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Me: "Hi mom, what's new?"

My mom: "Well it's funny that you ask because I just found out that your uncle's sister's daughter's husband's coworker is George!"

Me: (Blank stare)

Mom: "Your cousin, George!"

Me: ...

Mom: "What a small world!"

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From now on when someone asks me why I'm masking I think I'll just say "solidarity with the protesters who are getting arrested for it."

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The Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiology Division now finds that, contrary to studies showing cardiac deaths have declined since 2020, more people are dying of heart attacks since covid hit but they're dying at home rather than in hospitals.

So are people less likely to access hospitals since covid hit because of how inundated all those hospitals now are with covid cases? Or are people less comfortable seeking care in hospitals now because hospitals have become more dangerous places?

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saw someone reccomend a covid cautious dating app. it's just a website where you submit your email so they can "set up your account" by "sending you a verification email," but they never send it. seems like a data scraper.

so yeah either covid-chemisty dot org is defunct or it's malicious.

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If you're not a protester but you want to protect protesters from criminal prosecution, start wearing a mask out in public when you're doing ordinary things. Mask up at the grocery store, on public transit, at the library, to work, to school. Make the case with your face that protest is ordinary.

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If you're not a protester but you want to protect protesters from criminal prosecution, start wearing a mask out in public when you're doing ordinary things. Mask up at the grocery store, on public transit, at the library, to work, to school. Make the case with your face that protest is ordinary.

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If you're not a protester but you want to protect protesters from criminal prosecution, start wearing a mask out in public when you're doing ordinary things. Mask up at the grocery store, on public transit, at the library, to work, to school. Make the case with your face that protest is ordinary.

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First people told me I was anti-science for saying covid is not over since we have a vaccine. Then they told me covid has evolved to be more mild to explain why they stopped getting vaccinated. Now they're defunding vaccines for pregnant women as doctors protest that covid hasn't changed and the science still says it's dangerous. Turns out we need people to agree with the weirdos telling you covid is not over if we want the vaccine to continuing existing.

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Unmasked and making everyone sick.

I’ve been hearing about people showing up to work sick, testing positive for covid, and not wearing a mask and working sick, despite the CDC’s recommendation that people “Stay home and away from others”, and even after feeling better they say to mask when resuming normal activities.

CDC - Respiratory Virus Guidance March 1, 2024 Preventing Spread of Respiratory Viruses When You're Sick When you go back to your normal activities, take added precaution over the next 5 days, such as taking additional steps for cleaner air, hygiene, masks, physical distancing, and/or testing when you will be around other people indoors. This is especially important to protect people with factors that increase their risk of severe illness from respiratory viruses. Keep in mind that you may still be able to spread the virus that made you sick, even if you are feeling better. You are likely to be less contagious at this time, depending on factors like how long you were sick or how sick you were.

All year long I keep hearing stories about people who are actively sick and coughing and refusing to mask in confined spaces like subway trains and crowded workplaces. And even people refusing to mask when asked to by trapped elderly people in airplanes and healthcare settings. This is a very dicey situation with the coming American public health dark age and the threat of bird flu and mask bans.

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Tycoons demonizing remote work in an agenda to deliberately wreck the government & future society.

My letter to reps:

Remote work is a part of modern society and should be prioritized wherever it can be in order to facilitate disability accommodation, tamp down fossil fuel expense and emissions, and reduce the spread of disease. Telework is a necessary part of a functional future society and should be incentivized in government work and private industry, wherever at all possible.

Please feel free to copy or repurpose the contents of my letter for your own letters to reps.

Government Executive -  Trump’s ‘DOGE’ commission promises mass federal layoffs, ending telework The incoming administration will handle large-scale RIFs with compassion, Vivek Ramaswamy says. November 18, 2024 01:40 PM ET “So this is a historic opportunity. We're not actually going to squander this.” He added that reductions to telework and relocating agencies would help motivate employees to leave government voluntarily. He called it a “dirty little secret” that most federal workers “don’t even show up to work.”  About 80% of the federal work hours are currently spent in-person, according to a recent Office of Management and Budget review, and more than half of federal employees do not telework at all because their jobs are not conducive to it. Of those who do telework, employees on average spent about three-fifths of their time on site.  “If you require most of those federal bureaucrats to just say, like normal working Americans, you come to work five days a week, a lot of them won't want to do that,” Ramaswamy said. “If you have many voluntary reductions in force of the workforce in the federal government along the way, great. That's a good side effect of those policies as well.”

Many people in various jobs in various industries public and private legitimately work remotely. A lot of CEOs work remotely. A lot of business owners work remotely.

This attempt to marry telework to the old disinformation cliche trope of “people don-wanna work” is dishonest. Tycoons want to “shrink the government in order to drown it in the bathtub” because they don’t want to pay taxes, and that’s the dirty little secret laid bare here — they don’t want to pay taxes, and they don’t want anyone to create a functional society for people. They want a rigidly enforced class society made up of tycoons and all the rest, with everyone in servitude under a microscope marching to their petty self-serving orders. I’m guessing a lot of Trump voters work remotely, because in a modern society it is a norm! I suspect that even Trump voters don’t actually want to go backwards on this. What about Elon Musk futuristic fans? Do they think ending modern remote options in various fields should happen? It doesn’t really make sense that these tech moguls are so against modern tech solutions, right?

