Honestly feel like I’ve caught it at some point in between getting the vaccine & boosters and just suffered through asymptomatically - or at least didn’t notice any symptoms - but am still like :side-eye-1: because holy shit we are letting this thing do a speedrun of Pandemic 2 and I am immunocompromised.

Unfortunately it is obvious the US has collectively shrugged its shoulders and decided that maybe getting long covid and reinfected over & over is perfectly fine, so…?

Went to vote the other day (let me stop you right here comrade and explain to you that I only did so because my recovering lib - ironic to say I know - friends were like ‘pls vote’ but i digress) and the polling place, which was the community center, had a fucking this $800 no contact thermometer tablet from amazon next to the entrance that was reading 97.3 on empty air inside the building. Some part of me was like “wonder which cop was like ‘I bet we can use this for facial recognition data harvesting’ and had the city wheel it in” and another part of me was like “the city probably just was like ‘we should do something to make sure we don’t kill all the boomers coming to vote’ and just lazily said ‘fuck it, whats the amazon login again?’”

Either way - no one in the building was wearing a mask, the people behind the front desk were looking at me weirdly for wearing one and for taking the time to actually read the sign next to the facial recognition data-harvester about making sure I wasn’t symptomatic, so I just walked past it without stopping since it clearly wasn’t working properly and I didn’t want my picture stored on some tablet (surely in the magical cloud too). :covid-cool: :amerikkka:

Honestly I blame Joe Biden for not doing more but…

:mission-accomplished-1::mission-accomplished-2:

The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over, if you notice no one’s wearing masks - everyone seems to be in pretty good shape[…]