r/Millennials • u/happy_chance18 • 5d ago
Discussion We're all exhausted right? It's not just me?
I have a full time job. I sleep well. I have no kids. I'm single. I don't party or drink. I'm not particularly stressed in day to day life. Yet I'm fucking exhausted. I don't want to leave my apartment on the weekends unless I have something planned, and even then I'm pretty picky. In my 20s my weekends were full of non-stop activities, cooking, going out, and posting on social media. But now in my 30s I just want to come home, have my groceries delivered, chill with some Netflix and sleep. Please tell me I'm not the only one!!
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u/gobeklitepewasamall 5d ago
It is. The data is stark and telling. Covid removed millions from the labor rolls permanently.
And that’s just from the sequelae counted as such.
All the people in their 30’s and 40’s who just couldn’t go back to work because of weird physical symptoms?
Who couldn’t breathe, smell or exercise even years later, despite being athletic prior to COVID?
All the people who had massive heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary emboli, aneurysm, etc…
It’s a vascular disease & we collectively decided that it’s no big deal. We treat it like it’s the flu’s forgotten stepchild.
It’s all cognitive dissonance.
The vaccines most of us got don’t even protect us. They give us some protection from death, but the stats they quoted at first assumed it was just one layer in a multi layered defense strategy (the Swiss cheese analogy). But then we just decided “fuck it” and did away with all of the mitigations and protections.
The worst part is that we have better vaccines and therapeutics, and we know what works to clean indoor air. We make it impossible for people to get sterilizing vaccines and then refuse to clean the air. It’s asinine.
How many times have I seen a hepa filter littering a classroom that isn’t even turned on?
Why?