Reading this made me wonder if Iām just mistrustful by nature, or did growing up during the HIV/AIDS era and watching The X-Files change me? People might think they know someone at work, but do they know everyone that person hangs out with?
They kinda think they do (but this is not on a conscious level, maybe I should say they feel they do). Because they donāt think this through.
Anecdotal evidence: my department. Currently 1 colleague tested positive, 5 colleagues in quarantine. Guess who had a little cosy Kaffeeklatsch the other week?
I just run into too damn many people who are convinced they havenāt got it. āI was tested last Monday!ā āThat was ten days ago dammit.ā
I see it a bit of that in myself. I only regularly interact with two people that I didnāt wake up with. One of them I have zero difficulty treating as a shambling hypervector 100% of the time, no protocols required, and with absolutely no intellectual effort past the R-complex.
The other I am friends with, and even though I donāt trust her opsec all that much (and her spouseās oh so much less), I find that it requires much more conscious effort to treat her as potentially dangerous. Fortunately sheās almost a foot shorter than me, so that probably mitigates my risk somewhatā¦ I meant that last bit in jest, but ZOMGs, there probably is some truth to that, and Iām freshly horrified once more.
I am [ahem]famous for giving people the benefit of the doubt. Iām cynical and skeptical in just about all the ways, and am almost certainly in the lowest couple percentile of gullibility. But that fucking empathy does tend to betray me a bit too often for my tastes. All that to say, I am absolutely sure I am not inherently mistrustful on an interpersonal level, and yet I have come to treat every meatspace interaction as if I were at an orgy: sure I might really wanna hang out with yāall in a closer, more intimate way, but all the nope. Because biology cares not even a little bit about intent.
Bolsonaro: āIsnāt it cheaper to invest in a cure than in a vaccine?ā
Of course, Maduro is exactly as trustworthy as Trump, soā¦
The last time I got tested it took 10 days to get the results back. So thatās the best Iāve ever been able to say.
If they are willing to hang out with me, who else are they willing to hang out with?
Well, fuck.
ETA Iāve only gotten a few Amber and severe weather alerts before, plus that ridiculous āpresidentialā one I gather everyone got.
Filled with sympathy.
Thoughts and prayersā¦
Anybody who can catch Maddowās take on the Covid spike should. Terrifying.
this could be good news for the election. if memory serves it was fox who first called florida for bush, and it was thatdeliberate ( in my opinion )miscall that allowed the supreme court to rule in favor of shrub
HāSOā. Some complications concerning delivery mechanisms are arising.
Lucifer gif incomingā¦
These. Dog. Damned. Fucking. People. Somebody make it stop. 
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