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Yes it is true. Immigrant detention camps are “gassing people” (spraying disinfectants in unventialeted areas of these camps). These chemicals cause skin burns and severe eye damage. (sources x x)
What can you do?
Email the mayor of Adelanto [email protected]
Organisations to support
BEST PROCEDURES TO STAY OUT OF THE HOSPITAL!!!
They are calling on Respiratory therapists to help fight the Coronavirus, and I am a retired one, too old to work in a hospital setting. So I’m going to share some commonsense wisdom with those that have the virus and are trying to stay home. If my advice is followed as given, you will improve your chances of not ending up in the hospital on a ventilator. This applies to the otherwise generally healthy population, so use discretion.
1. Only high temperatures kill a virus, so let your fever run high. Tylenol, Advil. Motrin, Ibuprofen etc. will bring your fever down allowing the virus to live longer. They are saying that ibuprofen, Advil etc. will exacerbate the virus. Use common sense and don’t let fever go over 103 or 104 if you got the guts. If it gets higher than that take your Tylenol, not ibuprofen or Advil to keep it regulated. It helps to keep house warm and cover up with blankets, so body does not have to work so hard to generate the heat. It usually takes about 3 days of this to break the fever. 2. The body is going to dehydrate with the elevated temperature so you must rehydrate yourself regularly, whether you like it or not. Gatorade with real sugar, or Pedialyte with real sugar for kids, works well. Why the sugar? Sugar will give your body back the energy it is using up to create the fever. The electrolytes and fluid you are losing will also be replenished by the Gatorade. If you don’t do this and end up in the hospital, they will start an IV and give you D5W (sugar water) and Normal Saline to replenish electrolytes. Gatorade is much cheaper, pain free, and comes in an assortment of flavors
3. You must keep your lungs moist. Best done by taking long steamy showers on a regular basis. If you’re wheezing or congested use a real minty toothpaste and brush your teeth while taking the steamy shower and deep breathe through your mouth. This will provide some bronchial dilation and help loosen the phlegm. Force yourself to cough into a wet washcloth pressed firmly over your mouth and nose, which will cause greater pressure in your lungs forcing them to expand more and break loose more of the congestion. 4. Eat healthy and regularly. Got to keep your strength up. 5. Once the fever breaks, start moving around to get the body back in shape and blood circulating. 6. Deep breathe on a regular basis, even when it hurts. If you don’t it becomes easy to develop pneumonia. Pursed lip breathing really helps. That’s breathing in deep and slow, then exhaling through tight lips as if your blowing out a candle. Blow until you have completely emptied your lungs and you will be able to breathe in an even deeper breath. This helps keep lungs expanded as well as increase your oxygen level. 7. Remember that every medication you take is merely relieving the symptoms, not making you well. 8. If you’re still dying, go to ER! I’ve been doing these things for myself and my family for over 40 years and kept them out of the hospital, all are healthy and still living today. Thank you all for sharing. We’ve got to help one another. Declan Stokes Retired respiratory therapist
One thing to keep an eye on in Europe is how the coronavirus has impacted Romani communities. Given the rise in authoritarianism in response to the pandemic, and disparities in income, sanitation, living facilities, and healthcare due to systemic anti-Romani racism, things have not been looking great. (warning: directly below the text for this article is a slideshow about the Romani genocide during the Holocaust which contains content that may be triggering to some). Here is another article on the situation.
I haven’t seen anything yet about fundraising to help these communities, but I figured it would be a good thing to raise awareness of this issue, since the problems faced by Romani people in Europe (and in the rest of the world, tbh) frequently go under reported.
I haven’t found much in the way of reputable charitable organizations across Europe (possibly because I’m searching in English from America), but here is a fantastic Roma-led charity called Roma Support Group which is aimed at helping Roma families (specifically Eastern-European Roma refugees and migrants) in the UK.
They’ve already put out some great coronavirus resources for people in a variety of different languages and- in general- do fantastic work (and are especially focused on helping Roma migrants in a post-Brexit Britain). You can donate to them here: X
Pls don’t repost this.
The second wave happened because they relaxed the stay at home order.
