My problem is that I developed a hyperfixation on historical diseases and their transmission when I was a kid, so I was basically primed to be the angriest cunt in the world about covid. I was always going to become furious and extra-insane.

The flu never went away, so you get your flu shot and cover your coughs and sneezes.

HIV/AIDS never went away, so you use protection with sex and always use clean needles for any kind of injections.

The bubonic plague, the granddaddy of plagues itself? Also never went away! You're supposed to be careful about any interactions with wildlife, and take flea outbreaks seriously.

Covid hasn't gone away, and it probably won't. So you know what you're supposed to fucking be doing? Limiting exposure, staying home from superspreaders, wearing your masks, getting your updated vaccines, and following the safety protocols from the People's CDC.

You damn sure aren't supposed to just throw up your hands, say, "fuck it, we'll all probably get it, so who cares?" and start licking rats, fucking without condoms, and running around without a face mask.

today is world AIDS day

a lot of HIV-positive people still face stigmatisation due to prejudices and misinformation. so here is a quick reminder that:

Please share this information, not just online but also with friends and family who might not know it. And if you can, donate to your local AIDS/HIV charity or if you want to support one that’s operating internationally then Elton John AIDS Foundation is the one I’d recommend!

Activist Larry Kramer spoke about the AIDS Crisis in 1991. Watching his words today, they hit damn hard, because it describes about the same rage I'm feeling about covid these days.

"Until we get our acts together, all of us, and until we learn to plug in with each other, and fight, and make this president listen, we are as good as dead."

Tonight I lost my temper while participating virtually in a hybrid meeting. The topic of covid came up, and I finally fucking snapped and yelled at everyone on the other side of the webcam who wasn't wearing a covid mask, and told them that their refusal to keep masking was why I couldn't be there in person. I don't feel great about the situation, but what the fuck else am I supposed to do anymore? I don't want to die. God damn it, I'm human, and I don't want to die.

I'm angry. I'm tired. I'm isolated from any sense of community. Time to reblog Larry Kramer's AIDS speech again.

Wear your fucking masks.

To anyone who’s thinking this way

Pride events happening with no covid safety policy in place is exactly as vile, reprehensible, and irresponsible as telling people to go share needles and fuck strangers with no condoms or HIV testing plans, because the AIDS Crisis is “over,” even though AIDS killed 650,000 in 2021, and in the same year 1.5 million were newly infected with HIV. (Source)

Wear a condom, don’t share needles, wash your hands, wear a goddamn mask.

There is a genocide brewing against queer people in Florida, and my disabled queer ass can’t even take comfort and solace in my local queer “community” because they don’t have mask or vaccination or covid test policies for anything.

I posted on the local pride center’s FB page for an event not too long ago, asking if they had any covid policy, and they told me that they “didn’t need one” because the CDC “isn’t advising it right now.”

It took every fucking scrap of willpower I possess not to respond with, “Ronald Reagan told everyone not to worry about AIDS, too.”

During April 24-27 the CDC had their first in-person Epidemic Intelligence Service in 4 years, it drew around 1,800 attendees from which at least 70% reported they didn’t used face mask.

At least 181 came back COVID positive. That’s around 10% attendance.

How are they not giving COVID prevention guidelines when they themselves have seen first hand protection is still very much needed?

They don’t care about the virus still going around because the most vulnerable hold no value in their eyes.