#delta+ variant

[etirabys]

pray for me. I dyed my hair last night & it's a few shades off in a way I absolutely hate. but it's still an interesting color and my nice mostly-queer friends whose cuddle party I'm going to tonight will be effusive. and I have to say "thank you" instead of "behold not my form"

[look-a-draw]

@perfectpizzacoffee

I have no idea how to dm I this platform (I new here) but Alberich (saint seiya) demisexyal flag

[munsterlandr]

Delta V: Rings of Saturn ship boot sequences my beloved

[maculategiraffe]

re: your tags on that twitter screenshot - yeah it is a terf thing, weirdly. there's a small, very online paranoid conspiracy that huge swathes of people are secretly trans, that's determined by the sort of clocking phrenology depicted in that tweet. it's not about pretty men being unmanly, it's that they believe they are surrounded by 'infiltrators'. transphobia reflavoured lizard people stuff.

I stand corrected! also wow, gross!!!

[savage-rhi]

Daily Highlights #16 (3-26-23)

3 Things That Made Me Happy

My king snake booped my nose while I had him out

A parent texted me that their kiddo misses me during the break

My peeps up North are planning to make a trip down to where I am at because I cannot afford to travel

3 Productive Activities I Performed

Began submitting documents for disability

Started doing a little bit of spring cleaning

Sleep, Sleep, Sleep mother fucker

3 Self Care Activities I Accomplished

Took naps in intervals to help me get through being sick and work on things.

Used social media sparingly so I could focus on getting better

Did a mental health check in with myself when I felt like spiraling

3 Emotions I felt Today

Fatigued

Contentment

Anxiety

Overall Day

5/10 Jeff Goldblum’s

[iicraft505]

throat hurting is one of the worst symptoms end my suffering

[jayjuno]

If you never stopped wearing a mask- 

Thanks for not jumping off the bridge with everyone else.

[slowtovvn]

Covid deaths are still at an average of 500 a day in the United States. 500.

The feds are ending emergency coverage in a couple of months which means it will be an insurance free for all. Get boosted now. Order your at home tests now. KEEP WEARING A MASK.

[poryqons]

pokefarm is finally fucking good

[businessskibat]

New upcoming car :आ गयी Maruti Suzuki Fronx, मिलेगा दमदार इंजन और पावरफुल फीचर्स

आप हमारे देश की सबसे बड़ी चार पहिया कार निर्माता Maruti Suzuki Fronx  के बारे में जानते होंगे। यह भारत में खासकर अपने सुंदर और शक्तिशाली इंजन वाली कारों के लिए जाना जाता है। आजकल लोगों के दिलो पर ऐसी ही एक कार है। Maruti Suzuki Fronx हमारी चर्चा का विषय है। Maruti Suzuki Fronx Maruti Fronx, भारतीय बाजार की आवश्यकताओं को ध्यान में रखते हुए बनाया गया एक सुंदर और आधुनिक कॉम्पैक्ट SUV है। यह कार…

[brosis-medical]

Corona-Experte zu RKI-Zahlen - Statt Sommer-Grippe jetzt „Sommer-Covid“: Was steigende Infektionszahlen bedeuten

Fußball-EM und Corona-Sommerwelle Die Fußball-EM zieht Fans aus ganz Europa an. Gefeiert wird ohne Abstand und ohne Maske, denn die Pandemie ist vorbei. Doch die Coronazahlen steigen derzeit wieder. Epidemiologe Timo Ulrichs erklärt, ob eine Sommerwelle droht. Die Fußball-Europameisterschaft ist in vollem Gange. Menschen aus ganz Europa füllen deutsche Stadien und Fanmeilen. Über Corona macht…

[steviescrystals]

the last post i reblogged just reignited my rage over something that happened my freshman year of college so mini rant in the notes lol

[rjmbaboonbooks]

Daily Comic Journal: November 15, 2021: "Branding!"

