idk who needs to hear this but not wearing a mask (even tho you safely can) isnt a neutral position. you're an anti-masker.

Covid memoirs 1...

When I found out about forcible government lockdowns happening in other states, I started going over the rationale for them in my mind. It didn't add up. In my mind the measures were horrifying in an obvious way. Shut down ALL business? Make the world stop spinning? Lock everyone in their homes? Indefinitely? (Ah two weeks to flatten the curve, but I knew it would be more than that because it wasn't going to work.) How could anything justify that? Nothing could justify forcing every business to close so people would "stay home". It was unthinkable and, at best, cowardly. At worst, an excuse for totalitarian power. The consequences of that kind of hubris... well.

When they came to us I was dumbfounded, but also stricken. The universality of the propaganda. The corporate sweep. I thought this was the end of America, the end of freedom. The moment we were all expecting when the US suddenly turns into a totalitarian state and any second from now it will be the federal agents herding people into camps, we will all be starving and dirt poor and what's worse, everyone i know (almost) has chosen the side of the bad guys or at least as far as i know- I can't tell because im separated from them and only see what they post and it's all stuff identical to what the state is saying.

On Wednesday I went out to the road and walked up and down. The highway was practically empty. It should have been full of traffic. I thought about what was probably going to happen to all of us and what was happening to the world, the whole world. Every person in the entire world, as far as I knew, suffering at least as much as I was- no one untouched, nothing unaffected. Unprecedented, indeed. We would never recover from this. Everyone in the world. Isolated, separated, atomized. Powerless. I despaired and I wept for the death of America.

And the next day it was a Thursday.

What do you do when there's no one on your side?

You start getting people on your side. I put a piece of cardboard in my window that said, "No lockdowns" or something like that. I got sidewalk chalk and (i know this is silly) started writing sidewalk messages.

(And started posting on social media, of course. )

And the surprising part was? There was more skepticism and more agreement out there than I thought.

Never give up guys...

It won't be easy and it's not totally ethical, but I think that if a dozen of us really commit to the bit and manage to proceed without blowing our cover we can get woo-woo wellness communities really into the idea of "bad air" and like, tell them that the static in N95s prevents toxins from entering your bloodstream or something, then spin that off into a mask & HEPA filter-based MLM, we could effectively eliminate Covid and most flu strains in the united states in a matter of 12-15 months

a lady commented on my mask at work today. she said "i hope theyre not making you wear that. i work in an emergency room and we dont wear them anymore"

and i had to fucking hold myself back from telling her she needs to become unemployed

Mask up friends, there's a pandemic on and we live in a surveillance state

I made this post and of course people are arguing on it. So if you don't know what to do about COVID, so here are some actions you can take:

1. Wear a mask. KN95 or similar is best, but any mask is better than no mask.

2. Get vaccinated and boosted. If you can, get the new booster that targets newer variants as well.

3. Be aware of COVID stats - at least your weekly local ones - and educate yourself the harm COVID is doing. Learn about how the government and media are spreading misinformation - and why.

4. Don't attend crowded events if you can avoid it. Talk to coordinators and attendees about making events safer. Encourage virtual events. Help make life accessible.

5. Listen to disabled people's thoughts and feelings about the pandemic. Let us know you see us and affirm us. Don't ignore us. Don't invalidate us.

7. Encourage others to do all of the above. Tell them what you learn and what they're doing wrong. Do not shut up for anyone.

A lot of why this is happening is because people refuse to listen. They won't look our situation in the eyes. And it being depressing is not an excuse to do that. Ignoring it and not taking precautions only makes things worse - even more dire, even more deadly. It's not helping.

Learn how to engage with this as healthily as you can. It will always hurt because this is a mass trauma event. You will not better yours or anyone else's trauma by pretending it doesn't exist. Help us all heal and prevent more people from suffering needlessly. We all owe each other this.

When we are we and a closet we share, I will hang my clothes in the opposite direction as yours, because after a wait like this, I think even they deserve to always be walking  directly towards each other.

-Tyler Knott Gregson

i know we're all "used to it" at this point but can i just say it's an absolute mind fuck going to places like trans support groups, physical therapy, etc. and being one of the only (if not the only) person wearing a mask. it's so incredibly jarring whenever i notice i am safe absolutely no where, even in places where i'm supposed to be. like this is so incredibly fucked up but almost everyone is just accepting and/or ignoring that. as if this is how it's supposed to be and there's nothing anyone can do.

But---but---but we need “amnesty” after this.

Covid problems I’ve somehow never encountered before: getting waterboarded by your own mask

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"Colonial forces like the US and Israel have historically weaponized sickness to commit genocide, and they're still doing that with COVID. Anyone who says they care about liberation and decolonization shouldn't feel fine carrying out that legacy by carelessly spreading COVID. COVID is still killing and disabling MASS amounts of people regardless of health & vax status. Marginalized pple are disproportionally harmed and hospitalized by COVID. Not masking kills. Maiming your community because you can't put a piece of fabric over your face is not a flex. There's no liberation in infecting people over and over again with COVID until they die. Anyone genuinely in solidarity would be moving with a sense of care by still masking regardless of vaccination status because everyone can get and spread COVID. If you're not, you need to be."

bothered black girl

Here’s something interesting.

There was a monkeypox preparedness exercise held in March 2021.

Apparently, it “simulated” a start date of a pandemic, to be May 15, 2022.

The exercise “simulated” a vaccine-resistant monkeypox outbreak that was a biological warfare attack. Who were the participants? Same old people from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, China CDC, and so on.

Really need people to stop testing positive for COVID after I've been in the office with them.

Also really need my friends to stop saying they're "ignoring COVID".

REALLY NEED PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT SOME PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD TO CATCH COVID AND THEY ARE MAKING IT HARDER TO AVOID.