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They have zero awareness of the huge Christmas covid spike because no expert officially told them to worry. No media said they should care. So it literally does not exist.
Yet they all did have it over Christmas and gave it to me and my partner and since we test, we know. In their mind they just had a bit of a cold, no worries in coming to Christmas dinner with family that is high risk. My partner got very sick and was told last week that he now has diabetes. My longcovid stuff got so much worse. They fully think my pots symptoms and such are just in my head I am sure and they don't have to see the daily struggle. Talking about it is fully stigmatized so they don't have to hear about it either.
I have posted a few links to our family chat from time to time:
Hospital statistics that still do exist that show how the numbers in the last 6 months were so much higher than ever before during the pandemic.
Wastewater chart showing the huge wave over Christmas to justify some caution.
Statistics that show how far more people have died in the last two years than the two before.
Scientific info on how it is not just a respiratory virus and that one can be asymptomatic or have something like a headache and it can still be covid.
What longcovid is. I have it, my partner does. Despite all the vaccines and precautions. I am terrified of the next time I get it.
That masks work.
But they were told on 2022 that masks only protect other people, that covid is just a cold and is getting milder and that vaccination saved us all and this is where they are stuck. Despite their own bodies deteriorating from repeat infection. It is super difficult to come to terms with.
Based on some tests that were used in a study posted a couple months ago, covid does a number on a person's ability to control urges. If you spend any serious time around people in the early stages of dementia, you'll notice it's almost like their behavior regresses back to a child-like state of no longer controlling the things they know they shouldn't say or suppressing emotionally charged responses. Add to that the stress of capitalism and I think a lot of folks are just fucking losing touch with reality. For a lot of people, even before covid, if their echo chamber isn't maintaining their focus on a narrative, I don't think they hold onto it. Long Covid is probably only making it worse.