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[anarchotahdigism]

unfortunately it being nearly year six of the pandemic my life depends on me remaining in isolation so I have had to eke out community online since I'm surrounded by anti-mask nazis

My desire for isolation is at war with my desire for connection

[garlic-and-cloves]

Lets try something

I wish Tumblr would let me add more options, but feel free to reblog with a better description of what you do

[batwynn]

I have to say, I’m kind of extremely pissed off how shrugged off the bird flu has been and now we’re all at serious risk AGAIN. Like, maybe it’s just because I give a fuck about birds (or maybe it’s Mayba-Covid) but I was immediately concerned from the first reports of it, and did everything I could to monitor local birds and be ready to report any cases. (We have a high amount of Canada Geese and ducks that migrate through this area) I kept tabs on what species were hit particularly hard. I checked the domestic flock reports and got, you know, more concerned as more and more people’s chickens got it. Because no one did even the bare-minimum to protect them. Steps like: Reduce wild bird interaction around food by feeding inside, and cover the tops of their runs to avoid wild bird poop falling in.

I guess most people forgot about when the swine flu mutated and made it to human-to-human transmission? Or Monkey Pox? Or… where COVID came from???

When it started infecting cows, I knew it was too little too late. That people, once again, had done far too little to stop the spread and generally just didn’t seem to care. And, honestly? If taking the bare minimum of safety precautions is too much work for people, you shouldn’t be allowed to raise animals at all. Washing your fucking boots between barns was too hard? You know those chickens are treated like less than shit.

And yet here we are. Selfish, greedy, and stupid to the point of our own mass infection. Again. Because we, as a species, just don’t care about other animals. Never mind ourselves.

I’m so fucking sick of human beings.

[willowreader]

If you have any kind of autoimmune disease this article explains the risks becoming infected with Covid.

[covid-safer-hotties]

[susanoos-wife]

Some things I want to talk about more but don't because nobody's ready to hear it:

-How much I hate AI

-Why I think the 40 hour workweek is an outdated concept.

-Why being a sub elitist (meaning people who think anime should only be subbed and think that all dubbed anime sucks) is stupid and aggravating.

-How some people who complain about gender stereotypes often stereotype other people based on gender more than the people they complain about do.

-How creepy it is that we've become conditioned to accept rampant advertising in every part of our lives as normal.

-The way the government lies to everyone about how dangerous covid is and encourages people to minimize/downplay/ignore the dangers of covid.

[liminalweirdo]

Just speaking of this,

Average New Daily Infections in the US: 900,233 New Infections Expected Over the Next Month in the US: 27,007,000 Resulting Monthly Long COVID Cases in the US: 1,350,000 to 5,401,000

source

She died on Christmas Day. On Christmas Day! I said goodbye on an iPad! Because of the rules! She died alone! And those awful people and their wine fridges, and their dancing, and their parties, and I listened to them, and I let my mother die alone!

i dunno about the rest of the world but this is such bitter, satisfying british political commentary that i've needed to hear for over two years now. thank you steven moffat this genuinely healed something within me

[aropride]

[ferdieinceladoncity]

Right. I have so many thoughts about the Doctor Who Christmas special... buckle up.

First of all, and perhaps most importantly, I had a lot of fun. Ncuti Gatwa is just incredible, with his megawatt smile and energy that so perfectly encapsulates the doctor; I hadn't realised how much I'd missed seeing him on my screen until now. Moffat's bringing a pretty good game here, with a story and a universe that really intruiged me- Time Hotel! How cool is that?! The little storyline involving Anita and the Doctor working in a hotel for a year is so heart-warming, and that's what Doctor Who is all about, isn't it- the connections forged between people, friendship and love and finding companionship in dark places. May have teared up. Fully thought Moffat was going to do what he does best and set us up to love Anita only to make us watch her die, but, thankfully, he held out!

I have one major.... head scratching complaint here, though. I'd like people to correct me if I'm wrong, but did this episode have particularly... anti-covid lockdown messaging? Joy regrets not being with her mum when she died in hospital because of, and I quote, "nonsense rules."

It's one thing to regret not being with your mother when she passed, obviously, and social distancing rules were awful things that we all had to abide by, nobody doubts that... but Joy is framed as a rule-stickler and in the wrong for observing social distancing protocol during the pandemic, which in the narrative- and by the Doctor- is framed as a failing on her part.

I'm very sensitive to people not taking Covid seriously. I know people who have been affected lifelong by it's effects- many died, as we all well know- so to have Doctor Who laugh in the face of pandemic lockdown and call a necessary practise that saved lives a 'nonsense rule' kind of smarted.

Hey, I don't know. And I had fun: that's what matters.

[anarchotahdigism]

it's super cool that almost every casual statement about offline life is a violent reminder of how nearly everyone participates in the holocaust of the disabled with their refusal to mask & remember COVID is disabling, killing us

[readandwriteclub]

If you look at the paper's date, 2018 -- long before Covid, you can see that everyone knew about the neurotoxic effects of Ivermectin, that it was well studied!

As a result of the neurotoxicity, and especially the permanently lowered prefrontal cognition, Ivermectin can be shown to subsequently affect dopamine-associated behaviors like ethanol consumption, anxiety, sensorimotor deficits, and sociocommunicative behavior. At higher dosages Ivermectin will cause observable neurotoxic effects like ataxia, tremors, myoclonus, seizures, encephalopathy, and coma.

True!

A large segment of the population made themselves permanently stupider. 🤣 LMFAO

Science knew the value of Ivermectin.

