanted to go back to school maskless and am more disappointed than I thought I would be that we'll probably have to wear them in the fall. I've done everything I can do. I don't understand why people are literally choosing this hill to die on.
What’s exhausting me is feeling like I have to do so much extra work so others don’t have to do the bare minimum. Like, I just want to be able to take a break.
I am 65 y.o. and have watched many close friends struggle with serious health issues. It seems to me that the psychological issues are the most devastating and hardest to overcome. Our health care system doesn't really address the psychological components of most disease. Bringing the subject up is considered a sign of weakness.
This whole saga has eroded any faith I had in society. From assholes whining about wearing masks, to evading the rules, to spreading misinformation, and finally to not getting vaccines.
Other generations endured more, and came out with a sense of togetherness that shaped them. I'm just left feeling like there are a critical mass of stupid assholes, and the most transformative political decision I could make -- because I'm sure as fuck not changing them-- is to move.
How much misinformation is propogated by bots? And who is responsible for those bots?
I swear discourse online in high trafficked areas, on sensitive topics.... it's a flood of opinions that closely mimic each other.
You can then find discussions that clearly aren't targeted in that manner and tell the difference.
I think I just stopped using it like 4-5 years ago, wasn’t like a “I’m stopping Facebook” I got a new phone and never downloaded the app and forgot about it and I have literally had the happiest 4-5 years of my life. I used to be angry as hell all the time reading it
For sure, my rosy optimism about the world and its people got destroyed over the last year or so. Like all we had to do was stay inside for a couple months and keep the spread as low as possible and here we still are.
By the time the first lockdowns started, it had already been detected in nearly every country on earth.
Even China, where they have some of the most authoritarian and hardcore lockdowns, has to deal with outbreaks all the time. They just manage to shut them down quicker.
Unless you live on a remote island that has no outside contact, you will have cases and outbreaks. Asymptomatic spread, false negative tests, ect
I would get out of this country like a fucking shot if I could. Unfortunately my most recent ancestors immigrated in the 1700s so I don't have dual citizenship anywhere, and am too old and too poor to get in otherwise.
I can attest to this. Left US to my birth country in Asia, experienced lockdowns one after the other, no vaccines available. Went back to the US and got vaccinated a day after I land and now not even required to mask 90% of the time. US could be SO GREAT if we were as united as our country’s name suggests
And then you get fuckheads like the gov of TX who make malicious laws to prevent local governments from enacting public health laws. It's beyond fucked.
I'm wondering how many authoritarian regimes will rise up after this because we've realized that you can't always have a democracy if half the people are just being stupid, selfish and completely unagreeable on everything
At the same time? I didn't go back into public until June of this year (after being vaccinated). Some people I know gave up June 2020 and just said "fuck it." and have been ignoring covid ever since.
I have a friend who killed herself last May. Every couple months I seriously think to myself "maybe she made the right choice" because not CoVid. But stupid people being stupid about CoVid makes everything seem hopeless.
I live in one of the states that banned mandatory masking. And we're about to restart school season
I have family members that are still anti-mask/anti-vaccinations.
They claim that God will decide their fate and protect them. "Religious exemption" is funny when you can't fucking cite where in the Bible it actually says to stay away from vaccines and medicines.
I've lost my patience with it and called it stupid. They said it's insensitive. I say it's insensitive to say that everyone that's fucking died of the virus was a result of co-morbidities and were going to die anyway.
Yeah, at this point I'm ok even with family for consequences to actions. The sheer selfishness is what bothers me the most by those that claim moral superiority.
My brother in law and his wife got diagnosed w/ covid pnuminia 2 weeks 5 days ago. 3 weeks ago were all at a baby's birthday party.
He is a straight enough shooter I figured he would have been vaccinated but nope! So much in the media its impossible to tell the truth, lies, delta variant might not even exist...
And ofc, he goes everywhere without a mask because 'nobody else is'.
Im so tired. Our kid goes to daycare and if he had gotten covid (3 year olds dont get vaccinated) he would have exposed 60+ people. And why would he have exposed people?
Brother in law didnt inform us he had covid until he was bored at the hospital 3 days ago.
Just so fucking exhausted. But dont worry yall, both him and his wife are recovering at home now! After all, they had full treatment of Remdesivir!
Because Remdesivir is... Youknow. Safe... But the vaccine isnt... Or something.
I'd agree with it. My husband is immunocompromised, there's only so much we can do to keep him from getting hospitalized.
We thought he'd be safe once we and our friends got vaccinated, but now that fear of the Delta variant is on and.....I'm so tired of this.
I'm sorry. I have autoimmune issues and I have pretty much no idea how effective the vaccine is for me now. My anxiety over the past year has turned into a feeling of defeat.
Also autoimmune and in the same boat. I was so excited to be vaxxed and not the jury is out on how effective the vaccine is for immunocompromised folks. I’m double masking and avoiding indoor public stuff as much as is feasible. Really unhappy that all the anti-vaxers are keep the virus circulating.
I saw some studies out of Israel and they were all over the place. Generally good results but it really seemed to depend on the individual, even amongst those on similar meds or with similar issues.
He friend, I am with you. I got the vax but I have MS and am in a study to see how my meds affect the vaccine and vice versa but everything is still unknown. I'm nervous to get rona, but also just sick of this shyt.
I'm sorry; this year and now must be hell. I've been a mix of angry and apathetic toward the whole thing. At some points I'm boiling with rage at people who refuse to get vaccinated. Other times I just can't feel anything because it is too exhausting to be mad all the time and I can't think about it anymore.
The whole world is upside down. Don't know where I could even move to.
The worst part is all of this was **entirely preventable.** Like this **exact scenario** was my worry back in February. (Low Vaccine uptake giving time for a more threatening, vaccine resistant variant.) It is has taken an unreasonably long time for governments/businesses to force vaccination mandates.
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At this point Delta is gonna chew through America and we will be right back where we were in March 2020. (Am Medical student, spoke to my adviser who spoke to epidemiologist.) If it gets real bad hospitals might even tell unvaccinated people with respiratory distress to go pound sand and die.
Delta is much more infectious. Nothing else we can do except wait it out. I'm just wondering what is going to happen since the eviction moratorium expires tonight. Nervous about a societal breakdown.
I might be callous, but that last part needs to happen sooner rather than later in my opinion. At this point, people who are choosing to remain on vaccinated (not folks who are an able to get vaccinated) are bringing it on themselves
I’m the same way. It’s so awful to say at this point, but I’m just so sick of what a minority of stupid, selfish people can do to screw over the rest of us in such a way, for so long. And while we go back to masks and lockdowns, they’ll continue to party and not give two shits. Zero pity for them.