Also, Influenza causes visible symptoms within one to four days, while COVID-19 victims can be either asymptomatic for at LEAST two weeks (if not up to a month or more) or simply never have any symptoms at all, ever, and be unknowingly infecting everyone around them for a completely indeterminate amount of time!
In addition, Influenza sufferers would stop being contagious about five to seven days after first showing symptoms, but with COVID-19, you may not stop being contagious for weeks after fully fighting off the infection—that is, if you even start having symptoms at all.
Even if you don’t develop symptoms of COVID-19 while carrying it, you are still highly contagious, and it’s believed that you may be even more contagious than those who do show symptoms.
Originally, tests were showing around 60% of carriers did not show any symptoms, but it is now apparent that even up to 90% of carriers may never even know they’re infected without being tested.
They don’t have anywhere near the amount of resources to test everyone for it, even just the people who are showing symptoms and actively seeking to be tested, let alone asymptomatic carriers who wouldn’t have a reason to believe they’d need to be tested!
This is a disease that by its very nature is impossible to properly track and contain.
Once you had Influenza and survived, you would become immune to it—HOWEVER, with COVID-19, not only is there no evidence that people who have survived become immune to reinfection by it, but there is actually significant evidence to the contrary! Beating COVID-19 may not keep you from getting it again!
And even if you do beat it, COVID-19 leaves you with permanent lung damage and in some cases vascular damage, kidney damage, liver damage, and neurological damage, which may last for decades if not the rest of your life! Which, of course, means that should you get infected with it again, or infected by something similar, your body will have a much lower chance of successfully fighting it!
COVID-19 is not Influenza. It is several times worse than Influenza, and it is people’s failure to understand this that will cause the further impending waves of it to be much more deadly than the second waves of Influenza.
Officials are now saying that they expect COVID-19 to last into 2022, with a theoretical vaccine only being developed and mass produced by 2021, and that’s if things go well. There’s no guarantee that we’ll actually find a vaccine that soon, or be able to produce and distribute it widely enough to completely curb successive waves of it.
And, if course, that’s not accounting for the fact that there are different strains of COVID-19, and a vaccine that works on one may not work on another, just like yearly flu vaccines.
Wearing masks, social distancing, and other sanitary measures are not going to be going away any time soon, nor should they.
“The Center for Dignity in Healthcare for People with Disabilities has released a second fact sheet for people with disabilities to know their rights during the COVID-19 and coronavirus pandemic.”
at this point when i see things sold out i just automatically assume it’s due to shortages either materials/production or people buying them up and i am looking at reproduction sabres and they’re like all sold out on this site and my immediate assumption was “oh, guess people are buying up sabres bc of the pandemic,” which was a very magical moment for me but unfortunately is definitely not the case
tangentially similar: i’ve got so used to other parts of the autistic lifestyle being suddenly not just acceptable but required that i keep forgetting viruses don’t spread by eyecontact
All these articles about “that feeling you’re experiencing is grief” have me like, you guys are normally living lives not characterized by perpetual grief?
i saw a list of 'weird and unusual mental illness symptoms you might be experiencing right now.' i read them and they are what i would describe as 'an average Tuesday'
Post: here's a list of symptoms of "survival mode" many of you will recognize
Ppl: lol thats all the time
OP: uh no? U r exaggerating? No one just exists like that it's worse then depression
[List is literally just symptoms of PTSD]
Welcome to hell everyone could i interest you in some disassociation?
but if it’s worse now because there’s even MORE uncertainty than you normally live with 24/7, and/or because you now have to worry about a bunch more people being in the same situation who weren’t before and aren’t used to it... that’s also a thing that can happen. it doesn’t mean you’re a bad and unprepared spoonie/neurodivergent/whatever. we’re all, still, human.
While it's good that this pandemic has brought up discussions of anti-Asian racism in general, I feel like it's important that we start using this opportunity to talk about the very specific issue of Sinophobia (anti-Chinese racism) in America.
Read about the history of labour conditions for Chinese immigrants. Read about the "yellow peril" panics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Read about the Chinese Exclusion Act. Read about the treatment of Chinese people during times of tension between America and the Chinese government. Read about the treatment of Chinese people during the Beijing Olympics. Read about the history of culinary racism towards the Chinese.
