#covid-response

[afloweroutofstone]

It's difficult to quantify, especially since something of this sort has been happening gradually over the last several decades now, but I feel like the number of Americans who are fundamentally removed from reality has skyrocketed in the last five years specifically

[simulacrvm]

> covid shares significant parallels with HIV, (depletes immune system, but while HIV targets t cells, covid can target most cells in the human body and while hiv targets nuclei, covid targets mitochondria) but with the additional trait of being airborne

> can affect virtually every system/organ of the body, including heart/lungs and brain (even with a mild case) and is also cancer causing/accelerant

> has a viral persistance (how long it remains in the body) of at least a year throughout the body, including the brain, even after death .

> multiple infections may happen yearly since there are little to no precautions, meaning not enough time or treatment is given to clear viral load. also means that it is being allowed to consistently evolve.

> disability rates in the US have jumped by 40% since 2020

> can literally cause a new form of AIDS

> virtually all precautions have been dropped since 2022, peak infection rates (according to wastewater data) were in jan 2022

> risk of long covid/damage from covid compounds with each infection

> over half of all covid infections are asymptomatic, most people will not know how many infections they've had because cheap/free consistent testing is not widely available

> treatment often expensive/doctors do not take long covid seriously and/or are uneducation on it and its treatment, meaning most will go without treatment that acknowledges the root cause

> if left untreated, HIV will nearly always progress to AIDS , and chronic HIV usually progresses to AIDS in 5-10 years (may be faster in some people)

it's been 5 years since it's onset in late 2019/early 2020, and 3 years since 2022. it's becoming more and more apparent that more and more people are unwell and i am genuinely terrified at what the very near future will look like, especially when the overwhelming culture is still so resistent to acknowledging covid.

[honeyhobbs]

Trying to draw again 😔 so obviously had to be gaz

[tomorrowusa]

People need to be reminded of Trump's woeful incompetence which came to a head during the pandemic emergency and resulted in the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

The Obama administration successfully dealt with the threats from swine flu and Ebola. There was no swine flu disaster, there was no Ebola disaster, and there was even no Zika disaster because competent people were running the US. Near the end of Obama's term, his National Security Council staff put together a 69-page playbook on how to deal with pandemic emergencies. It's called "Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents". Of course Trump ignored the document and plunged the nation into COVID hell.

Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook

Michelle Obama, in one of her best speeches ever in Kalamazoo this weekend, excoriated Trump's incompetence.

Michelle Obama laced into Donald Trump in a searing speech in Michigan on Saturday, accusing the former president of “gross incompetence” and having an “amoral character” while challenging hesitant Americans to choose Kamala Harris for US president. “By every measure, she has demonstrated that she’s ready,” the former first lady told a rapt audience in Kalamazoo. “The real question is, as a country, are we ready for this moment?” [ ... ] In raw and strikingly personal terms, she asked why Harris was being held to a “higher standard” than her opponent. Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and his failed attempt to cling to power after losing the 2020 election should alone be disqualifying, Obama argued. But now the people who worked closest with him when he was president – his former advisers and cabinet secretaries – had stepped forward with a warning that he should not be allowed to return to power.

ICYMI, here is Michelle Obama's speech in Michigan.

Too many people have been afflicted by Trumpnesia. They seem to have forgotten the catastrophe that happened starting on 22 January 2020 when the first COVID infection was discovered on US soil. On that day Trump told CNBC: "we have it totally under control" and "it's going to be just fine".

Instead of following Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents, Trump did the usual bullshit Trump things like criticize the Oscars and rage-tweet from the bathroom. He belatedly declared a state of emergency on Friday the 13th of March – the day after the stock market crashed.

Don't let anybody in real life get away with describing the Trump years as some sort of utopia.

Some people disingenuously claim they don't know enough about Kamala Harris despite her 20 years in public service. We all know more than enough about Trump's egregious ineptitude which turned a national emergency into a prolonged national nightmare.

[leonardcohenofficial]

it remains so deeply disheartening being one of the only people wearing a mask while flying

[toppermostpoppermost]

VEEP I 6x02 I Library

[xoxoemynn]

Honestly kind of surprised Ed and Stede didn't take a moment to draw a giant heart with their initials inside of it in the sand before running off to finally lend Zheng a hand/sword.