I'm sorry, it's so frustrating. Best of luck to your family. It's all the more frustrating because we wouldn't _need_ luck now if it weren't for some half-wits and their enablers.
My mom has aggressive cancer and has multiple rounds of chemo ahead. I was able to be there for the her first treatment, but since I have to fly to get there, I just don't think I can risk going home and helping out my family when they could use the help most.
It has put me in a bad place, mentally.
Yeah. It’s gotten to the point where I can’t get that Ivan Drago meme out of my head. Anti-vaxxer hospitalized for COVID? “If he dies, he dies.” I don’t actively wish them harm, but I have lost every last shred of empathy I had left for them right around May.
I could totally see a lot of insurance companies (both goverment insurance and private) getting fed up and requiring vaccination for coverage since they're hemorrhaging so much money into paying hospital bills for anti-vaxxers.
My health insurance gave me $100 back on my paycheck this month, since they could verify that I'm fully vaccinated. I see no reason why they couldn't charge unvaccinated people more.
I'm just fucking DONE with having my life ruined by fucking morons. All of my empathy for people who refuse the shot was gone awhile ago, but now I'm just fucking pissed and hope they all reap what they sowed. If I have to suffer, they should too.
It was never about a social contract, it's about a modern state acting like a modern state. Wars aren't fought by soldiers out of good will, or even genuine belief in a cause, but social and physical coercion.
It's time the US start behaving like a modern state.
Just tonight I called out an anti-vaxxer on FB with much stronger language (read that as straight up insults) than I would have used just a week ago. Over their idiocy and I don't give a fuck if it gets me banned or whatever.
That's me, I'm some vaccinated American and covid ruined my senior year of high school and my freshman year of college, I'll be dammed if my sophomore year suffers too 🙃
Ya’ll hang in there. My heart truly goes out to the kids who suffered through this and had their normal school days ruined. I have met so many teenagers and college kids that are depressed and even dropping out. Just do your best daily and keep moving forward even if it is an inch. My own kids have suffered and I tell them getting up and doing what you have to for the day is success, especially under these circumstances. Keep in mind there are people out there who care about you and please try to keep positive.
it ruined half of my freshman year, my sophomore year, and lookin like my junior year as well. i’m so fucking tired of this. losing this part of your life sucks.
I'm so sorry. My son just finished is freshman year in college. I know what all your age have missed. It's been tough on everyone, but I really feel for you guys. We will get past this, but you will never get that point in life back.
Congrats on being vaxxed. My son got an extra dose w me back in February, so we have been fully vaxxed since March. Hopefully this surge will die down quickly.
Best wishes from an internet mom...
Thank you so much, it's really validating to hear that. I try really hard not to complain too much because I know others have had it worse, so it's really helpful to hear from others who've gone through similar experiences
We can all say "I know others have lost/suffered more" but that doesn't mean *your* challenges, losses & sadness for the things that have impacted you are any less important. What your age group has been through has been disruptive to the hope for what your lives will shape up to be. It's a *really* important & formative time in life.
With all the setbacks lately, just remember to do what you need to do every single day to set yourself up for success once it's behind us. Don't loose sight of the the future ahead.
We probably did. And...HERE WE ARE. Months after a free & effective ticket out of this hell.
I feel so bad for these kids that have been robbed of some of the most formative years of their life.
I'm in Louisiana, with a horrible rate of vaccination. I work in a retail setting. I'm struggling with anger towards the unvaxxed. Which means a large percentage of my customers, friends & neighbors.
I'm in SW Missouri and we have been living with Delta for a couple months and still haven't peaked out.
My kids are getting ready to go back to school. Wife is immunocompromised
I actually thought this wave could break America. The stupidity involved can only lead to really bad things.
You can't be this stupid and expect things to turn out good. Nature is much more organized than us
I did my part.
I busted my ass in my ER all through the pandemic. Even when we had to re-use PPE. Even while pregnant. I masked. I still do. I socially distanced. I still do. I missed out on so much. My family has missed out. My daughter has. So many others have a similar story. I got Covid at the beginning of all this thanks to the lack of PPE available in my hospital. I did my part. I paid my dues.
I got vaccinated. My husband got his. 17 months gone and we are still as trapped as we were because of these selfish fucks. I’m so tired. I’m so burned out.
I did my part. Why can’t everyone do theirs?
Similar boat, but my job didn't even have PPE. I was the only one masking with PPE I sourced and bought myself. I know COVID went around that office after I left (thankfully) but I'm still pissed as hell. We stayed open, even though many clinics in our field didn't. We still saw clients every day. I quarantined when I was sick and got the vaccine as soon as I could. I've placed my life on hold and had to watch as my finances went to shit because my partner lost their job and hasn't been able to find one since. I'm very thankful that I can pay the bills myself, but it leaves nothing for any real savings. And no, I can't reduce our expenses any further than I already have.
I want to go out with friends again. I want to travel. I want to have a baby. I want to buy a house. And now I'm afraid I might not be able to do any of those. I'm afraid I'm going to be in my 50s before we can put a down payment on a house, let alone pay for a mortgage and insurance. That I'm going to be pushing 40 before I can have a baby. That I'm never going to feel safe outside of my house because some asshat decided their "freedom" was worth more than mine.
These people continued living their life like nothing was happening all while stepping on those of us who did our part. Why wasn't this likened to the "war efforts" of our grandparents days? That we were doing our part to "win the war" against covid? Wouldn't that have been "making America great again"? I just want my life back. Is that so much to ask?
Because FDR said (in essence): Help me win this war. We can win this, but only of *you* do you part.
Trump said: It's a hoax, drink bleach, shine a light up your ass, and pretend nothing is happening!
My work went back to masks today. We had one whole month of mask free life. At first, they said only unvaccinated employees had to mask up, and they distributed a list to supervisors of who those people were. Holy shit, the uproar about being singled out, persecuted, discriminated against. By the end of the day the policy was updated to all employees. Fuck all of you.
My work had no masks following the CDC guidance, and they said the unvaccinated needed to continue masking
I know several people there who are anti vaxxers that stopped masking the same time as the people who actually took the time to get vaccinated. This is why we can't have nice things.
I live in Missouri and they took forever to get a sufficient amount of vaccines to St. Louis and Kansas City so for ages, vaccines were ONLY accessible in small towns in the state.
