I cannot and will not accept the world we live in.
We are seeing a rise in COVID cases everywhere.

I leave the house and I am hit by stories of people losing friends to covid or its complications, who see my mask as an invitation to share it. Maskless people are sharing stories with me about death and disabilty.

People close to me are forced to participate in risky situations because the people in power in their institutions care more about their egoes than acting according to science, reason, empathy.
I can only look at this, and do what, write letters? Be nice to the random strangers talking about their trauma and tell them to mask and vaccinate? I know it is better than nothing, but this whole powerlessness is fucking overwhelming. This feels lonely and frustrating and anxious and it is being in a constant unresolved state of grief that cannot be resolved unless everyone starts to do fucking anything to stop this. Everyone. You. We.
We need to build a movement. We need to build radical communal care collectives. This is too much to bear alone.
You should build one.
You should mask. For yourself, for me, for others, for the children,for the elderly... We need to do something. Or this immense sea of suffering and death and disability will swallow us all and drown us in despair.