Please take care of yourselves, everyone. Covid is still going, still a threat, and can still kill or disable you and your loved ones. Please, do everything you can- wear a mask- an N95 or a KN95, filter your air with a hepa filter, ventilate your air, socialize carefully, get the vaccine, try to work remotely or at least away from other people if you can, use a nasal spray, avoid crowds. I know that not everyone can do these things but please do as many as you can. Assume that you and people around you are asymptomatically infectious, and take precautions as if that's the case.

Don't give up. Even a single case prevented is worth it. Even if you are exposed, if you can be exposed to a lower viral load that will be better- so precautions count. Think of your loved ones, your friends, yourself, your communities. You are protecting everyone each time you take protective steps. The government has failed us utterly and now it's time to take matters into our own hands and slow this down as much as possible. The fewer people infected means that fewer variants develop. Fewer variants mean that future vaccines are more likely to protect us.

Getting disabled can happen to anyone. No matter your age or level of health, getting covid can make things worse. Some people get permanent conditions from covid, like heart problems, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases. Please, do everything you can to protect yourself. Good health is temporary, and sometimes when you lose it it never comes back. If you can save yourself from a getting a permanent disability, you should.

I'm actually getting pretty paranoid about COVID since I've been in close contact with people who have had it, but I've never gotten it in all this time. So sometimes I wonder if I somehow missed it or was asymptomatic or something, and it's gonna come back to bite me with delayed symptoms later. Not a fun feeling

2020 as a year sucked, but I was extremely proud of how people in my life, including me, stepped up and handled Covid. I also really enjoyed moving home and spending time with my sister and family for the first substantial period of time in years.

2021 was tough since that’s when the vaccines came out, which should’ve been a good thing, but since our response to Covid this whole time has been just wait for the vaccines, immediately everyone throws caution to the wind. My family was still pretty cautious which was good.

2022 I started noticing no one around me was taking precautions. My family, without telling me, dropped a ton of precautions. They were still doing more than most, but it was literally the barest of minimums. I start to notice like mid 2022 that I don’t feel safe around my family with the level of precaution they’re taking.

2023 has been my bleakest year on record. My family is still taking bare minimum precautions, but it’s clearly just because they know I’m worried. Not that it matters since I mostly stay in my room anyway to minimize my time around them, or mask in the house if they just came back from a trip. My dad’s disdain for me is just barely concealed. Another fun part of the pandemic is watching him just go full fash because he couldn’t get a haircut from March-sept 2020. I don’t know what to do or where to go, there are no precautions anywhere. Everyone who is still active and going out just seem sad, like they’re telling themselves they should be having fun, and they’re acting like they’re having fun, but it’s all just a sad imitation of the way they all remember life pre-2020, they haven’t yet figured out that time has moved on and they’re clinging to that which no longer exists. Then there’s me and all the people in my Covid cautious groups, stressed and depressed to the point we’re not sure what’s the long Covid and what’s the effects of living through collapse, telling ourselves well at least we know what’s going on as if that matters as we slowly waste away. I dread what 2024 will bring, and I can’t believe it but if we must have a pandemic, I miss 2020.

I honestly don"t even know what could be long covid for me and what's ADHD+ mounting stressors+ aging at this point.

Had? I wonder how 'had' it's gonna be after a couple more rounds of infections.

It just feels like living through a zombie apocalypse. Trying for months to get my young children the updated vaccines has been enough to finally convince me of something I’ve known deep down since April 2020. COVID-19 is not a respiratory illness. It is a viral induced psychomyopathy. Like the humble toxoplasmosis infection that makes people love cats and reject basic hygiene. Or the ophicordycep fungus that convinces ants to go to a nice breezy branch before the fungus erupts from its head. Or rabies which makes you afraid of water and want to bite people. If you’ve had it, I’m sorry, but it is too late for you. COVID-19 will inextricably drive you to spread it. But it’ll be subtle. Maybe you’ll “forget” to wash your hands despite always being very diligent about it. Or you’ll keep trying to invite people over even though you hate hosting. Maybe you’ll get super into NFTs or something and somehow that further proliferates COVID. It’s enough to make me want to mail [REDACTED] to federal buildings.

investigate Fort Detrick

Six months later: Police say shooting by Fort Detrick sailor was targeted, motive still unknown

How do I tell if its that or my usual seasonal affective disorder compounded by a god awful year?

Owned.