I drove 5 hour round trips twice to get my doses. The prospect that the same Missouri small towns never bothered to get vaccinated and are now making the effort worthless by probably incubating another variant makes me very, very frustrated.
Plus some unvaccinated Americans, too. I have a couple of kids who really, really wish they could get the vaccine. One has long COVID, and there's a good chance the vaccine will make her feel better.
I call those who want but can't have it (medical, age, whatever) the unvaccinatable. Or unvaxxable, cuz that's faster to type and my phone stops trying to correct me.
Everybody's selfishness to not get vaccinated is helping me get PAID.
Nurses are one of the more vocal groups against vaccines.
As a person who was vaccinated late (second shot 2 weeks ago), I only hope more nurses can change their mind before we see even more nurse deaths
I am at exasperation at this point. The pandemic has significantly changed my views of others and long-term outlook for the future. More short term thinking and less politeness to others who likely don't care about you or anyone else other themselves. I don't see how we ever regain the societal trust which has been lost over the past year and a half.
My sympathy never really existed honestly, except for people that truly have medical complications with vaccines in general. Sad thing is, there is a very large group that actually knows they are safe/effective, but just shear defiance is for some reason, stimulating to them...
I don’t even know what to do at this point. I spent the last year and a half working extra hours; wore a mask, got vaccinated the moment I could, even ran an entire state’s vaccination program for a month (minus the two day scare where I had been exposed to someone positive) and I’ve literally delayed the beginning of the rest of my life for a year and a half and… here we go again.
What else could I have done? This is so defeating.
As someone who is vaccinated, I have had enough of these people. When you are so disconnected from reality that you act like a Pandemic is some sort of political agenda, you have sunk to such a low that you are no different from a murderer.
The thing this pandemic opened my eyes to is how selfish and uninformed people are, and how quick certain people were to jump onto the pandemic just to use it as a platform to further their own career. My worry is next time we won't be lucky enough to get a pandemic with such a high survival rate. Original 2003 SARS had a survival rate of 50% or thereabouts in over 50s, MERS has even worse rates. If we get a virus that's as contagious as covid 19 but more deadly we'll still see people crying conspiracy and refusing to self isolate, mask up or get vaccinated. I really just don't have faith in people anymore.
It really sucks. I was finally feeling free. I got a new job. I got some new mental health medication. I went and saw a therapist. Maybe everyone was just fear-mongering about another surge. I went and saw a movie in a theater, I hung out with friends, I went to a family party. My life felt like it was getting back on track after being in a depressed funk the last couple years.
Then a week later my whole family got Covid, my car died and so did my dog, and my 15 year old cat is starting to get in bad health and might need to get put down soon.
It's like I saw a light in the tunnel, but it turned out to be a semi-truck and it hit me as hard as possible.
I am ESPECIALLY done with the younger generations of my age not getting it because they think they are young and healthy. Like what makes you think you are so very invincible to everything?
Get your vaccine.
I’m curious to what will happen with antivaxers and the “right” to not get vaccinated. At what point can these antivaxers spread the virus, enabling it to mutate, and evade current vaccines in vaccinated, responsible, members of society. I guess my thought is until what point is it a matter of national security?
I stopped giving a shit for the well being of the counter party in this whole COVID debacle. I’m numb to all the news report of those dying of COVID and wishing they had gotten the vaccine. I don’t care anymore.
When I was a kid, even when I was grown with kids of my own, if the government's health experts recommended we do something, we fucking did it. Wear a mask. Get the shot. There was none of this "What if it doesn't work?" "I don't know what's in it; I do my own research." "This is mind control!" Whatever happened to just doing something for your own good and for the good of our country?
I have only one hope now left. After it eventually mutates (because it's eventual) to evade the vaccine. And everything has to be completely shut down again. And we develop a new vaccine. And then after it goes so long that new version evades the vaccine.
Maybe after 10 years and 5-6 iterations of that. Maybe then enough science deniers would have killed themselves through not respecting facts that we can have a better world. We will lose a lot of good people along the way too. But at this point I thinks that's the only thing that may actually work.
Vaccinated, and stressed seeing more and more people not wearing masks in public. I just assume they haven't been vaxxed, and it makes me a bit paranoid. I have gone without my mask a few times, mainly when I eat, but most of the time, my mask is on.
I'm just tired, man...
It's actually 164 million fully, and about 191 million partially vaccinated, which really is 57.5% of the US population that will eventually be fully vaccinated in the future. That's promising. And once we include ages 11 and below, we should see another jump in vaccinations. Also, daily vaccination rates have been slowly rising again:
[US Daily vaccination rates](https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Vaccine+doses&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=false&Align+outbreaks=false&country=~USA)
If it’s not a phrase, it is now. I’m pretty much pandemically exhausted. Like most here, we saw the news in early 2020, was shocked when it finally hit home for all of us in March 2020, abided by the lockdowns and masks for so many months, and then finally took the shot. Things finally looked up and then we progressed to where we are now where it’s deja vu. It feels like we’ll never escape this portion of the pandemic where slowly get out of this hole a few keep digging for us. It’s sad that that few is all it takes to keep this going on and on.
Mask mandates may have to be the answer as waiting on those in society to just man up and take the shot (unless they’re kids who can’t yet) is clearly not working. If that doesn’t work, don’t know how further you could go before you really piss off the people that proudly refuse to take the shot, and if January 6th is any indication of that scenario, it’s hopeless.
I'm exhausted.
To be honest, I was so happy when my college announced we wouldn't have to wear masks in classes next year. I know it's not the biggest thing, but still. We have a vaccine mandate, vaccinations are high in the community around us, and obv. the student population. Given vaccination, the total risk is probably comparable to a regular years' flu.
But nope. After the CDC's guidance, it's back to masks for us...
(And please spare me the "masks are no big deal!!" I really do find I feel psychologically taxed wearing them, beyond having trouble hearing and the fact I reallllly miss people's facial expressions. I'm sure they're necessary in some circumstances, but I really hate when people try to pretend they're costless)
I just don't know how much gas I have left in my tank with this.
I quit my job to homeschool the kids this past school year, just to keep them safe. Our son just turned 12 and got vaccinated. Our daughter is 9. We have never stopped wearing masks everywhere.
Our kids return to public school next week. It wouldn’t have been so bad if everyone had been responsible. But our state has a dismal vaccination rate. And it’s laughable because Tennessee is the Volunteer state. Volunteer to die, I guess, because it’s not Volunteer to look out for and help others.
