One good thing about COVID is that I was supposed to go in for my 3 month pain management appointment today but I have COVID so I get to do a virtual appointment!

The problem with "you can choose to wear a mask or not," is that masks mostly protect other people. So if you choose not to mask, you're actually removing someone's ability to try to protect themselves.

We know that if you wear a mask it does protect you, but only marginally. In the end, it's everyone wearing masks that prevents the spread of covid from one person to another. This is because if you have covid the mask catches the viral particles you are exhaling before they can get into the air, where covid is airborne and hangs in the air like smoke for several hours.

People who are masking are mostly protecting you. If you're in the presence of someone wearing a mask, it's literally common courteousy to do the same.

Covid awareness flyers I made!

The image descriptions are in the alt texts!

Reblogs are tremendously appreciated, and please feel free to share them wherever you can! Print them, hang them up in your school, hang them up in your neighborhood, hang them up in public transportation, repost them, etc., etc., etc.!!!

Edit (August 14, 2023): I changed the QR codes because the original ones had expired! These new ones should be permanent! 🤞🏾

Edit (October 10, 2023): Due to the red background causing eye strain and a high-cost of printing, I made an alternate version of the flyers with a white background!

More than a month after she initially became ill, my cousin died this morning from complications of COVID.

This pandemic is not over. This virus is still killing people. This virus is still disabling people, the latest estimate is about 14 million Americans alone are now so debilitated from long lasting Covid symptoms (long Covid) that they can no longer work.

Act like you know.

kinda sucks as an immunocompromised & high risk person that i have to deal with people's negative reactions to me masking & refusing to go into crowded places unmasked

because now it's gauche to care about covid

i know humans are social animals but we also have enough cognition to understand when our emotional impulses are at odds with our knowledge of a situation!!

so why after all these studies and statistics is it considered embarrassing to try not to get or spread the single most disabling disease of our time??? a disease that has killed so many people, directly and indirectly??

I hope this question isn't too random. One thing I noticed is people are for some reason are acting like the pandemic is over and just return to normal and no masks. Even though it is still going on and still effects so many people. Why do you think they think its over?

This is probably quite a deep psychological question about the capacity of people to tolerate fear and stress over a long period of time. I could probably answer it in a more professional way than I'm going to.

Several of my friends are doctors. The research that's coming out about how it's likely to shorten the lives of literally everyone who gets it (especially multiple times), about how if we continue to let it rip a huge percentage of the population (20-30%) will end up measurably disabled in some way by it by 2035 is like... this is serious. This is not a 'flu'. We are also discovering several cancers or other disabling conditions are caused by viruses - I worry a lot about the capacity of COVID to ruin lives. It also has a general effect on the brain that causes lower capacity, less ability to regulate emotions and causes aggression. New mental illness is a common long covid symptom.

I do what I can to avoid it. I still wear a n95 mask out in public. I make my wife do it too, even though we are usually the only two people out wearing masks. I don't take my children indoors anywhere public - we go to parks and playgrounds. My daughter has been in a supermarket just once in her life. Is that good for her? Probably not. But it's a darn sight better than a preventable disability (or type 1 diabetes, or hepatitis, or actually dying) at 2 years old. Not to mention the fact I have a baby sub 6 months old and a father who is very ill and would probably die if he got COVID.

COVID is serious. Governments could put in simple useful measures (like mandating better air filtration and circulation in schools and public buildings etc) but they don't. Everyone's just pretending it's over. It's in the 'too hard' basket.

The research and proof is there in peer reviewed journals. People are just ignoring it until they can't ignore it anymore because either they end up disabled themselves, or someone they love does or dies. I don't know what to do anymore, man. I just try and take the precautions I can reasonably take understanding the capacity of this extremely transmissible virus to kill or disable me or the people I love.

So after the inprnt incident we can officially say that online selling options for artists to make some money is for naught atm right (hyberbolically speaking)?

It’s not just inprnt, it’s many other platforms also, like for example redbubble, patreon and many more. They either changed their terms of use which actually takes away more money from the artist or royally fuck up payment and/or withholding money.

Is there at least one option that I can use safely and works like inprnt? I just want to sell good quality prints in a passive way income (not me doing or managing the printing and shipping).

I am just so worried because inprnt was so far the only platform with the best artist income share.

man

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hey, the pandemic is not over. wear a mask.

in case this is unclear, immunocompromised, immunosuppressed, and other disabled people are not getting sick the same way as healthy adults because they are masking the fuck up and/or still largely being forced to isolate, while many many “healthy” adults are not. just because you are healthy doesn’t mean you are immune to long-term effects from covid. anyone can become disabled at any time. immunity debt is not real.

do your part to protect yourself and others. not wearing a mask is worse than ableism. It’s disablist.

Please at least wear masks in public indoor, and crowded outdoor spaces. Make public spaces safe and accessible for everyone.

I know I'm late with this by now but you're not gonna believe what Cult of the lamb is going to add to their game

I still mask because my health matters to me, as well as the health of the disabled, the immunocompromised, the elderly, and children. I still mask because I don't trust anyone's covid status if they've been choosing not to wear a mask in public. I still mask because it's been working for me all this time, even when I've been in close proximity to covid positive people. I still mask because covid is unpredictable, and I'd like to not fuck around and find out.

Digital self portrait with text overlay reading "I mask because: COVID is not over" Check out my process on my website:

“What’s cookin’ good lookin’?”

@ people who knowingly go out in public sick without wearing a mask, may i just say .................... you have disappointed me deeply. not cool. not cool at all. gross behavior.

they could make a new we didnt start a fire song with the amount of dystopian fuckery going on

no one talks about how when you have chronic pain and fatigue how you have to buy food pre-cut, pre-cooked, pre- whatever and its always more expensive, unless you want to only eat disgusting canned food and noodles that are loaded with sodium which wont help you feel any better