cannibalcoalition:

fieldbears:

fieldbears:

The more insanity crops up the more I start getting predictions for the near future:

• There is going to be a baby boom about 9 months after this block of quarantine time. It’s going to be a batch of unplanned but economically predicted kids and their overall upbringing will probably reflect this.
  
• Flip side: There is simultaneously, after quarantine, going to be a notable increase in people getting the snip/getting their tubes tied as they realize they don’t want any more fucking kids. There are parents with multiple children right now who just aren’t capable of handling them all day every day without childcare or school as breaks. Even parents with one child are often struggling.

• There are going to be online schadenfreude compilations of people 1) virtue-signalling on social media that they’re going out and living their life as normal, because Freedom, and then 2) images, posts, and GoFundMes indicating that the person did indeed get infected.
• There are going to be people who lie about why their friends and family died. They will insist it was something unrelated. The harder people insisted that this was a hoax illness or that they deserved to continue doing as they pleased, the harder they will pretend their relative’s new lifelong lung problem was pneumonia that onset from… nothing in particular. Flu. Bad luck. Nothing to do with COVID.

• There are going to be a ton of divorces/breakups. No surprise there. China’s already experiencing this.
• There has been some talk of romantic confessions among quarantined roommates and I hope the cute stories are real.

• We are going to see a huge uptick in people who were previously mentally healthy experiencing new, scary symptoms of anxiety and depression. People whose teeth are grinding, jaws are clenching, who are experiencing weight changes, intrusive negative thoughts, listlessness, the works. A lot of them are not going to easily identify or understand what’s going on because this will be new to them. A lot of them are probably going to be the same people that said mentally ill people need to “calm down” or “cheer up” and a lot of them are going to be the type to resist therapy. It’s going to be rough and we’re going to have to be the bigger people.
• I’m serious. We’re going to have to be the bigger people. Because a lot of these people are not going to be comfortable accepting help or admitting that have spent their lives being dismissive of something serious and legitimate. You can remind your Aunt Bethany how shitty she was to you after you had to take a semester off for your depression, but in the same conversation, hand her some resources she can use to get her own help.

What’d I tell ya

Oh shit I did that funeral wtf