Like we all knew it was going to happen, but legitimately I’m pretty concerned about the next step here from the US.
Most of the poors, myself included, are poorer and more mentally fatigued than ever before in recent memory. It has vibes of '08 but mixed with a literal murderer living in your fellow people’s airways the whole situation is absolutely horrifying.
Obviously senate is deadlocked while they’re butthurt about the elections, that was always going to happen. Hopefully the GA runoff is a democrat win? I guess? Will they be able to push a stimulus bill through if that happens? Will they want to?
I don’t really understand what is happening anymore, I’m pretty terrified in my day to day like I was back at the beginning of this. The city I’m in is getting more cases than ever before. Nothing has changed and has, in fact, gotten worse.
The complacency that this election has created in the liberals feels malicious and borderline sadistic.
I guess I’m just posting wondering what you all have to say about the next coming months. I’m pretty worried.
Edit: I want to add that, at this point, I can barely remember who I was before this agoraphobia that was forced onto me was in place.
I remember going to bars and hanging out with friends. I remember casually going to the store and just walking around. I remember being excited to visit friends and family whenever i had the chance.
Fuck. I remember being creative. Making music and writing. That’s gone too and replaced by alternating panic and a deep, unrelenting sadness.
Why am I just sitting in this apartment, scared and confused, with the weeks passing by in instants? What the fuck are we waiting for? How much of our lives will continue to be stolen?
I barely went out, so to quote the President Elect: Nothing fundamentally changed for me.
However, I’m ultra-paranoid now WHEN I go out and see idiots (mostly men) never wearing masks, even in non-restaurants.
I live in a “liberal” place and I’d argue it’s even more extreme than that here. Like damn a het couple (yuck, sorry str8s) and the woman will be wearing a mask and the man no. Just so stupid.
we’re going to end up with probably half a million dead by the new year
I’ve got a feeling/fear that Thanksgiving is going to kick things into a truly horrific place. Anecdotally, a friend-of-a-friend was telling me that Seattle airport is seeing flight bookings comparable to 2019 for Thanksgiving. Obviously that’s a word-of-mouth rumor, but there’s been press coverage about stronger than expected demand and United are adding 1400 flights for Thanksgiving week. West coast states issued a travel advisory today, but I don’t think it has any teeth whatsoever. My hunch is that people will only realize the insanity of flying at a time like this when they reach the airport…
I guess it’s good to accept how bad it truly is about to become. That’ll take work on my part, as most of the anxiety comes from just how little control I have to increase my own welfare during this.
Climate change feels like this as well, just in slow motion with higher stakes.
But all of this pandemic garbage just happened so fast.
A common denominator I’ve noticed between the covid crisis and the climate crisis: the denialism from the more openly reactionary liberals and the soft denialism from the center-right libs (acknowledging the problem exists but only adopting insufficient token solutions). The covid response in the US is like a time-condensed version of what we’ve seen so far in terms of climate policy, and what’s still to come.
Through this lens, covid has given us a preview of what the liberal response to further ecological collapse might look like: continuing to browbeat people into pretending everything is “normal” while the death count keeps piling up and the situation gets increasingly exponentially out of control.
Side note: I credit the use of the term “soft denialism” in this sense to Howie Hawkins, he’s used that to characterize the lib approach and it’s just too good not to use.
I also suspect Trump in his remaining time to be absolutely dedicated to intentionally derail the situation even more, just to spite Biden for when he inevitably takes over the WH.
I expect that as well, but when I try to come up with ways to make things worse it is hard to imagine.
Just more inaction, I guess. Could start a war maybe.
Dems are pretty much doing everything in their power to fuck up the runoff election in Georgia, so we can write that one off.
I have not been keeping up at all, but this seems in character.
I’m in NC and the pathetic excuse for a campaign Cunningham ran felt like a satire