[rotzaprachim]

that “you survived four years of trump” video that’s going around like idk what to tell you but many people did not. many people did not do this

[clumsypuppy]

Why are ppl scared to call it what it is and say we’re still going thru covid on top of seasonal illness. Like. That’s pretty important right. I was watching the news and they were like oh yeah we have an unprecedented number of flu cases “as well as other sicknesses” without actually saying Covid. No announcement abt vaccinations or masking or anything. Also if I hear someone joking abt “war flashbacks” for mentioning covid I fucking hate u

[metomomo]

Tohoshinki for 美ST magazine 03/24 Partial Interview Trans.

Full credit to @TVXQuotes and @xamku1226 on twt.

[3-aem]

my annual battle with covid and flu vaxx combo leaving me wondering if immunity is worth it like at a certain point it feels like u just made me excruciatingly sick for a whole day rather than spread out over the course of a week or two

[akkivee]

some peak moments from the mtc fan meeting lmao

god bless asanuma-san’s leather overcoat and leather pants 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

and him sitting on stage when backbone hit with that yakuza drinking cup (a sakazuki cup pls look it up lmao) and mtc brand champagne bottle like bruh?????? why’re mtc so cool 😭😭😭

the champagne bottle was actually just water tho lol

so iirc bb only answered like 2-3 questions on their q&a and that’s what i mean by they talk so much lmao, the mtc seiyuu actually ran out of questions to answer LOL

there was that one that pointed out the seiyuu’s individual hobbies and asked based on said hobbies, what hypmic character would they like to be???

i haven’t slept so i’m like, blanking on asamuna-san’s hobby gomen (i think it was acting??) 🙇‍♀️ but his would be sasara, komada-san the photographer would like to be rei and asanuma-san suggested dice for kamio-san’s magician hobby, and he didn’t disagree but he also locked in jakurai for his answer LOL

there was a sports question i think asking what sports they would like to play. kamio-san is already a recreational boxer!!!!! idk which of the two brought it up, but it was decided asanuma-san should definitely do curling and to demonstrate this, kamio-san offered to be his curling stone. asanuma-san stared at him blankly for a full 30 seconds before agreeing and it sent me LOL

komada-san said he’d like to be a basketball player and they even threw in a slam dunk reference just for meeeee (and the thousands of fans the series has and bc kamio-san is part of the cast LOL)

instead of doing a ranking quiz like bb, mtc seiyuu got to do a shooting target booth!!!!! if they got enough points they’d get to hold a raffle for the audience!!!!

asanuma-san pulled up in his long leather overcoat with a glock and hit two of the five targets and it was so cool like neo keanu who goddamn 😭😭😭😭😭

komada-san got to use a revolver and also hit two of the five targets!!!! (his gun also got jammed lol)

there were only two guns on the table so assnuma-san asked which of the two kamio-san would like to use and kamio-san pulled out a rifle from dj uichi’s booth LOL he also hit all five of the targets never forget who’s the goat in mtc lmao

the seiyuu had all been sharing the mtc champagne water and sipping out of that yakuza cup throughout the live but at the end during final comments, asanuma-san got really thirsty and bc every move he makes causes the audience to scream lmao, his little water break was interrupting kamio-san’s closing message lmao

komada-san decided to follow asanuma-san, so after he got thru with his drink, asanuma poured him some and komada-san drank from the cup. i’m sure by the frenzy it caused, we have another samajuto indirect kiss for the books LOL

asanuma-san served kamio-san as well and the audience tried to get him to chug LOL. he told them to save that energy for shinjuku lmao 😭😭😭😭😭

asanuma-san didn’t forget to serve dj uichi 🤗🤗🤗 i’d like to take this moment now to say that sharing a sake cup like the sakazuki cup usually means a sworn, lifelong bond between drinkers 🤗🤗🤗🤗

[modmad]

how are your hands doing? it was so scary seeing what happened to them when you got covid :C

yeahhh they're still recovering, but I can use both hands again now and while I have scarring on my left hand it's not too bad I just have to get used to seeing it :S honestly the worst part has been that some people just think I'm lying, or that what happened to my hands was a freak coincidence that wasn't to do with covid. the denial people have that it's still super dangerous and can kill people (and does!!!) is literally insane to me...

[izooks]

Let that sink in! Trump is a fucking scumbag pos 💩

[clumsypuppy]

man

[headfullof-ideas]

I’m over here wondering how I haven’t been hit with the ao3 writers curse yet, and I’m aware that uttering those thoughts out loud is probably going to jinx me…but now I’m wondering if i actually already have but am so desensitized because of all the other crap that happens in my life that I didn’t think twice about it and didn’t assume it was the writers curse instead