Thread by @jensimmons

It’s hard to watch people not take strict precautions against COVID, despite raging case loads all around them. All while claiming they are being careful — when it's clear they are NOT.

Then, it’s even harder when they get COVID to know what to say besides “I fucking told you.”

I‘m not proud of my reaction. At all. But I have no empathy, no kindness, no caring left.

You’ve been running around, traveling, visiting, putting other people in danger — acting from of selfishness & delusion. And *now* you want other people to care about you?

Uh. I’m done.

Honestly, this is one of the hardest thing about COVID — watching myself have absolutely no more empathy for many people anymore. Have I really become this person?

I expect that other hard thing will be being able to stand being around such people in person again in the future.

I saw those pictures from your ski trip. Your indoor holiday dinner. The large wedding you attended. Yeah, I don’t really ever want to talk to you again. Now that I know you are willing to kill other people if it means you get to ”have some fun” because ”you deserved it”.

I can’t help but think about how war does this to people, too. Civil war — neighbors fighting neighbors. When it’s over, how to you ever look people in the face again? When you know they chose delusion. And killed people. How do you ever trust them again? Or like them? You don’t.