#covid talk

[briarpatch-kids]

The new Futurama is so dated in a bad way. It's supposed to be "the future as imagined in 1999" we don't need amazon, streaming, and a covid episode.

[clockworkotter]

welp i appear to have finally caught covid after all this time so at least my streak was pretty high i guess

[magiccarpetman]

Cw for weight talk in this one.

So I have covid. Nasty cough, fevers, the works. I’m ambulatory and on the mend but not having fun.

This evening, an acquaintance from class visited and tried to cheer us all up by assuring us that covid makes you lose a bunch of weight.

Reader, I did not leap six feet forward to bite her head off. Because it would have exposed her, and that would be wrong.

“Well,” I said instead of biting her or going off about what a ridiculous line of bullshit she was spouting, ���that would be a definite negative.”

One of my friends brought the mood back up by cracking a joke about how skinny I am, and the conversation meandered on, but I’m going to be stuck on this all night.

When you make that kind of comment, you never know the medical history of the people you’re addressing (not that it would be cool if you did). I spent most of my teens trying to gain enough weight that I would stop PASSING THE FUCK OUT all the time because, among other reasons, people who correlated weight and health were STARVING ME. So NO, I am not excited to find that I might lose some of the health I’ve managed to claw back for myself.

There were ten of us standing there, and I was the only one who said anything. I’m angry. I’m tried. I’m sick. Fatphobia poisons everything.

Goodnight.

[lotus-tower]

it blows my mind that we're just letting covid happen like.... not even the economic impact is enough to motivate people in positions of power to act because short term incentives will always win out. rich people have the tools to protect themselves so what do they really have to fear? but this is just insane. we don't even have a single antiviral capable of getting rid of covid in your body--paxlovid can only temporarily stop replication. it's unbelievable.

[elkian]

One incredibly frustrating thing about COVID in the USA is the constant, pervasive, Murica Fuck Yeah! culture could have been leveraged to end that shit quick. When described to my coworker, he bequeathed the phrase "winning COVID" which... yeah.

If we'd just slanted it as "don't you want to WIN COVID? Don't you want to prove the US is the best?? USA! USA! USA!" we could have had a chance, I think.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

being a student during peak pandemic was so fucking surreal like. "it's not an excuse to fall behind" I cannot stress enough to you how much A Worldwide Plague Upending Life As We Know It is literally one of The Top Three Reasons to fall behind

[no-one-should-have]

every dream that u can't remember is a prophecy

[sherwood-cabin]

“everyoneeee is sick right now” (loud coughing) “i have a cold but i’m still going to class because i can’t miss it” (loud coughing) “5 people were missing in my english class today, isn’t that crazy?” (loud coughing) “can i ask a personal question? why do you wear a mask?”

[screaming-weevil]

Actively losing respect for some of my friends who, despite getting covid not even a month ago and/or having exposures THIS WEEK, are not wearing masks in public. kill

[susanoos-wife]

[briarpatch-kids]

Man, there really is a lot of privilege involved in who gets sick and who doesn't. I've been the same amount careful as my friend who works at a college and parents school age kids and all that but this is my first major exposure and this is her third infection because she can't stay home all the time and her husband's ex is irresponsible and keeps getting the kids sick.

[clockworkotter]

i realize this will be shocking, and something no one has ever heard before, but having covid fucking sucks.

Dumb "humor" aside, as someone who already deals with some lousy health issues, it's very unsettling and scary to feel like this. It's not entirely new, I've had the flu to the point I should have been hospitalized in the past (but wasn't! Thanks mom and dad!) and god knows how many colds and respiratory illnesses but it's freaky how different this is. The fatigue I have going on today is unlike any I've ever experienced, it's very bizarre and I don't really have the brain power to put it into words. I've dealt with various types of fatigue my whole life (most notably being chronically anemic for just..... YEARS AND YEARS) and this is just so different.

Doctor got me on paxlovid, so I'm hoping with that plus all my boosters this is gonna be about as bad as it gets.

[fourgottencoast]

I’ve been having issues with this ‘it’s never too late to mask again’ rhetoric people have started using to try to get people to take covid precautions again because it’s a phrase that demands no accountability, no self reflection, no growth. Because unfortunately IT IS too late for MILLIONS of people who’ve been killed/disabled by covid and conditions triggered as a direct result of covid, and i think it’s disrespectful to those lives to allow people to just jump right back into pretending they care without acknowledging this enormous tragedy they actively participated in! Sorry but you don’t get to ignore a pandemic for 4 years and then wash your hands of the blood you helped spill through willful ignorance while claiming to care about social justice!

And it’s also aggravating because it’s SO OBVIOUS most of these people are only doing it because they’re afraid of how covid/bird flu/a trump health admin will personally affect THEM, not because they’ve evolved politically or actually care about their community. There’s no genuine solidarity with the disabled community, no self-reflection on their participation in eugenics and normalization of mass death/disability, no connecting the dots between disease mitigation (or lack thereof) and capitalism/imperialism/racism, etc. its just more individualism that ultimately does not help lead to collective liberation and will not prevent this from happening again.

[thehallstara]

anyways happy pride to all my high risk queers out there, to all my disabled queers for whom events aren't accessible to, to my immunocompromised folks who can't risk attending events where people aren't masked or taking covid precautions! happy pride to my fellow cripqueers that want to be out there fighting and celebrating with their friends and family and can't because it's not safe for them to do so– you're not alone and you deserve to celebrate too. we all do.

[arkaniist]

like most of us know by now that 主人 (shujin) means master but also husband and owner-

it just still makes me feel insane.

he could have said 主将 (shushō) for a something that called to mind his position as cloud's commander/military leader or 主君 (shukun) for a nobility lord and master kind of vibe. he could have avoided 主 (omo) altogether and placed himself as cloud's 師匠(shishō), a teacher/mentor in the sense that he's guiding and leading and shaping him. there are like a million subtle variations on 主 (which means leader/lord/master even on its own) that don't also imply head of household domestic bliss.

but no he was like cloud i'm your HUSBAND you have to commit war crimes with me.

[morganbritton132]

Modern Day Steddie where Steve becomes somewhat of a shut in after the kids go off to college and the highlight of his day is watching his heavy metal mailman on his ring camera.