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@everybodymovedonfromcovid
I think disability justice would be easier if abled people understood that being disabled is a mixture of all three of
I can’t do that without negative consequences
I can’t do that unless I have support for it
I can’t do that
and that trying to treat one of these as if it’s another one will get you nowhere.
Minneapolis comic bookstore owner Greg Ketter.
He owns Dreamhaven Books and Comics in Minneapolis and has done since the late 70s. Well worth the visit if you're local.
Their website is currently down from the sheer amount of traffic hitting it and Greg has said after they catch up with the online orders he's going to rest up for a bit before they get things back online, but for anyone outside of Twin Cities who wants to have a browse, their ABE books and Ebay where they post rare/collector items are still up.
https://www.abebooks.com/DreamHaven-Books-Minneapolis-MN-U.S.A/452261/sf
https://www.ebay.com/str/dreamhavenbooks
Can't find the video at the moment, but this elderly badass was standing in tear gas yelling FUCK YOU, STOP, I'M 70 YEARS OLD AND I'M FUCKIN' PISSED!!! at ICE goons after Alex Pretti's killing.
I imagine, as noted, his website is completely slammed, but I will keep checking back to see if I can get an online order at some point.
Here's the CBS news/WCCO video on Bluesky.
There are people in the notes worried about Greg’s safety and that his identity was outed against his will.
Greg has willingly given interviews and been loudly active in the local community. He is one of many people making the choice to do so to expose the levels of cruelty and inhumanity taking place, this is not the same as taking pictures of non-consenting protestors—but thank you for being worried about him.
Please know Greg and other booksellers in the area who have becomes hubs of local activity and resistance are being looked after by the community. They are making themselves visible so people have rallying points.
Also, did you know if you shop through Bookshop.org you can choose which independent book seller to buy from, directly increasing their visibility and sales? And that bookshop.org gives a large portion of their profit to supporting independent book sellers across the country?
Now you do!
COVID has killed more people in the US in 5 years than HIV has killed since 1981, and you still can't get queer people to wear a goddamn mask at community events.
I refuse to believe that it's because you don't care.
I think it's because you're afraid to care.
You'd have to acknowledge that it is that bad, that you and everyone you love could wind up permanently disabled or dead at any time, and that all of our lives have been permanently changed by going through a(nother) mass traumatizing event.
Covid caution is intersectional praxis in action. Acting like covid is over just serves the status quo. Make the right choice. Stand by your politics instead of for nothing.
I cannot look at people the same after mostly everyone was okay sacrificing grandma and disabled people for the economy and so they could go to concerts and restaurants.
I just can't. I wish I could be normal but in the years since people's willingness to let disabled people die has just become more and more evident.
The banality of evil is perhaps the most disgusting and inescapable thing about this existence and it sucks so bad. People will go out of their way and put effort into ignoring or creating narratives about the plight of their neighbors, but they won't do an easy thing or two to help avoid some of those worst outcomes because then they couldn't pretend everything was normal and they were a good person.
sometimes "but you don't look disabled" is not even about the visibility of your disability. sometimes it's about "you look like an actual person and i picture disabled people as some weird creatures that i can never ever meet and now my reality is crashed by the fact that i see an actual disabled person and they look like a person."
TW suicide
I just really don't know what there is to live for. At this point is extremely unlikely that enough people are going to reinstate covid measures and help eliminate covid. So do we just mask forever? Face a lifetime of isolation, alienation, and ostracisation (on top of that already faced from being queer and disabled)? Even if I do recover from Long Covid and get back on the healing trajectory I was on before my infection, what world would I be recovering into? Why is the inherent value of my life completely invisible to most people?
I'm supposed to be doing unmasked Christmas with my family (following negative covid and flu tests) but I am really dreading it. We're all going to test on Christmas Eve, but my cousin tends to go out to the pub with his friends over the night of the 24th into the 25th, and I'm worried he'll catch something and spread it to me on Christmas day. I spoke to my mum about my concerns but she didn't want to bring it up to our wider family. I'm thinking of not going, which is what I did last year, but the problem is even if I don't go, if my family do pick something up from my cousin I'll catch it anyway because even isolating in my rooms doesn't stop me catching things anymore. I've literally been in isolation for 11 days and have still somehow caught something new. I just feel so unsafe and hate that I can't even be safe around my own family.