Even though there’s this new strain of the Covid virus, what a difference a year makes! Last November people were staying at home, masked when they did leave their homes and everyone was getting prepared for a lonely Thanksgiving. Now, thanks to the vaccines it doesn’t feel as dire and scary. Yes, even with the Delta Force bursting through! Still would like a booster shot though.

[ecomehdi]

Navigating the Surge: Understanding the Recent Rise in COVID-19 Cases and Hospitalizations

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019 marked the onset of a complex and ever-evolving global crisis. Recent months have witnessed a troubling upswing in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across various regions of the world. This surge has been propelled by the rapid proliferation of the Delta variant, an extremely transmissible strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, along with an array…

[reasonsforhope]

I'm sorry I'm sending so many asks. I've been struggling like this for a year now, and it's barely gotten easier, but you've often been a good help with my anxiety. I really appreciate everything you do. It's hard to have hope.

I've had a really bad moment again recently. I have to be honest, the worst thing, that makes me the most anxious out of everything else, is COVID. Because it feels like nobody is paying attention, and that there is no good news. There is never any good news. COVID is always the catalyst for the worst of my anxious slumps. It's really bad. COVID is very, very scary. If you somehow have anything for that, I'd be thankful. Often I've only been able to set my heart on nasal vaccines, or next gen vaccines in general, but they're not going fast enough whatsoever.

I'm sorry, again. I don't want to try and treat you like a therapist. I just trust you. If this is too overwhelming, you can just delete it, but if you do, I'd like to know. Just so I'm not waiting for it to be answered.

I just ravaged through someone's doomy collapse blog, again, after stumbling on it in my rising anxiousness, and it was not good. I think I'm clearly too open-minded of a person to some degree, and I feel so pulled around by information that I see. I don't want to be placated, out of the loop, or lied to, but I don't want to feel hopelessly depressed. Everything is too complex. I feel like I've been through this maze, top to bottom, over and over again, and again. I just wish I knew how much truth their words held, or anyone else's words held.

And I wish we were all masking, at the very least. I'm holding myself back from swearing. I don't know if you'd have a good way to counteract general "collapse" thoughts, either. But that's also a thing.

<3 I'm touched by your trust.

I just found some good news about COVID - the first genuinely good covid-related news article I've seen in a while, instead of all of the "ah but young abled people are fine!" bs - and remembered this ask.

"As new varieties of the coronavirus took center stage during the COVID-19 pandemic, the odds of developing long COVID dropped. Those who were vaccinated against the virus saw the biggest plunge over time.

For every 1,000 unvaccinated people, 104 developed long COVID up to one year after an infection during the pre-delta phase of the pandemic. That fell to 95 per 1,000 during the delta variant’s era and 78 during omicron’s reign. Among vaccinated people, just 53 out of 1,000 developed long COVID up to a year after infection during delta and only 35 during omicron, researchers report July 17 [2024] in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System data looked at people who had a COVID infection from March of 2020 — the month the pandemic began — to the end of January in 2022. The researchers, from the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, compared the rates of long COVID during three phases of the pandemic among those who had and had not gotten vaccinated...

A comparison of omicron infections with infections from prior eras found that 72 percent of the drop in the long COVID rate during omicron was attributable to vaccines. The remainder was due to changes in the virus and improvements in medical care and the use of antiviral treatments during the omicron phase.

Even with the steep decline in the occurrence of long COVID for vaccinated people, there is still a risk, the researchers write. With “the large numbers of ongoing new infections and reinfections, and the poor uptake of vaccination,” they continue, this “may translate into a high number of persons” with long COVID."

-via ScienceNews, July 17, 2024

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Masking continues to be important. The virus continues to be a problem. But especially given the decline in masking, I'm really encouraged to see this news. Because long covid IS scary. And I'll take any good news on this front that I can get.

It's especially encouraging because it shows how much staying on top of your vaccinations really does matter and really can prevent long covid.

I'm also really hopeful (though I don't have a related background and have no idea how realistic my hopes are) that this trend has been continuing past the end of the study (2022).