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COVID at 3 Years: Where Are We Headed?
March 15, 2023 ā Three years after COVID-19 rocked the world, the pandemic has evolved into a steady state of commonplace infections, less frequent hospitalization and death, and continued anxiety and isolation for older people and those with weakened immune systems. After about 2Ā½ years of requiring masks in health care settings, Ā the CDC lifted its recommendation for universal, mandatoryā¦
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#3 year covid anniversary#coronavirus#coronavrius webmd#covid#covid about#covid now#covid statistics#covid then vs now#covid treatments#covid vaccine#covid webmd#Covid-19#long covid#pandemic#pandemic 3rd year#pandemic anniversary#signs of covid#symptoms of covid
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2020 vs 2024
#saw a pre covid vs now art improvement trend#well.. not improved much cause life got in the way#2020 was my doctor who era#for the obvious reason#it just a bit funny to see#my taste in fictional characters#ššš#sliver fox#feel I should use a doodle of astarion as the comparison#but I donāt have any new astarion to post lately#so I did a quick redraw#malcolm tucker#ttoi#the thick of it#peter capaldi
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Iāll never get over these kinda of comparisons so have another art at the start of Covid vs now
#my art#I just love looking at how different my style is now#also fuck lineart I hate lineart#barely even use sketches nowadays if I can help it#at least for my rendered pieces. studies usually still get sketches#Covid vs now
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Having a decent conversation with your father and it taking a hard left is a canon event I fear
#this includes him saying shit so close to the point and still managing to miss it by miles#nothing i can ever say is going to change his views or outlook on things#its getting tiring trying#(brought to you by several things but the highlights being. the bear v man question. covid conspiracies. annndddddd the milgram experiment)#please now insert the longest suffering sigh of exhaustion#i speak and sometimes it just goes in one ear out the other#and the other times he only hears what he wants to hear#(oh also brought to you by-> i know vaccines dont cause autism but we need to investigate why there has been a spike in people w/ autism#š¤¦āāļø<- me his psych major daughter#bc we understand austism more and diagnosising is becoming more accepted as a society overall <- what i said#vs what i think he heard-> professionals are just diagnosing anyone with whatever they want knowadays/handing out diagoses for fun)
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what if i. started a timer for like 8 hours and just saw how much i could crochet in that time. what if i did that
#abt to post my sweater now vs my sweater in 8 hrs don't worry about it......#my gf is wfh and i have covid is there any better time i think no!!#posts
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Guess who has covid šāļø
#somehow NOW is when I get it#first time#never got it while I was working in the Covid unit#or doing direct care#thank god itās now vs in two weeks when Iām leaving to go on my trip#still not fun tho
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Was having an actual break today at work
When the emergency alarm went off
But the room number displaying on the overhead was one nobody recognised
Cue the 8 senior staff members tearing up and down the entire ward and in and out of every single side room they could find and calling the security orderlies to see if they could help
Meanwhile the alarm blears on
An emergency and call for help from a room that doesn't exist and we can't reach.
I think eventually the security people might have manually gone into the system somehow and turned it off?
But fuck straight from the mundane nightmares of powerlessness
Thank god we had enough staff to spare for a scavenger hunt so we could be confident it was a literal false alarm
#My posts#nurblr#Vs yesterday I was the senior responder and a bunch of alarms went off so i just wandered up saw what was up#Saw people had it under control (fuck yeah having float staff) or did some basics#And went back to my zone#The confidence and security of the semi known#And my own MET calls from HDB have been calm because it was a controlled environment#Maybe ive just experience now#I remember it being so stressful when I started#Fuck COVID#Trash bag PPE visor mask gloves dry mouth sweat dripping adrenaline coursing flashback haha#Fuck that doctor also
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Tempted to revert to my Covid coping mechanism of "Hey this thing happened in my life so I'm making the exact same thing, with exact same events beat-for-beat, happen to my favorite character."
I still do this, it's just not beat-for-beat. But man. I am this close to just translating recent events to a lil guy.
