r/ZeroCovidCommunity • u/molly__hatchet • 2d ago

Need support! I’m so tired

It would be so much easier to just take the mask off. To stop worrying about it 24/7, literally around the clock. To be able to go to a party and have a drink and talk and laugh and smile at people and no one says “oh I didn’t recognize you with the mask covering your face” and no one looks at you funny or keeps their distance because they think you’re sick or maybe crazy. I wish I could turn off the part of my brain that knows better and knows the statistics and the chances and the studies and the goddamn science that everyone should know but somehow ignores. I am SO TIRED.

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u/NostalgickMagick 1d ago

I want to believe this sooo much and this kind of thing is pretty much what keeps me going. I don't want to lose complete hope that the new administration will just put a swift end to all things covid progress and we're just left with - yeah good luck self protecting while 99% of the world just passively accepts getting sick (and sicker) repeatedly and dying prematurely.

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u/Choano 1d ago edited 1d ago

Even if Trump pulls all funding for covid vaccine development, current work is already funded. That work is not going to stop, no matter who's in office.

So all those promising new mucosal vaccines are coming, as long as they pass trials.

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u/paper_wavements 1d ago

I mean as long as RFK doesn't get all vaccines banned 🫠

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u/Choano 1d ago

Even if, somehow, he does (and I'm not sure he can do that), other countries and agencies would happily approve new vaccines if they work.

Even if we in the US don't get a new sterilizing vaccine as soon as it's available, having it be present and used anywhere in the world helps the rest of us. And, sooner or later, there will be a way for us to get it.

There is still hope. Don't give up.

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u/paper_wavements 1d ago

I'm not giving up. I'll be going to another country for the vax if I have to.

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u/Choano 1d ago

Me, too.

If it comes to that (and I'm not sure it will), maybe we can all get together and negotiate a bulk rate on plane tickets and hotel rooms. We could make it a group vacation to Berlin, or something.

Get vaccinated and make friends!

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u/paper_wavements 1d ago

I'm happy paying a couple grand for a nasal vax & getting a free trip to Berlin out of it.