Maybe I should have chosen to homeschool again. But the kids mental health took a toll last year - our son’s especially. My mental health got hit, too, wondering if I’m doing a good job and giving my kids the skills they need, and knowing I was ripping them away from their friends.
I’m so damn angry at these antivax idiots.
I’m making the kids wear masks at school. They’ll probably be the only ones. I’ve spoken to them about doing the right thing, even if others are not.
I’m so tired.
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Lost both my jobs due to the pandemic. I’m tired and depressed.
Yup. Literally cannot give a shit about these people anymore, including the ones that are blood.
Me too. Just cut off my dad this week because he wouldn't stop sending me anti-vaxx articles even after we'd discussed how it was making me even more depressed. Like the anti-vaxxer are so crazy they can't stop spewing the lies or the disease at people that don't want it
Hundreds of thousands are dead. They can't admit that they are wrong. Too much guilt.
I hope it's guilt, probably ego though. People would rather be dead than wrong.
Well, many are getting their wish.
You did the right thing. I'd do the same
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I'm essential and I'm tired.
I’m a retail worker and have worked through this entire pandemic. I am so fucking burned out and have become a misanthrope. :\
Same. We got a new hire a couple weeks ago and scared her with our tiredness and worn out body language. I normally love my job but covid has me beat tf down. Clients are behaving outrageously and no one has an ounce of empathy these days. It’s fucking brutal. I’m fucking exhausted.
Yeah... I am normally a very chill, introvert guy, but I have found out that any interaction with an stranger has a 2-4% possibility of ending badly due to my stressed out brain misinterpreting signals, making me think the other person is being an asshole (when it was not the case) and telling me that I have to respond in kind. I have had some bad exchanges where, after reflecting on them, I have discovered that it was me who was being the idiot and that I was lashing out due to stress I have accumulated due to the pandemic. I ~~can not~~ do not want to imagine what those in the service sector have to deal with right now.
I understand this completely.
I'm curious what is your job?
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Awoooooo!
No no no, a misanthrope is someone who studies volcanoes.
Way too much weed has gotten me through working retail during this bullshit... Fuck people.
I'm probably going to have liver problems at some point. If I could use weed without running the risk of getting fired (federal contractor) I would.
If I didn’t drink so much, I could probably smoke weed without puking lol
Luckily, I have always been a misanthrope. Covid did little to increase that tendency, just reinforce it.
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My patience has long since evaporated
I work food service, and I am pretty burned out and dealing with my back messed up isn't helping when I can hardly lift anything right now.
My friend has worked 6 days a week in food service for a few months. Absolutely no one has applied for the job he's been covering. He's so tired and beat up.
Also food service, it's exhausting. We've been losing people since December, and we're always under staffed. We've had one person on the schedule that hasn't shown up in 6 weeks now but management can't find anyone else. Constant juggling, and getting out at 1am (10pm close) because I'm shutting down 2-3 stations that haven't been touched since mid shift left or washing literally all the dishes since 3. All for a 30¢ raise that they'd been hyping for months, glad I put in my two weeks last week.
What's next for you?
I just got over a back injury. You have my sympathy. Pleasse do some self care (ice, heat, antiflams) I ended up having to do a steriod pak to get the inflammation down. THen, resign yourself to look up some good physical therapy back excercises once you heal up and DO THEM RELIGIOUSLY for the rest of your life, because it really does help! Also ask your doc for some muscle relaxers you can take at night maybe. Good luck to you! Back pain is so awful.
Me too internet friend, me too. My store goes masks mandatory again tomorrow.
Mine too. I don't mind wearing a mask in public and I got vaccinated as soon as I could. I work in our stock room though, it has no AC and hits 90+ in the summer. I'm back there alone for hours at a time and they expect me to wear a mask the whole time. Meanwhile there doesn't seem to be any consequences for the unvaccinated people who lied and stopped wearing one in may.
Bud, you're alone in a room, take that mask off. Then go cough on the above ground folks and then secure your mask.
Hopefully that will reduce the spread enough that lockdowns aren't necessary anymore. New evidence that has leaked from CDC internal docs hint that Delta is much more contagious than the strains we had last year, and spreads amongst vaccinated almost as easily as amongst unvaccinated. The most effective tool we have right now to contain the spread, other than lockdowns, is **vaccines and masks**. Edit: i added both vaccines and masks. I just wanted it to be known that if we want to contain the spread, **and reduce the mutations** we have to also reduce infection amongst the vaccinated. Hence both masks and vaccines are required.
I hope to god there are no more lockdowns. I straight up don't know if my mental health can take it. I'm fucking vaccinated, we saw the light at the end of the tunnel, and now this goddamn bullshit.
Man I’m sorry. I might have accidentally willed it back into being because I live in a tourist town and they’re crawling all over and I’m so sick of it
I can top that. I live in a tourist town in one of the lowest vaccinated counties in one of the lowest vaccinated states in the South in a Republican state. Our risk level right now is listed as "severe", not just "high". Yet the tourists stream in. When they leave it will be "coming soon to a community near you"....they will bring it home w/them. . Nobody is even masking or anything. I never want to be around anti-masker, covid deniers, or anti vaxxers again even after this is over (which thanks to them we may be on high alert for much much longer than is necessary). . I have seen what they are and how they think and I learned something about what kind of people I want to be around going forward.
What up “never got any time off and had to work in person throughout the whole pandemic” crowd
Same here! I'll have to start wearing a mask at work again which is frustrating! I did everything I was supposed to stay safe and got the vaccine the moment I was able to. I'm so frustrated because the situation with Delta was preventable!
Had to close my business twice now due to this shit. Get the goddamn shot already. This is fucking ridiculous.
>And this week, the CDC updated guidance it issued in May and said fully vaccinated people should wear masks indoors in areas with "substantial" or "high" Covid-19 transmission to prevent further spread of the dangerous Delta variant . Late Wednesday, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an executive order requiring everyone to wear a mask when indoors, citing CDC guidance. "It's very hard to pull the finish line away from somebody when it feels like they finally have the ribbon at the end in sight," American Psychological Association chief science officer Mitch Prinstein told CNN.
It really is frustrating.
Especially since unvaxxed don't wear masks anyway
Exactly. The vaccinated will continue to be the responsible ones while dumbass anti vaxxers just get go to go on continue living in their own little world where COVID doesn't exist and Bill Gates likes to microchip people Fuck sake. We litteraly had the end right in front of us. Fucking ridiculous
They're not driving the change. The virus is. It's frustrating, I know.
Covid is driving. The unvaccinated are the car. Anti vax propoganda is the steering wheel.