#This thing would also be a lot less triggering/'extreme' than my covid bullshit.#Thank fuck for that.#āI have a terrible secret and Im sick both physically and in the headā vs āUh. Yeah I guess this is a slightly inconvinient thing nowā
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#leeās bullshit#literally ignore this im just using tumblr as my personal acne terror feedback loop for another minute#I have a derm appt tmrw w a new person and im j so scared theyāre going to put me on accutane#like itās very evident that since coming back from school my skin has looked Considerably Worse and itās very disheartening#and my mom and sister are both advocating for accutane since it worked well in the end for my sister to clear hers up#but like. Iām genuinely terrified abt the side effects esp the mental ones bc almost everyone Iāve asked was like yeah I was way unstable#while on it. And tbh I donāt need to add more instability and depression into the brain slop when itās just finally started working well.#and like itās just so intense on your body as well like idk.#she also was saying it in such a shitty way I guess. Like āoh since ur not an athlete it wonāt be as badā āur not in the sun like meā#k im working outside in the sun on my feet for two months of the summer. what.#āthe aches wonāt be as badā i already have chronic scoliosis pain. I donāt need to add more into that.#itās just shitty.#but also like I was looking through old photos to see if I could track progress and 1 idk if I rlly could itās hard I take bad photos and#2 itās been bad since college started !#like all of my pre first year photos ?? skin is so clear. even in covid w my mask acne it looked so much better than it does now.#so itās also disheartening to see how good it was vs is now.#and I do wish it was better obviously like im not happy w it. but also it isnāt worth all of that.#just frustrating you know. im still kinda surprised how good it was. so annoying.#like literally first move in day i noticed the jaw acne appearing and its not rlly there before then ? so idk what the deal is man. :(#anyway :( will update tmrw post appt
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Future COVID Vaccines Must Be Better; Science Races to Respond
SOURCESĀ David L. Hoey, president and CEO of Vaxxas, Cambridge, MA, and Brisbane, Australia. Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago. Jasdave Chahal, PhD, co-founder and chief scientist, Tiba Biotech, Cambridge, MA, and Brisbane, Australia. Vaxart news release: āVaxart Announced Positiveā¦
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#3 year covid anniversary#coronavirus#coronavirus webmd#covid#covid about#covid now#covid statistics#covid then vs now#covid treatments#covid vaccine#covid webmd#Covid-19#long covid#pandemic#pandemic 3rd year#pandemic anniversary#signs of covid#symptoms of covid
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Iām a simple creature. Just put me on ox and compliment my choice in music and Iām happy to run around the coffee shop all day
#syd rambles#just a thought I had since was a day of a lotta call outs which keeps me in the location working vs doing office work in the basement#and as long as the music is good I honestly prefer it#Iām aggressive about stealing the speaker tho since made a lot of work themed playlist during early Covid when we had no staff#But donāt get to use them much now since staffing issues are fixed so I donāt cover as often#any way ignore me this is very much just thoughts for myself
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thinking about who my parents were and who they are now.
#thinking of who i am and i am who they were#my dad who was full of stories and love is now just filled with rage and politics#incapable of having a full length conversation with me without one us getting pissed#vs my mom who's become lovelier#and kinder. if that was possible.#and we used to not speak that muhc during covid era coz i was going through my i hate everyone phase but man i was wrong about her#she accepted my bisexuality !!! something i thought id never have. [i live in a traditional country where the concept is foreign]#despite everything they love me and i love them and that is one thing that has always been there and always will#love is in the bike ride my dad took me on today. love is in all food he brought me. love is in how my mom went out and brought me chocolat#the abyss#ramblings of a lunatic
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If you please; what is your Tolberone theory of knowledge?
My theory, which I thought up a few weeks ago while sick with covid, is that all knowledge is a form of art, and that there are very broadly three basic types of knowledge arts: physical arts, philosophical arts, and scientific arts, and that pretty much all academic, artistic and practical disciplines exist somewhere in that triangle spectrum.
Physical arts are knowledges of how to actually, physically do things. The purest front of physical arts are things like dance and navigation.
Scientific arts are knowledges of things that can be tested and proven. Computer programming and Quilting are both scientific arts: they work, or they don't.
Philosophical Arts are knowledges of things which while not objectively provable, are still very real. History and Being A Good Listener are philosophical arts.
Nearly every discipline of knowledge is some combination of all three. Cooking is largely applied chemistry, a scientific art, but it's also a philosophical art because flavor is extremely cultural and contextual, and a physical art because you have to know how to hold the damn knife and heat when it's done.