The FDA, CDC, NIH, Birks, and Fauci knew the value of Ivermectin, BUT they intentionally hid that value from the courts and the public so that the Covid mRNA shot was approved. That is _______. There’s not a word to express how wrong and evil that is. People were guilt tripped into committing a Nuremberg Treaty violation and sandbagging their health with an mRNA drug that would worsen their conditions and eventually kill them WHILE potentially spreading to others.

All of those people deserve to be exposed, licenses revoked, government programs cancelled, people removed from office, indicted, prosecuted, and - when proven guilty - be hung for crimes against humanity and treason.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[animentality]

[yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt]

In light of Brian Thompson being shot dead on my birthday (🎉🥳🎂) I'd like to share a personal story about UnitedHealthcare.

During the peak of COVID, my family all got sick. I couldn't be on my parents' insurance because they were both older and on Medicare. So, I had insurance through my University: UnitedHealthcare.

For some reason, rather than roll-over each year, I got a new plan each year that ended after May and didn't start until August, so I was uninsured for the summer months, but it was a weird situation that the university denied, and told us we were supposed to be insured year-round, it was messy.

Both of my parents went to the hospital, and I got sick too. I had to take care of my pets, and myself, and try to stay alive and keep my pets alive when I was so weak I could hardly move. When my parents came home, my condition got dramatically worse (I think my body knew it couldn't give out, because there was nobody to take care of me, so once my parents were okay, it completely crashed and failed.)

I started experiencing emergency symptoms. It was a bit hard to breathe, my chest hurt, and I was extremely delirious. I wanted to call my insurance to see if I was covered (this was during the summer) and I was connected to some nice person, probably making minimum wage, who told me with caution in her voice that my plan was expired. I had no active insurance, but she urged me to go to an emergency room. I remember saying something to the effect of "You just told me I don't have insurance, I can't go to the hospital, I can't afford it."

She sounded so genuinely worried and scared. I remember she said "You really don't sound good, you sound really sick, please call 9-1-1" and I think I just said "I can't afford it without insurance, don't worry, I think I'll be okay."

And she paused and said "I don't want to hang up the phone with you like this." And it sounded like she was holding back tears. And I don't remember what I said, I think that I would be okay, and I hung up.

I still think about her. I wonder if that phone call haunted her, or if she had dozens of calls like that a day. I wonder if she thinks about it at all, if she wonders if I died after she told me I didn't have insurance and therefore couldn't go to the hospital without incurring a tremendous financial burden. I wonder if she feels guilt or blame-- of course she shouldn't, it wouldn't have been her fault if anything had happened to me. Maybe it's self-centered to wonder if she thinks about it. I'm not the main character and it was just her job. But, still.

I think about how evil it was that we were put in that situation. Because offering year-long continuous coverage through the university plan would maybe cut into profits, maybe not benefit shareholders enough, maybe cut into Thompson's $10 million salary. While his minimum wage administrators have to feel afraid to hang up the phone, because on the other line someone might be dying, and they wouldn't know. While his patients hang up and decide to take their chances rather than put their family through that trauma.

This is UnitedHealthcare. This is Brian Thompson's legacy. This is why, understandably, an entire nation is jubilant that he was gunned down like the vermin he was. I don't care about his widow. I feel pity for his children, despite the fact that they will inherit millions, but I feel more pity for the children of his victims patients who are gone because they didn't want THEIR children to inherit crippling debt. Brian Thompson got what he fucking deserved. I pray that he not be the only one. I pray for continued safety, peace , and anonymity for his killer.

American healthcare is a disease.

[firminfollowing]

for people feeling hopeless about this: there are masking social groups, and you can start your own, and there are mask-mandated businesses in 2024.

i don't know how many exist globally, or where they all are, but there's one in my state (a queer bookstore at that!) and i feel like its important for yall to know that there are in fact places for community to grow that cares about the safety of everyone :)

yeah it’s good seeing people talking about building community and putting focus on community care right now but to be quite honest i don’t want to hear shit about “community��� from you if you won’t even wear a mask to keep from spreading a debilitating and deadly virus. we’re still averaging ~5,000 confirmed covid deaths a month in the U.S. (the real number is much higher, considering that testing is grotesquely underreported, plus the fact that dying from complications caused by covid doesn’t statistically count as dying from covid). millions of people have long covid and might be living with debilitating symptoms for years, if not for the rest of their lives. covid has destroyed so many people’s immune systems and people are getting sick more often, and getting sicker than they used to. disabled, chronically ill, and immunocompromised people deserve to be able to exist in public without having to worry about catching an illness that could further disable or kill them. kids deserve to go to school without catching a devastating vascular infection over and over and risking their long term health and quality of life. people deserve to be able to go to a doctor’s office or hospital without facing such a high risk of getting covid while they’re there. so many people truly don’t have the option to exist in public life anymore for fear of what this virus might do to them or someone they live with. y’all are talking a lot right now about how the government doesn’t care about us and won’t protect us, and i hate to tell you that that includes protection from covid. the government completely gave up on covid years ago at this point, and they’re not going to change course anytime soon. wearing a mask is genuinely one of the most important forms of community care you can personally, single-handedly contribute to right now. should we also be pushing for better air filtration and ventilation, paid sick leave, free healthcare, and better vaccines and treatments? yes! but those things will take time, and will only happen with a lot of organization. you can wear a mask and do your part to reduce transmission right now though, and that will make a difference in your community, even if it might not seem like it. the point is, respectfully, if you truly care about community and looking out for other people, doing something as simple and effective as wearing a mask is a great way to not only visibly show solidarity, but also make a real, meaningful effort to protect our collective health and wellbeing. you’re gonna have to actually make an effort to care for your community instead of just saying words on the internet, and wearing a mask would be a good start.