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i still haven't recovered from the maskite invasion of 2020. in my broken brain, the surgical masks of covid were even meaner than the ICE masks of today. at least the ICE maskites aren't insisting i look for "eye smiles." i hid for the entire covidic experience. it still hasn't been declared over, so i am still hiding to a large degree. is it over yet? during that isolated paranoia, i deleted most of my online references to the problems i was having with the wisdom of the global shutdown. my anxieties worried that the covidic maskites would begin rounding up dissenters, such as myself, with the enthusiasm of a no kings rally storming the ICE action. paranoia is not the most rational psychosis in my psycho closet.
lately i have been missing the cathartic value of my pre-covid online activity. every time i try to get back on that pony and ride, the paranoia whelms. even this post attempting to drag the psychosis out of the closet has me trembling in fear. there are still enough covidic masks present to start a new big brother trend.
sigh. . .
attempting to sort wtf is going on here. thoughts, experience and opinions requested.
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Hey All...I hope that you have a lovely, peaceful beginning of your weekI have a bunch of chores that need doing but may put them off til tomorrow and just hang out with my landlord/roomie todayWhat about you?...Anything special going on?Have a great day and take good care of you!!..Xo
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Once again I've had a fever today. I'm not going to the hospital because that's a huge waste of time but I did schedule a dr appointment for Wednesday afternoon.
here's hoping. . .
Big hug sweetie....I'm sorry that you're struggling...xo
I was thinking about how the pandemic affected people and now everyone just acts like nothing happened but they are weirder, less friendly, and ladies my age where I live are angry and bitter and hateful.
My older women friends were so afraid at first with covid and wore the masks and refused to come to bookclub outside. And then they heard that covid was over and suddenly they were all traveling and coming home with covid. I felt like whiplash. So irrational that it made me drop some of my paranoia watching them.
And now we find out Dr you know who told us to wear masks because he made it up. He testified to that in Congress. He knew they don't work but just thought it was something to calm people down. He also made up the 6 feet rule. I saw him testify in Congress (USA) and was astounded he told the truth. And that made me angry.
There is a book about the pandemic that might help you. The Myth of Closure by Dr Pauline Boss. It is about ambiguous loss. The pandemic caused us all ambiguous loss and paranoia. The pandemic and the shots injured my health.
japan, where masking is still popular, has begun research on what they are calling, "hikikomori." extreme social withdrawal of young adults who were teenagers during the covidic madness. similar studies are starting up in the u.s. the at risk elders were and remain the focus of all that, while the impact it had on children is being ignored with the enthusiasm of a culture trying to pretend that slice of history never happened.
i looked up "the myth of closure." thank you. it does, indeed, look useful. as i looked it up, i found myself wondering if the first step in unraveling this psycho snot knot is separating the death of mommy and daddy from the covidic madness. have the two were so close together that they have become hideously enmeshed?