Someone I like and admire just posted a link to this article, and I thought the article was interesting and balanced in some ways, but at times was infuriating, raised some red flags, and seemed to contain a few ableist dogwhistles. Does anyone who understands the science better than me have thoughts?
Influential studies from the VA St. Louis take a broad view of long Covid. Not every expert agrees with the approach.
Installing air cleaners in classrooms can boost exam results
People are so afraid of the idea of disability that they are actively disabling themselves.
if you previously chose to stop wearing a mask in public and have since started again, what helped you get over your cognitive dissonance?
someone i love talked to me about it
i read more about long covid/research
i got tired of being sick all the time
i contracted long covid myself
i watched a loved one get long covid
i saw someone posting about covid awareness online
i met covid conscious friends/coworkers/etc in person
i watched a loved one die/heard that someone important to me died of covid
something else (PLEASE share in notes!!!
if you've been masking this whole time, me too, i appreciate you deeply and am sending you love.
please refrain from voting unless you're in the group mentioned! reblogs encouraged if you'd like to
i'm making this post as i'd like to learn more about how people can escape the cognitive dissonant antimasking mindset and how to best encourage it to happen!
if you stopped masking and haven't restarted, it is never ever too late to start again ❤️ resources on where to find (free or paid) masks
Just washing your hands won't stop you from contracting an airborne illness like covid, flu, RSV, and others. You have to wear a mask.
Just washing your hands won't stop you from contracting an airborne illness like covid, flu, RSV, and others. You have to wear a mask.
Just washing your hands won't stop you from contracting an airborne illness like covid, flu, RSV, and others. You have to wear a mask.
Just washing your hands won't stop you from contracting an airborne illness like covid, flu, RSV, and others. You have to wear a mask.
Just washing your hands won't stop you from contracting an airborne illness like covid, flu, RSV, and others. You have to wear a mask.
Just washing your hands won't stop you from contracting an airborne illness like covid, flu, RSV, and others. You have to wear a mask.
Just washing your hands won't stop you from contracting an airborne illness like covid, flu, RSV, and others. You have to wear a mask.
Just washing your hands won't stop you from contracting an airborne illness like covid, flu, RSV, and others. You have to wear a mask.
Just washing your hands won't stop you from contracting an airborne illness like covid, flu, RSV, and others. You have to wear a mask.
There’s compelling evidence that Japan, Hong Kong, and other East Asian locales are doing it right and we should really, truly mask up—fast.
From May 2020. If people could care for longer than a few months at any given time, the pandemic would have been done in 2021.
Friends I am losing my mind. I did everything humanly possible (that I knew to do) in order to avoid catching something ahead of a major personal event, and instead I'm down bad with an awful infection (obviously not so bad I can't use social media, but baring in mind I used social media in the ICU, that's not saying much). Covid obliterated my already shitty immune system. Two years on and I'm pushing 50 subsequent infections (not reinfections AFAIK). If healthy people had to live with a day of these symptoms they would be shouting from the rooftops (in FFP3s) about covid measures. Hell, some of them wouldn't last an hour.
I know that covid can reactivate dormant viruses (EBV, herpes zoster), but can it reactivate in and of itself? As in can you have symptoms of an acute covid infection without having been reinfected?
Asking out of scientific and personal interest.
The personal motive is that I'm in complete isolation and taking really stringent measures to avoid catching a virus, but I have somehow come down with one of the worst viruses I've ever had. I'm testing negative for covid, as are my family members (who are all asymptomatic). I've had no human contact, wear an FFP3 in any shared spaces (which I only visit sparingly), am using preventative nasal sprays, have the aircon (with built in purification) on 24/7 in my room, am using CPC mouthwash, am sanitising all touchpoints and shared areas at least once a day, have the portable air purifier on in shared spaces for several hours a day, family members who have been out of the house are not using the shared bathroom or coming upstairs unless it's to go to bed, I'm washing and/or using hand sanitiser throughout the day, and probably some other measures I'm forgetting. How the HELL have I caught something?! Do I just have no immune system? And if so, why does nothing show on a basic immune panel?
I'm wondering if it's a reactivation of something old brought on by stress/recent infections.
