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Comments

Re: Just venting

[(Anonymous)]

I feel weird complaining rn because *gestures at world* I have it pretty easy by comparison, but I love how my HMO's COVID guidance includes "don't take public transit or use ridesharing if you're ill" but only offers covid testing at their hospitals, the nearest of which is three or four bus and trolley transfers and over an hour from where I live. I can't and don't drive and no one I know can safely give me a ride, so *shrugs.*

The other options are to order at home tests (have some, have taken two negative ones, one yesterday, one today, but my work won't accept them as proof I'm clear to come back) or get tested at a nearby pharmacy or county/state testing site (nearest with open appointments today was several bus transfers + an hour away, or the one four blocks away which requires payment for a $350 telehealth screening before they'll test, but only the test itself is covered by my insurance.)

And if I get covid from taking public transit to get tested for it, I would feel a lot better if I could donkey kick all the unmasked, mucus oozing, coughing, horking, sneezing, snorting maskholes on the buses and trolleys I had to take today in the balls.

The only bright spot is turnaround time on tests is apparently down to 1-2 days, and I probably don't have covid since a) 2 negative at home rapid tests b) I'm vaxxed and boosted c) keep my mask on anywhere indoors that's not my house and d) so far my worst symptoms are a sore throat and having become Snotzilla, Destroyer of Tissues.

Ugh, I'd forgotten how gross colds are. I hate that so many people think having to wear a mask=omg how dare you assault my freedumbs!1! because now that my state lifted their mask mandate, and my work doesn't check vaccination status, all these fucking selfish germ factories are just oozing plague slime everywhere.

Thanks to everyone keeping your masks on, though. You make public service jobs way easier for the employees marinating in miasma for 10 hours a day.

To everyone masking up and trying to stay safe on my bus route today, I'm sorry for potentially exposing you to this stupid cold, and I hope you don't catch it. To everyone proudly letting their nose dick hang out, I hope I do have covid, that you catch it, and that you get the extra fun erectile dysfunction aftereffects from damaged blood vessels so viagra doesn't help. (Why are the unmasked like 85% dudes and 15% white moms with small children?)

Re: Just venting

[(Anonymous)]

(Why are the unmasked like 85% dudes and 15% white moms with small children?)

It's true, tho. I don't know where you are, but believe it or not, a lot of us in Florida wear masks to the grocery store or wherever and I've noticed the same demographics.

Asian or Black person? Masked. Older? Masked. I appreciate you, other mask people.

Re: Just venting

[(Anonymous)]

That's interesting because around here I've noticed that it's the Black people who tend to be the worst about wearing their masks under their noses or not at all. Asians and Latinos are almost always wearing them properly, white people are a tossup but I see more of them wearing them properly than not.

Re: Just venting

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately, where I am living there's currently an outbreak and anecdotally, "a sore throat and having become Snotzilla, Destroyer of Tissues" seems to the the sum total of symptoms most people have. They also don't test positive on a rapid antigen test until several days in.

Re: Just venting

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT--well, if I (knock wood) test positive today but negative on Wednesday I will be cleared to go back. Really could do without (more) health issues or long covid, though.

My roommate caught it from spending her birthday unmasked and chugging booze at a bar, and one of her friends (the Trumpy one, sigh) was positive and didn't tell anyone. She'd just gotten boosted, so it hadn't had time to kick in, but she recovered quickly and has had no aftereffects so far.

Mine may be on the wane since I got boosted back in November, but I'm gonna be super pissed if I caught it since I didn't even do anything fun or risky.

I'm still pissed even if it's just a cold, especially at my anti-mask, anti-vax coworkers. My parents were anti-vax pre-Wakefield, but they were crunchy granola hippies, and these Qanon religious types make them look like paragons of sanity by comparison. Then again, it looks more and more like anti-vaxxers from both sides of the political spectrum are hellbent on turning horseshoe theory into a circle.

Re: Just venting

[(Anonymous)]

Chances are good you'll do fine! Rest well and take care of yourself. It really sucks that you can be really careful and still catch it due to the bullshit of others but it doesn't do you any good to dwell on how much they suck. I live alone, work from home, and still managed to catch it during a non-outbreak because unfortunately I still have to use the elevator to pick up deliveries and masks can only do so much in a crowded city like this.