#-> covid scare)

[amaditalks]

Right now the US is experiencing the second worst spike in COVID since the beginning of the pandemic. Right now, about 1 in 20 people have the virus, it is estimated that when this wave is over, 1 in 3 people will experience an infection.

It doesn’t have to be that way. COVID is not an inevitability to just passively accept, it is a life changing disease (every time) that you should use every tool and tactic at your disposal to avoid.

You already know what to do. If you haven’t received the updated vaccine, do that. (It’s not a booster, it’s an update, in the same way the annual flu shot is updated.) Mask, any time you’re near people you don’t live with or where anyone else has been in the last 30 minutes. (This includes outdoor spaces, like picking up a no contact delivery or pumping gasoline.) Avoid crowds. Now is not the time for concerts and hockey games or even a leisurely stroll around Target to browse. Clean your air and demand clean air in your workplace and your kids’ schools and anywhere anyone in your family has to spend time.

If 1 in 3 Americans contract the virus on this wave, that means that another half million people are likely going to die, mostly elderly and high risk. (Like me.)

It also means that 11 million people — or more — are going to be disabled, at least short term, when this is done, and there are no reliable predictors for who does and does not develop post-COVID disability.

Those numbers are horrible. But don’t let them terrify you into paralysis, let them galvanize you into action to protect yourself and your family and community.

[3-aem]

my annual battle with covid and flu vaxx combo leaving me wondering if immunity is worth it like at a certain point it feels like u just made me excruciatingly sick for a whole day rather than spread out over the course of a week or two

[sprimpfriedrice]

White dungeon meshi fans sound like this to me:

It's extremely fascinating and frightening to me how hateful some of you people are towards shuro, a man who is clearly depicted as japanese, (a man who could look like me or literally any member of my family in real life) for being a normal, complex, and flawed human being.

Why do you single him out for getting frustrated with and mad at laios when chilchuck and marcille do the same literally all the time? What's the difference between them and shuro?

Why do you feel the unnecessary need to protect these white women from a japanese man?

Do you expect that this japanese man is inherently going to have some kind of ugly negative quality that has not been once hinted at canonically? Do you know what that's called? Because i do and it's fucking racism.

You people get scared the moment a character that is a person of color isnt a quiet little model minority or a sweet mammy archetype. You grasp at your pearls the moment they are revealed to have complex personalities and histories; when they feel negative, big emotions that are literally part of the human experience. Or god forbid, when they show romantic interest in a pure, helpless, little white woman.

And when a person of color stops behaving good and docile the way you want, when they decide that theyre not going to put up with a situation that makes them uncomfortable or miserable or RIGHTEOUSLY FURIOUS, they become the bad guy. As seen countless times in the medias demonizing depiction of the Black Lives Matter protests and even of black people who get punished for just living their lives. It happens so often i shouldnt have to reiterate it to you but it somehow keeps flying over your head.

And when that dirty, conniving, perverted, slant eyed, buck toothed, stumpy little japanese man understandably snaps at the white person you guys are projecting onto and all you see is this:

So dont be surprised when i say that id rather kill myself than entrust the safety of my oldest aunts and uncles or my youngest cousins with any of you who act like this. Im terrified of what could have happened if people like you worked at the facility that my great grandmother lived out her final years in. Would you have seen her as a wild animal that needed to be subdued too when she had one of her many dementia-induced violent episode?

I will not apologize for saying that i find it deeply disconcerting to see so many of you happily posting hateful vitriol or even about committing acts of violence against a man that looks like me, solely because he was experiencing his humanity

[hellyeahsickaf]

Used my mobility aid in public for the first time today and that was a big deal for me. I've had it for months but haven't had the balls to use it. Too much internalized ableism, it's dumb how scary it is. But y'know it wasn't too bad. Maybe I can do this

[redrobin-detective]

or not all of me will die The demon had seen many contracts end. He was used to running, to blubbering tears, to begging, bribery and violence. Never before did he have a master who was so ready to die. Never before did he have to wonder if he himself was ready for it to end. The fated end of the contract has come and both master and demon reckon with their choices and the roles they must play.

Helllllllllo Kuro fans, bet you thought you'd seen the last of me! Well joke's on you. I had a horrifying vision while running that became this fic and I'm inflicting the sads on you too.

You don't need to read ad perpetuam memoriam to get it but I think it helps add context

[wyvernne]

Wyvernne....Wyvernne.. if you can hear us, please write us another Diluc fanfics... I fear literature is dying (lack of Diluc fanfics nowadays)... Wyvernne please hear us 😭🙏

i promise ya girl is trying 😭 i’ve been slow because of law school in general but i regret to inform everyone it’ll be even worse this year since it’s my last. i’m taking the professional ethics exam soon followed by the bar next summer so i’ll probably be brain dead but i’ll write when i can 🥲 the see you through til the day’s end rewrite really is pretty much done, i just need to pull together the mental fortitude to edit it lol

[kunikisss]

keegan russ forcemasc

[not-poignant]

every now and then i forget how bad my chronic illnesses are and every now and then my body is like 'hmmm you seem to have forgotten what it's like to be cripplingly bedridden and disabled and we don't want you to forget' and then i'm reminded and it feels a little like being yeeted into a granite cliff wall at full speed and leaving a dent

[sickfreaksirkay]

diva down </3 (my month long illness has now resulted in me losing my taste and smell)

[morfosi]

I need help and I have nowhere else to turn. I'm trans, physically disabled, and I need to raise enough money to graduate college and escape a dangerous living situation. I had to leave the details of my dangerous situation out of the gofundme page to prevent anyone from calling the police, because that will not help me. Please please please help me, please donate anything or share this to someone, I am begging for help

adding popular tags, im sorry for clogging tags i dont mean to bother anyone im just really really scared

[zebratimw]

[jangillman]

[hellyeahsickaf]

Not me remembering when I lived with my mother and she was pissed that I wore smoky eyeshadow because it was "wrong". I'd gotten a few compliments for it though!

Except I wasn't wearing any. it was my chronic illness, especially when I hade flareups. I had dark circles under my eyes and looked like a pale sickly Victorian child.

[animentality]

[sunsetsnz]

cw: covid

coworker just said she has covid and i was just working with her yesterday. for hours. all up in each other’s space (because certain areas of my workplace are confined, and it’s basically required). for fuck’s sake man.

[skunkes]

blood test tomorrow and i dont think theyll let someone in with me so nobody's going to hold me down, making me feel Calm and also preventing me from escaping. smile.