So, Covid-cautious peeps: how do you handle it when the people in your orbit want sympathy for getting sick •again•.
I just had this go-round again today with one of my coworkers, & I'm afraid I didn't handle it very well. (Granted, there were other factors in play that impaired my restraint. But even so....)
Yeah, I tried to have that conversation and...it didn't go well.
Yeah.
I know better. I was tired & feeling unbearably sad (bc The World) (but also really f'n angry) so my guard was down.
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Yeah. That was one of the points I was trying to make, but of course it sailed right over coworker's head without raising a breeze in their hair.
Welp. Now I can confidently conclude that they Just Don't Get It. Which is useful information.
That is absolutely 💯/💯 what I should have (& would have usually) done. However, they'd already sandbagged me with a comment about the Current State Of World Affairs that unhorsed me, so my guard was down, & for some gods-forsaken reason, I decided to Tell The Truth for once.
Please, Cavy, for the love of all that's holy, don't do that again....
Oh, that's •very• good! Thank you!
(& one that I can support with my whole chest (heh) because the last time* I got a respiratory virus was sometime in 2018 or 2019....)
* Knock on wood
It baffles me, too. Aside from the social isolation involved in avoiding COVID, masking is certainly a PITA, but •damn• it seems preferable to the alternative.
Given the way the US has been going in the last ten years, the only sense I can make out of it (which makes too damn much sense, honestly, & makes me feel like a conspiracy nut) is that it has all been a gigantic, systemic psyop. Likely complements of Vlad the Greedy.
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