re: Reddit zerocovid insane post of the week

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I’d imagine that’s fake

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Some of them are fake, but enough of them are real to be extremely concerning. Like all of these people’s lives have been ruined by their reaction to Covid, and they won’t come out of it without a major intervention and quite frankly rehab. You need to treat these people as if they are anorexic and force going out down their throats.

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And the people who have kids and continue to mask them are the worst. They need a stern wakeup call.

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The parents in that forum should largely be in fricking jail for what they continue to do to their kids.

The Hello Kitty phone case is a warning sign. Chick also needs to get some sun.

This has to be satire, right?

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This is where she buys her masks

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People (not the OP here) post crap like that for clicks, knowing that it's the height of ridiculousness, just to get comments.

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Some of them are fake (I saw one which I hope that is fake where a person refused to get surgery for stomach cancer all because they couldn’t put an N95 mask over her during the operation) but some like this I think are real: Aging is one of the hardest parts

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There are a ton of terrible things that come hand in hand with this pandemic. People losing their lives, people developing long covid, and so much more.

But, if I may, I'd like to take a moment to also recognize and mourn the almost five years of lost youth that we've experienced.

A few days ago I caught myself watching a dating video on YouTube, and I realized that the participants were in their early 20's. As they talked about all of their experiences and the relationships that they've had, it struck me that they were probably all still in high school when the pandemic started.

And yet here they were, adults, remarking about all of this relationship growth and development in their dating lives that they've lived over the past five years. And that just hit me really hard, especially as someone whose number one goal going into 2020 was finding the right partner.

But, now it's like, I'm five years older, and even though I feel about the same age as when the pandemic started, on the outside I'm of course five years older. And I'm also in a completely different age category now on dating apps (if we could magically start dating safely, starting tomorrow.) What if it's five more years on top of that?

And then I look at my brother's kids, who are now not so much kids any more, and I've missed most of them growing up.

To people that don't take precautions or care about the pandemic, the answer is simple, "Just live your life!" they'd say. "You're doing this to yourself!"

And some covid cautious people might say, "Just live your life in a mask!" But that's to say nothing of safely doing things like dating, intimacy, and even just enjoying quality time indoors with friends or family who won't mask. Stuff that I truly miss, and are a part of a usual social life.

I don't know. Often it hurts to just look out the window and see everyone out and about like it's 2019. Like a kid trapped inside at recess, forced to do math homework while everyone else is out playing. And they're like, "You know you can come out and join us! Everyone's here! You're the one forcing yourself to do math homework!" And you try explaining, only to see their eyes glaze over, and they finally just walk away.

I feel like we in the covid conscious community have done our part in this pandemic, and yet we're still suffering for it. And while there's not any real answer here, or obvious silver lining (sorry!), I do think that it might be helpful to just call out that huge chunk of (relative) youth that we've lost.

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I feel bad for these people, but then I remembered that people like this wanted anyone who didn’t comply to become second class citizens, and then I say that they can frick off.

Here’s another one I’m pretty confident is real: Tested positive. So disappointed & disillusioned.

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First time I’ve had COVID.

I want to go into all the details of what happened, to figure it out, but it doesn’t matter at this point.

I’m just so mad at myself. Mad at my spouse who doesn’t mask or take other precautions. He’s been really sick for over 3 weeks and, in hindsight, it’s clear he had Covid, despite the urgent care saying it was just bronchitis.

I just learned today that they didn’t even test him for COVID at his last visit(?!) like I trusted when I shouldn’t have.

And I feel terrible- physically. It’s too late for Paxlovid.

I started feeling bad on Wednesday, should have gone to the doctor earlier. My new insurance was supposed to start on 12/1 and it still hasn’t been set up. Cigna keeps saying it can be 10-15 business days before I even get my member ID. So even if I had gone earlier, it wouldn’t have mattered. I couldn’t have paid cash for paxlovid.

I know this doesn’t make sense, I’m just really upset and venting.

I’m going to search for the best way to treat my symptoms. And of course, I’ll stay away from everyone until I’m no longer contagious.

Thanks for letting me vent.

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Seriously they’re like addicts who have succumbed to the drug again or members of cults when they sin against the high preacher.

They talk on that thread as if they are the majority of the world and the right ones when they maybe make up 0.01% of the population and vast majority of people would not put up with that.

The audacity to think that the BF is in the wrong when he's handled it better than 99% of people. The audacity to think you'll have any option with standards like that.

She said she hates sex