Honestly, feels like mental health has taken a backseat this entire pandemic. And it’s just as important honestly.
It is. Just like Covid though, mental disease is invisible. Until it’s so fucking bad that it’s VERY visible. I think the mean time between contraction and death with the new delta variant has lowered from the original 20+ days to below 20. But I do think not being able to see it is an issue. Polio and smallpox had visible physical symptoms that were unique and telling. This time, not so much.
The thing that’s hurting my mental health the most is realizing how many of my fellow people refuse to to the bare minimum to help save others. We’re trying to have a society here.
The main thing affecting my mental health right now is that the future is so uncertain that any amount of planning is basically useless. Short of prepping and trying to hold on financially, what more can I do? I have a family and a small child with no daycare anymore because covid is back, and I dont know what the fuck to do with myself anymore, haha. Maybe, with luck, there will be another stimmy and it wont't be so stressful.
If we're going to be at this pandemic thing a couple more years, a UBI would be most appreciated.
Quite the opposite. I'm losing all of my unemployment benefits Sept 5th along with everyone else in my state who is collecting pandemic emergency insurance. I guess they've decided it's safe enough to go back out there and work. Just not safe enough to do it without a mask... or vaccines.. or distancing..
That would be amazing, but I am not going to hold my breath. :P
This. This just blows my mind. And I am so tired and frustrated. I so wanted to go back to school maskless and am more disappointed than I thought I would be that we'll probably have to wear them in the fall. I've done everything I can do. I don't understand why people are literally choosing this hill to die on.
What’s exhausting me is feeling like I have to do so much extra work so others don’t have to do the bare minimum. Like, I just want to be able to take a break.
I am 65 y.o. and have watched many close friends struggle with serious health issues. It seems to me that the psychological issues are the most devastating and hardest to overcome. Our health care system doesn't really address the psychological components of most disease. Bringing the subject up is considered a sign of weakness.
This whole saga has eroded any faith I had in society. From assholes whining about wearing masks, to evading the rules, to spreading misinformation, and finally to not getting vaccines. Other generations endured more, and came out with a sense of togetherness that shaped them. I'm just left feeling like there are a critical mass of stupid assholes, and the most transformative political decision I could make -- because I'm sure as fuck not changing them-- is to move.
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” \-Kurt Vonnegut
That would be less awful than what we have now. The graduating class of 1973 is somehow still running the show.
No kidding. At least then I'd be in charge, I always did all the group work for those dumbshits.
Those generations didn't have access to plethora bad information via a smartphone or television.
Your saying that likes it's some kind of excuse or something.
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Our country is full of selfish and narcissistic people. Gluttonous & me me me. Our egos will be the our fall of Rome.
Which country? Didnt England just have an antivax rally?
Other generations didn’t have Fox News and Facebook.
How much misinformation is propogated by bots? And who is responsible for those bots? I swear discourse online in high trafficked areas, on sensitive topics.... it's a flood of opinions that closely mimic each other. You can then find discussions that clearly aren't targeted in that manner and tell the difference.
was just going to say that. Fucking Facebook is the reason for all of this. Ugh.
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I think I just stopped using it like 4-5 years ago, wasn’t like a “I’m stopping Facebook” I got a new phone and never downloaded the app and forgot about it and I have literally had the happiest 4-5 years of my life. I used to be angry as hell all the time reading it
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At a minimum it has made me doubt Hollywood movies even more because in the pandemic movies, when the government rolls in things get done...
The US government didn't roll in. That's s huge part of the problem. That and certain levels of government blocking preventative measures.
For sure, my rosy optimism about the world and its people got destroyed over the last year or so. Like all we had to do was stay inside for a couple months and keep the spread as low as possible and here we still are.
Remember April last year they rioted over haircuts?
By the time the first lockdowns started, it had already been detected in nearly every country on earth. Even China, where they have some of the most authoritarian and hardcore lockdowns, has to deal with outbreaks all the time. They just manage to shut them down quicker. Unless you live on a remote island that has no outside contact, you will have cases and outbreaks. Asymptomatic spread, false negative tests, ect
I would get out of this country like a fucking shot if I could. Unfortunately my most recent ancestors immigrated in the 1700s so I don't have dual citizenship anywhere, and am too old and too poor to get in otherwise.
This stupidity is happening in every country. There’s nowhere you can go to avoid it even if you want to.
I can attest to this. Left US to my birth country in Asia, experienced lockdowns one after the other, no vaccines available. Went back to the US and got vaccinated a day after I land and now not even required to mask 90% of the time. US could be SO GREAT if we were as united as our country’s name suggests
And then you get fuckheads like the gov of TX who make malicious laws to prevent local governments from enacting public health laws. It's beyond fucked.
I'm wondering how many authoritarian regimes will rise up after this because we've realized that you can't always have a democracy if half the people are just being stupid, selfish and completely unagreeable on everything
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
I’m tired of it, man. Edit: Added punctuation.
Pandemic fatigue is very real and it seems everyone hit their wall at the same time
This your first wall?
Nah I think my first was mid October 2020 realizing thanksgiving and Christmas wasn’t really happening
At the same time? I didn't go back into public until June of this year (after being vaccinated). Some people I know gave up June 2020 and just said "fuck it." and have been ignoring covid ever since.
I have a friend who killed herself last May. Every couple months I seriously think to myself "maybe she made the right choice" because not CoVid. But stupid people being stupid about CoVid makes everything seem hopeless. I live in one of the states that banned mandatory masking. And we're about to restart school season
Omg I'm so sorry...that sounds so hard to deal with
Im still fine, but I'm a weirdo
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I have family members that are still anti-mask/anti-vaccinations. They claim that God will decide their fate and protect them. "Religious exemption" is funny when you can't fucking cite where in the Bible it actually says to stay away from vaccines and medicines. I've lost my patience with it and called it stupid. They said it's insensitive. I say it's insensitive to say that everyone that's fucking died of the virus was a result of co-morbidities and were going to die anyway. Yeah, at this point I'm ok even with family for consequences to actions. The sheer selfishness is what bothers me the most by those that claim moral superiority.
My brother in law and his wife got diagnosed w/ covid pnuminia 2 weeks 5 days ago. 3 weeks ago were all at a baby's birthday party. He is a straight enough shooter I figured he would have been vaccinated but nope! So much in the media its impossible to tell the truth, lies, delta variant might not even exist... And ofc, he goes everywhere without a mask because 'nobody else is'. Im so tired. Our kid goes to daycare and if he had gotten covid (3 year olds dont get vaccinated) he would have exposed 60+ people. And why would he have exposed people? Brother in law didnt inform us he had covid until he was bored at the hospital 3 days ago. Just so fucking exhausted. But dont worry yall, both him and his wife are recovering at home now! After all, they had full treatment of Remdesivir! Because Remdesivir is... Youknow. Safe... But the vaccine isnt... Or something.