The first part of toblerone theory is that, like how each piece has three sides, any given project needs at least one person who has a good grasp of each of the underlying arts involved or it's going to go sideways at best. For example:
Physical and Scientific arts, no philosophy: Jurassic Park. They need someone to point out that, while very possible, it's not necessarily a good idea.
Philosophy and Science, no physical: that dril tweet about the forum debate locked by a mod after 12,000 pages of heated debate. They need someone to drag them away from the keyboard and actually do something.
Philosophy and Physical, no science: that cult in midsommar that put a guy in a bearsuit. Without the ability to engage measurably with the world, they give into fear and behave like reactive animals. Also the "rare chicken steak" phenomenon.
You can have differing ratios of each type- Jurassic Park really only needed two philosophers: one animal behaviorist and an OSHA inspector, and 98% of the issues would have been avoided- but you do need at least ONE of each underlying art to check each other's work.
The second part of toblerone theory is that, like how the toblerone is made of many triangle pieces, there are poles to the triangle spectrum. Practical vs Esoteric arts. Short term and long term arts. High stakes vs for funsies arts.
While you have have different ratios and levels of expertise in each of the arts, you do all need them to be on the same piece of the bar, or they won't take each other seriously. A UN Diplomat and a climate scientist aren't going to take the advice of physical artist my uncle Bobby the plumber re: global warming, but they will take the advice of physical artist my Aunt Cheryl the civil engineer, a world expert in getting shit done.
The same applies for the other end of the spectrum. Aunt Cheryl the civil engineer isn't going to get much milage with the local high school student council and principal Waley when the problem at hand is "what are we going to do for this year's prom theme?"
I gotta go to therapy now, pictures later.
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For some odd reason, moderator Jake Tapper told Trump in the beginning that he didn't need to answer the questions and that he could use the time however he wanted. Trump ran with that, essentially giving a rally speech whenever he had the floor and was unresponsive to the vast majority of the questions. He made faces and insulted Biden to his face, at one point calling him a criminal and a Manchurian candidate. If anyone had said 10 years ago that this would happen at a presidential debate they would have been laughed out of the room. After the debate when most of the country had turned off cable news or gone to bed, CNN aired its fact check. [...] Even had Joe Biden been at the top of his game, he would not have been able to parry all those lies and he shouldn't have been put in the role of being Donald Trump's fact checker. His choice was to either ignore the lies and let them stand so he could use his time to make his own case or spend the entire debate correcting the record. It was not a fair fight. It's obvious that Biden's terrible performance has caused panic among Democrats and liberal pundits and analysts. The calls for him to withdraw are loud and meaningful and it's going to be a very rough period in this campaign whatever happens. For me, this isn't really a question. As long as Donald Trump is on the ballot, I will vote for the Democratic nominee. If it's Biden or someone else, the calculation remains the same. Nothing is worse than another Trump administration and I suspect that at the end of the day Democratic voters will agree with that. So it's still a matter of those undecided voters in swing states, just like it was on Thursday morning.
CNN's debate was no fair fight
CNN, yet again, gave Trump a national stage to vomit an endless stream of unchecked lies, and today, CNN is telling itself and anyone who will listen that the network and its moderators did a great job. Thatās just plainly false, and America is paying the price for their failure.
That doesnāt let Biden off the hook. Biden had a terrible night. He was so bad, itās allowed the political press to completely ignore not just how much Trump lied, but what he lied about: January 6, all his indictments, his Covid response, and on and on. President Biden was a disaster, and his campaign should be at DefCon 1 to try and repair all the damage. I am terrified that his awful performance will obscure his surprisingly good record and leadership in the post-insurrection era, and give the political press an excuse to run with āBiden is oldā in the face of Trumpās endless lies, his felony convictions, his pending trials, and all of his criminality. Someone at Salon said that Trump didnāt win, but Biden absolutely lost. I canāt argue with that, even if the facts are all on Bidenās side.
Iāve seen President Biden on TV today, and even last night after the debate, where he didnāt come across as an ancient dude who needs a walker on his way to some Matlock reruns. He looks and sounds like the SOTU Biden we all expected would show up last night. I have no idea why he was so awful for 99% of the debate (the campaign says he has a cold), and I have no idea why the guy who is showing up to speak to supporters today, and who delivered the SOTU didnāt show up last night to save America from Trump, again.
