Sorry to hear.

Hang in there.

I think one of the issues around this stuff is that many LGBTIQ  people are somewhat allied in their dissatisfaction of their historical treatment in society, however, underneath that as individual groups some of the things they believe are not so closely aligned with each other.

They are often grouped together as one people - basically everyone who is non-hetrosexual and non-cisgender as if it's a unified movement but in places it can be logically inconsistent to believe EVERY single one of their individual beliefs together.

It's a bit like atheists vs religious people. Religious people will be allied against the atheists...but when you go deeper than that it's an awkward alliance as everyone religious doesn't believe in the same things.

My take is that the virus was always going to go badly in USA...because...

1. Some really high percentage of your workers have NO savings and live pay to pay. This doesn't go well with the government telling you to stay home.

2. Culturally your whole society and social history puts a strong importance on freedom, individuality and personal rights (see guns etc). This doesn't go well with being told new rules for what you can and can't do to minimise a virus.

3. Heathcare is mixed in the USA - got some of the best shit in the world, unless you are broke in which case you'll have a shockingly bad experience compared to a lot of other western nations. This was never going to go well with something that stresses out the heath system futher like a pandemic.

But those 3 things together and the virus was always going to play out pretty badly over there.

Personally I think you could pick any president and you would have had a shit show regardless because of those factors.

That said - the way mask wearing and other precautions got turned into another political football to play games with is lamentable and disgusting from both sides of politics who seemed to be flip flopping on it the whole time just to point score against each other.

Good news is Americans are kinda a badass optimistic people and I think you guys will cover come this and come back stronger eventually. That's what the USA does.

But it was always going to be ugly first.

My issue is even if one does agree that black people are also systematically oppressed, there's no way to support them now without ALSO supporting BLM's agenda on marxism, gender/sex relations,  and the politics around changing the reliance on the nuclear-family.

Although I notice they have toned down those sections of their website now in recent months, so perhaps they realised a lot of their base doesn't want to get into that other stuff.

But that's my problem with it - the piggy backing of issues together, particularly when some of them are relatively extreme beliefs (eg ending the nuclear family's dominance)

It's reasonably in the centre of politics to think that somewhere in the system we need to make some changes to kinda end the cycle of disadvantage that's messing up black people's lives. But the marxism and other stuff is hardline extremist left wing ideas.

Why can I not have one without the other? I want to live some place where the cops are trained not to suffocate a guy to death while he pleads for his dead mom but that doesn't mean I want to go live back in stalinist russia or something either.

Him and Zakk would sure have been a rocky sound.