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I'm so fucking tired of everything.
Fires. We're up to New Jersey, just in California. Oregon was at Delaware last I checked. It's been a month since I could go outside and breathe easily. Portland has the worst air quality in the country, possibly the world. The east coast has kind of noticed. Sort of. They still don't seem to comprehend how bad it is, but at least their news is reporting it at all.
My kid had a complete meltdown today about wanting friends. I don't know what to tell him. Either they're even more pulled in than we are or they've moved. When we open up, he isn't going to have any friends. I feel terrible; like a failure as a parent. And it's going to be ages before he can go anywhere where he could make new friends that he could play with. I'm so furious right now at everyone who has made this last so long.
I'm so very annoyed with the moderators of the local mom facebook group. They keep taking down everything posted by people advocating caution and actually listening to the scientists. For fucks sake, today they took down an article telling people to keep their kids inside when the air quality is bad. Like, what the fuck? this shouldn't be controversial. Apparently, people feel shamed. Like, yes, when you're doing stupid things that are directly endangering your children's health you should feel shamed. Then you should STOP DOING THOSE THINGS. They leave up everything advocating that we just open the schools, but take down everything advocating caution and considering the health of the teachers and staff. Then they claim that they don't want political debate. Even comment threads get removed. They leave up things asking for travel advice and recommendations. They take down things pointing out that WE SHOULD NOT BE TRAVELLING. News flash, your poor decisions on this do, in fact, effect the rest of us. If everyone would fucking stay home and stop doing things that are not actually essential for a month, we could probably get disease levels down to the point that we could open all of these things ACTUALLY safely. Like so my family could do things. But, no, people are selfish assholes who only care about themselves. And there is no political will and no resources at any level of government to make this happen.
Fires. We're up to New Jersey, just in California. Oregon was at Delaware last I checked. It's been a month since I could go outside and breathe easily. Portland has the worst air quality in the country, possibly the world. The east coast has kind of noticed. Sort of. They still don't seem to comprehend how bad it is, but at least their news is reporting it at all.
My kid had a complete meltdown today about wanting friends. I don't know what to tell him. Either they're even more pulled in than we are or they've moved. When we open up, he isn't going to have any friends. I feel terrible; like a failure as a parent. And it's going to be ages before he can go anywhere where he could make new friends that he could play with. I'm so furious right now at everyone who has made this last so long.
I'm so very annoyed with the moderators of the local mom facebook group. They keep taking down everything posted by people advocating caution and actually listening to the scientists. For fucks sake, today they took down an article telling people to keep their kids inside when the air quality is bad. Like, what the fuck? this shouldn't be controversial. Apparently, people feel shamed. Like, yes, when you're doing stupid things that are directly endangering your children's health you should feel shamed. Then you should STOP DOING THOSE THINGS. They leave up everything advocating that we just open the schools, but take down everything advocating caution and considering the health of the teachers and staff. Then they claim that they don't want political debate. Even comment threads get removed. They leave up things asking for travel advice and recommendations. They take down things pointing out that WE SHOULD NOT BE TRAVELLING. News flash, your poor decisions on this do, in fact, effect the rest of us. If everyone would fucking stay home and stop doing things that are not actually essential for a month, we could probably get disease levels down to the point that we could open all of these things ACTUALLY safely. Like so my family could do things. But, no, people are selfish assholes who only care about themselves. And there is no political will and no resources at any level of government to make this happen.
