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wsbgnl (Dec 7, 2022):

The US has "learned to live with covid" not by effectively addressing the problem, but through a broad deliberate effort to erode empathy, break solidarity, desensitize the public to mass illness and mass death, and inculcate a sense of hopelessness and futility

wsbgnl (Dec 23, 2022):

Ah yes, what pandemic? What 650,000 American deaths? What global vaccination campaign? What OSHA standard? What hazard pay? What PPE? What building upgrades? What paid sick leave? What rapid expansion of the public health workforce? What sustained vaccination outreach?

Quote Tweet: President Biden (Dec 22, 2022) We've delivered free masks, free tests, and free vaccines.On my watch, Americans aren't facing COVID alone.

We’ve offered to deliver four rapid tests per household this month. Some stores still have free masks left over from last winter. Vaccines are at the pharmacy. What more do these people want? Is it supposed to be my job to get everyone vaccinated and control transmission too?

One of my favorite thoughts to have is Kerry driving and he looks over to see Vax fast asleep, so he slows down and drives around North Oak so Vax can sleep a bit longer.

Imagine a set of battle siblings. They work seamlessly together, a force of nature, practically. None able to stand against them.

And that synergy transferring to their sexual relationship. When one presses, the other yields. When one rises, the other falls. Always so in sync with one another. Unable to help the way that they just know each other.

(Extra bonus if they're twins)

after i got my 12th covid shot i realized that as long as i was taking a bunch of drugs to not get sick i should probably talk to my doctor about prep

i think a lack of covid safety measures should have the place or event ruled as inaccessible by the ada. if you don't require masks, immunocompromised people cannot enter your space. that is a disability that is being excluded.

I trusted that some of my extended family was accurately representing their COVID precautions etc. and ate an indoor meal with them unmasked.

After I tested positive, I was told the truth: that when they say "Aunt and Uncle had COVID but haven't had any symptoms for several weeks and have been testing negative" actually meant "Aunt had symptomatic CoVid but uncle did not, and so he never took any tests despite staying with her. Also, he hasn't been vaccinated in over a year, unlike the rest of us."

You know why they didn't tell me? They were afraid I wouldn't come.

And you know what they said when I caught it?

"see, it's not so bad, is it?"

Actually it is. Fuck you.

I was fortunate to get my hands on Paxlovid the day I tested positive (where the doctor said it's "people like you [with asthma] that I'm worried about right now"), and was at the peak of my vaccine effectiveness, and I was able to take a full 5 days off of work, so my acute symptoms were pretty limited, thankfully. My partner and I isolated/masked and he didn't catch it.

But it took what was left of my stamina and threw it in the fucking trash. Over a month later and I'm definitely not recovered. I don't think it qualifies as long covid yet but this sucks.

If I had caught it in other circumstances, it wouldn't change the fact that it sucks, and just because someone catches CoVid doesn't mean someone did something wrong: it's pretty damn good at infecting people.

But I'm so. SO. Angry. They took my choice away from me by lying. I'm also angry at a lot of other things, like the government neglect and bad communication etc. that lead to this, but I've been angry at those other sources for years now. It's shitty and fucked up but it's not this personal betrayal I feel.

They are right: I wouldn't have gone. And then I probably would not have caught CoVid.

And they lied to me.

i have covid ;-;

As a person who is immunocompromised I'm so sick of anti vaxxers. You're putting me in danger because you're scared of stuff you don't understand and because you think vaccines are protection for yourself and yourself only. VACCINES PROTECT YOU BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY THEY PROTECT YOUR COMMUNITY!!! I don't know how much more clearly I can explain that you should give a shit if your stupidity kills people.

I feel like growing up with parents that are rabid conspiracy theorists about anything and everything affects you like. way way way deeper than most people do (or maybe want to?) acknowledge. and I just wish it was talked about more honestly

It’s quarantine time for me :(

Some random Eurodyne kids headcanons I have because I love them and think they deserve better

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Ted really likes history

Kim becomes a model when she’s older

Much like his dad, Ted starts a band with his boyfriend

Kim is a daddy’s girl through and through, despite whatever happened between her parents

Ted misses his dad. He will never admit it, and is extremely angry with him, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have moments where he just really wants Kerry to be there

While Eurodyne is in their name, for their own safety, Kerry and Louise make them go by Nordin. Especially at school and out and about so the media doesn’t harass them (they start going by Eurodyne again once they hit adulthood)

V teaches Ted how to box and shoot a gun

Kerry taught Kim the piano

Ted’s favorite samurai song is Never Fade Away because that’s what Kerry sang to them as children

