Spoiler alert: it was dumb, it shattered me, and I once again fucking destroyed the best connection I had in my life buttttt I didn’t panic and run away like I usually do so that’s something I guess
OH MY GOD. I’m about to do the same very dumb shit I did in high school and it might end in a fuckin disaster but it also might be great
It’s October 2023 and Nowadays, if I laugh too much (which, fortunately almost never happens bc we live in a fiery hellscape), I get involuntarily launched into an asthma-esque respiratory attack where I wheeze and cough uncontrollably thanks to COVID and the pulmonary embolism it gave me 🙃 so this post resonates hard
There was a popular post that went around two years ago that said something along the lines of "we have to be willing to look paranoid--it's better to be overly-cautious than to be careless and prolong the pandemic!"
It's pretty much the only thing holding my sanity together now that it's year three of the pandemic, everyone's decided it's over even though it's still killing people, local data suggests my area is under-reporting new cases, and people keep telling me VERBATIM that I'm being "overly cautious" and "kinda paranoid."