#also get vaccinated kids

[ilgaksu]

if you are wondering if it's weird to leave reread kudos/comments on an author's work, i have had a tough week health-wise (an unusually bad flare up as a result of a vaccine which, like, sucks much less than actually getting the thing but still hasn't been my favourite experience) and someone is currently rereading my heihua series and leaving little comments like "hi i'm rereading again and -" so i've been literally debating if it's weird for me to be like "hello dear commenter what's it like to be shouldering what's left of my faith in the universe" FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK.

so no, it's not weird. writers are simple creatures who love praise.

[puppyeared]

man

[azuremist]

I am so tired of people being like if you think Milsiril is a toxic mom you're an IDIOT!! Like you people really have no idea how damaging it can be to grow up with parents who infantalize you huh.

[audiovisualrecall]

This is a start, anyway. Lots of research and work ahead.

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

just saw the world's Take Of All Time:

"calling something 'illegal code' makes you sound like a cop."

it was a conversation about ransomware.

i work for a medical research lab. ransomware took out our servers for more than two weeks while we were working on the covid vaccine. crunch the math on how many people die of covid each day and then look me in the eye and say that hacking can't be a violent act.

[dykeomania]

i fully attribute me never catching covid to the fact that i regularly drank from a garden hose and ate freshly fallen snow off of my roof in one of the dirtiest cities in the country as a young child

[rose-lily-hale]

not to be a country folk on main but.... when in doubt slap some raw potato on it!

i have and abscess on my stomach an very time my shorts move its hell. i've tried antibiotic ointment and drawing salve and acetaminophen and NOTHING

my bff was like oh just put some potato on in it!

and i'm like 🤔why didn't i think of that??? (but i'm so wrapped up in school work now i forgot the very existence and cold and hot compresses 👀)

anyway grated a potato up and as soon as the juices touched my skin it was sweet relief

(also helps on cuts and scrapes) :)

[autisticlee]

do anti vaxers really genuinely believe vaccines are bad,,,,or do they have some kinda weird agenda they're trying to spread? because they act like a cult that rather their kids die of preventable diseases than do something their cult disapproves of.

because vaccines are government stuff! don't listen to government! listen to us! let us brainwash you instead! if your kid survives those diseases they will become one of us!!

that's what they sound like to me.

[silverislander]

prof said congrats for writing up a proposal so early i am going to get a good grade in. well this is literally going to be graded. but yk the meme

[woodsy-hoe]

i swear if one more person heckles me or asks me if covid is coming back bc i still wear my mask i’m gonna scream like bitch i’m immunocompromised ???

[phagodyke]

its actually nuts how missing a single vaccination has shaped my entire fucking life. like not only would I not be deaf if I had gotten it on time but I probs wouldn't have adhd either 🫣

[website-com]

i am soo bad at doing grown up things in the adult world i should be shot

[astrifurious]

wondering if there any literature or media or articles or just ANYTHING about finding love to be terrifying to a cosmic horror degree

[californiaquail]

i think semi frequently about how my siblings are all between 16-32 years older than me and i only really talk to one of them and eventually if nothing takes me out first due to the passage of time and mortality it will just be me and my nieces and nephews some of whom are older than me . 🧍🏻

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

wait, Derin how did your leaving make the hospital shut down?

I used to work as a live-in nanny for a pediatrician.

Now, the thing about hospitals in my country is that they are massively understaffed and massively underfunded. This is especially true outside the major cities. The staff are worked to the bone and receive little to no help in things like finding accommodation or childcare, making working in rural areas a very uninviting prospect; staff come out here, get lumped with the work of three people (because there's nobody else to do it), burn out under the workload and leave, meaning that those remaining have even more work because that person is gone. It's unsustainable and the medical staff are doing their best to sustain it, because people die if they don't, so to the higher-ups it looks like everything's getting done and therefore everything is fine.

My friend (and boss) worked one week on, one week off, swapping out with another pediatrician. This was necessary because it would not be physically possible for one person to handle the workload for longer periods of time. The one single pediatrician had to hold up the entire pediatrics ward, which was not only the only public hospital pediatrics ward in our town, but also the one that served all the towns around us for a few hours' drive in all directions. I regularly saw her go to work sick, aching, tired, or with a debilitating 'I can barely make words or see' level migraine, because if she took a day off, twenty children didn't get healthcare that day, and some of these kids' appointments were scheduled weeks in advance. She'd work long hours in the day and then be called in a couple of times overnight for an hour or two at a time (she was on-call at night too, because somebody had to be), and then go in the next day. Sometimes she would be forced to take a day off because she physically could not stay awake for longer than a few minutes at a time, meaning she couldn't drive to work.

Cue my niece's second birthday coming up in Melbourne. I'd been working for her for about 3 years, and she (and the hospital) had plenty of advance warning that I (and therefore she) needed one (1) Friday off. That's fine, we'll find someone to work that Friday, the hospital said. Right up until the last week where they're like "oh, we can't find a replacement; you can come in, can't you?"

No, she tells them; I don't have anyone to watch my kid that day.

Oh, surely you can hire a babysitter for this one day, they say. Think of the children! We really really need you to work that day. I know we said it'd be fine but we need you now, there's no one else to do it.

There are no other babysitters, she told them. Unless you can find one?

That's not our responsibility, they said.

But I'm not changing my plans, she's got plans by now as well, the hospital knew about this one day weeks in advance, and with absolutely no reserve staff they're forced to reschedule all pediatrics appointments for that Friday. Not a huge deal, it happens on the 'physically too overworked to get out of bed' days too. I go to Melbourne, she goes back to her home in Adelaide for her recovery week, all should be on track.

My niece gives me Covid.

This was way back in the first wave of the pandemic, and there were no Covid vaccines yet. The rules were isolate, mask up, hope. I had Covid in the house, and it would've been madness for my friend and her toddler to come back into the Covid house instead of staying in Adelaide. There was absolutely no way that a pediatrician could live with someone in quarantine due to Covid and go to work in the hospital with sick children every day. And no support existed for finding another babysitter, or temporary accommodation, so the hospital was down a pediatrician.

The other pediatrician wasn't available to do a three-week stint. They were also trapped in Adelaide on their well-earned week off.

Meaning that the only major pediatrics ward within a several-hour radius had no pediatricians. They had to shut down and send all urgent cases to Adelaide for the week. To the complete absence of surprise of any of the doctors or nurses; of course this would happen, this was bound to happen, it presumably keeps happening. But probably to the surprise of the higher-ups. After all, the hospital was doing fine, right? Of course all the staff were complaining of overwork and a lack of resources in every meeting, but they could always be fobbed off with the promise of more help sometime in the future; the work was mostly getting done, so the issue couldn't be too urgent.

It's not like some nanny who doesn't even work for the hospital could go out of town for a weekend for the first time in three years, and get the only public pediatrics ward in the area shut down for a week.

[tristinian]

Quick question: in your blueprint for an ideal world, where are the disabled people? Are they left to die, or expected to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and push through the disability? Will you disregard the disabled people who need medication as ‘addicts’ and therefore deserving of suffering? Will you decide that people with incurable disabilities are “doomed anyways so who cares what happens to them”? Are people with embarrassing disabilities treated with respect? Will disabled people who have trouble with hygiene or cooking be accommodated for? Will public spaces be accessible to disabled people, or is it convenient that the architecture means you don’t have to see or think about them?

Remember that in any society there will always be disabled people and you have to think of them if you’re creating the blueprint for a new, ideal, equal one.