#to the covid scare

[amaditalks]

Right now the US is experiencing the second worst spike in COVID since the beginning of the pandemic. Right now, about 1 in 20 people have the virus, it is estimated that when this wave is over, 1 in 3 people will experience an infection.

It doesn’t have to be that way. COVID is not an inevitability to just passively accept, it is a life changing disease (every time) that you should use every tool and tactic at your disposal to avoid.

You already know what to do. If you haven’t received the updated vaccine, do that. (It’s not a booster, it’s an update, in the same way the annual flu shot is updated.) Mask, any time you’re near people you don’t live with or where anyone else has been in the last 30 minutes. (This includes outdoor spaces, like picking up a no contact delivery or pumping gasoline.) Avoid crowds. Now is not the time for concerts and hockey games or even a leisurely stroll around Target to browse. Clean your air and demand clean air in your workplace and your kids’ schools and anywhere anyone in your family has to spend time.

If 1 in 3 Americans contract the virus on this wave, that means that another half million people are likely going to die, mostly elderly and high risk. (Like me.)

It also means that 11 million people — or more — are going to be disabled, at least short term, when this is done, and there are no reliable predictors for who does and does not develop post-COVID disability.

Those numbers are horrible. But don’t let them terrify you into paralysis, let them galvanize you into action to protect yourself and your family and community.

[sprimpfriedrice]

White dungeon meshi fans sound like this to me:

It's extremely fascinating and frightening to me how hateful some of you people are towards shuro, a man who is clearly depicted as japanese, (a man who could look like me or literally any member of my family in real life) for being a normal, complex, and flawed human being.

Why do you single him out for getting frustrated with and mad at laios when chilchuck and marcille do the same literally all the time? What's the difference between them and shuro?

Why do you feel the unnecessary need to protect these white women from a japanese man?

Do you expect that this japanese man is inherently going to have some kind of ugly negative quality that has not been once hinted at canonically? Do you know what that's called? Because i do and it's fucking racism.

You people get scared the moment a character that is a person of color isnt a quiet little model minority or a sweet mammy archetype. You grasp at your pearls the moment they are revealed to have complex personalities and histories; when they feel negative, big emotions that are literally part of the human experience. Or god forbid, when they show romantic interest in a pure, helpless, little white woman.

And when a person of color stops behaving good and docile the way you want, when they decide that theyre not going to put up with a situation that makes them uncomfortable or miserable or RIGHTEOUSLY FURIOUS, they become the bad guy. As seen countless times in the medias demonizing depiction of the Black Lives Matter protests and even of black people who get punished for just living their lives. It happens so often i shouldnt have to reiterate it to you but it somehow keeps flying over your head.

And when that dirty, conniving, perverted, slant eyed, buck toothed, stumpy little japanese man understandably snaps at the white person you guys are projecting onto and all you see is this:

So dont be surprised when i say that id rather kill myself than entrust the safety of my oldest aunts and uncles or my youngest cousins with any of you who act like this. Im terrified of what could have happened if people like you worked at the facility that my great grandmother lived out her final years in. Would you have seen her as a wild animal that needed to be subdued too when she had one of her many dementia-induced violent episode?

I will not apologize for saying that i find it deeply disconcerting to see so many of you happily posting hateful vitriol or even about committing acts of violence against a man that looks like me, solely because he was experiencing his humanity

[hellyeahsickaf]

Used my mobility aid in public for the first time today and that was a big deal for me. I've had it for months but haven't had the balls to use it. Too much internalized ableism, it's dumb how scary it is. But y'know it wasn't too bad. Maybe I can do this

[redrobin-detective]

or not all of me will die The demon had seen many contracts end. He was used to running, to blubbering tears, to begging, bribery and violence. Never before did he have a master who was so ready to die. Never before did he have to wonder if he himself was ready for it to end. The fated end of the contract has come and both master and demon reckon with their choices and the roles they must play.

Helllllllllo Kuro fans, bet you thought you'd seen the last of me! Well joke's on you. I had a horrifying vision while running that became this fic and I'm inflicting the sads on you too.

You don't need to read ad perpetuam memoriam to get it but I think it helps add context

[cistematicchaos]

hello! I have a Question about masking. when should we wear a mask? is it only when we feel sick or is it always? is it inside or outside too? if ur vaccinated but were told to only wear when sick is that bad? literally almost no on in any area around me in my state wears one except when sick and I feel unsure what to do. genuinely everywhere I go there’s close to no one. I feel afraid to wear one all the time bc judgement. but what do we need to do? I’m disabled and disability justice is important to me but since no one else wears one my friends do not think it’s needed and thinks comfort matters more bc it’s very humid here. I feel like wearing one is the right thing to do, but idk how to explain that to others or to start again and shake the fear. ppl assume ur sick when u wear bc that’s what we’re taught is the right time to. /gen

Genuinely, ty for trusting me to answer this. If you're outside or inside a public area, or inside with people who don't mask, it's best to be wearing a mask. Even when you don't feel sick! Not only can you have covid without feeling sick, but you can also carry lots of viruses without feeling sick and so can others. (Also other people don't always tell you when they're feeling sick unfortunately.)

