#covid-19 today

[thegeminisage]

i hope everyone who voted third party is really happy :) i hope they're all really pleased today and really felt like they made their voices heard and that electing trump was worth saving their precious little feelings :) i'm really glad they didn't have to be adults long enough to hold their noses and vote because feeling good is way more important than doing good :) i hope they got what they wanted :)

actually i hope they all die, as a direct result of his presidency, so that we don't have to pander to them next election cycle, if there IS a next election cycle. "but you can't just say you hope people die!" sure i can! third party voters obviously want me and my disabled mom to die. they want gay and trans people to die. they want women and immigrants and palestinians and people of color to die. what's the problem? i'd say i hope they die in the big glorious revolution they promised but if they can't put up and shut up long enough to get their asses to a ballot box there's no way we're gonna see them firebombing the government or attending a protest. they'll just sit at home and wait for somebody else to do it, the same way they sat at home and waited for somebody else to elect harris. and i hope nobody suffers more in the next four or more years than them. but why worry, right? both candidates are the same! i'm sure they'll be fine!

also lmao at everyone like "uwu ok guys take a deep breath have a calming cup of tea and do some self care tell people you love them" self care and loving people isn't going to keep him out of office. we had our chance to do that and we blew it because leftists want to feel righteous and pure. like definitely don't kill yourself or anything (unless you're a third party voter, in which case the sooner the better) but don't fucking dress it up. all you're doing is checking out. and who can blame you! sounds like the only solid plan tbh.

[shootingstarpilot]

fuck me with a rusty rake, i guess

[zezah-xiomara-citrine]

COVID is scary y'all - mask up!

[bigmammallama5]

Well i guess a silver lining about losing most of my taste and smell from covid is im eating the snacks i didnt care for the taste of so i’m not wasting them lol

[brightsuzaku]

GUESS WHO IS DISEASED!!!

ya that's right me, ya boy

I live at home, and a family member tested positive, so it was only a matter of time, lol.

[gorgeousgreymatter-x]

once again I am asking why the only people wearing masks in this infusion center are the nurses. there are 3 other patients here that are maskless IN THE ROOM FULL OF IMMUNO SUPPRESSED PEOPLE LITERALLY GETTING PUMPED FULL OF MORE IMMUNE SUPPRESSANTS

[aurorashard]

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[brehaaorgana]

i've gotten TWO different government phone surveys about Public Health in the last 2 years

and i did them both even though they were long because those poor poor government employees just need data that proves people are:

capable of being normal for a voluntary poll and not wildly abusive

also not all conspiratorial wackjobs when it comes to vaccines.

[ocean-sailor]

Update: mid March

Canadian Covid-19 Forecast: Mar 16 - Mar 29, 2024 🦠

See detailed provincial forecasts - pages 8-11 here: 🦠🦠

Measles Information: 💉 x 2 and 😷

Measles is an airborne virus that is highly contagious - 9/10 people will get it if exposed and unprotected. It spreads easily - from 4 days before and up to 4 days after the rash starts. Symptoms of measles include: fever, cough, runny nose, body aches, rash, diarrhea, red eyes, and feeling irritable or unwell.

Immunization is the best way to protect yourself and your community. The Measles vaccine is included in the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) or measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) vaccine, which is part of the regular childhood immunization series. After one dose, protection is 85-95% and after the second dose, it's 99+%. If you're not sure if you received the childhood vaccinations or if you're travelling or at risk, call and ask your healthcare provider if you are eligible for a booster (most people are). Recommended immunization schedule for all ages and more information 💉. (This is for BC, Canada, but it is similar worldwide).

Measles and Covid are both airborne viruses so clean air and good masking protocol will help protect you and prevent spread!

Air Quality Information:

Carbon dioxide is an odourless, colourless, and tasteless gas but it can be measured with a CO2 monitor that can also be used to measure potentially virus-laden air. Some public libraries have monitors available for loan. I have the Aranet 4.

Fresh outdoor air CO2 concentration is ~ 400 ppm.

Clean indoor air CO2 concentration is ~ 600-800 ppm.

A 15 minute exposure to Covid/other airborne viruses has a variable risk factor depending on air quality and mask quality. This is because the 'dose' of virus that you're inhaling matters. The seriousness of symptoms from viral infections is often due directly to the amount of the virus that gets into your body. You want to keep this as low as possible.

Air quality: from the safest to the highest risk -> fresh outdoor air -> clean indoor air -> poorly filtered indoor air. This risk can be lowered by opening windows/doors and using a good air filtration device (labelled HEPA filters or 'removes small airborne particles (in the size range of 0.1-1 um)' or has a 'high CADR for smoke' (vs. pollen or dust) or make a Corsi-Rosenthol Box (easy and affordable DIY). Ensure the device is the correct size for the room. Ideally, going outside is always best.

Mask quality: from the safest to the riskiest -> N-95/FFP2 respirator (94-95% effective when fits well) -> a surgical mask (~30% effective due to air leaking in around the sides) -> no mask😬. Please wear a well fitting mask properly - humans don't breathe through their chin. I like the 3M Aura 9210+. Note: if you're not in the medical field, you can wear the same mask until it's damp or isn't easy to breathe through as your concern is protecting yourself, not decreasing risk of spread between patients. This makes it much less expensive for the average person going to any indoor space. It's okay to rotate through your supply - letting them dry out between uses.

