#you dont fucking trust the government 99% of the time. but the cdc said covid? don't worry about it! :)

[horce-divorce]

I managed to not get sick (not even a cold) for the last 3 years even though I LIVED in a house with 2 people who got covid, and everyone else I know has been sick multiple times. I'm really, really careful.

We've been staying here for less than 6 months and I've gotten sick twice. I haven't stopped being careful. But my friend's dad? He is THE most disgusting man I've EVER met. Hands down. I don't say that lightly, he is atrocious. He constantly has pneumonia and doesn't wear a mask because "it's not covid." He sounds like gollum. He can't stand up without passing out. He is constantly saying he's FINE and NOT SICK.

He has an open wound on his foot that he doesn't take care of and he bleeds all over the floor/rugs in common areas and then LEAVES IT THERE. He bled all over a roll of TP the other day and then just... left it like that for everyone to use! No big deal!! His wife scrubbed the bathroom floor the other day on her hands and knees to get his bloodstains off of it, and the NEXT DAY he bled all over it again.

He popped his dentures out of his mouth, with food on them, and LEFT THEM ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER. WITH FOOD ON THEM. FOR HOURS. The past 2 days, he's had a steak that is TWO YEARS out of date "thawing" on the counter for 10+ hours each day (it was not frozen!!!!!!). He always does this. He will leave leftover food out on the counter at room temperature ALL DAY before he eats it. And then he'll leave his leftovers on the counter knowing they have mice. (Four of the five of us have been trying desperately to get rid of the mice for months. Guess who's not helping!)

He also doesn't wash his hands. I don't mean "I've caught him doing that." I mean, he'll like, stick his whole hand in lasagna sauce and then open every door in the kitchen with that hand and just leave sticky handprints on everything like a toddler. This happens DAILY. There are FOUR other people who clean up after this man. You can clean everything in the kitchen spotless and go back in there tomorrow at 9am and he'll have fucked it up already. He dumps his old coffee cup into the sink OVER TOP OF THE CLEAN DISHES IN THE RACK. He does that OFTEN! Not just once! Like, regularly!!!

Like yes he's letting us stay here for free. The toll it takes is psychological. Truly I don't even think he notices that other people inhabit Earth with him, let alone his own house. He could not be bothered to care about anyone else if you paid him. We've told him repeatedly that we're staying here because we're disabled and thus homeless, and that we are immunocompromised, and he keeps going "oh, yeah!" And then insisting he doesn't have to change anything because it's "not covid." Like, buddy, I don't care if its covid, RSV, pneumonia, swine flu, or some yet undescribed mutation of a virus that melted out of the ice caps and flew up your nose. I DONT WANT IT!!!!!!!

Anyway I have really good reason to believe that it's either the conditions in the house and/or Pat's fault that Bel and I both keep getting sick, because we both had this shit on lock for YEARS before we came here. We cannot fucking wait to get back to the woods in no small part due to the personal space it will afford us from people