People are making me feel crazy about fearing Covid. I heard a therapist go “I don’t want to say Covid is OVER…” (but)
Ok but maybe don’t generalize the hyper specific niche weird case of your allegedly hypochondriac friend to every other person who is afraid of having their lives ruined by a communicable disease that’s known to ruin peoples lives.
Sure, just don’t think that everyone who’s mad about COVID shut-ins is trying to gaslight you.
Whatever. The word gaslight is used a lot because it describes how people feel in the face of an overwhelming propaganda campaign to get people to rawdog covid for short term economic reputation laundering. I don’t give a shit about the word or the intent: at the end of the day, anyone trying to get me to take the risk of getting covid is trying to get me to risk my life for nothing, whether or not that’s their intention.
Maybe covid minimizers aren’t technically trying to gaslight people, but people sure as hell feel gaslit. The end result is the same: protections being undermined and more people’s lives ruined.
My buddy did a fine job ruining their own life without ever getting covid.