[sadistic-softie]

Bro. I am so bad at taking care of myself that I undid half the fucking progress of physical therapy by not keeping up with the exercises when I stopped going. I did them for like, a few days, then stopped for a few weeks. I was gonna do them yesterday and only did a third of them before giving up. I'm literally starting to walk funny again and it takes me for fucking ever to climb stairs and I couldn't be bothered to give enough of a fuck to do something about it for long enough to build an exercise habit. I'm gonna need a fucking cane to walk because of my inability to take care of my own fucking health. I'm gonna be the only fucking person under 30 who fucking walks with a cane because I just fucking sit on my ass almost every time I don't have anything important to do because none of my hobbies require much physical activity except for dancing but I can't dance for longer than 2 minutes without fucking dying. Do you know how embarrassing that's gonna be? Apparently I fucking will. I hate myself so fucking much. I'm too young for this shit. I have fucking chronic pain because my muscles are too weak from being really shitty at working out and not being able to run because of my exercise induced asthma. I used to work out with my own personal routine I made from doing research to help myself lose weight and build strength. I did it every fucking week day for a few years because I was gaining wait. The routine didn't work and helped with nothing. I actually gained more weight. Then I got fucking COVID and my asthma got fucking worse so I can't exercise enough and walking doesn't make up for it. I only lost weight when I starved myself and everyone congratulating and encouraging me has no idea that that's how I really did it. The only thing I have left that can save my body is those fucking physical therapy activities, and yet, I don't even fucking do them. I'm just pissed off at myself rn lol.

[shu-of-the-wind]

This is one of the ways that disease, and particularly epidemic disease, plays havoc with traditional histories. Most world-historic events--great military battles, political revolutions--are self-consciously historic to the participants living through them. They act knowing that their decisions will be chronicled and dissected for decades or centuries to come. But epidemics create a kind of history from below: they can be world-changing, but the participants are almost inevitably ordinary folk, following their established routines, not thinking for a second about how their actions will be recorded for posterity. And of course, if they do recognize they are living through a historical crisis, it's often too late--because, like it or not, the primary way that ordinary people create this distinct genre of history is by dying.

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

[zoekrystall]

Did I ever complain abt that publicly idk anyways I need to get to the big city (2h to and 2h back, not much for the states but sure for me) and next to not wanting to bc cold, they gonna stab bc blood test and my body hates making that easy to locate (dif place but I will never forget the time I got stabbed like three times and still no blood so new appointment had to be made, I have a fear of needles otherwise it would be whatev), and even more risky bc gatherings were recently do I prob hate the most that like. I'm hungry.

I'm hungry and I suck at eating enough so I often go out w not much in my stomach. I survive but it sucks really bad that I can't either buy smth once I arrive to eat on the way back or pack smth to like eat on the journey bc no-one wears a mask and the virus stays rampant so I can't take my mask off until I'm back home. At the inbetween stop I maybe could but I rather won't risk anything. Esp in winter I could bring smth warm to drink w me at least but I rather don't in the crowd I gotta walk through. Least people are when I'm only a few mins away from home and at that point I can always just wait a bit longer.

Tbh I dread going outside and limit it to only shopping and appointments bc even if I could walk here prob somewhere without many people do I rather just stay indoors and try to limit irl reminders of how many people can't be bothered to care bc that just nosedives my mental health. It doesn't help that I still try to nudge my irl friends to care more.

[samcat18]

It's time for everyone's least favorite game ever, "is this psychosomatic anxiety or covid symptoms??" featuring additional stress from potential car problems!! 🙃🙃🙃

[yellowgnomeboots]

A lot of people on the Arcturus COVID thread about how the government doesn't care, but honestly why should it if the citizens don't?

I never see anyone here but me wearing a mask other than a few University staff on the bus. My mum's a vaccinator and she hasn't vaccinated anyone under 50 with the bivalent vaccine. They don't wear masks in the pharmacies. Nurses and other medical staff at the hospital aren't getting vaccinated (more administrators do for some reason).

Some of us care but most people don't want the government to do anything. If the NZ government tried to introduce some kind of mask or vaccination mandate now then everyone would ignore it like Auckland did with their last lockdowns. They've been providing free masks, boosters and RAT tests all this time so that people can help themselves but people are barely interested.

[pier-carlo-universe]

Covid Italia, bollettino settimanale: 5.799 nuovi casi e 108 decessi. Aggiornamento Adnkronos: i dati della settimana rivelano un leggero incremento di casi e decessi da Covid-19 in Italia

L’articolo di Adnkronos offre un aggiornamento settimanale dettagliato sulla situazione Covid-19 in Italia, riportando un totale di 5.799 nuovi casi e 108 decessi negli ultimi sette giorni

L’articolo di Adnkronos offre un aggiornamento settimanale dettagliato sulla situazione Covid-19 in Italia, riportando un totale di 5.799 nuovi casi e 108 decessi negli ultimi sette giorni. Questo bollettino riflette la continua necessità di monitorare la pandemia, anche se l’attenzione mediatica è diminuita rispetto ai periodi più critici. La notizia mette in evidenza la persistenza del virus e…

[julianova44]

Well folks, it’s been a good run. We’re almost managed five whole years. But I regret to inform you that I and my most precious partner have finally succumbed to the pandemic. After five years of dodging fomites and droplets like Neo dodging bullets, the second line finally turned pink. We had planned to get our booster shots this week, and Fate heard and laughed at our insolence.

So consider this a reminder. Get the booster shot if you haven’t already. Don’t feel the gravity in your bones or the itch in your throat; don’t let the little clots build in your blood in response to antigens or whatever the theory about COVID interacting with clotting is these days. Don’t let the pea soup fog slip into the space between your ears that once held a brain.

And remember, wear a mask.