I don’t know what your life has become since this pandemic started but it’s obvious for lots of people, the quality of life has dropped. It’s everywhere, this madness. In the news, they talk non-stop about covid and how it could kills us. On the street, people weak masks. They say on the TV: “Wear the mask, it can save your life”). And then, ‘Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine’. Go and get the vaccine. (despite all the side-effects and being still unsafe and not enough tested).
If you didn’t know, I am no longer suicidal. I try to live my life the best I can. But I still don’t understand this fear of death. I am not afraid of death, it’s one of the least things I could be afraid.
So, on the one hand, they destroy jobs, people’s ways of living and the quality of life. (this doesn’t apply to rich people, of course) to preserve physical life at any cost, on the other hand, there are people who rot and live hell on earth.
It seems that someone in power, is terribly afraid of death or of losing control over people.
Weird world. Sometimes, I feel ashamed to live on the same planet with so many who call themselves ‘humans’.
They are literally obsessed with pushing their agenda of control. Needless to say, in their preservation of physical life, at any cost, they don’t care about lonely, suicidal or weak people. In fact, people are more lonely than ever.
What are they afraid to loose by death? Most people really possess nothing, just a bleak life, a crappy job and a few other possessions. True friends are rare. Family? Perhaps. But most families are dysfunctional. So why do people cling to life at any cost while others try their best to die or even commit suicide?
They talk about ‘vaccine equality’ between countries while millions die from famine in Africa and struggle in deep poverty. They care more about their shitty vaccine than the quality of life of any human. They don’t even care if someone dies. Those who sell the vaccines make a lot of money, if you didn’t already figure it out.
What do they do to distract attention from the real problems? They feed people with stupid Tv shows and movies.
They destroy religion, culture and anything meaningful.
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Perhaps it’s the result of being descended from hundreds of millions of years of creatures that survived through fearing situations that made death more likely. If you fear death, it often conveys a survival advantage, allowing you to pass on the traits that led you to fear death to the next generation.
Also, suffocating to death through failing lungs isn’t necessarily a pleasant way to go – so the elderly fear infection. People fear the premature loss of loved ones and family members – so the middle age fear infection. People fear long-term damage to lungs and other organs by a virus that’s still rapidly evolving (and may well have originated in a lab) – so (some) of the young fear infection.
Even without lockdowns, the hit to the economy would’ve been severe. People are generally less keen to socialise in poorly ventilated areas when a new airborne contagion sweeps the world. The elderly hold the majority of wealth in our societies, and they’re not so keen on eating out right now. Young people lose their shitty service sector jobs as a result. It sucks, but pretending the virus isn’t there won’t change much.
The vaccines offered a route back to normalcy. No medical treatment is risk-free, but the health outcomes for the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated who get infected are drastically better for almost every age group. It’s possible that 20 years down the line some unforeseen side-effect will arise from the vaccines. But it seems far more likely that 20 years down the line you’ll have a generation who were infected young, and shrugged it off at the time, only to later discover that their lung capacity is significantly reduced. That’s where my money would be. Long covid is an issue, even for teenagers. This virus is new to the world, and we still don’t fully understand it’s long-term effects. It’s not flu, and it’s possible it has features developed in a lab.
I’m split, because what the Husk said is definitely what I’ve been telling myself.
At the time I got access to the vaccine, I was working a job that meant seeing different people every day. I’m already starting to feel older, don’t bounce back like I used to. Then I thought about how I would feel if my parents, my inlaws or my friends died because I didn’t get the vaccine. So, truthfully, I was terrified of the loss, and fearful more of surviving than dying.
At the same time; socially speaking, you are entirely correct. There doesn’t appear to be much point to saving some people, but we can’t be selective. No matter what the social background; catastrophe will harm the poor and disconnected more than the people who aren’t. You don’t have to look as far as Africa, we have government workers forced to engage in political acts which cost us lives right here in the United States.
I’m not being hyperbolic, the breaking point for me and my government job was that the government was too cheap to keep a teenage girl alive. I say cheap, it was more of fraud as they sent her to unequipped hospital after hospital, none of whom had the treatment she needed, deepening her trauma. So they wasted more than they paid me IN A YEAR, on this one girl’s treatment in A MONTH.
It isn’t capitalism, and it isn’t democracy for most of us. We are as ants in a crowded room of hungry giants.