Covid Fatigue

I really wish Facebook had the same kind of content filtering as Mastodon. There are a bunch of news stories about the XEC variant and they're all getting hijacked by the usual anti-vax conspiracy theorists. And as usual I'm doing my public duty and calling these things out, providing links to WHO guidance and so on. Not to change anybody's mind, just to let the rational people know they're not alone.

I'm just So. Fucking. Tired. of this happening all the time. And not just over Covid, over climate change and asylum seekers and pretty much every other issue. We are long past the point of there being a consensus reality. People believe what they want, and what they want is to be selfish and spiteful.

All I can do is keep my own little corner of the world slightly safer, clinging to reality as everyone else chooses to ignore it. And that little corner feels like it's getting smaller all the time. I don't have the power, time, energy or money to push back. I hope that somewhere, people with more power than me are trying to find a solution to the break-down of fact-based reality. But generally people with power are happy to contribute to it, because they can use it to solidify their power base. So my hope is minimal at best.

There's nothing that anyone can do at this point, we just have to ride it out. On Covid, the only way forward I can see is a variant so lethal that Governments are forced to act, and that might shock some people out of complacency and get them to re-evaluate their choices. And I hate feeling like the death of innocent people is the only way I might escape this situation.