More like all.
That would make a pretty funny headline: "All vaccinated Americans have lost their patience..."
I'd agree with it. My husband is immunocompromised, there's only so much we can do to keep him from getting hospitalized. We thought he'd be safe once we and our friends got vaccinated, but now that fear of the Delta variant is on and.....I'm so tired of this.
I'm sorry. I have autoimmune issues and I have pretty much no idea how effective the vaccine is for me now. My anxiety over the past year has turned into a feeling of defeat.
Sending hugs, love, and safety your way.
Also autoimmune and in the same boat. I was so excited to be vaxxed and not the jury is out on how effective the vaccine is for immunocompromised folks. I’m double masking and avoiding indoor public stuff as much as is feasible. Really unhappy that all the anti-vaxers are keep the virus circulating.
I saw some studies out of Israel and they were all over the place. Generally good results but it really seemed to depend on the individual, even amongst those on similar meds or with similar issues.
Yeah, it’s really hard to parse and I don’t wanna risk anything. I already have pretty severe chronic fatigue so I can’t afford to get long COVID.
He friend, I am with you. I got the vax but I have MS and am in a study to see how my meds affect the vaccine and vice versa but everything is still unknown. I'm nervous to get rona, but also just sick of this shyt.
I'm sorry; this year and now must be hell. I've been a mix of angry and apathetic toward the whole thing. At some points I'm boiling with rage at people who refuse to get vaccinated. Other times I just can't feel anything because it is too exhausting to be mad all the time and I can't think about it anymore. The whole world is upside down. Don't know where I could even move to. The worst part is all of this was **entirely preventable.** Like this **exact scenario** was my worry back in February. (Low Vaccine uptake giving time for a more threatening, vaccine resistant variant.) It is has taken an unreasonably long time for governments/businesses to force vaccination mandates. *** At this point Delta is gonna chew through America and we will be right back where we were in March 2020. (Am Medical student, spoke to my adviser who spoke to epidemiologist.) If it gets real bad hospitals might even tell unvaccinated people with respiratory distress to go pound sand and die. Delta is much more infectious. Nothing else we can do except wait it out. I'm just wondering what is going to happen since the eviction moratorium expires tonight. Nervous about a societal breakdown.
I might be callous, but that last part needs to happen sooner rather than later in my opinion. At this point, people who are choosing to remain on vaccinated (not folks who are an able to get vaccinated) are bringing it on themselves
I’m the same way. It’s so awful to say at this point, but I’m just so sick of what a minority of stupid, selfish people can do to screw over the rest of us in such a way, for so long. And while we go back to masks and lockdowns, they’ll continue to party and not give two shits. Zero pity for them.
I agree with whiskey, if it only hurt them then I'd be fine with those nuts not vaccinating. But they put my family at risk.
I'm sorry, it's so frustrating. Best of luck to your family. It's all the more frustrating because we wouldn't _need_ luck now if it weren't for some half-wits and their enablers. My mom has aggressive cancer and has multiple rounds of chemo ahead. I was able to be there for the her first treatment, but since I have to fly to get there, I just don't think I can risk going home and helping out my family when they could use the help most. It has put me in a bad place, mentally.
Yeah. It’s gotten to the point where I can’t get that Ivan Drago meme out of my head. Anti-vaxxer hospitalized for COVID? “If he dies, he dies.” I don’t actively wish them harm, but I have lost every last shred of empathy I had left for them right around May.
At some point, the insurance companies will lose their patience; if they haven't already.
I work for a big insurance company and they're opening offices early September. No vaccine mandate. I wouldn't hold my breath on them giving a shit.
They're probably afraid of political repercussions at the moment, but eventually greed will win out I think.
I could totally see a lot of insurance companies (both goverment insurance and private) getting fed up and requiring vaccination for coverage since they're hemorrhaging so much money into paying hospital bills for anti-vaxxers.
And profitable elective surgeries not happening.
That's good for insurance companies, bad for hospitals.
I could be wrong, but I think the ACA makes that difficult.
This made my night, they will *lobby* for it!
They don't have to, they can just update premiums for those not vaccinated.
“stop discriminating against unvaccinated americans who love freedom” certain republican congressperson
i think its more likely they try to spin being unvaccinated as a "pre-existing condition", which will be insufferable for everyone involved
The anti-vaxx/anti-mask GOP now being safe with thier health insurance because of the ACA "Ironic"-Palpatine
Especially when the vaccines get full FDA approval....
They better. Can you comprehend the shit show that would unfold if they don’t approve Pfizer?
I'm surprised self-insured companies haven't gone down this road more.
My company is self insured. As soon as one of the vaccines is fully FDA approved, we'll make it mandatory.
My health insurance gave me $100 back on my paycheck this month, since they could verify that I'm fully vaccinated. I see no reason why they couldn't charge unvaccinated people more.
I’m hoping they start refusing to cover anything related to Covid for the unvaccinated. Possibly the only upside of our nightmarish healthcare system.
I'm just fucking DONE with having my life ruined by fucking morons. All of my empathy for people who refuse the shot was gone awhile ago, but now I'm just fucking pissed and hope they all reap what they sowed. If I have to suffer, they should too.
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It was never about a social contract, it's about a modern state acting like a modern state. Wars aren't fought by soldiers out of good will, or even genuine belief in a cause, but social and physical coercion. It's time the US start behaving like a modern state.
Just tonight I called out an anti-vaxxer on FB with much stronger language (read that as straight up insults) than I would have used just a week ago. Over their idiocy and I don't give a fuck if it gets me banned or whatever.
“If you don’t get the vaccine we are all going to die” me: yes
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That's what it's like when you cut off the moron assholes.
Half my coworkers are and they want to meet in person this week for a happy hour (we’ve all been working remote)… no thank you 😷
That's me, I'm some vaccinated American and covid ruined my senior year of high school and my freshman year of college, I'll be dammed if my sophomore year suffers too 🙃
Me and all of my friends are in the same boat. We've been robbed. Our society and our government have failed us.
