@Discombobulated - I'm so sorry you are feeling sick. I hope you are able to get better soon. Any illness during a pandemic puts us at risk, not just Covid. If you need medical attention, there remains delays, so what's treatable may worsen slightly or severely, depending on the wait.

I hope you don't have Covid though.

Indeed, maskless people are completely inconsiderate. If they refuse to get vaccinated, the least they can do is put on a mask. But they don't care.

And the New York Times published an article with many colorful comments about how ageism and ableism are being ignored, and the responses from the young and the extreme are in favor of "thinning the herd," so they have no qualms about superspreading when they see resources are scarce for their clans/groups; they see it as an us-versus-them instead of "we're all in this together." It's sick and sad how "fend for yourself" is the motto here.

But I'm in survival mode these days. I balance my risk assessment and everything my T tells me about psychological issues with everything I know about anti-Asian hate and superspreaders being viable, ongoing, continuous traumatic stressors that are equally as threatening to my life as isolation, loneliness, obesity, anxiety, and OCD. I truly cannot just try to desensitize by going to a dental appointment, going to a restaurant, going on walks in crowds, going to a concert, or traveling via public transportation - like my T suggests in small amounts. Even just one contact with a neighbor while improperly masked (if your mask is loose but still fit while getting mail) is enough to get you Covid-19. Properly fitted masks are hard to come by, and taking extra time to put on the tape seems tedious for a 5-minute run downstairs via elevator to get mail and small packages in two enclosed, shared spaces. But the delta variant and perhaps also the omicron variant spread within seconds, not minutes, so the 5-minute or 15-minute "safety rule" no longer applies. You have to have a strong enough mask to deal with superspreaders of delta and omicron variants, in particular. They are just that more virulent, and data on delta just 6 months ago revealed that.

This virus is indeed airborne, so masks and ventilation code requirements should be as large a focus as vaccinations. So, too, should treatments.

I'm so upset that there are too many inconsiderate people who don't care about death and suffering. They are selfish, unrighteous, unreligious, unpatriotic, and un-whatever; they are the protagonists in this life story of all sentient beings.

Meanwhile, superspreading events during climate-propelled storms and wildfires are also making both the pandemic and the economy worse, given the damages and losses from those disasters alone. Yet, no one cares to prevent either. Like antimasking, they are anti-environmenting. Purposeful waste being expelled through emissions and our consumption of certain commodities are affecting our climate and shortening the lifespan of the younger generations.

Human decision-making is vastly polarized, and no one trusts anyone these days. Sadly.

How do we deal with massive untrust due to constant riffs?