AITA? My doctor said I needed a COVID test and had me pee on a stick that he put in his pocket before asking me to leave.
Sorry i just saw the words COVID test and got so honry i passed out!
Can we please stay on topic here
YTA
being a student during peak pandemic was so fucking surreal like. "it's not an excuse to fall behind" I cannot stress enough to you how much A Worldwide Plague Upending Life As We Know It is literally one of The Top Three Reasons to fall behind
fr one of my profs even called it “corona-cation” (corona vacation) and assigned us twice as much work because we now have “extra time” like r u not seeing the body bags on tv
It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”
On my campus there tends to be a problem where even I you have the doctors note professors will still take points off of your final grade regardless of how sick you are. I’ve seen people show up to class with the stomach flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections and all sorts of other contagious ailments.
Here’s a fun story:
The school system I grew up in put an absolutely ungodly amount of pressure on kids to Show Up Every Day No Matter What. Many schools are like this, but looking back, my town’s was borderline fucking dystopian. They asked me why I didn’t just “postpone” a surgery at one point— when I was fifteen— to give you an idea of how monumentally obtuse these people were.
So, in elementary school, I started having chicken pox symptoms, right? They were mild because I was vaccinated (yay!) but my mom recognized them quickly and took me to the doctor, because my mom is a reasonable human being with standards. The doctor said “yup, you’ve got those pox, it may seem mild but please for the love of god DO NOT take her to school, she is very contagious even though she may FEEL okay.”
So I had to stay home from school until I got clearance from my doctor to go back. I was an angry little gremlin the whole time, because I wanted to go to the school library and read books about the human skull, but my mother said, “no, you cannot leave this house, and do not scratch the bumps please.” So I sat at home and tried not to scratch the bumps, like a good little gremlin.
A few days into my Chicken Pox Related House Arrest, we got a letter from the school. I was far from the only person with chicken pox, as it so happened. Like… a tenth of my second grade class had Confirmed Pox. We all fell ill within DAYS of each other.
So how did this happen, you ask? Well, a kid had chicken pox, and he came to school anyway. “Ah, well perhaps they didn’t know,” you may very well say. “Maybe his parents didn’t notice!” No. No, they noticed. In fact they KNEW it was CHICKEN POX. They sent him to school anyway.
The kid’s parents…….. were, in fact, teachers at the school. And they KNOWINGLY made him go to school sick, because they didn’t want to risk hurting his precious “perfect attendance” record. They figured that since he wasn’t, like, Literally Dying, it was better for him not to miss school. Never mind the fact that they were actively endangering hundreds of little kids.
Fast forward to my freshman year of college. A kid came to class with mumps because he ‘couldn’t afford to miss’. Guess what happened? Mumps outbreak! Diseases are, as it turns out, good at being diseases! Vaccinations are phenomenal, but they can only do so much, and some people rely on herd immunity to not be killed by preventable illness.
This entire attitude needs to die. It’s dangerous. Food service workers are forced to show up sick, little kids are forced to show up sick, college students show up sick because they’re afraid of flunking out.
And on top of it all, misinformation campaigns are encouraging people not to get vaccinations! It’s 2019 and we’re flirting with the plague! Next thing you know some blogger is gonna be like “actually we should all be fucking rats and eating our meat raw, death to all science and god bless america”
Many kids at my school will show up really sick because we only get like three days of excused absences without a doctor’s note.
this is what those in literary academia call “foreshadowing”
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sending love to every disabled queer who will spend the month seeing pictures of unmasked superspreader events from our own community. it's okay to love pride, and also be upset that it's being hosted in a way that puts your safety at risk.
if you're not disabled, please mask in large crowds. pride is vital, and so is community care. covid is not over, despite the government minimizing it so that we'll go back to work like everything is fine. mask for yourself, for your community, and for disabled & immunocompromised people. 10% of first infections (even if you got a vaccine) and 20% of second infections result in long covid symptoms at six months post-infection. nobody can afford to continue on pretending this is not happening!
you can buy high-quality, tested masks here.
#SpreadPrideNotCOVID
There’s one guy in Columbus Ohio that has a completely unique strain of Covid that we only know about because of how much he is shitting and it is baffling researchers.
