Anyone else notice this?
Fairly unsubstantiated post, based on personal experience, and on what I am seeing elsewhere.
As a "not fully vaccinated" person, society is closing in, increasingly. I am barely allowed to participate in goings-on, anymore. My family shuns and shames me. My "friends" have essentially abandoned me. Shit is getting very, very real, now...
Mask mandates are ubiquitous, across 6 or 7 out of the Australian jurisdictions, including the one I am stuck in. Vaccine mandates, too. I'm not allowed to work. I essentially can't "go out". In another state, they want to make mandates apply in supermarkets, too, so you essentially won't be able to buy food...
"Social distancing" is also ubiquitously still in place. Businesses are closing EVERYWHERE, because they can't make money. Governments are constantly threatening "new lockdowns" and curfews, because, duhh, Omicron, means rising case numbers. It's genuinely scary to see where things are going...
Aside from not currently being in lockdown, we are currently the most restricted we have ever been. Ever. Especially if you are "unvaccinated", or, increasingly, unboosted...
Very soon, people like me won't even be able to enter a university campus, or even study online. Can't work, can't study. Logic...
And people ABSOLUTELY lap this up. Media coverage is UNIVERSALLY for more restrictions. Almost everyone I know, and encounter "IRL" is all for it. As is the entirety of local Reddit, aside from, obviously, the "critical" or "skeptical" subs. Worse than that, if you question ANY element of it, you are shamed, ostracised, demonized, treated worse than dirt. Why?
I know this isn't the case everywhere. Not in Red states. Not in Mexico, per se. Not in Japan. Not in parts of Eastern Europe, or Africa, or elsewhere. But it is, here. It IS, in NZ. It IS in Blue states. It IS in the UK, and in France, and in Germany, and in Austria, and in the Netherlands. Some of those places are even more extreme than where I am, despite less compliant populations, and lower vaxx rates...
When, and how does this end?? Next year will almost certainly be worse. In fact, for me personally, I 100% guarantee it will be.
When will people wake up? Will they ever?? What the fuck are we going to do?? How do we actually push back? I'm genuinely beginning to think that this WON'T end, because people simply do not want it to, so... Where do we go from here??
This is what it's like living in a reality closing in on you.
You don't get it yet because it hasn't happened to you.
He's writing here because -- as he's mentioned time and time over again -- his family is pro-vaxx, pro-authoritarianism and he can't talk to them about how he feels because they don't care.
He's going "around in circles" because it's his life being directly affected by draconian mandates and authoritarian power plays. There are literally videos posted here regularly of the police in places like Germany and Australian beating up and arresting people for not wearing masks or for protesting the clot shots.
He's trying to explain that the walls are closing in on him and it's happening in real-time, in his life. Think of each of his posts as live journals of the impending end. You don't have to read his posts; and yes, he is using this board as a forum of therapy and suggestions.
Maybe one day when a similar reality comes knocking at your door and you have no one to turn to or talk to, you may find solace in venting on anonymously on boards like this.
Okay, explain to me how going on and on and on is solving it. I am not saying his family is not retarded or whatever.
But doing this is not helping him. Everyone just going "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" and him talking in circles here is NOT helping. Not a single positive step or idea is fucking happening, just collective moaning and panicking and everyone spiralling into depression.
He is not doing anything to better his own health (mental or otherwise), nor is he doing anything about the situation. Nothing done personally, nothing done politically.
Okay, panic if you want. You do you. But turning yourself even more miserable than the shitty situation necessitates is not helping, you will just make yourself sick and insane. No progress was made, you ruined yourself. Congrats.
Repeating the SAME FUCKING THINGS about his parents and girlfriend or whatever and whomever and whatever did not make him take a single step forward.
We just can't have a "Merry Christmas y'all cunts here" post without suicidenote-ing.
And the thing is, I have been there. I have successfully managed to make my mental health deteriorate to the level of having panic attacks every couple hours.
I don't want to sound like an asshole, because I can really empathise as I have been there before.
But I am starting to feel like some people like rolling around in misery and depression and right now they are amplifying that in a dude who is unwell, because he has the same political views.
This is eerily close to feminists and LGBTQBBQFBI+-* activists taking people who have real issues and traumas and going "yeeees, yes, this will be forever, the universal experience, just internalise it".
Also, the dude who snapped at me told the dude to "escape" the country by becoming an illegal immigrant somewhere else!!!!! Fucking what? Take someone sounding downright suicidal, which is not addressed whatsoever and make him become an illegal immigrant somewhere else, so he for sure will get tangled in crime, become a victim of criminal and get in an even worse situation.
Fucking aye.
It's not.
As I said. It's his way to vent. If you don't have family or friends to turn to, who else do you turn to?
Realistically the only thing he can do is [Fed Post] but that's not really allowed here and people can't really help him with that here. Doesn't mean he still can't vent and talk it out because he doesn't have any other options.
Not really sure there's anything he can do unless people offer him ways to resolve his situation, which is sort of what his post is asking for, and some people did offer him some advice. So maybe it will or won't help... it's better than brooding in a corner quietly doing nothing.
Plus, his posts are for posterity. You can chronicle the decline of Aussieland and its effects on the mental well-being (or otherwise) on its inhabitants.
Never said he should. Just that his options of communicating with sane people is limited due to the government's divide, conquer, and isolate routines. So he's expressing his frustrations and fears here.
Well, it's his way of coping. Would you simply prefer he not? You could always downvote and move on.
I get it. But as I said, if you were in the exact same situation with the government goons closing in on you to either get jabbed or [Fed Post] your response might look a little different when you also have no one to turn to. Maybe you'll just go quietly into the night, maybe you vent-post on here. We'll only find out when the time comes.
When you're divided, seemingly conquered, and isolated, people oftentimes don't act terribly rational.