r/ZeroCovidEU

Firstly I am not advocating to be an 'anti-masker' and drop all precautions before someone accuses me of that like I have been in the past by other ccers for voicing my real emotions about the cost of taking precautions. On the contrary I know I can't and hate it, and just feel stuck in this cage of isolation of my own making.

There is no hope on the horizon for any breakthroughs or for society to change. Yes there are tiny little breadcrumbs of articles here and there but nothing that say things are going to shift in the public consciousness or science.

The research that is going on is finding a new cause of long covid every day which tells me they haven't got a clue and just shooting in the dark. The research just seems like that of CFS where it is just the odd scientist in some dark basement somewhere like Mulder's office in the X-files.

So it just feels like prison keeping up precautions and hiding from the world for something that will never come. It would be different if we knew the cavalry were on the way but there is nothing to give hope really that it is going to come so we could just waste our whole lives away like this.

It is like being imprisoned and then forgotten about.

I would prefer die tomorrow than have to live this boring life for another 40 years. It just feels like a rock and a hard place because I also don't want my LC to get worse by more infections but this life sucks and just being left to rot by the rest of society as they get off seemingly scott free.

I know ccers say 'the rest of society are doing damage they just don't know it' but where is the reckoning? seems like smoking where some can have 40 a day and live into their 70s or 80s and no problem. Saying they are doing untold damage just seems like 'cope' to justify ones own moribund social existence.

I watch documentaries about how prisoners feel about their lives and what they say sounds just like how I feel - same thing day in day out.

Traveling from the States to Berlin & am curious if there are any CC ppl, places, groups, activist orgs to link up with there?

As I have this nasty neighbour spreading things about me to other people in the community and trying to get me evicted I have thought that I should be more proactive with meeting other locals to win them over to even out the hate this ill doer has been spreading because currently he says what he wants, and I stay isolated from people and so have no defence in the community so some may believe whatever he says about me.

As such I have been thinking to make a point about going to meet other neighbours in my area as most times I would only give a wave if I see people passing in their vehicles.

Now I am a pretty stocky built male and I am well aware that wearing a mask approaching strangers will take some people aback and look intimidating, particularly since it is a rural place where you are most times going to be the only people in several hundreds meters, I can just imagine how someone with a larger build in a mask walking up your drive could put someone on edge from the getgo.

Even if it doesn't this is something that is always in my mind when approaching.

So I am wondering what the risk would be of unmasking in public. Not only the intimidation factor but also you can express yourself more without it so being unmasked helps with the charisma side of things.

I would say it would be standing a few feet apart outdoors. I know sometimes though when you speak to people there might be the unintentional visible spit that flies from one person to the other - and that is the visible so how much invisible stuff is bridging the gap?

So with that in mind, conversely, I would actually feel more comfortable being masked closer up. I know that before I started masking outdoors I felt uncomfortable speaking face to face like that and people even commented that I was edging away from them!

I did end up masking outdoors all the time simply because it was easier than to constantly be thinking should I put it up or down and also I felt it seems more rude to people if they approach you and you suddenly put your mask up rather than it already being on. They might be thinking 'huh I smell or something!?'

Hey everyone,

Where or how can I take Novavax vaccine in Linz or Vienna? Do I need to go to a GP first to get access to the vaccine? Or what do i need to do?

Thanks!