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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Social shaming around covid seems... complicated to me. On one hand yes spreading the disease is really bad, but on the other hand we don't have the capacity to judge other people's mental health or how much them "partying" might be saving them from great suffering or suicide.
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like, obviously there are assholes who don't care, the conspiracy theorists who think it's exaggerated, etc. - but still I mean honestly asking humans to stay so isolated for 7 months without a definite end date is a really fucking intense thing to do.
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@Aella_Girl
You might be more privileged than them. You might have regular access to a quarantined bubble community. You might be living in a slightly less locked down city. You might just naturally be better at isolation, or more mentally healthy in general. You might have more support.
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And again, obviously lives are at stake here. Obviously the small chance of killing someone else isn't worth you not falling apart. But like... at some point you gotta admit that it's really hard, the consequences aren't obvious, and irresponsible choices don't make people evil.
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Yeah, as a gamer lockdown has been fairly easy. I hang out, voice chat, and play games with friends for 1-2 hours every night. Then met a friend for a picnic the other day and he said he hadn't had a conversation that wasn't in text form in more than a month. I'd go crazy.
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