cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/
Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)
More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)
Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/
A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/
Wool. You want wool coating for under $20 a yard? Sure you do. It’s here. Not a huge variety of colors, most are black or brown, but hey https://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/Catalog?refinementIds=4096748&Keyword=wool&pageSize=16
I don’t know a lot about sewing, but I want to make or have my mom make some linen pants & shirts for when I’m watering, because it gets to 105 here and we have mosquitos so I need to be covered. What type of linen do I buy? Also, linen pajama shorts, yes/no?
(I’ve been wearing my renfaire pants which are a linen mix, I think. But the frikking mosquitos that hide in the tomatoes get my arms)
For wools, I cannot recommend Woolsome enough! They’re a bit more expensive then the above links, but they have a spectacular range of colours and weights, as well as diamond pattern and herringbone weaves. They also have a range of linens, though not as extensive.
The study authors say the findings suggest healthcare workers could be "unrecognized reservoirs" of pneumococcus in the population.
Yet another reason why unmasking was senseless, even beyond the scope of just not spreading covid in medical settings.
A study of healthcare workers at a Connecticut hospital during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic found that more than one in five were positive for pneumococcal carriage, researchers reported yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
The study, conducted by researchers at Yale University, evaluated carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in a convenience sample of medical staff at Yale New Haven Hospital who had enrolled from March 30 to June 11, 2020, in a study that was initially designed to actively monitor asymptomatic healthcare workers for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Using the stored, self-collected saliva samples from that study, the researchers extracted DNA and tested it for the presence of pneumococcal-specific genes piaB and lytA. Samples were considered positive when the piaB cycle threshold (Ct) value was less than 40.
Of the 525 participants who enrolled in the study, samples from 392 participants (mean age, 38.7 years; 74% female; 73% white) were selected to test for pneumococcus. Overall, 138 (11%) of 1,241 samples from 86 (21%) of 392 individuals tested piaB-positive during the 4-month study period, with 28 (33%) of 86 colonized individuals positive at multiple time points. Positive individuals reflected the overall study population. Analysis of pneumococcal serotypes found colonized participants primarily carried serotypes 19F (25.6%) and 3 (12.8%), both of which are targeted by the PCV13 vaccine, which covers 13 pneumococcal strains.
'Unrecognized reservoir' of pneumococcus
The study authors note that the 21% prevalence of pneumococcal carriage observed in the study was at a time when strict non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 (such as masking) were in place and largely adhered to in healthcare settings, and global incidence of invasive pneumococcal diseases had declined. They suggest the rate could be higher post-pandemic, now that those mitigation measures are no longer in place and typical annual circulation of respiratory pathogens has returned.
"This study highlights that healthcare workers may act as unrecognized reservoirs of pneumococcus in the population," they concluded. "Despite longstanding pediatric immunization programs, vaccine-targeted serotypes continue to be prevalent among the adult population."
It goes beyond not masking, too: some hospitals, including the one my family member works at, penalize their workers for taking sick days! My family member gets “points” against them every time they take a sick day, and if they take too many, I think it can be grounds for being dismissed or something iirc
This family member is a nurse by the way
And also the hospital didn’t make them get vaccinated against Covid or anything else really 
my actual vampire hot take is that if you're going to be a 'vegetarian' vampire (a vampire that only drinks the blood of animals) you MUST have hunter education. i'm so sick of people being like oh well predator animals are mean and scary because they kill cute 'harmless' animals like NO they're crucial for the environment and if you're going to hunt animals for blood you still need to stick to regular people hunting guidelines and only hunt things that are in season and abide by your areas bag limits
vampire that did a detailed study about whether vampires can get prion diseases and concluded they can't and preferentially hunts animals with chronic wasting disease. and then incinerates the corpses.
suburban women on september 15 1967 tuning in to star trek and seeing fuck-or-die mode spock getting in a sweaty man fight with captain kirk in amok time
For the @dashcon-two Crow Exchange, I made custom DashCon/Magic the Gathering trading cards. They were a huge hit! Unfortunately, it was my first convention I've ever gone to and I accidentally handed them out wayyyy too fast and had people tracking me down all day and had to send them away empty handed.
So to make up for it I've decided to publish the files for them here! Feel free to print them out and stick them on your own cards. If you end up playing any games with them I'd love to see.
(Also included is the Tumblr University card that no one got because I accidentally left them behind in the U.S. lol)
sometimes people on here talk about "accountability" in a way that shows they think that the person they've decided is in the wrong can't actually do anything to redeem themselves other than like. suicide.
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