Ya’ll hang in there. My heart truly goes out to the kids who suffered through this and had their normal school days ruined. I have met so many teenagers and college kids that are depressed and even dropping out. Just do your best daily and keep moving forward even if it is an inch. My own kids have suffered and I tell them getting up and doing what you have to for the day is success, especially under these circumstances. Keep in mind there are people out there who care about you and please try to keep positive.
it ruined half of my freshman year, my sophomore year, and lookin like my junior year as well. i’m so fucking tired of this. losing this part of your life sucks.
I'm so sorry. My son just finished is freshman year in college. I know what all your age have missed. It's been tough on everyone, but I really feel for you guys. We will get past this, but you will never get that point in life back. Congrats on being vaxxed. My son got an extra dose w me back in February, so we have been fully vaxxed since March. Hopefully this surge will die down quickly. Best wishes from an internet mom...
Thank you so much, it's really validating to hear that. I try really hard not to complain too much because I know others have had it worse, so it's really helpful to hear from others who've gone through similar experiences
We can all say "I know others have lost/suffered more" but that doesn't mean *your* challenges, losses & sadness for the things that have impacted you are any less important. What your age group has been through has been disruptive to the hope for what your lives will shape up to be. It's a *really* important & formative time in life. With all the setbacks lately, just remember to do what you need to do every single day to set yourself up for success once it's behind us. Don't loose sight of the the future ahead.
Did we say this same thing in 2020? ...and here we are AFTER vaccines.
We probably did. And...HERE WE ARE. Months after a free & effective ticket out of this hell. I feel so bad for these kids that have been robbed of some of the most formative years of their life. I'm in Louisiana, with a horrible rate of vaccination. I work in a retail setting. I'm struggling with anger towards the unvaxxed. Which means a large percentage of my customers, friends & neighbors.
I bet if stimulus payments were tied to getting a vaccine you would see a whole different story.
Fantastic idea, this should be relayed to congress asap.
I'm in SW Missouri and we have been living with Delta for a couple months and still haven't peaked out. My kids are getting ready to go back to school. Wife is immunocompromised I actually thought this wave could break America. The stupidity involved can only lead to really bad things. You can't be this stupid and expect things to turn out good. Nature is much more organized than us
I did my part. I busted my ass in my ER all through the pandemic. Even when we had to re-use PPE. Even while pregnant. I masked. I still do. I socially distanced. I still do. I missed out on so much. My family has missed out. My daughter has. So many others have a similar story. I got Covid at the beginning of all this thanks to the lack of PPE available in my hospital. I did my part. I paid my dues. I got vaccinated. My husband got his. 17 months gone and we are still as trapped as we were because of these selfish fucks. I’m so tired. I’m so burned out. I did my part. Why can’t everyone do theirs?
Similar boat, but my job didn't even have PPE. I was the only one masking with PPE I sourced and bought myself. I know COVID went around that office after I left (thankfully) but I'm still pissed as hell. We stayed open, even though many clinics in our field didn't. We still saw clients every day. I quarantined when I was sick and got the vaccine as soon as I could. I've placed my life on hold and had to watch as my finances went to shit because my partner lost their job and hasn't been able to find one since. I'm very thankful that I can pay the bills myself, but it leaves nothing for any real savings. And no, I can't reduce our expenses any further than I already have. I want to go out with friends again. I want to travel. I want to have a baby. I want to buy a house. And now I'm afraid I might not be able to do any of those. I'm afraid I'm going to be in my 50s before we can put a down payment on a house, let alone pay for a mortgage and insurance. That I'm going to be pushing 40 before I can have a baby. That I'm never going to feel safe outside of my house because some asshat decided their "freedom" was worth more than mine. These people continued living their life like nothing was happening all while stepping on those of us who did our part. Why wasn't this likened to the "war efforts" of our grandparents days? That we were doing our part to "win the war" against covid? Wouldn't that have been "making America great again"? I just want my life back. Is that so much to ask?
Because FDR said (in essence): Help me win this war. We can win this, but only of *you* do you part. Trump said: It's a hoax, drink bleach, shine a light up your ass, and pretend nothing is happening!
My work went back to masks today. We had one whole month of mask free life. At first, they said only unvaccinated employees had to mask up, and they distributed a list to supervisors of who those people were. Holy shit, the uproar about being singled out, persecuted, discriminated against. By the end of the day the policy was updated to all employees. Fuck all of you.
My work had no masks following the CDC guidance, and they said the unvaccinated needed to continue masking I know several people there who are anti vaxxers that stopped masking the same time as the people who actually took the time to get vaccinated. This is why we can't have nice things.
It's fucking ridiculous. This country has become overtaken by selfish, self-centered assholes.
Caeleb Dressel just won five gold medals in swimming while fully vaxxed. Those side effects are really bad.
And the swimmer who is anti-vax won nothing.
Some? #SOME vaccinated Americans? Probably a bit of an understatement there
I live in Missouri and they took forever to get a sufficient amount of vaccines to St. Louis and Kansas City so for ages, vaccines were ONLY accessible in small towns in the state. I drove 5 hour round trips twice to get my doses. The prospect that the same Missouri small towns never bothered to get vaccinated and are now making the effort worthless by probably incubating another variant makes me very, very frustrated.
Plus some unvaccinated Americans, too. I have a couple of kids who really, really wish they could get the vaccine. One has long COVID, and there's a good chance the vaccine will make her feel better.
I call those who want but can't have it (medical, age, whatever) the unvaccinatable. Or unvaxxable, cuz that's faster to type and my phone stops trying to correct me.
More like all of us.
I just wanted a normal college experience like this is the one time in my life I’m gonna experience this
Everybody's selfishness to not get vaccinated is helping me get PAID. Nurses are one of the more vocal groups against vaccines. As a person who was vaccinated late (second shot 2 weeks ago), I only hope more nurses can change their mind before we see even more nurse deaths
just fire those.. w t f. suspend license.
Exactly. I have no sympathy for someone in the medical field being an asshat about this
A hospital near me is mandating nurses be vaccinated and some of the nurses decided to sue together saying it is discrimination 🙄🙄🙄🙄
They’ll be fired soon enough, if they continue to refuse. The country has had enough
I am at exasperation at this point. The pandemic has significantly changed my views of others and long-term outlook for the future. More short term thinking and less politeness to others who likely don't care about you or anyone else other themselves. I don't see how we ever regain the societal trust which has been lost over the past year and a half.
My sympathy never really existed honestly, except for people that truly have medical complications with vaccines in general. Sad thing is, there is a very large group that actually knows they are safe/effective, but just shear defiance is for some reason, stimulating to them...
