sailors fighting in the dance hall

[the_siobhan]

Today was the quarterly Town Hall at work, which meant going into a team meeting with the entire department at the Mothership. My first time there. I got lost. And I never did figure out how the passcards work.

It's days like today that make me wonder if I really am from fucking Mars.

There are thousands of people working in that building. The floor I was on was crammed solid - people sitting in rows and rows of desk, chairs jammed shoulder to shoulder. I was the only one in a mask.

They served snacks and coffee over break, my boss wanders by. "Aren't you having any coffee?" Um. I'm wearing a silicon sheath over the entire lower half of my face, do i look like I'm going to have a coffee?

This is where I start wondering if I'm the one who's crazy. How can it just be me? 

Comments

[jo]

I really think the problem is just ignorance. It's not like anti-vaxxers where I can say WELL YOU KNOW THIS WOULD HAPPEN when they get sick. They really don't know.

This. The government -- all levels of it, have pretty much abandoned the "public" part of public health. And you have to work really fucking hard to find the right people to follow on social media to learn about and keep up on the latest findings about Covid and just how much even a "mild" case fucks up every part of your body. People can't make informed choices when not provided with actual information to inform those choices. I read a CBC piece the other day that said over 76% of Canadians have had at least one Covid infection. That just floored me.