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Yeah, there’s always online services. But it’s not the same. It doesn’t feel like being part of a community, just being shoved to the outskirts of one. And I honestly can’t trust any church that won’t mask at this point. Wearing a mask around someone who asks you to is more of a litmus test for...
I can’t. I looked around, but every church in the area is proudly announcing that masking is optional if they mention it at all. I found one that had a single masked service, but when I called to confirm, they said they’d forgotten to change it and that I could still mask if I wanted to. You...
Crossposting this, with the misery portion excised, because I figure you guys might be a little bit receptive.
I’m so sick of trying to convince people I deserve to live, and having them shrug and say ‘but that’d be mildly inconvenient.’
Self-defense is ironic?
I’m both autistic and diabetic. They want me dead and fully intend to kill me.
EDIT: Okay, I’m being a little tongue-in-cheek here, but a belief that autistic folks are better off dead is inherent to the autism justification. You can believe that vaccines cause autism...
Honestly, the fact that antivaxxers both keep spreading this easily- and repeatedly-disproven hoax and, by association, the belief that autistic kids would be better off dead, is enough reason for me to wish we’d give them a choice between “the jab” and a nice dose of potassium chloride.
In addition to all of the above, viruses mutate. Every person who refuses to get a vaccine is a Petri dish for the virus to continue mutating, requiring those of us who are sane to keep getting vaccinated and risk getting infected by new strains anyway. The anti-vax movement is basically a cult...
I‘m not sure if you could have drawn a more nonsensical conclusion, but I think it would be awfully hard. Diabetes gives me a much higher chance of dying from it, or suffering severe and/or long-term complications.
I used to feel bad about the schadenfreude I got out of that too. Then I got my diabetes diagnosis. Now it feels like laughing at someone who drove 80 down a side street, almost ran me over, and then got wrapped around a telephone pole. Sure, tragedy, loss of life, whatever. It’s still hard to...
I’m sorry, and I hope that, eventually, you do heal. And that the Nurglite cultists who are pretending they’re so brave by refusing to take basic safety precautions get their heads out of their asses sooner rather than later.
From my understanding, it’s plausible that the outbreak came from...
It’s worth noting that subsequent Covid infections are usually worse, and the more times you’re infected the worse it gets. According to the source here, you’ve got three times the chance of getting hospitalized as the baseline, and twice the chance of dying or getting long Covid. Which can...
This is super fucking misleading, not just because masks block droplets you exhale, but because there are masks that do protect against Covid. I’ve personally upgraded to N95s.
The degree to which the medical community has abandoned any semblance of preventative care is dumbfounding. There’s evidence that multiple infections makes Covid worse, including more risk of long-term effects. We know for a fact that even without this kind of cumulative damage, Covid can cause...
4 is delusionally optimistic. You don’t need to push people far at all for them to drop not just the facades of tolerance and civility, but the facade of basic human decency. The vast majority of people, when given the choice between killing the people around them and inconveniencing themselves...
Oh, since I’m here - and the mods haven’t answered my question in appeals - I like to apologize for one specific part of the general bitching debacle. Specifically, that I inadvertently spread misinformation. Here I called the death toll a weekly 9/11; here I corrected myself. As it turns out, I...
The thing that infuriates me is how so many people who were sanctimonious assholes about their decision to wear a mask turned out to be total hypocrites who will not give a fuck against forced to by law. It’s a slap in the face of all of us sanctimonious assholes who actually meant it.