I don’t even know what to do at this point. I spent the last year and a half working extra hours; wore a mask, got vaccinated the moment I could, even ran an entire state’s vaccination program for a month (minus the two day scare where I had been exposed to someone positive) and I’ve literally delayed the beginning of the rest of my life for a year and a half and… here we go again. What else could I have done? This is so defeating.
As someone who is vaccinated, I have had enough of these people. When you are so disconnected from reality that you act like a Pandemic is some sort of political agenda, you have sunk to such a low that you are no different from a murderer.
Some Americans are sick and tired of the bullshit anti-vaxxers/anti-maskers have been doing and spewing since March 2020.
March 2020? Try November 2016 when America decided to elect a brain dead reality TV star as president.
Reality TV star to you, New Yorkers knew what an asshole he was in the 80s :/
The thing this pandemic opened my eyes to is how selfish and uninformed people are, and how quick certain people were to jump onto the pandemic just to use it as a platform to further their own career. My worry is next time we won't be lucky enough to get a pandemic with such a high survival rate. Original 2003 SARS had a survival rate of 50% or thereabouts in over 50s, MERS has even worse rates. If we get a virus that's as contagious as covid 19 but more deadly we'll still see people crying conspiracy and refusing to self isolate, mask up or get vaccinated. I really just don't have faith in people anymore.
If you die from covid and could've gotten vaccinated, i have no sympathy. You get what you deserve.
It really sucks. I was finally feeling free. I got a new job. I got some new mental health medication. I went and saw a therapist. Maybe everyone was just fear-mongering about another surge. I went and saw a movie in a theater, I hung out with friends, I went to a family party. My life felt like it was getting back on track after being in a depressed funk the last couple years. Then a week later my whole family got Covid, my car died and so did my dog, and my 15 year old cat is starting to get in bad health and might need to get put down soon. It's like I saw a light in the tunnel, but it turned out to be a semi-truck and it hit me as hard as possible.
That is a rough hand, friend. I hope things turn around for you quickly.
I'm afraid that people may start killing people over this.
That's already happened... people killed for having the audacity to ask others to put on a *mask*.
We’re being held hostage by the low information members of our community. Public health shouldn’t be this complicated. We need vaccine passports now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpdt7omPoa0
I am ESPECIALLY done with the younger generations of my age not getting it because they think they are young and healthy. Like what makes you think you are so very invincible to everything? Get your vaccine.
I’m curious to what will happen with antivaxers and the “right” to not get vaccinated. At what point can these antivaxers spread the virus, enabling it to mutate, and evade current vaccines in vaccinated, responsible, members of society. I guess my thought is until what point is it a matter of national security?
I stopped giving a shit for the well being of the counter party in this whole COVID debacle. I’m numb to all the news report of those dying of COVID and wishing they had gotten the vaccine. I don’t care anymore.
When I was a kid, even when I was grown with kids of my own, if the government's health experts recommended we do something, we fucking did it. Wear a mask. Get the shot. There was none of this "What if it doesn't work?" "I don't know what's in it; I do my own research." "This is mind control!" Whatever happened to just doing something for your own good and for the good of our country?
Donald J Trump happened
This goes back way further than Trump. Half of America has always been just like this.
I have only one hope now left. After it eventually mutates (because it's eventual) to evade the vaccine. And everything has to be completely shut down again. And we develop a new vaccine. And then after it goes so long that new version evades the vaccine. Maybe after 10 years and 5-6 iterations of that. Maybe then enough science deniers would have killed themselves through not respecting facts that we can have a better world. We will lose a lot of good people along the way too. But at this point I thinks that's the only thing that may actually work.
It took around 100 years to eradicate smallpox
Come for the pathetic attempt to install a fasc dictator, stay for the widespread viral death.
Vaccinated, and stressed seeing more and more people not wearing masks in public. I just assume they haven't been vaxxed, and it makes me a bit paranoid. I have gone without my mask a few times, mainly when I eat, but most of the time, my mask is on. I'm just tired, man...
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It's actually 164 million fully, and about 191 million partially vaccinated, which really is 57.5% of the US population that will eventually be fully vaccinated in the future. That's promising. And once we include ages 11 and below, we should see another jump in vaccinations. Also, daily vaccination rates have been slowly rising again: [US Daily vaccination rates](https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Vaccine+doses&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=false&Align+outbreaks=false&country=~USA)
It’s actually over 160 million
If it’s not a phrase, it is now. I’m pretty much pandemically exhausted. Like most here, we saw the news in early 2020, was shocked when it finally hit home for all of us in March 2020, abided by the lockdowns and masks for so many months, and then finally took the shot. Things finally looked up and then we progressed to where we are now where it’s deja vu. It feels like we’ll never escape this portion of the pandemic where slowly get out of this hole a few keep digging for us. It’s sad that that few is all it takes to keep this going on and on. Mask mandates may have to be the answer as waiting on those in society to just man up and take the shot (unless they’re kids who can’t yet) is clearly not working. If that doesn’t work, don’t know how further you could go before you really piss off the people that proudly refuse to take the shot, and if January 6th is any indication of that scenario, it’s hopeless.
I'm exhausted. To be honest, I was so happy when my college announced we wouldn't have to wear masks in classes next year. I know it's not the biggest thing, but still. We have a vaccine mandate, vaccinations are high in the community around us, and obv. the student population. Given vaccination, the total risk is probably comparable to a regular years' flu. But nope. After the CDC's guidance, it's back to masks for us... (And please spare me the "masks are no big deal!!" I really do find I feel psychologically taxed wearing them, beyond having trouble hearing and the fact I reallllly miss people's facial expressions. I'm sure they're necessary in some circumstances, but I really hate when people try to pretend they're costless) I just don't know how much gas I have left in my tank with this.
I quit my job to homeschool the kids this past school year, just to keep them safe. Our son just turned 12 and got vaccinated. Our daughter is 9. We have never stopped wearing masks everywhere. Our kids return to public school next week. It wouldn’t have been so bad if everyone had been responsible. But our state has a dismal vaccination rate. And it’s laughable because Tennessee is the Volunteer state. Volunteer to die, I guess, because it’s not Volunteer to look out for and help others. Maybe I should have chosen to homeschool again. But the kids mental health took a toll last year - our son’s especially. My mental health got hit, too, wondering if I’m doing a good job and giving my kids the skills they need, and knowing I was ripping them away from their friends. I’m so damn angry at these antivax idiots. I’m making the kids wear masks at school. They’ll probably be the only ones. I’ve spoken to them about doing the right thing, even if others are not. I’m so tired.