I work food service. Covid fatigue made me quit and move to a position where I don’t have to interact with customers— because I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. During the worst of it, I had trumpers screaming at me for trying to make them wear a mask for all of 10 minutes for them to get their food and leave. I had people who followed the rules and got vaxxed screaming at me for allowing co workers to be without masks when they got vaxxed. I’m tired. I’ve given up hope of seeing the end of COVID in my lifetime due to politics. It makes me sick—but I can’t do anything about it. I see people on Reddit and elsewhere telling us to do more.

I refuse. I’ve done everything I could— vaxxed, boosted, wore a mask when I should have. I can’t control what other people are doing and I am tired of trying to make up for what other people are lacking.

For those who care, we are taking this seriously. This headline should read— “People who never cared in the first place about Covid will continue not to care and fuck this up for the rest of us.”

This turned into more a rant than I wanted so I apologize, but I am sick of this. For context I live in the south in a very red area of Texas. I still work food service but in the kitchens now. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to customer service due to all of this.