The point is not that I am in here, and think I can do nothing. The point is that you are all out there, and think you can do everything. You are all out there, frozen in time, in denial, when the world changed in 2020. The world changed and no one in the world is changing with it, so now measles returns. Whooping cough returns. Tuberculosis returns. Do you understand? I have done and continue to do plenty with my community of people who are devoted to keeping each other and us all safe. 11 million people are in all these photographs telling me they do not share this value. I go outside every day to people telling me they do not share this value. Whatever is going on out there, it's certainly something, but it's not sustainable in the new world. It's not equitable, it's not emancipatory. The same people screech and holler and scold and assure me that whatever side they're on really cares about those things, but nothing they do can be any of those things if their health, their people's health, the health of everyone involved in present or future is forfeit to the plague—and if that's the case, what good is any of it? Just wear a god damn mask when you're outside your home. It's that simple.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I'm not a huge fan of mass cultures approach to pandemic management.

I don't think most people care. Not about this; not about anything. They literally dont know how. Just totally sloppified fucking p-zombie automatons functioning entirely at the level of social pressure and first impression instinct and a shallow identity derived from that. It sucks it's alienating and it's awful. I find it makes losing these people¹ to their own stupidity worryingly easy on the heart.

I don't know what your big issues are.

But you can't live in a world alone. So back-end support, which is at least as important as and more broadly applicable than any situation where you might be gassed in a crowd of non-maskers, must still be done yo make a better world.

I'm of the opinion that the world gets made by the people who show up. For whatever reason, in whatever context. To the police riot the jitsi meeting the covert action or the friend group; it gets made by the people who show up. I don't know what you're doing to make people suck less, not gonna ask. Just asking that you're doing something.

¹to yhe extent that they are