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arfie
arfie

My paranoia is escalating wildly here in the second month of the Corona Isolation. What can I trust here in Global Coronaville? I want to trust that there are still humans behind those properly masked social distances, buttttttaaaaa. . . The effort has made me feel like I'm trapped in "The Invasion of The Body Snatchers." I find myself unable to trust even that. My most trusted research sites are as conflicted as the two-penny debate circus playing on the mainstream sites.


Thoughts on Trust in Coronaville?


I trust than an unprecedented historical event is in the making and has already created indelible changes to our cultural norms. I trust that in 20 years ^it^ will be remembered in terminology which has yet to hit the mainstream vernacular.

MP823
MP823
The people wearing the masks are the ones expressing humanity at its best. Trying to keep themselves and others healthy. I have more respect for the people wearing masks than those who are selfish enough to think they don't have to.

There will eventually be a vaccine and this will all be a thing for the history books. In the meantime, we have to somehow find as many ways as possible to stay present and go with the flow.
MP823
MP823
P.S. I'm sorry your paranoia is escalating wildly. I completely understand how frustrating that is and I'm in a similar boat. xo
arfie
arfie
So far, I only wish I could trust you and yours on that one, Masked Person 823. I surely ain't feeling ^it^ in my strictly personal senses. Guess I ain't as good as you. Again.

I still can't look upon your mask, etc., without reliving medical trauma and/or feeling the Proper Social Distancing I learned as a child prostitute in the late 60's and early 70's.

Sorry to report that I am one of the selfish ones you disdain. I stand humiliated in your harsh and proper judgement. Again. Some things never change.
invisablefriend
invisablefriend
I think the only thing to do is wait it out like a LONG hurricane.
arfie
arfie
A VERY long hurricane with the storms of opportunistic infections gathering on the socially distant horizons.
invisablefriend
invisablefriend
I’m sure the world will not be the same one we left when we come out of the storm.
arfie
arfie
Thank you, Invisa. In *that* I do trust. It's good to know I am not entirely alone in my mandated isolation.

Prayers in progress. . . Prayer gives me something to do when there is nothing I can do.
giddy12
giddy12
I totally get it. This pandemic has freaked me out to the max. I feel like my generation has no idea how to handle this and me and a lot of others I know fail miserably on actually staying at home :(

But back to the paranoia. My crazy side is on edge screaming this is all been planned and citizens are under attack by the elites. I try not to dwell on this because I can really spiral but its hard to ignore for me at least.

I hope you and the rest of us get through this with our sanity intact
arfie
arfie
Global Coronaville gets my vote as the most radical social experiment in history. Herstoy, too. There is no generation in the history of the world which knows how to handle ^it^. The two-penny Experts have more conflicting opinions than this multiply certified nutjob can assimilate.

My paranoia keeps cycling to alien invasion scenarios. Are those masks hiding alien mouths? Could **They** at least learn the local language before immigrating? I sure the fuck ain't understanding what comes out of those masked mouths of whatever origin, by whatever name.

Sanity intact? Was sanity available in the traditional Proper Social Masking of pre-corona? For sure, **I** didn't have allot of sanity to work with before the crowning and The Proper Folk always made the meanest Janes and Johns in the kiddie whorehouses of my youth.
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