The number of people embracing full fascist social Darwinism towards the poor and immunocompromised is depressing and heartbreaking to say the least.
People should be protesting the poor response to COVID and the poor containment methods/ lack of government support. But nope, people protest about having to give a shit about other people and the flow of their precious treats. Astroturfed or not it still sucks.
We lost the mask mandate where I live recently. It was kind of sad to see most people just ditching the mask with the few who are in the most danger of covid left to fend for themselves.
Like at my work the only customers wearing a mask were a elderly lady and a woman who had cancer. I can’t help but feeling that not wearing a mask is a big “fuck you I don’t care if you die” to these people.
Just losing faith in humanity here, as a treat. Really makes me not want to take part in society at all.
I see no-maskers the way I see drunk drivers.
It’s the same kind of malevolent selfishness, the same kind of “fuck you, no one is going to tell me what to do, my treats are more important than your life.” I despise them and I have already stopped talking to anyone I knew that thinks that way.
If anything, anti-maskers are worse than drunk drivers. At least drunk drivers haven’t formed a political movement to force everyone to drive drunk. (You do not, under any circumstance, “gotta hand it to em”, etc., etc.).
It’s as if anti-smoking ban activists gained mainstream legitimacy and endorsement across the political spectrum
It’s as if anti-smoking ban activists gained all that, and if smoking was more contagious then then the flu, and you couldn’t tell who a smoker was.