His identity is a mystery but they know where commutes to because his shits turn up there too.
Imagine going about your daily life blissfully unaware that there’s a research team dedicated to tracking you through your actual shit
I love that I can jerk off about guys now. That's just so neat!
Could you not before?
No, I was straight my whole life, I actually tried "bihacking" myself as a teen but while I succeeded in dispelling any aversion to m/m sexuality I ultimately had to accept I was just not into it. But in 2020 I caught Covid before vaccines existed, it spread to my brain and caused enough damage there that my existing personality was no longer viable, and after a period of depersonalization I generated a new one that is different in some major respects, including being bisexual.
everyones journey is beautiful
Okay ms.rona wrap it up hoe
Happy okay ms.rona wrap it up hoe sunday
Happy okay ms.Rona wrap it up hoe Monday (2022)
Happy Ok Ms. Rona wrap it up hoe Tuesday (2023)
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This is still one of the top posts to come out of covid
Oh hey I’m seeing this for a second time in my feed
If you think blindly following the news and government mandates makes you a punk, you’re fucking stupid. You’re literally the establishment you fucking idiot. No I don’t give a shit about you missing out on a show because the band or venue followed the rules, both you and them are bootlicking mongrels. No I won’t wear a mask. No I won’t stay home. No I won’t blindly follow the rules. You’re fucked you fucking statist, and you’re my enemy. But go ahead and wear the clothes and style yourself, your facade is glaringly obvious
hey buddy, idk if you've noticed, but (at least where I live) the government has entirely stopped enforcing COVID safety. There are no govt enforced mandates anymore.
govts around the world have stopped giving a shit about their people getting sick with covid, because governments don't care about us, they care about the economy!
shows are getting cancelled because bands get SICK and they physically cannot perform because covid sucks the energy out of you. I've seen bands dissolve bc members came down with long COVID and could no longer perform AT ALL.
the establishment doesn't give a shit about us, they'd rather let us die to get the fucking economy back on its feet. the govt expects us to get on with our lives and pretend everything is OK when it's not.
the authorities won't bother trying to keep us safe, as our safety isn't worth anything to them.
So we might as well do it. we might as well keep ourselves and eachother safe for eachother, for our communities. to show eachother that WE CARE, that at least SOMEONE cares when the government DOESN'T.
you cannot sit idly by when the establishment attempts to weaken you with uncontrolled disease.
Being punk has never been about “going against the government no matter what they say and do” it’s been “arguing what’s best for the people against a corrupt system of power that doesn’t care what is best for the people as long as it’s better for them”. We are LUCKY the government mandated masks at all- and look how well THAT turned out. Assholes like you couldn’t even do the bare minimum for that.
I’m seeing so many arses in the notes hissing and spitting about how real punks don’t mask or get vaccinated like ok have fun buying into the corporate grindset of every man for himself and carrying on like nothing so you can be a better wage slave you fucking poser
hey y’all! wanna take a minute of your time to help fight for the USPS?
if you haven’t heard, tr*mp is refusing to help the postal service financially during this pandemic (and beyond) in an effort to starve it of funds/resources and kill it off so it can be privatized. also:
obviously this is not great, as tons of us rely on the USPS for all kinds of different reasons, and the privatization of this essential service would have a dramatic effect on the entire nation. namely: voting by mail would become nonexistent (❗️), and the cost of shipping mail and goods will change astronomically.
if this sounds terrible to you (and if you live in the us, then it should!), then text USPS to 50409 to sign the petition and instantly send a signed letter to your senators and representatives. it’s fast, easy, and it’s action that you can take right now.
the letter urges your senators to make the financial support of the USPS a priority, and outlines why the USPS is an essential service in our country that must be defended. here’s my letter:
don’t want to use the text service/send an electronic letter? mail a paper letter to your senator’s office.
you can also call your senators and house representatives at (202)224-3121 and urge them to support the USPS financially.
you can also buy a roll of stamps right now to help financially support the USPS on an individual level!
in conclusion: please take a minute to help support the USPS in any way you can. this is an important issue that affects all of us here in the US.
it would be AWESOME if you could reblog this & spread it, or if you’d rather not reblog this post, then i encourage you to make your own post on the social media of your choice and share with your friends.
thx!