As for the question about vaccinations, yeah, that's bad. You were lied to. People who're vaccinated can still spread covid without feeling sick and can still catch it and get long covid or die. All the vaccine does is make you a little safer if you catch it, it doesn't replace masking.

Masking is very scarce in a lot of places, so I understand that. In my area so many people don't mask and it's scary! I also understand being scared of judgement; especially from family and friends. But you're right, masking is the right thing to do and disability justice is important. And masking is especially important if you're already disabled; you're higher risk for covid fucking you up (by giving you long covid or generally worsening your disabilities/giving you more).

Since I've already explained WHEN you should be masking (if you have more questions, ask, I don't mind at all.), lemme see if I can help you out with the rest. To shake the fear, I'd suggest starting wearing your mask when you're alone to get used to wearing it more. You'll probably have to bite it and do it afraid anyway, because its a pandemic and masking is a necessity (if you can), but you can still get ready first.

To explain it to your friends, put it simply. "I discovered the vaccine doesn't replace masking, so I'm being safe." or "I realized masking keeps all of us safer during the pandemic, especially disabled people, so I'm going to keep doing it."

They may argue with you, especially since they may feel bad for not masking. You don't have to argue back with them. You can offer to send them articles about it or explain your thoughts but you don't have to justify masking!

If people think you're sick, they'll probably ask and you can explain or they'll avoid you, which may work to your advantage because social distancing from people who don't mask is good too.

If part of this doesn't make sense or you have more questions, ask me! I'd love to answer and have a lot of info on the subject if you want it. Again, thank you for trusting me to answer and I hope this helps. <3 Stay safe!

[kunikisss]

keegan russ forcemasc

[not-poignant]

every now and then i forget how bad my chronic illnesses are and every now and then my body is like 'hmmm you seem to have forgotten what it's like to be cripplingly bedridden and disabled and we don't want you to forget' and then i'm reminded and it feels a little like being yeeted into a granite cliff wall at full speed and leaving a dent

[morfosi]

I need help and I have nowhere else to turn. I'm trans, physically disabled, and I need to raise enough money to graduate college and escape a dangerous living situation. I had to leave the details of my dangerous situation out of the gofundme page to prevent anyone from calling the police, because that will not help me. Please please please help me, please donate anything or share this to someone, I am begging for help

adding popular tags, im sorry for clogging tags i dont mean to bother anyone im just really really scared

[brainrotdotorg]

Its PARTY TIME BABEY!!!!!

[zebratimw]

[jangillman]

[animentality]

[hellyeahsickaf]

Not me remembering when I lived with my mother and she was pissed that I wore smoky eyeshadow because it was "wrong". I'd gotten a few compliments for it though!

Except I wasn't wearing any. it was my chronic illness, especially when I hade flareups. I had dark circles under my eyes and looked like a pale sickly Victorian child.

[soaked-ghost]

I have heard of Night in the woods but i'm having a bit of a hard time making the connection here lmao.. (this is my very bad excuse of an ask but i love reading your infodumps)

SPOILERS if u didn't see the full game!!!!

in night in the woods the main character mae has a dissociative episode, and when she describes it she says that everything started looking like shapes and colors, that she couldn't see people in that state, just abstract forms, and that lead her to hurting someone badly because she couldn't tell what was a person and what wasn't a person

I remember in that scene where she explained how she saw it, she says that right before that episode, she was playing a visual novel game then suddenly started dissociated, and that the world felt no differente than that game, not real

she says for like 7 months everything felt like 'stuff in the universe, lines that someone wrote'. sorta like. a visual novel game. like the one she was playing

And, paraphrasing a post that really stuck with me, that person in that post says that when dissociating, they felt untethered by anything. they felt like they are in some sort of tv program, and that everyone around them were just reciting their lines, or that everyone around them was a cardboard standee, rather than a person

and, not only does that hit uncomfortably close to home, but also, that's literally what ink is going through. all of what I just said is just. what ink is dealing with.

especially, ESPECIALLY that thing about everything around mae feeling like 'lines someone wrote'. that's literally ink. that's how it feels to ink.

and also. damn. mae's entire 'i want it to hurt' speech. about how she wants it to hurt when she loses everything, because it would've have meant something. about how she wants to hold on to anything close, so that she could feel like. something.

isn't that literally what ink is always trying to do. hold on to something. to feel real.

i. i think I hauve covid.

[sunsetsnz]

cw: covid

coworker just said she has covid and i was just working with her yesterday. for hours. all up in each other’s space (because certain areas of my workplace are confined, and it’s basically required). for fuck’s sake man.

[skunkes]

blood test tomorrow and i dont think theyll let someone in with me so nobody's going to hold me down, making me feel Calm and also preventing me from escaping. smile.