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And one of the worst things for long COVID is that we can’t do anything for it. So put incurable disease + American healthcare system + being BIPOC = complete ignoring

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And one of the worst things for long COVID is that we can’t do anything for it. So put incurable disease + American healthcare system + being BIPOC = complete ignoring
"Hur hur we went to a superspreader party in 2023...isn't that funny? I thought covid was over but then we all got sick with covid and sent all our kids to school where their teachers tried to run away from them lolZ. Oh also I'm not going to reflect on the fact that I went to the gym and likely spread more covid to other people before I knew I got the virus.
And the birthday host kept coming up with gifs as the count of covid positive people who got it at the party kept going up! Hilarious!
Anyway wash your hands and stay home if you have symptoms I guess, but of course I'm not going to mention WEARING A MASK ever."
-Jay Hanna
"The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has confirmed the Covid outbreak on the Neurosurgery Ward and said that it is doing all that it can to ensure the safety of patients."
Everything EXCEPT WEARING MASKS! What in the eugenics is this crap?
"Covid is still out there infecting people and for those who are at risk it is still very serious"
EXCLUSIVE: 'We need to do better' - over 14,000 people died with Covid after catching it in hospital
Over 14,000 people in England and Wales died with Covid after catching the virus in hospital - these were all people who had attended for another reason, be it surgery, cancer treatment, or following an accident
By Kieren Williams, March 16, 2023
"More than 14,000 people in England and Wales died with Covid after catching the virus in hospital.
According to official NHS data in England and Wales, 14,047 Brits died in hospital after they caught the virus following admission, whilst at least 69,337 people caught the virus only after having been admitted.
The data, obtained by the Mirror via FOI, shows the extent to which the virus ran rampant in hospitals throughout the pandemic, claiming lives.
Both figures are the minimum and the reality is likely much higher due to a number of trusts not responding to the FOI or not recording the data.
Data covering from March 2020 until August 2022 at the latest, 94 NHS trusts out of 209 responded to the FOI which showed how deaths cause by hospital acquired Covid surged during winter as hospitals filled up with patients.
The 14,047 people had all gone to hospital for something other than Covid and tested negative on admission."
Over 14,000 people in England and Wales died with Covid after catching the virus in hospital - these were all people who had attended for an
People who refused to believe covid exists are bad enough but people who know it exists and still think it's a joke to spread it around just actually deserve to be dead, like morally I would endorse them getting splattered by a truck.
Thousands of people are still dying every week from covid. Many more face lifelong, debilitating illness. If you're not masking, you could be responsible. You could be next.
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I am BEGGING people to look up competitive lion dancing. It is one of the most playful and intense forms of dancing I’ve ever seen in my life.
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Their various sanguine shades may stand out to us, but act as the perfect camouflage in the deep where the color red looks black, helping them, and any glowing food tucked away in their tummies, hide in plain sight. There’s much that we have learned about our blood-red belly friends, and yet there’s much that remains a mystery!
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So this has actually been cited by academics as part of the major draw to online spaces is the fact that just existing in public is reacted to with hostility and punishment. Gretchen McCulloch discussed this is in her book Because Internet, citing research that shows teens and young adults want to be outside! We want to spend time in social places, it’s just that there aren’t any places to exist in public without being charged for it.
When I was homeless as a kid my little brother and I loved to go to the library. We would keep warm in there reading good books all day long. Until residents of the town complained about us “loitering” at the library each day. The library staff then told us we were no longer allowed to stay more than an hour at a time. Imagine seeing two homeless children spending their entire days quietly reading just to keep out of the cold and having a damn problem with it.
Here’s a relevant passage from Because Internet!
Even the fact that teens use all kinds of social networks at higher rates than twenty-somethings doesn’t necessarily mean that they prefer to hang out online. Studies consistently show that most teens would rather hang out with their friends in person. The reasons are telling: teens prefer offline interaction because it’s “more fun” and you “can understand what people mean better.” But suburban isolation, the hostility of malls and other public places to groups of loitering teenagers, and schedules packed with extracurriculars make these in-person hangouts difficult, so instead teens turn to whatever social site or app contains their friends (and not their parents). As danah boyd puts it, “Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.”
