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I've been watching 'Rhinoceros' today, and thinking about (well, grieving) all the ordinary, non-nefarious Covid minimisers & denialists, especially those I love or was close to, and I have thoughts:

They are brittle

They are fragile

They are terrified of being terrified

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02:10 PM - Mar 06, 2023
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When they talk about #livinginfear they are projecting their own fear, and their fear of fear (metafear) onto those of us who simply face what is

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02:10 PM - Mar 06, 2023
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We just want them to care

We just want them to *take* (some) care

But they want to play pretend, because caring, for them, means facing their fear, and their metafear, and maybe relinquishing some of their comforts

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02:10 PM - Mar 06, 2023
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So try as we might to get through to them, we're mostly just creating more resistance

The reality is they want us to shut up

No, they NEED us to shut up

They want us to stop making it so hard for them to live in denial

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02:11 PM - Mar 06, 2023
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The choice they have made (when it IS in fact a choice) is to manage away the immediate short-term threats of fear/anxiety/overwhelm instead of responding to the short/mid/long term threats of SARS2, and its cascade effects on society

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02:11 PM - Mar 06, 2023
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They assume too that those SARS2 threats probably wont apply to *them* in those rare moments when they allow themselves to even consider it

Not true, but try telling THEM that...

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02:11 PM - Mar 06, 2023
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Somehow they've convinced themselves that this is all ok because *only others* are suffering

(again, not even true, but try telling them)

That is not a healthy place to be

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02:12 PM - Mar 06, 2023
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So, with teeth clenched and their backs against the wall as Covid closes in, they defend themselves in any way they can

They HAVE to

They pathologise our concerns
They say we are anxious or mad
They other us
Marginalise us
Smear us
Ignore us

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02:12 PM - Mar 06, 2023
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They don't want to hear or see us

We ARE the pandemic to them

We're a PTSD trigger 😷

We're a mirror held up to their callous, ableist and selfish behaviour

That mirror must be smashed to protect their egos and their desperate need for "normal"

We must be shut down

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02:13 PM - Mar 06, 2023
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