I am tired of COVID-19 and every collective challenge to society that comes with it but I will never give up against it. I am tired of watching the infection numbers falling, then rising steeply again. I can't help but think about the selfish people, the misinformed people, and the people that fear the unknown, making their own false assumptions. Why do they keep doing it? I feel like deep down, some of them want to keep COVID-19 around so that they can just keep blaming governments, to keep blaming ethnic minorities, and to show that they can keep getting unwarranted attention by using all of their annoying whining and complaining.
I will always trust the words of the world's top scientists and doctors, over the word-of-mouth and shit-stained Social Media Apps and false opinions out there. The other so-called self-proclaimed experts, with absolutely no credentials in the health and medical fields, spouting rhetoric because they have a lot of friends and followers is just plain garbage to me.
The problem is people. Society today is way too obsessed with celebrity status than they are with having truthful facts. We are all guilty of it too. I would usually choose to watch some funny comedy or action-packed fictional movie over watching a real non-fiction educational documentary.
Not enough people out there are educated on the spread of diseases. Too many people are too focused on themselves and their freedoms rather than the well-being of others.
I am planning my wedding to my wonderful spouse bride-to-be at the end of this month. We are doing our wedding in a non-traditional way and are only having immediate family attend, and the rest of the friends and extended family will be viewing through an online Zoom video-conference. We're not just doing it to be 'cool' or 'hip' or trendy.
Here are the reasons why we chose a Zoom wedding:
1. We want to keep our family members safe, especially our parents. They are all elderly and range from 73 to 80 years old. They are all double-vaccinated against COVID-19, but catching any kind of illness, whether it be a common cold, regular flu, or something else is still devastating and inconvenient at that age.
2. With all of the uncertainties of COVID-19 and the new Delta variants, and any future pandemics that haven't hit yet, we wanted to make sure we could still celebrate our union with our parents before something bad can happen to them. Over the years, we've lost many family members, and now we wish they could be here for us but they can't.
3. We
want to save money. Weddings are known to have exorbitant costs.
Especially if you consider that in just a single day, the costs of these
types of events could help fund a family to live for half a year to a
full year alone instead. Last year, COVID-19 in 2020 wasn't exactly a
good money earning year for most people including ourselves.
4. We
want to keep it small to focus on us, and not the wedding itself. I
would rather be known and remembered as me, rather than by how many
people we can jam into a church or fancy reception hall. Over the years, I have grown to
be humble and now I always will be now that I am a parent.
It is not going to be like the numerous house parties I used to throw in my late teens and early 20's where everybody was allowed to be idiots. I won't be in a drunken stupor with dozens of my friends and strangers. There will be no huge messes to clean up, there will be no fights! No noise complaints! No cops arriving to shut things down. I'm an entirely different person than that now.
As of now, I am still illness free since April of 2019, and I want to keep this healthy streak going. 28 months of no sickness so far. That's probably a lifetime record for me. I'm not going to do anything that will put myself, or my family or my friends in danger. I want to stick around, and I want to keep all my important people around as well. So fuck COVID-19. Pandemic to Endemic. Sure I'll take Endemic, but god damn, I am hating how it is taking so fucking long to get there.
Don't get me started on climate change. It is absolutely, devastatingly real. Those massive forest fires are very, very, real. Look at the smoke. Smell the smoke...
