@antiall3s@kolektiva.social sending solidarity. I had an access need or two before the pandemic, and wound up in that same "caught covid too early to know if it was covid at the time" situation. It really sucks to not "be sure" while navigating long covid.

The blasé attitude folks take towards their own health and the health of their friends and loved-ones just blows me away. We have so many more tools now! Rapid antigen tests (free), rapid PCR tests, slow PCR tests (free!), filtration improvements, stats on outdoor transmission, stats on different kinds of masks, community wastewater viral load testing, and effective vaccines...

And instead, many people seem to want to pretend the last three years didn't happen, and to move back to when our culture was a hotbed for communicable diseases. It's disappointing that in three years, we got two changes: masks in doctor's offices and zoom funerals.

It's exhausting just to think about.