#covid19 positive

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Return to masking ad campaign that's just "You wouldn't skip the condom / Don't skip the mask"

[marimeiastories]

During the pandemic, the residents of a village in Norfolk county decided to open a contact-free book and board games library in an old phone box. The residents could also post riddles in a mini post box inside, signing the riddle with their name. Whoever picked the riddle had to solve it and then put it back in a letter addressed to the riddle-maker.

In love with this.

[jtbb]

if you've had it more than once just select the most recent time. ik the options probably dont line up with the major surges but i felt like keeping them even & lined up with the current month

[mastersoftheair]

Sorry but am I the only one that thought that episode…sucked? Like it was straight up bad. Horrible pacing, no wrap up of all the random characters and plot lines they’ve thrown around all season (the tuskegee airmen, Westgates spying, literally all the guys beside like the main 4). (Seriously it makes me so mad that the three redtails got all of 5 seconds of screen time, almost no lines. Literally what was the point of introducing them other than to pretend the show was iNcLuSiVe) Even at the end of BoB and the Pacific you get a much better idea of what happened to all the remaining guys. In this they’re like what happened to DeMarco or Hambone or Brady or (insert character here) we don’t know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The concentration camp scene felt shoehorned in compared to how it was done in BoB. Unless that actually happened to Rosie (which i haven’t heard anything about) but it was just like.. ok? It all felt so rushed and emotionless to me. Maybe I’ve just fallen out of love with MoTA but it’s been downhill for me since episode 6 or so.

i already made a little (read: long) post-finale write-up here, where i talk about the use of the tuskegee airmen, l'sandra, and overall editing/pacing issues i felt the show had. but i don't agree with the notion that adding the redtails was in any way insincere or trying to halfass being "iNcLuSiVe", i just think they suffer from this show's obvious time constraints. and to summarize what i wrote in my linked post, there's a limit to what white writers/directors/producers can do when creating a story about black people. there are some stories i'd feel uncomfortable with them telling on their own, truth be told. dee rees wasn't the sole nonwhite director, but she Was the only black one. i think she did her job well given the limitations and i appreciate that they let her direct those episodes, rather than leaving it up to a team of white people trying their best to tell a black story.

the worst i can say about the finale is that it didn't feel like That strong of finale, tho i wouldn't go as far to say it "sucked" or call it "straight up bad". i liked it plenty, it's just the weakest of the hbo war finales imo.

as for the concentration camp scene, artistic license was taken with both shows. unlike what's seen in the BoB, easy company wasn't the first to arrive at kaufering, and there's 0 mention of the all-japanese american 552nd who helped them liberate it). similarly, rosie rosenthal did assist in liberating those camps, though it would've been after the events shown this episode. idk if he saw one in that up-close way seen in this episode, but he could've (i should research this when i have time). plus, it would've felt weird Not having him acknowledge them at all. "shoe-horned" is an odd term to use here imo, as both scenes more-or-less center a jewish character (BoB's liebgott and MotA's rosie). the former show has survivors the characters can help, the latter shows no one left to help. the former has all of easy company there, the latter has rosie there all alone. rosie's scene felt deeply personal in that way. at the end of the day, both scenes are communicating different things. that doesn't make one better than the other when they aren't trying to be identical. (disclaimer, i'm not jewish, so i'd be interesting hearing from the perspective of someone who wrt whether or not they felt it was "shoe-horned")

i can understand if you've disliked the show post-episode 6 (and episode 6 was a very strong episode i'm ngl). eps 7 and 8 were weaker in many ways, even to me, so i get it. everyone's entitled to their own opinion (i'd be a hypocrite saying otherwise). just understand that this blog is run by someone who overall enjoys this show despite its flaws! basically, i encourage you to take this energy and make your own posts.

[meeedeee]

Avoid COVID Reinfections

"But there is also growing evidence that in some people, getting COVID-19 the first time may compromise the immune response in a way that makes the body less likely to respond effectively the next time it sees the virus. That could leave certain organs and body systems, such as the brain, weaker for months after infection—and subsequent ones."

“Each time you get hit, it does impact your body, so let’s try not to get it too many times,” says Smith."

"Data also continue to show that even vaccinated people can get Long COVID—although the risk may be lower—since the protection provided by vaccines wanes over time, just as it does from infections. Vaccines are therefore a strong but not absolute barrier to the virus."

