2d ago

Preach

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I really felt this almost sense of justice when extroverts were forced to quarantine and were getting cabin fever after like 3 days.
Explaining to them that the discomfort they felt is what I felt every single day I had to go out into their world with all their eyes always looking at my face and making noises at me.
- See this is why I miss COVID. It was the perfect excuse to stay at home and do nothing, and when I did have to go out, the roads were clear and hardly anyone was around.
  Pisses me off so much that the extroverts had to ruin everything by bitching and moaning until government officials around the world caved and ended lockdown early.
  Bunch of selfish cunts. Literally got people killed over their strange desire to socialize. It's beyond infuriating.
  
  My partner and I went to a resort town while things were in the weird not-entirely-closed-but-weird post-lockdown phase. We figured it would be absolutely dead and we were right.
  It was mid spring or so, and we walked from our hotel to a nearby private pier (owned by a condo or high-end hotel or something), with a growler of beer and some glasses, hopped the gate and sat there on their deck furniture, naked, drinking in the dark on this lake for several hours. Not a soul in sight. Just the night sky, us, and a good time.
  Then a cold breeze rolled in and we hurriedly got dressed and walked back to the hotel down the center of the street.
  It was super surreal, very enjoyable, and had that liminal space feeling to it.
  
  We should make taking an "introday" a thing. Wanna hang? Nah, I'm taking an introday. Cool, sometimes that's needed.
  
  It is. And also how nature was really rapidly healing just because we reduced the number of people commuting by combustion engine... and then we just went back to how things were?? Like we didn't even want to try and learn from it.
  COVID was a historic inflection point in so many many ways, and I fear that we've completely wasted it.
  
  But we must return to office because we need to socialize and our company is so eco-friendly it'll force you to commute in your ICE vehicle.
  
  Covid was a mixed blessing in that sense. Moving around and generally having much more privacy and space in public was great, but then the part of you that really dislikes change is faced with the glaringly obvious “this is not normal” public and facing the uncertainty of at least the immediate future.

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