Nobody is fooled — It doesn’t make sense for anybody but the billionaires.

This anti-telework agenda is about tycoons who don’t want to pay their fair share after getting rich exploiting the rest of society. This agenda against work from home is about tycoons who are jealous that talented people choose to work for the government, doing work that is a benefit to society, and want to force them into bullshit jobs in private industries, just to avoid in-person office work for various reasons, including disability (declared or undeclared). This hostility to remote work is about commercial real estate wanting butts in seats downtown for the economic finances of real estate moguls and the investors that treated real estate investments like a casino. The pandemic accelerated a trend toward telework already happening, and ramped up real estate investor exposure to loss, and they want to socialize that loss. And this anti-telework agenda is about fossil fuel interests wanting everyone to continue arduous fuel-intensive pollution laden dangerous harrowing commutes to jobs that don’t need to take place in an office, and which are often done more efficiently remotely.

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Pandemic Revisionist History. 

I don’t know how these things got memory holed other than there’s been just a continuous firehose of covid minimization, pandemic disinformation, and lockdown revisionism, that everyone’s senses became overloaded with the mere exposure effect of repeated nonsense and it’s created informational learned helplessness.

The nature of coronaviruses.

We always knew that coronaviruses don’t tend toward long-lasting immunity, and that making vaccines for them has been elusive. This was a known thing. This wasn’t unexpected. So anyone who claimed that there would be herd immunity of any type in 2020 was ignoring everything that was known about coronaviruses. Many of course knew this hopium for natural immunity was bullshit. And there were people pushing back on it in 2020. But nobody wanted to hear that, of course, and people telling people what they wanted to hear of course has always been popular. And so we have All The Variants now - and this shouldn’t have been unexpected, and was not unexpected. 

Vaccination is a public health measure.

You always need high uptake for vaccines to be successful public health. This has always been the case. This à la carte mindset, and restricting of safe vaccines for a widespread disease, where anti-vax is left to stand mostly unchallenged, is antithetical to previous vaccination campaigns. The polio campaign in the U.S. was successful because of a concerted effort to do a door to door campaign that started before the vaccine was even available. But for some reason since this covid pandemic started it’s been “if you wanna” and so uptake isn’t even barely mentioned even in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) October 23, 2024 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The only person who mentioned the need for messaging and uptake and overcoming distrust was Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., MD, the NFID medical director, (National Foundation for Infectious Diseases). Vaccine uptake is important and it’s always been that way. 

Funerals are important to most people, but big crowded funerals are not essential.

Back in the 1990s there were things said about the ebola outbreaks in Africa that I now realize were horribly racist. Professionals in the news were quoted as saying that the African citizens were uncooperative and wouldn’t follow simple rules. An example is the LA Times article from 1995 which reported: “one microbiologist said he was terrified that the virus would spread like wildfire because people were sneaking into the hospital to visit their dying loved ones, possibly carrying the virus with them when they leave.” People often remarked it was because of backward superstitions that they wouldn’t give up their funeral rites, even to save themselves from ebola. I remember this well. When this covid pandemic swept in, I heard about so many people who were going to funerals, insisting that they had to go to indoor wakes and funeral breakfasts, and doing all sorts of other unnecessary things. People are people and make decisions based on impulses, and that’s why societal rules exist, to give people guidelines based on collectively known information. On Conspirituality Podcast and in an LA Times op-ed about the Stanford covid contrarian right-wing symposium, it was reported there was outrage about how people were kept from big funerals in the early pandemic, as if not having funerals was uncivilized and backward.

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adults: oh silly children with no responsibilities no real trauma no life experience no worries and yet oh so dramatic about nothing

also adults: oh thank fucking GOD i am not in school anymore, i had another nightmare i was THERE again, i woke up in a cold sweat bc i didn't study for my TEST-there's nothing not anything like the sweet relief of realizing that you actually don't have one and you won't have one in a very very long time, i still remember what the hallways smell like, i graduated years ago but i don't feel safe yet

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We're not post covid

I just realised that my sister is a post-covid child and that is like, not just a time description, like i knew it yk, but it really is different

She's going to Spain with her school in march and a spanish student is coming at home. Aside from being privileges of us going to nice schools, its stuff I should have done, but covid striked right at that time, and now that it's gone, my sister is doing it, and i am no longer in high school

I mean, how many life changing school trips i could have done but never could because of the pandemic? How much did it affect an entire generation of kids and teenagers by just happening those specific 5 years of school

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Please take a moment to read this. A Canadian company wants to build a sulfide copper mine near Lake Superior, which holds 21% of the world’s freshwater. The mine would produce 98.5% toxic waste, stored in a dam just two miles from the lake. The dam can only withstand a 1-in-100-year storm, but the area has had two 1-in-1,000-year storms in the past decade. If it breaks, toxic water could flood the lake. Copper sulfide mines in the U.S. have consistently contaminated nearby water sources, and this mine could hurt local communities with lower employment, income, and property values. The company wants $50 million in taxpayer funding to move forward. The Michigan Senate is about to vote, if they don’t get the funding they can’t build it.

Sign this petition if you want to prevent this disaster by searching “Protect the Porkies, Protect Lake Superior— Stop the Copperwood Mine!” at change.org.