"In the meantime, Smith says it’s important for people to understand that they still need to do everything they can to avoid getting COVID-19. That means staying up to date with vaccinations and taking some basic precautions, such as wearing high-quality masks indoors when cases are high, especially in crowded places and on public transportation"

[illnessfaker]

feels bizarre to me to simultaneously insist that covid has asymptomatic infections (afaik, this is true!) so in theory you can carry covid without knowing it but then say "well i know i haven't given anyone covid because i've never had it!" like unless you've severely, severely limited your interaction with the outside world, i don't think there's any guarantee of that, i think you just don't want the moral system you're attaching to the possibility of spreading disease being applied to you just as you're applying it to everyone else

[grumpyoldsnake]

Finally caught covid 😩

[pedersxn]

[pepprs]

awesome so today we (my colleague besties and me) were potentially exposed to covid by two different people we spent the morning with because nobody gives a fuck anymore and we’re all going to get sick and die. awesome! i love being alive in fall 2023 when nobody gives a single shit about covid anymore and this nightmare country has apparently decided to move on even though the danger has not subsided and arguably has increased and we no longer have access to resources or information to keep ourselves and each other safe. fuck the world

[pastel-hazey-dreams]

I apologize to all my followers for not being near as active this past week. ❤️ I caught Covid and haven’t been well enough to be as active. I’ll be back with more frequent post as soon as I’m feeling better. 💞

[marchharesteatable]

i think my mother gave me covid. the first test was negative, but it was a rapid home test, and i trust those 0%. testing again tomorrow morning, but geez do i feel like a bag of butts. fingies crossed these vaccines do their job.

if you have any good memes plz send them my way. or pics of your pets. (it doesn't have to be your pet. i won't know)

[lesbian-in-leather]

After almost three years of swerving the plague, it has finally infiltrated my household. Gonna do a test, wish me luck

[cyrenaica]

So covid is doing the rounds on the ship and we have a live covid tracker and every morning we take a rapid test. The suspense is real and it kind of feels like living in an apocalypse movie

[shiningstarr15]

Day 5 of Covid

This has been hell.. and I mean absolute HELL!

First of all, idk WHAT fucking variant I ended up with, but it’s CALCULATED and MANIPULATIVE

day 1 felt similar to last time. Fever, aches, body chills, cough. But then day 2…

I THOUGHT I HAD A SINUS INFECTION

literally went BACK to the Dr bc I was SO CONGESTED I was GASPING for air! (Thankfully my lungs were working fine and I was having a panic attack)

I also lost my taste and smell. Though not entirely like the beginning strands would do, I’m sure mines more affiliated with my horrible congestion. It comes and goes. It was only gone briefly today and it’s currently back. Hoping it STAYS BACK

and then yesterday, MY EAR FILLED UP.

Now, anyone that knows me knows I’m terribly prone to ear infections since childhood. One of the ways I know it’s infected is when it fills up from pressure. I WAS SCARED OUTTA MY MIND. I managed to pop it back open and it’s been fine today. Knocking on wood that shit doesn’t happen again!

Today I’ve just felt like my head is a balloon. Pressure pressure pressure. For some reason this cursed virus stayed in my sinuses and wrecked my shit. I’ve got decongestants, ibuprofen, AND prescription nasal spray that I’m using to knock this shit out ASAP.

Hopefully I’ll be better by thanksgiving. I’ve got 5 more days. Fingers crossed 😭🤞

[eveningnetwork]

Four Prisoners Test Positive as Covid-19 Re-emerges at Guantánamo Bay

news Four senior prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have tested positive for coronavirus, including a man who was transferred to the base hospital for a closer look, according to a person familiar with the operations of the US military base in Cuba. include. Military medical staff discovered a resurgence of the virus Tuesday night at Camp 5 prison, which houses 14 men detained in CIA prisons between…

[kiroonsmoon]

Hgnnnhhh I love that my lungs decided to start fucking hate me I so love it. Pretty sure when I caught Covid months ago it made me develop asthma & permanently fucked my lungs or something. On top of this my main stim is running back and forth and crashing into soft things…. yknow something my lungs very much hate me for but gods is it hard to redirect. Suffering