Have people been getting rewarded with hustling more than their peers? Promotions that aren't popularity contests are exceedingly rare from my experience.
How is it a symbol of fear? Masks for infection control have been used since the late 1800s. It's purely practical.
Maybe a little fear would be healthy for some people if it makes them act in a socially integrated manner. Anybody who's had covid probably doesn't want to get it again.
The things we do to avoid covid also help with avoiding other respiratory infections as well, all of which are pretty terrible to get in case anybody forgot about them.
But saying that covid isn't causing damage is itself highly myopic.
I personally wasn't, but I turned 17 during the 2008 financial crisis, so that jump started getting engaged with things.
My sisters are way more aware of the world than I was at the time, for instance. But if you talk to some younger people, you'll find that things are different than even a decade ago for younger people.
They spend more time iterating on existing products rather than replacing them, not perfectly, but Google will throw away something good for seemingly no reason.
The first thing to try is to bring that up. By stating that you struggle to trust people, you can ask them to help you examine what thoughts you have that are associated with trust in the first place, and that's really helpful in developing a mindful understanding of what's happening.
Trust is also a push-pull thing in the first place, so going in with an honest attempt can help you gauge your reaction before learn who to trust.
Calling what therapy does as "creating delusions" helps nobody. Therapy offers a number of tools that helps a person get grounded in reality, helps a person create boundaries, and helps strengthen a person's abilities to deal with their life stresses by creating the framework to either deal with them or help move on to a new environment that doesn't create as much stress.
Not all therapists are good. If you try somebody and don't connect or trust them, try to find somebody else. Internalizing stress really destroys the body, and it's important to find somebody you trust to help process it.
How exactly do you determine who is a woman though? Because appearances alone don't cut it, and the more you pick things apart, the less you can make any hard lines. Simply put, trans women are women.
What strikes me the most about the anti vaccine argument is how it relies on not understanding basic fundamentals of biology and ignoring that individual choices have impacts outside of their body.
The only rational way to view unvaccinated people is the same way we view drunk drivers. They might not hurt themselves or others, but they probably will so society makes rules to prevent that behavior.
Only the most extreme cases would end up on the street because the rest will die. That's a fundamentally antisocial approach that will lead to people being exploited to death.