Take a Step

do you ever just feel. sick with disgust. could you imagine the government spending 8 billion next week on disaster relief or pandemic prevention. but no. millions have to die so we can keep killing and killing and killing

TAKEAWAYS:

I hope you all remember just how much Castiel loves Dean

the way people act like covid isnt real or around anymore even though it continues to kill thousands per year is ultimately a structural issue that wouldve been solved via proper public education and less capitalism bullshit and what not but it’s so difficult to not feel like ur imploding with rage when people act like ‘theres a weird sickness going around?’ or clearly be experiencing symptoms of long covid but pretending they aren’t. how r u supposed to cope with the cognitive dissonance of hearing ‘after the pandemic’ on a daily basis when we are still in one. how am i not supposed have a fucked up sleep schedule or not feel the need to rip my hair out. Idk! Idk! Wear a mask! Fuck!

Look everybody! One of my corpses!

Being a politically active trans woman on tumblr is like playing a fucking soulslike

It’s that time of year! 🌈

Updated COVID vaccines are mostly for preventing severe acute illness, but it modestly reduces your chances of getting COVID at all! (54% less symptomatic illness in the following 4 months, in this recent MMWR report.) Best paired with a respirator! People who always wore N95 masks in indoor public settings had *83%* reduced risk of testing positive for COVID, in this 2022 MMWR report.

More info in this zine I made: What's Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition.

Spreading especially now because my husband got covid at his passive aggressive and irresponsible workplace (“if you’re sick enough to wear a mask you should have just stayed home”- actual thing he was told) and this is either 2nd or 3rd time we’ve got it.

My forever girl has tested positive for Covid this week, please be safe ;-;

the "new normal" couldve been respirators & rapid tests & hepa filters & universal basic income & accessibility & caring about other people.........

the "new normal" couldve been respirators & rapid tests & hepa filters & universal basic income & accessibility & caring about other people.........

Happy plagueiversary

I think I hauve covid

No, no, I. I do think I have covid. I've been sick for almost a week now, it's in my throat, and my sense of smell is off.

Pacific Rim is sooo unrealistic now. "tens of thousands of lives were lost so by 2020 the world put aside old rivalries and came together to pool resources to fight this lethal threat for the greater good" looooooooool

ive decided i don't have covid anymore idk just doesn't vibe w me

-The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021

I think a lot about when I had covid.

I had very sickness symptoms for 2 full weeks before testing positive. I would throw up almost daily, my meals combined with lots of mucus. My manager told me to work and just avoid people, but she ended up asking me to talk to and help people all day even though I couldn't even talk properly due to a sore throat, cough and constantly needing to vomit.

When I finally tested positive I called immediately and told her that I was positive. She refused to accept that the faint line meant positive, despite the fact that I was showing her the chart that said a barely visible line meant positive. "It's so faint, its probably no big deal," she said.

I tested again and the line was much more apparent. She let me stay home but every day for the week I was sick she asked if I was better and ready to come back in. I was coughing constantly till my throat was so raw it tasted a bit like blood.

After a week I started to improve, she said the work policy was if I was improving I should come back. I was still positive.

I avoided everyone and wore my mask, refusing to interact with anyone. I told my coworkers I had it and to avoid me. My manager told me not to tell anyone so as not to worry them. I work in food.

Every day I thought about my coworkers. A woman with a mom who has cancer and who's in the hospital. A mother of 6 young children. Smokers, older women with physical and medical disabilities. They would all die and likewise kill their vulnerable family members if I gave it to them.

I was told that I needed to come back as soon as possible because she needed the hours. She never thought of the permanent hours she would lose if half her work force died.

This is how corporations think about covid. Even pragmatically they only consider the short-term. Never forget that they're the ones who caused this.

monkeypox after covid. heatwaves after monkeypox. this that Prince of Egypt stimulus package

U need to hear this but wearing masks, regular testing/disinfection, lock down r supposed to be inconvenient. We’re still in a global pandemic. People still lose their lives because of covid everyday. They get long term health declines because of covid too. It’s supposed to be inconvenient. Pretending covid is “over” doesn’t make it go away :/

This is a stupid conversation! and I'm not going to continue it! literally so fucking correct

What I’m really proud of is the fact that he made SURE the audience understood why the caller was being an idiot. He made a PERFECT comparison, gave the caller an honest chance to re-evaluate and change his mind. His point landed, everyone knew it, even the caller (note his pause and almost hesitancy after being asked).

But when the caller decided to bulldoze on anyway, because god forbid actually listen to the other person in the conversation, the expert cut him off and refused his time. And good for him.

[VD: A tweet by @ g33kgurli, tweeted at 9:47 PM on Dec 17, 2021. It reads, "Perhaps the best clap back to antivaxxers and antimaskers." Attached is a video from The Thom Hartmann Program, where Hartmann is talking with a caller. The conversation goes as follows:

Caller: Hey Thom. Uh, I was listening to you for the last hour so, um, I heard survival of the fittest. Um, you know some of us choose not to vaccinate and uh--

Hartmann: You're nuts, Nicholas.

Caller: --because we work very hard about staying fit, eating healthy, and our natural immune system.

Hartmann: So Nicholas if you're so healthy, would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis or gonorrhea?

Caller: You're missing the point.

Hartmann: No, I'm not missing the point. They're contagious diseases. Would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis and gonorrhea and not worry about it because you're so healthy?

Caller: [pause] No, I wouldn't do that.

Hartmann: Okay, then why would you expose yourself to covid without having some protection?

Caller: Because the protection is my natural immunity.

Hartmann: No, it's not. Tell that--

Caller: Yes, yes, my natural immunity--

Hartmann: Tell that to eight hundred thousand dead Americans. Nicholas, this is- this is a stupid conversation and I'm not going to continue it.

/end VD]

Hey, wanted to share this since doctors are saying it’s time to double mask (with a surgical and filtered cotton mask) or K95 (or the similar high grade medical masks) now. 😷

I’ve never used surgical masks during the past 2 years because they don’t fit tight on my face. But you can fix surgical masks if they don’t fit securely!!

I literally had to try it out at home to see and it makes such a huge difference on the fit.