Just like the teens who whiled away hours in mall food courts or on landline telephones became adults who spent entirely reasonable amounts of time in malls and on phone calls, the amount of time that current teens spend on social media or their phones is not necessarily a harbinger of what they or we are all going to be doing in a decade. After all, adults have much better social options. They can go out, sans curfew, to bars, pubs, concerts, restaurants, clubs, and parties, or choose to stay in with friends, roommates, or romantic partners. Why, adults can even invite people over without parental permission and keep the bedroom door closed! (page 102-103)
The source I’d really recommend for lots more on this topic is It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by danah boyd, a highly readable ethnography spanning a decade of observation of how teens use social media. Here are a couple relevant excerpts:
I often heard parents complain that their children preferred computers to “real” people. Meanwhile, the teens I met repeatedly indicated that they would much rather get together with friends in person. A gap in perspective exists because teens and parents have different ideas of what sociality should look like. Whereas parents often highlighted the classroom, after-school activities, and prearranged in-home visits as opportunities for teens to gather with friends, teens were more interested in informal gatherings with broader groups of peers, free from adult surveillance. Many parents felt as though teens had plenty of social opportunities whereas the teens I met felt the opposite.
Today’s teenagers have less freedom to wander than any previous generation. Many middle-class teenagers once grew up with the option to “do whatever you please, but be home by dark.” While race, socioeconomic class, and urban and suburban localities shaped particular dynamics of childhood, walking or bicycling to school was ordinary, and gathering with friends in public or commercial places—parks, malls, diners, parking lots, and so on—was commonplace. Until fears about “latchkey kids” emerged in the 1980s, it was normal for children, tweens, and teenagers to be alone. It was also common for youth in their preteen and early teenage years to take care of younger siblings and to earn their own money through paper routes, babysitting, and odd jobs before they could find work in more formal settings. Sneaking out of the house at night was not sanctioned, but it wasn’t rare either. (page 85-86)
From wealthy suburbs to small towns, teenagers reported that parental fear, lack of transportation options, and heavily structured lives restricted their ability to meet and hang out with their friends face to face. Even in urban environments, where public transportation presumably affords more freedom, teens talked about how their parents often forbade them from riding subways and buses out of fear. At home, teens grappled with lurking parents. The formal activities teens described were often so highly structured that they allowed little room for casual sociality. And even when parents gave teens some freedom, they found that their friends’ mobility was stifled by their parents. While parental restrictions and pressures are often well intended, they obliterate unstructured time and unintentionally position teen sociality as abnormal. This prompts teens to desperately—and, in some cases, sneakily—seek it out. As a result, many teens turn to what they see as the least common denominator: asynchronous social media, texting, and other mediated interactions. (page 90)
Anyway, more people need to read It’s Complicated, danah boyd really takes young people and technology seriously and doesn’t patronize or sensationalize, and it was a huge influence on me in figuring out the tone for Because Internet so I want to make sure it gets credit!
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I cant finish cleaning my room because I can’t organize my desk because I haven’t organized my vanity because I cant organize my vanity because I haven’t organized my closet drawers because I cant organize my closet drawers until I organize my nightstand and I cant do that until I GET A NIGHTSTAND because the space between my really heavy bookshelf full of books and the space between my bed is abnormally narrow BUT TONIGHT WHILE I WAS AT ROSS I found the perfect nightstand so now I can go home and put all the stuff thats supposed to go on and under my nightstand on and under my nightstand and then I can organize the space next to my bed, then I can organize the closet drawers, then im at another impasse because I still need the proper vanity organizational materials; but we have made some achievements tonight boys
It’s like every problem is this
This is how I feel when my partner makes coffee
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More and more people are just starting to say fuck a poker face
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they looked at each other like, this bitch 😂
I friggin lost it when they looked at each other.
Another update from federally occupied Portland:
And here’s a video of Portland police officers shoving a random passerby off their bike and arresting them for the crime of…being on the road next to where the sweep was occuring:
And here’s a picture of the armored vehicles they’re bringing in to suppress the protests:
I keep looking for any national news outlets covering this, and there is absolutely fuck-all nothing. The closest I could find was a story on the APNews website about the head of Homeland Security visiting Portland and calling protestors “Anarchists.
The only news outlets covering this are local and state:
https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/07/16/oregon-gov-kate-brown-says-president-trump-is-invading-portland-as-an-election-stunt/
https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/
AP just published a story not 20 minutes ago (7/18/20 ~ 1:20 am EST)
https://apnews.com/95ed013d58a00db0d85ddfd14ab51d2c
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland demanded Friday that President Donald Trump remove militarized federal agents he deployed to the