Anybody else have family members who concealed a COVID outbreak in the immediate family because they’re afraid to admit to themselves or anybody else that the holier-than-thou pandemic “Beliefs” they’ve formed through partisan hate-speech, Russian memes, Fakebook fakery and YouTube quacks Just got punched in the mouth by Real Life?
I just learned that I’ve been two short steps away from a family outbreak since DECEMBER via someone I interact with almost every day. Two of the infected science-deniers are still suffering from lingering symptoms more than three months in! And not once did this person or anyone else in the know show the respect or simple human courtesy to inform me about it.
I guess it’s just so much easier to silently and selfishly risk the health and well-being of one useless old Boomer than to lose face (GASP!) and have to openly confess that the endless stream of media mythology and misdirection they’ve been swallowing — and piously regurgitating with the greatest of authority — has proven to be pure horse shit. Just like some of their caring friends, families, and the rest of the Adult World have been trying to tell them since the beginning.
On the plus side, I’ve been extremely worried for them all because they’re raising young children and have been living in a world of angry rhetoric, racist dog whistles and extremist fantasies for decades now. But it’s the world they actually PREFER to live in. So it has taken a great weight off my shoulders to suddenly not have to give a flying fuck for the people who obviously don’t give a shit about me. From them, I will now be “social distancing” into eternity.
I’m sure glad Mom didn’t live to see her family fall apart.
Sad.