I can already hear it. I know, I know, doomerism has been weaponized in order to keep the working class undereducated, depressed, drugged up, inert, or dead, and I’m falling for bourgeois tactics.
At the same time, though, I look around (even from a privileged, western perspective) and see things getting worse and worse, daily. My life and country have both begun to collapse.
I’m pretty white-pilled when it comes to the human race on the whole, especially with China as the rising superpower, but Jesus. Global economy in shambles, political and civil unrest, and the worst existential threat in human history in climate change all at the same time.
What are the next 20 years going to bring?
I’m scared, and I have a really bad feeling about all of this.
The pandemics are what really get me right now. Long covid brain fog is basically early onset Alzheimer’s disease. My grandma died from that in 2007 after a long struggle and it was a horrible time for everyone involved. And for me, being trans and transitioning later, I especially can’t afford to get it. When you get Alzheimer’s the memories leave you in reverse order. That means that one of the first things I’d forget is my new name and my real gender, and the only things I’d be able to remember would be from the dissociative haze before my transition. That’s terrifying to me and I’d rather die quickly and painfully.
And the chances of this excruciating, slow undeath go up every time you catch Covid. And people are catching Covid again in less than a month in some cases. And once you catch it, it doesn’t leave your body. I’m immunocompromised already, maybe because of getting Covid at the start, maybe because of something else. How am I supposed to be able to live a good, long life like this? It’s impossible. And to top it off, we have a second pandemic ongoing (monkeypox) that most countries are taking almost no precautions against. And climate change will be constantly sending more things our way while everyone gets acquired immunodeficiency from Covid. It’s insanity to allow this virus to spread as it has and we insist on spreading it as much as possible. The only thing that gives me hope among all of this is that this pandemic will hasten the decline and fall of the American empire. May it go quietly and a socialist state grow quickly from its rotted corpse.
“I especially can’t afford to get it” just want to support this stance. People will give you push back - even on here! but this is 100% the truth. Making covid normal to get is a crime against humanity, like there should eventually be an international trial where people are sentenced like after WW2 - I suspect many of the same organizations are involved. Whether it is intentional or not, I think the mismanagement of covid has extremely eugenicist overtones and will contribute to the “third-worldization” of the west.
As a single cis male who wants children one day, the impact on fertility is something I refer people to, so they get an idea how impactful long covid can be. I also was reading a study and the first covid infection becomes an underlying condition for subsequent infections (so it will get worse if you get it over and over).
I just got covid a month ago or so… I’ve been in and out of the healthcare field since 2018. I’ve been absolutely swarmed surrounded by people with Covid ever since and never caught it. I can’t believe people really believe it’s “basically over” when on the ground it seems like anyone and everyone who hasn’t had it yet is catching it.
I’ve also lost loved ones, friends, and residents in my line of work that I cared about a lot to it. I can barely even remember them though because the crisis is ongoing. I can’t mourn, only become overwhelmed by outbursts of horrific awareness occasionally penetrating the perpetual fugue state that is this ordeal.
Solidarity, comrade.
Solidarity. Stay safe. My sister graduated from med school in the middle of all this and I’m scared for her. Seems like we’re insisting on finding out how many times you can get covid before death is certain. It’s the worst.