I’m honestly disheartened with many leftists that do not mask. I have had otherwise great people just completely fail the covid protection litmus test, and it’s harrowing. I’m tired of being socially ostracized for masking and treated like I have the plague by the greater capitalist hellscape, to see other comrades not even take into account masking is truly ugh.
I get it that’s hard to accept, idk, giving up your (unprotected, so most) of your social life because you wear a respirator and that you will have to do it forever, but for me it ties in with the otherwise completely scientific ML analysis I have of the world.
I just wish it didn’t feel that isolating, even among communists, regarding such a basic fact about bodily consent and empathy and overall survival in capitalism. As proletarians, we don’t have expensive private healthcare, so it’s even more important to not get sick, yet I see people promoting the vax-and-forget rhetoric…
It’s so dissapointing, how am I supposed to organize with people, when everyone else treats you like the plague for engaging in prevention mechanisms with Covid? I go outside and if not harassed I get treated like a weird outcast, which I am used to because of my politics, but I really do not see how to enagage with such people.
That’s right, thank you for the corroborating links. I was assuming this poster is in the US; I can’t speak for elsewhere. I am simply distrustful of “I can’t do it because it’s expensive” when my family has lived on less than ~$20k USD yearly in the equivalent of low-income subsidized apartments for the last 3 years and we make use of these stockpiles. Unless one is actually homeless and destitute or living in the periphery, treated with the severity the disease deserves, there are resources available, and I have very little grace remaining after 6 years.