I'm sorry you're in this position. I hope that in the end you're able to maintain your job and your personal choice as to whether or not to be vaccinated. I am hoping that this all somehow unwinds in the least gruesome way possible before this mandate even goes into effect--or that the various legal challenges end up being successful. I consider it possible, even if I'll only believe it when I see it.
It's funny, I have been expecting the collapse for years now, and have imagined it playing out in varying bad degrees. Yet I never expected this. The pandemic itself, sure--and in a sane world, I would have been thankful that this is the pandemic we got, considering how much worse it could have been from a sheer disease standpoint. But all the knock on effects--the social insanity, the demonization and division, the way that so many people who I thought I understood veered so far in a direction that I can barely comprehend, the sense of oppression and the inability to actually talk through all this craziness in a truly blunt and honest way--that's what has knocked me for such a loop.
I expected us to collapse, I just never thought it would look and feel like this. It's a good reminder that the world is under no obligation to act the way you think it should.
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branchandroot
Re: Horrifying
Date: 2021-09-12 04:25 am (UTC)I'm sorry you're in this position. I hope that in the end you're able to maintain your job and your personal choice as to whether or not to be vaccinated. I am hoping that this all somehow unwinds in the least gruesome way possible before this mandate even goes into effect--or that the various legal challenges end up being successful. I consider it possible, even if I'll only believe it when I see it.
It's funny, I have been expecting the collapse for years now, and have imagined it playing out in varying bad degrees. Yet I never expected this. The pandemic itself, sure--and in a sane world, I would have been thankful that this is the pandemic we got, considering how much worse it could have been from a sheer disease standpoint. But all the knock on effects--the social insanity, the demonization and division, the way that so many people who I thought I understood veered so far in a direction that I can barely comprehend, the sense of oppression and the inability to actually talk through all this craziness in a truly blunt and honest way--that's what has knocked me for such a loop.
I expected us to collapse, I just never thought it would look and feel like this. It's a good reminder that the world is under no obligation to act the way you think it should.