#COVID isn’t over

[disasterhimbo]

He should NOT be at the club! There’s an airborne pandemic still killing thousands and disabling millions weekly

[audhd-space]

ID :

Screenshot of tweet from Kelly (@broadwaybabyto) :

“When you’re chronically ill your baseline becomes everything. Whatever limited function you have left you want to protect at all costs. I suspect that’s why many who were disabled before Covid understand & take as many precautions as they can. They know what they’re risking.”

[mindvice]

Ugh my work is ending its mask mandate next month. Not that it was even enforced, but still. It’s strange feeling like a conspiracy theorist for caring about my and other’s health in a healthcare facility.

[phantom-of-the-memes]

The pandemic has truly shown that a big majority of self proclaimed leftists are performative as fuck.

The minute their supposed morals require them to do something that is so MILDLY inconvenient to the them (i.e. wear a mask), it all suddenly goes out the window. This is why us disabled people get left out of the conversation when it comes to leftism.

The beginning of the pandemic, as awful as it was, there was at least some glimmer of hope in regards to disabled rights. For once I saw people I know posting about protecting our lives and the importance of staying home and masking. I was getting tons of support opening up about being disabled and chronically ill.

The thing is though, that this was because they had no other choice! They had to stay home, they had to mask, because it was a mandate! So it was easy for them to think to themselves “wow, I’m so brilliant, I’m doing so much for disabled people”.

When we finally got to go back in person in university, I was so glad to see most people masking. Imagine how gullible I felt the day I walked into the lab when they had removed the mandate the night before, to see not a single person in a mask. Just for some context which makes this even worse; this was a biochemistry/ immunology lab. Our professors were quite literally the ones developing the vaccines in Ireland. Not even they could be bothered to mask.

For the first while my friends would always mask around me because I asked them to. Then it became less and less. They’d pull the ole “omg I’m so sorry I left it at home” shit. Then eventually they stopped giving excuses and just expected me to be ok with them endangering me.

I remember everyone posted about getting vaccinated the first time around. Now as each booster comes out you hear less and less about it, less people getting boosted.

And the pièce de résistance!! Leftist circles… this is the most disheartening. At every leftist gathering/ protest I’ve been to, no one is masking. There’s always this one awkward performative moment where they say some shit about “being mindful of the space you’re occupying”, and they direct people to a box of masks they brought… I’ve never seen one fucker take one. Self proclaimed socialists and communists who “protect the rights of minorities”, don’t give a fuck about disabled people.

They’ll talk the talk, but their actions are so weak. Can’t even wear a piece of fucking fabric on their faces to protect us.

[whilereadingandwalking]

When you are sick, or a household member is, and you make the choice to go into work or be in the world or god forbid on a plane unmasked, you are making a choice for dozens of other people who you do not know about whether they are capable of surviving the illness you have.

You don’t know, and can’t know, what strangers can survive. Or what their infant or grandmother at home can survive. You don’t know whether they’ve had Covid-19 before, once, or twice. And you don’t know, because no one yet knows, whether this next infection will be the one to push their bodies into disabling Long Covid.

And do not come near people unmasked with the sad excuse of “but i’m sure it’s not covid” if you haven’t tested with more than just a single rapid test. No one wants your strep throat or nasty cold either! People with autoimmune issues will get taken out by the cold that’s bothering you. Consider this a winter PSA!

[stayoutofitnick]

Here’s a good article about the current state of covid and risk, although it lacks details on risks of long covid:

[intothetr33s]

I reblogged a long post and added it at the end, but I think this deserves its own post:

In Canada, you can request FREE (including shipping) n95/equivalent masks in several sizes including small/youth sizes from a charity: donatemask.ca. You can also request rapid tests, in case you can't find them locally anymore.

I have several friends who were able to get masks from there that they couldn't get elsewhere for $ reasons, and they shipped the masks pretty quickly too. They can also provide larger quantities of masks for community organizations (I helped a club at my university order over 800 masks, so that all of their events this term can be masked including a music showcase with several hundred people attending!). If you can't afford or find masks for you/your kids, it's really worth ordering some here.

[spooniestrongart]

[gentlemanbutch]

How fucking dare you compare covid to aids. You fucking immature child, I lost my husband to aids and I will not have a wannabe bear equating the two. From a 47 year old gay man to the most insolent little shit I’ve ever met: fuck you. The absolute disrespect.

