Dave 
🇺🇸🇺🇦@lhgmk2 I think the point of "moving on" from pandemic concerns is straight-forward: If I want to change the world and make everyone safe, or if I want to forget the pandemic is a thing, I can _do_ neither, because the problem is entirely beyond my control at this point. Moving on from things beyond your control is pretty normal human behavior, even for the most stubborn among us. I can't make others care and at some point, I must acknowledge I'm only hurting myself by trying.
Longhairedgit@heydaave that might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
@lhgmk2 Newsflash: There is no solidarity to be found. Literally nobody wants to talk, let alone do anything about covid anymore. My community with which I might find solidarity would rather "just deal with it" than do anything at all, even in the smallest ways, to prevent it. If you want to call that oppression, you might be right. I'm at the point of acceptance with it. It's no longer something I allow myself to get upset about.
@lhgmk2 Look, I've got a kid in therapy because they're the only kid in school who still wears a mask. I don't see any of these hundred million others. All I see is a sea of selfish and uncaring people.
@heydaave There will be parents who prized education above everything, or had no fiscal choice about where the hell their kids have to be.
Millions of them will end up with children with post viral cognitive deficits. Will have essentially handicapped their own children, literally destroyed their iq, and memory capacity, and therefore even their identity as individuals. Some for ideology. They'll have to square with that one day.
Your kid sounds safer than that.
@lhgmk2 I have been crunching the numbers. According to vaccination records and census data, just under 65% of the county I live in has been vaccinated. That's at least 5% below the national average of around 70%, probably much lower in some areas of the county.
People rarely blame themselves for the harm they cause. That requires self-awareness.
@heydaave the subconscious is an unstoppable thing. Takes years to come around sometimes, but no matter how denialist a person becomes it records everything. The only people unbothered by it are sociopaths. The rest, it has some kickback for. Lots of PTSD and depression on its way for denialists. Just like soldiers of colonial wars going back as old men to cry on their victims asking forgiveness. Pandemics and war have that in common.
@heydaave tbh even the vaccinated are only 45% less likely to contract and infect and get Longcovid. Going out unmasked every day as they do, and few recieving enough boosters, and with COVID constantly achieving vaccine escape their odds of not being severely hit over a number of years is minimal. Relying on vaccination alone was a catastrophic mistake. But you know that as well as I do, your kid is in a mask.
@heydaave Denialism is never sustainable, it's just the wait for it to end is longer and more arduous than most would estimate.its an age of man. The trick is not to worry what's in an idiots mind, beyond mitigating for them.
Dealing with denialists and idiots, and the medically illiterate is just a task. It doesn't have to be a huge emotional investment. To allow it to become such is just to grant your oppressor power over you. Being peer pressured into death or incapacity cannot be permitted.
@heydaave All that matters, is you're giving yourself, and your kid a chance to outlast some idiots. Which if you pull it off isn't a bad result. A working brain is a great thing.
He might rule a continent one day. Cheer up mate, I think you're doing real good. You're unfucked and smart, and you're giving your kid some future without a mental handicap.
I'm smart and still going to die from Longcovid complications. I'd hope to be able to have done as much as you. You did a real thing.
@heydaave Me? I'm going out on raising cats. 🤣