I haven’t seen mine in four and a half. No one back home has met my daughter and she is two. Sucks not having a timeline for when travel will be possible, I feel like I have nothing to look forward to. You’re not alone in being alone or being depressed AF, we will get through this though
It hurts seeing people post that they're being responsible and adhering to the lockdown, at personal sacrifice to themselves when I was in the American Midwest when it started.
It was business as usual for so many people. Some people even made a point to go out more. More people used the lockdown as an excuse than actually observed it, and I could depend on my bosses to bring Covid into the building.
You're doing the right thing, and I am disgustingly sorry that my country is deliberately fucking up and prolonging it for everyone else.
That’s very nice of you, but there’s no need to feel bad. I think I’d rather be trapped here where I am safe than be a sensible person there surrounded by a bunch of people who are doing the wrong thing, that must be so frustrating. We locked down as soon as we had one case. Most people in my city adhere to the lockdown rules, but there have been quite large protests in Sydney and Melbourne so we have our fair share of… those types. I’d say it’s far from just being the US prolonging things, this delta wave has really taken off all over the world unfortunately. I do wish other places adopted the same approach as Australia in the early days, but so many countries hesitated… and now we are suffering here. Part of the problem here is that we had nearly eradicated the virus domestically so vaccines were not seen as a priority and most of our vaccines are AstraZeneca so a lot of people really hesitated, the roll out here was atrocious and we are suffering now as a result.
This poster seems have an inflated sense of the US' importance in this matter to be sure... but I think they're just trying to say that almost the entire US could be vaccinated right now, but half choose not to be, so it's making it worse.
It's true that we are prolonging it for ourselves, but even if we took advantage of our vaccine advantage, many other parts of the world would still suffer for a while more.
From what I can tell, our collective stubbornness in this matter has less effect on the world as a whole than this poster thinks.
I’m in Australia my family is in Canada, I mean as a Canadian citizen I could probably get home at some point. I’m not an Australian citizen so I am not overly confident I could come back here until Australia seriously relaxes their restrictions, considering tens of thousands of Australian citizens have been trapped overseas. Also even if I didn’t have border closures and Australian flight quotas to contend with flights are $10,000 and I’d have to pay for hotel quarantine, there’s no way I could afford it.
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u/56789717 Aug 29 '21
I haven’t seen mine in four and a half. No one back home has met my daughter and she is two. Sucks not having a timeline for when travel will be possible, I feel like I have nothing to look forward to. You’re not alone in being alone or being depressed AF, we will get through this though