Okay! You could one, not twist my words, and two, do research on how they are similar in how the government is handling them, how the media is handling them, their impact on marginalized communities, and the way the actual virus impacts the immune system. But okay!

[thecorvidforest]

if you support Palestinians by boycotting, protesting, raising awareness, etc (as you should) but aren’t doing anything to protect yourself and others against COVID, i really want you to ask yourself why that is.

why are you willing to believe Palestinians when they talk about their deaths, but not disabled folks? why are you willing to believe the USA government would spread disinformation to protect their own interests about I/P, but not about COVID? why are you willing to be inconvenienced by boycotts and protests, but refuse to wear a mask? why are you willing to go out of your way to try and protect people halfway across the world, but not people in your own community?

a lot of you romanticize your role in your idea of “the revolution.” you dream of fighting back against violence and tearing down the corrupt, but you never consider practicing basic community care or deconstructing the hyper-individualistic ideals of white supremacy.

COVID was and is a litmus test for peoples reliability in “the revolution.” most of you failed. until you start listening to disabled folks and practicing community care, you will always be a tool of the very oppression you believe you’re fighting against.

[disasterhimbo]

Long covid is hell. Wear a fucking mask.

[audhd-space]

if people can be selfish about not wearing a mask and chime that it’s all about choices, I can be selfish about cutting of friends and family members who do not care about wearing a mask

[imalump]

[thatlonelycactus]

It will always fuck me up that there are pieces of content that we look at today and go “oh yeah” or “I remember that” or whatever but in a couple of years, when these events have moved out of the majority of the public’s memory people will need to understand the historical context to understand it. Like I know that but it still screws with me.

Like Bo Burnham’s Inside is one that comes to mind. If most of us watch it now we’ll not only get the references but be able to relate to the whole thing about being stuck inside. In a couple of years people will probably be going on web deep dives to understand the full extent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the worldwide quarantines just to understand a Netflix comedy special. In fact, at some point all of the COVID era literature (books, series, news articles, movies, even obscure memes) will need some form of historical understanding to even be understood in some capacity. I mean, a similar thing happened to 9/11 (Different kind of historical tragedy ik) but less than 30 years after it happened, the September 11 terrorist attacks are being taught in history classes.

But no matter how much historical context people have when they interact with [insert period] literature they’ll never truly understand what it was like to live through that event.

That’s not necessarily bad because a) much less suffering for those individuals (at that point in time) and b) the fact that they’re taking time to learn that context and consume that literature allows the memory of both the positive and negative effects these events had in the world and how they were catalysts for change.

To take that time to learn the struggles of those before, even if it is just to watch a Bo Burnham comedy special, is to attempt to help stop history from repeating itself.

But seriously, if humanity survives that long, people may look back at now like we look at the Victorian era.

[whilereadingandwalking]

My anticipatory dread of good events has increased with the general lack of care and masking: an anxiety and certainty that someone will give me or my partner Covid and we won’t be able to go to Australia, or that something else will sweep this trip out from under us. We’re generally safe but there’s a limit to how much our masks protect us if others aren’t wearing them. Part of me won’t be excited for the trip until we’re on the plane.

[stayoutofitnick]

“… a Victorian health survey recently found 14 per cent of respondents met long COVID criteria and numerous other studies suggest it occurs in 10-20 per cent of infections, with risk increasing significantly with each reinfection. It affects people of all ages and ethnicities, including children and those who experience only mild acute infections, though women seem to be more susceptiblethan men. It also affects vaccinated and unvaccinated people, though vaccination is strongly associated with a reduced risk of being diagnosed with long COVID. Any COVID infection can result in long COVID, is the message experts have been stressing. And, contrary to common misconceptions that it's just a runny nose or pesky cough, its impacts are devastating. Long COVID often affects multiple organ systems generating potentially dozens of debilitating symptoms: crushing fatigue, including post-exertional malaise or "crashing" after even light physical or mental activity; cognitive dysfunction or "brain fog"; shortness of breath; chest pain and palpitations; dysautonomia and exercise intolerance; gastrointestinal problems and allergic reactions are the most common.”