#covid-19 in 2021

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[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Onward (2020, Dan Scanlon)

20/10/2024

[camfusedly]

These past few days I keep thinking the "There's some whores in this house" bit from WAP except it's "There's some covid in this house"

My gf has it, I'm still testing negative. We both got the latest vaccine but she's still been sick in bed for a few days now. We're doing the weird "staying in separate rooms, masking to talk" thing. She's only been working at her retail job (probably the source 😞) for about six months, so she probably doesn't have the sick time.

I know this post is very 2021 coded but this is honestly the first time I've lived with someone who's gotten it.

[talistheintrovert]

it's hard being a teenage girl in my 20s, and it's even harder when older people tell me my feelings aren't valid just because I'm young

[sigmastolen]

holy shit the university assigned me eight (8) different trainings what the actual fuck like. when do they think i will have time to teach if i am busy taking so many trainings

my 3% of a salary is definitely not enough for all this extra shit

[re-lmayer]

was wondering what the hell happened to cause so many albums to be released in 2021 that it's wikipedia list is split into two pages. and then i Remembered

[inconsistently--consistent]

Book Review Just Add Water

I cannot rave about this woman enough. She only had good things to say. Each chapter is essentially a thank you to everyone and everything she feels helped her get to where she is.

I absolutely loved it, if you like Katie Ledeckey, swimming, or general positivity this is for you.

[elftwink]

just saw a tweet that was like "imagine if 9/11 happened 2 mos earlier and 7/11 had the worst PR crisis ever" like that wasn't basically what happened to corona beer in 2020

[frankbelloriley]

[tunnaa-unnaa]

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[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Onward (2020, Dan Scanlon)

24/05/2024

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Cine: Gameboys: The Movie (2021)

Estrenada entre la primera y la segunda temporada de "Gameboys: The Series" (2020, 2022), "Gameboys: The Movie" ejerce como continuación de la conmovedora historia de amor entre Gavreel (Kokoy de Santos) y Cairo (Elijah Canlas) a la vez que confirma el regreso de varios personajes esenciales de la historia inicial.

Ambos chicos viven en la casa de la abuela de Gavreel, intentando sobrellevar como pueden los requerimientos de la pandemia de covid-19: los cuidados esenciales y el distanciamiento social. Aún así, primero les cae Terrence (Kyle Velino), agobiado por la culpa familiar por su sexualidad, y luego Wesley (Miggi Jimenez), el amigo de la infancia de Cairo. Como si la situación no fuese ya lo suficientemente complicada, no tardará en convertirse en caótica cuando arribe también Susan, la tía de Gavreel (Angie Castrense), artífice del traumático pasado del muchacho debido a su postura religiosa y abiertamente homófoba. Así, con su llegada, ambos se ven obligados a mantener su relación en el más bajo perfil posible. Cuando todo estalla, la mujer le cuenta que su amada tía Myra (Susan Africa), que vive en Estados Unidos, padece un estado avanzado de cáncer, por lo que él debe viajar allí para cuidarla.

La historia pasional de los personajes, y no sólo los de los protagonistas (vuelven a aparecer Achilles, interpretado por Kych Minemoto, que aún no ha superado su final con Terrence, o la siempre risueña y comprensiva Pearl, en la piel de Adrianna So) se entremezcla con la vida restringida por la pandemia y por miedos pasados y futuros. Dirigida, al igual que la serie, por Ivan Andrew Payawal y escrita por Ash Malanum (basándose en la historia pergeñada por Jun Lana), la película resalta el amor adolescente desde una perspectiva dulce, pero no edulcorada, consolidando a CalReel como una de las mejores parejas adolescentes queer de la década.

[confus3dqu33r]

It seems like 2020 was such a long time ago

[mindblowingscience]

A type of flu virus that used to sicken people every year hasn't been spotted anywhere on Earth since March 2020. As such, experts have advised that the apparently extinct viruses be removed from next year's flu vaccines. The now-extinct viruses were a branch of the influenza B family tree known as the Yamagata lineage. Scientists first reported the apparent disappearance of Yamagata viruses in 2021. At that time, experts speculated that precautions taken to stop the spread of COVID-19 — such as masking and social distancing — had not only driven the overall number of flu cases to historic lows but may have completely snuffed out this type of flu virus. 

Continue Reading.

[skid-the-mighty-poet]

[pipzeroes]

The distinction between droplet and airborne transmission has enormous consequences. To combat droplets, a leading precaution is to wash hands frequently with soap and water. To fight infectious aerosols, the air itself is the enemy. In hospitals, that means expensive isolation wards and N95 masks for all medical staff. The books [Linsey Marr, aerosol scientist] flipped through drew the line between droplets and aerosols at 5 microns. A micron is a unit of measurement equal to one-millionth of a meter. By this definition, any infectious particle smaller than 5 microns in diameter is an aerosol; anything bigger is a droplet. The more she looked, the more she found that number. The WHO and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also listed 5 microns as the fulcrum on which the droplet-aerosol dichotomy toggled. There was just one literally tiny problem: “The physics of it is all wrong,” Marr says. That much seemed obvious to her from everything she knew about how things move through air. Reality is far messier, with particles much larger than 5 microns staying afloat and behaving like aerosols, depending on heat, humidity, and airspeed. “I’d see the wrong number over and over again, and I just found that disturbing,” she says. The error meant that the medical community had a distorted picture of how people might get sick.