Educate yourselves and think about why it has been so incredibly easy for Americans to uncritically adapt Sinophobic talking points during this pandemic.
#Repost @guardian (@get_repost) ・・・ Wearing face masks, waving black flags and keeping two metres apart, thousands of Israelis demonstrated against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu under strict coronavirus restrictions on Sunday.
Netanyahu, who denies any wrongdoing, is under criminal indictment in three corruption cases.
He is also negotiating a power-sharing deal with his rival Benny Gantz to form a coalition government that would end a year of political deadlock after three inconclusive elections.
Protesters called on Gantz’s party not to join in a coalition led by a premier charged with corruption.
Demonstrations are allowed under Israel’s coronavirus restrictions, as long as participants maintain distance from each other and wear face masks. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Nh2_-DmfM/?igshid=f51gombowe7w
some of you were not incredibly isolated teens who grew up relying on long distance internet friends to avoid complete and utter desolation of your mental state and boy howdy is it showing
i was still relying on postal mail and writing bad poetry to avoid complete and utter desolation of my mental state in frikin grad school
nevermind, i am GLAD you guys grew up with internet
being autistic or other kind of weirdo sucked much worse before it
Me, squinting at the original image in November 2019 before finally reaching a conclusion: I know! Mass Alien Abduction
i think it’s obvious, really ....
Когда ты уже на работу пойдешь, человек?!
When will you go to work already, man ?!
Some fairly important news from the AO3 today, re: the covid-related traffic increase and how they are coping. The entire post is worth reading but the big stuff I think is:
my recommendation is to get yourselves some AO3 accounts if you somehow don’t have one yet. and, as a creator, I would highly recommend leaving feedback on stuff you like. there is going to be an artificial decrease in hits for authors for a while, and this is a particularly lonely and stressful time. if someone’s work is helping you through this difficult time…. help them in return.
If anyone needs an AO3 invite if you don’t already have an account, I have a few available!
It’s also worth noting that requesting an AO3 invite on your own is free and easy; you don’t have to go through another user to get one. All you have to do is enter your email on the Invite Requests page and you’ll be added to the queue. At the current rate, you should get an account within the day.
Not everyone gets to quarantine. Not everyone has a WFH job.
Some people are running the “essential” stores that people come to every day to browse idly because “everywhere else is closed!” Some people are throwing up stock of bleach and TP and canned food only to turn around and see the stock has vanished behind them.
Some people are stuck working for companies with no paid sick leave, or they are offered paid sick leave… if you get diagnosed with covid-19. And none of us can even get tested in most states even if we show symptoms due to the draconian guidelines on who gets a test.
Some of us are immunocompromised or live with elderly family and are fucking terrified of carrying covid home with us.
Some of us are “lucky” and are getting increased wages during this period. But it’s up in the air if that makes this shit worth it, and most of us don’t get that.
Regardless, I want to establish one thing: No one who works retail asked to be “essential” services. And none of us were trained for this and none of us are being paid enough for this.
Personally, I have enjoyed my job up until covid happened because I’m an incredibly anxious person, and my store was a quiet one, and I was good at my job. It was a calm environment to work in, and I was happy to find it.
Now, I’m having repeated crying jags in the stock room and looking up how to qualify for unemployment and not seeing a way out. I handle the money for the store deposit almost every night, and I intimately know my store is making at minimum 4x usual profit and some days 6x or 7x more.
My point in this post is that I know I’m not alone. I have two friends in similar straits who are also on the verge of breaking down. We can’t sustain this.
The rallying cry of “paid sick leave” doesn’t mean shit if it comes with the caveat that you have to test positive for a virus you can’t get tested for. And while I am trying very hard to be sympathetic to the people who are isolating, who are lonely, who are struggling, I feel like “essential” workers are being thrown in the woodchipper.
And it becomes very hard to hold onto that sympathy when people just! come into our stores! to walk around! Maybe if fewer people did that, maybe if my store stopped making astronomical amounts of money, we’d close for a few days. But nope.
That’s all. This is a post for my fellow low wage workers who woke up one day and found out they’re essential staff, retail or EMTs or gas station workers or whoever you are. This is bullshit and we’re tired and we need help. Before we all burn out.
Yes! Hazard pay for everyone stuck working during a goddamn epidemic!