But we have to live with this reality now, and I hope like hell that the Biden campaign, the candidate, and the entire Democratic party apparatus scrambles like fucking crazy to get all hands on deck to fix this, and remind voters that
This isnāt about BIden vs. Trump. This is about America vs. Project 2025.
There will be no second debate where Biden can try to salvage something out of the wreckage of this one. Trump has everything to lose and nothing to gain. Trump will crow about how he won, and declare he has no reason to debate again, and heās right. Biden had one shot and he absolutely blew it. The moderators did not help, but the campaign had to have known they wouldnāt, and it sure looks like they didnāt prepare Biden for what we all knew was coming. I donāt know how those same people stop the bleeding, and if they canāt, America and the world are in real, real trouble.
But we all have to remember that we have a choice to make in just a few months. Right now, and probably on election day, the choice is between Joe Biden and Democracy, or Donald Trump and Fascism. Itās stark, itās clear, itās binary, and I can not believe that it is even a question. I just hope that there are enough voters out there who will understand that we do have a choice. The options suck, but we do have a choice.
Please choose Democracy. Please choose America. Please choose the future world our children will inherit from us.
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Weāre so used to the sexual reading of the entire book of Dracula, which takes the sensuality of the early chapters and jams everything that follows it into the same metaphor no matter how poorly it fits, but I feel the segment weāre approaching works much better with a lens of chronic illness and disease.
Vampire legends are inextricably intertwined with disease. Many of them are said to have been birthed by burying victims of disease too soon, who later seem to rise from the dead. But whatās more is that Stoker and his family have deep-seated trauma over disease: his mother had to flee her hometown at the age of 14 because of a horrific cholera epidemic, and Stoker himself was bedridden as a child from an illness that no one could identify.
Found this quote from Irish Historian Mary McGarry:
Bram as an adult asked his mother to write down her memories of the epidemic for him, and he supplemented this using his own historic research of Sligoās epidemic. Scratching beneath the surface (of this essay), I found parallels with Dracula. [For instance,] Charlotte says cholera enters port towns having traveled by ship, and can travel overland as a mistājust like Dracula, who infects people with his unknown contagion.
I bring this up because a lot of academic analysis insists that Lucy sleepwalking is proof of her being the Slutty Woman archetype that needs to be punished. This suggested symbolism is hilarious when put next to the text saying she inherited it from her father, but Iād like to suggest a different angle from the lens of disease suggested earlier:
Lucyās sleepwalking is a condition that predates Dracula but makes her an easy target for him to prey on. Through the lens of disease symbolism, she now is someone with chronic illness or disability who is especially vulnerable to infectious disease. This becomes a cross-section of Stokerās trauma regarding disease: his own mystery illness and his mother fleeing a plague.
To wind down my rambles with a bit of a soapbox, I feel this adds a very poignant layer to the struggle to keep Lucy alive. The COVID pandemic showed a horrifying level of casual ableism vs disabled and immunodeficient individuals, shrugging off their vulnerability and even their deaths with āwell COVID only kills them.ā Thereās something deeply gratifying at seeing the way everyone around Lucy fights to the bitter end to protect her and refuses to just give her up to Dracula, whether itās Mina physically chasing him away or the suitor squad pouring their blood into her veins or Van Helsing desperately searching for cures. The vulnerable deserve no less than this. Theyāre not acceptable casualties.
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I am procrastizillowing and wtabsolutef
#we are in an area of HIGH covid-screwiness re real estate#but I did not think that would mean seeing a house with one less bed AND bath than mine in the same specific area#going for uh... 133% higher#god I have to quit procrastizillowing now though I am never moving again#...there's a beautiful one with MURALS#GOOD MURALS#and bold open woodwork and WOW#oh my god and it has a sister house (built in the same year right nearby)#where the jackasses painted what is very clearly the exact same woodwork that's amazing#and carpeted vs hardwood#I will never quit procrastizillowing wow#like when I say woodwork I mean wood PILLARS#it's very pretty#I love my well done 60s suburb but I will never stop oogling Victorians + I guess these are immediate-post-Victorians
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