re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg

I am having pandemic anxiety again.

Mostly because I fear a bunch of my unvaccinated friends are going to start dying soon.

I’m having pandemic anxiety again because I’ve been unemployed since June 2020 and I was just starting to feel comfortable seriously looking for a job and then the stupids had to Make America Derp Again. I don’t feel safe sitting inside a building for 8 hours everyday and during the time I was unemployed I found a grand total of one job listing in my field that said “Work from Home until Safe” in the description.

So now I’m running out of my savings. Unemployment is giving me a run around for some reason for the past 6 weeks and hasn’t paid me (and yes I did everything I needed to for extension and opening a new case). The IRS hasn’t sent me my refund even though they got my return 12 weeks ago. And we are teetering on having the worst wingnut in the history of CA possibly becoming Governor in the middle of all of this because the GOP can only win by gaming the stupid recall provisions and they want to make California the hellscape they always claim it to be and kill us all.

I don’t know how we (not just me or my family, but the whole state) are going to get through the next 3 or 4 months.

Meanwhile everyone I know is making plans to go to concerts and conventions later this year like nothings wrong.

Am I the one that’s crazy? This has to be at least in the ball park of what gaslighting feels like.