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In reply to the discussion: Dear DUers: All thru this terrible COVID year I've felt a sense of community at DU..... [View all]nolabear
(41,960 posts)Weve gutted our way through a godawful year. Ive tried so hard to deal with the stress of illness and near death, including my own, in isolation from the people I love and places that give me strength. The plague, combined with the monsters destruction of so much, the racial horrors...I think I held up well until I was sick and hospitalized myself, not COVID but near deadly.
I so needed some view toward the end, some hope. In a time when were constantly attacked by the right and the left seems to infight an alarming amount, I thought my vaccine was a symbol of progress, a cause for joy that the dam has broken and were on our way out of this unimaginable time of pain.
And yet, inflicting pain seems to be a goal, under the guise of being harmed by anothersI guess its good fortune. Im not sure being vulnerable to dying is fortune.
Ive come close to leaving DU over this. But I havent. I hold out hope for us too. I need to. Weve lost too much to throw the rest away.