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??
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.