Kim calls Mama Welles grandma because she views her as V’s mom; making her Kim’s grandmother (Mama Welles loves them)

Misty (Aunt Misty) gives Ted a tarot deck, she tells him he doesn’t have to use it, that it’s just a gift. Yes starts shuffling them when he gets mad or upset

Ted has a short temper (Ted is like Kerry 2.0 neither want to admit it. Ted doesn’t want to because he doesn’t want to admit he’s like Kerry. Kerry doesn’t want too because he wants to believe his kids are better than him)

It took Ted a while to start trusting V, Kim was all over him their first meeting

Ted doesn’t start calling Kerry dad again until much later (around 18-19, hes 16 now)

Much like Louise, Ted thinks V is in it for the money, despite knowing he’s made himself rich by himself

Ted is a horror nerd, and it’s something he and V bond over

Kim really likes V’s painting, and he paints her something new every time she visits

my uncle's gf just told me she doesn't think I have autism (despite my therapist and psychiatrist saying I probably do) and she knows more because she has an autistic son. She then told me I probably have a pervasive developmental disorders (pdds) that is different than asd. pdds were removed from the dsm and they all were put under asd. she inadvertently told me she thinks I have autism.

Covid, Mother's Day, and Masks in Healthcare

Got to spend Mothers Day [weekend] with my mom and mom-in-law, a rare occurrence between Grad School chaos and the Covid pandemic. Thankful for these masked mamas every day 💕 I mask because living with Covid does not have to mean accepting inevitable infection to celebrate important things with family. I 💯 support the push to keep masks in healthcare because I should not be more worried about my moms catching Covid at the doctor than I am of them catching Covid at UGA’s graduation, and without masks, I absolutely AM more concerned about healthcare. If you, as a healthcare worker, enjoy hanging out with your family, I am urging you to remember that your patients have families too, and your refusal to mask at work threatens their time with their families by putting them at heightened risk of death and debilitating disability while making them potential vectors of community transmission. Your refusal to mask in public is harmful—your refusal to mask at work as a healthcare worker is UNACCEPTABLE. Protect your patients, and remember, you signed up for that very tough job, and whether you “like�� it or not, infection control is part of the package. And remember, it take minimal effort to be kind, but that minimal effort can literally be the difference between life and death for your patients. You ask why mask in clinic, I ask, why the fuck not? 

More footage from my graduation celebrations and associated covid mitigations:

random tlovm thoughts

my most controversial critical role opinion is that my least favourite members of vox machina are, at different points, vax and scanlan.

Well, I’m assuming that not all of it is the most controversial. Scanlan was a main reason why I couldn’t get into CR1 at first (there’s the reason why I started with 2 and it’s because the first thing you see in CR1 is Scanlan and Grog shouting about brothels and whores.) But Scanlan was supposed to be Like That(TM) and his character arc made him so tolerable that he became one of my favourites. TLOVM is currently doing a great job adapting said character arc and they managed to make him still gross and far too horny without all the other disgusting content, so A+. He was still my least favourite in S1 of TLOVM but that’s what I expected, and he moved up the ranks in S2 as his character arc boots up, which is also what I expected (the Kaylie scene was great). I personally thought that making him get the final blow on Umbrasyl a bit much - being a bard I thought he would, like, rally the troops or do a big heal or something, but I guess it’s understandable as they had to make him use Mythcarver (poor Scanlan, that sword hardly fits him.)

Vax was the other way around - as I grew to like Scanlan more, I grew to like him less. It’s not very personal, it’s just this man’s level of angst and melodrama grew beyond what I enjoyed. Same in TLOVM - he was great in S1, started getting more eye rolls in S2. Still much more tolerable than in the stream, mostly because I didn’t have to listen to his 20 minute monologues on how sad he is and his reckless charging off became more like encouraging speeches now that he’s born again??? That wasn’t in the stream, idk how I feel about that. It was in the last episode. I can’t really comment. Also he’s prettier which makes it easier for me to enjoy the dramatic wing scenes, making the eyerolls much more affectionate (although ofc in the stream said scenes were also less dramatic so they’re actually about even?).

Interestingly enough, my favourite VM member in stream was always Vex but in TLOVM S1 it was Keyleth. In S2 it went back to Vex, which I guess makes sense as she got a lot more screentime in 2.

i’ve had the flu for 4 days and i still feel like shit ❤️

if someone wants to send me an ask 👀 to distract me 👀 that would be much appreciated 👀

okay I did know we wouldn’t get skullgate since it wasn’t set up but I’m kind of sad it didn’t happen! I loved that conflict I think it does wonders to demonstrate grog’s actual depth…