I get what you're saying. I mean I don't think it's the only thing people should be talking about, but if you're talking about those other things without acknowledging and taking action at least in your own life about covid, I do have to doubt your commitment to those other things. Like the meme:
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Listening to a podcast recorded "post-pandemic"
"Yeah it's been hard to get together, first X was sick, then Y, it's been a bad flu season"
Me: 
I agree (well, except the US bioweapon part), the government and broader societal response to climate change will mirror the response to COVID, just in slow motion. It's been a fun while trying to figure out if I'm suffering from depression or just being understandably negative (seems to be the latter, thankfully).
It's been a fun while trying to figure out if I'm suffering from depression or just being understandably negative
Not at all mutually exclusive.
other things still matter (genocide for example). But I get your frustration
Yes, that matters too. I'm sorry if it came off as me minimizing that.
I was more referring to all the other crap, the way that literally everyone goes about their day as if a future actually exists lmao
the way that literally everyone goes about their day as if a future actually exists lmao
They just don't know what else to do. At least with the climate pretty much everyone agrees it's fucked, but they've decided they have no agency over it, which is true as an individual but... we live in this society thing with other people... But that would be communism I guess, acknowledging that a problem requires collective action and collective action requires organization.
investigate Fort Detrick
why did Fantahun Woldesenbet shoot two of his colleagues in April 2021?
'Ranking' problems is hard because there's no objective criteria.
Poverty kills more people and causes more suffering than the two you mentioned.
Yes. Just to be clear I wasn't really referring to people who talk about poverty or genocide (both obviously huge problems)
Rather to people who talk about normal day-to-day life crap, goals, etc like dude there isn't gonna be a world in 20 years
: "Who cares!?! Caring about covid or climate change will interupt my consoooooooooooom! Consoooming is WORTH extinction!"
Our 'superiors' everyone.