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you believe in a god I do not worship / MCU fan, music lover, animal lover and a proud cat mom

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Remember this viral post? Wanda and Jamal and her husband Lonnie are the most wholesome people, this story brought tears to my eyes originally and I am crying once more learning from Jamal's social media that Lonnie has sadly passed away.

Rest in Peace, Lonnie :(

[theweirdwideweb]

[theweirdwideweb]

[deputy-shayy]

1918 pandemic vs 2020 pandemic

So, when I come to grips with the fact that I’m living through yet another historical event I wish I had no part of, I look to history for answers. Because where else would I look? The news networks that make it sound like everyone’s dropping dead from the plague? The government, who could not give two shits if all us poor people died? I don’t think so.

I would like to do a small compare and contrast the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 to the 2019-2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

Oh, fun fact: It wasn’t called the “Spanish flu” because it originated in Spain. The U.K, U.S., France, and Germany “minimized” (read: censored or hid) early reports of the virus to “keep up morale” as World War I was coming to an end. Spain was neutral, and accurately reported on how the virus was affecting them, which lead the rest of the world to believe Spain was the epicenter.

Anyways, like COVID-19, the origins of the Spanish flu were unclear. The flu was spread from person to person by sneezing and coughing or touching your face. For the first few months, the U.S. government failed to take action. 

Symptoms of the Spanish flu include chills, fever, and fatigue, meanwhile symptoms of COVID-19 include shortness of breath, fever, and fatigue.  Like COVID-19, no one was safe from the Spanish flu. Not young people, not children, not old people. No one.  Estimates on how many people died from the Spanish flu range from 17 million to 100 million.

Unlike COVID-19, the epicenter of the Spanish flu in the United States was Philadelphia, not New York City. Ironically, New York City in 1918 acted fast and had the lowest death rate on the Eastern Seaboard. It’s a shame they are worse off in 2020.

The first case detected in Philadelphia in September 1918 told us that the virus was rapidly spreading. City officials warned everyone against sneezing, coughing, and spitting in public. 10 days later, the city held a massive parade with over 200,000 people in attendance. 

If you live in the U.S., this may sound familiar, as New Orleans hosted its annual Mardi Gras parade this year, with about 1.4 million people in attendance, despite the fact that a pandemic was just over the horizon.

In October of 1918, just one month after everyone realized shit was hitting the fan, schools, churches, theaters, restaurants, and public gatherings were shut down, and everyone was ordered to social distance or self quarantine if sick. Business remained opened during limited hours or shut down completely. If you went outside, you practiced social distancing and wore a face mask, or you were fined/jailed.

So, where am I going with all this?

The Spanish flu pandemic started in the spring 1918. The first wave brought on many deaths, but the symptoms were mild. In fall of that year, there was a second, deadlier wave where victims died much quicker from respiratory problems. Then, by the end of the year, the virus almost completely disappeared. But for at least six months, people were dying of this horrible disease. 

It’s my hope that modern technology and science will hasten the end of this pandemic so we’re not social distancing for six months, or even an entire year, but, as you can see, we haven’t learned from the past, so that may be too much to ask. My advice to anyone reading this would be to hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. 

Don’t let your guard down early, and especially don’t listen to any orange faced fat cat who says we should be back to work by Easter. In 1918, St. Louis was so emboldened by its low death rate that the city lifted restrictions on public gatherings less than two months after the outbreak began, leading to a second, deadlier wave of the Spanish flu. 

Be safe. Especially those of you who are more likely to be targeted for police brutality. There is no telling what police will do in states that are on lock down. In San Francisco in 1918, police shot three people when one refused to wear a face mask while outside.

Stay home. History shows us that social distancing and self-isolation/quarantine are key to stopping these pandemics.

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

“Why don’t you just say no?” 

Men don’t respect women’s autonomy. That’s why we need womanism. They clearly don’t know the reality of the danger women face in every day life. Saying no is like a fast track pass to violence since men are actual children and can’t handle any form of rejection

#flashing

[justanoldacc]

planet trans is OUTRAGED by these wonderbabes at the womens march in vancouver. that part of the world is a serious cesspool of misogynistic trans activism so these women have serious steel ovaries. apparently they boo’d a couple of times when a trans woman dominatrix sex worker gave a speech lecturing women about how we’re all doing feminism wrong.

i’m in awe of this ☻ i love them ♡

[misterandry]

in these times i will not be shamed for laughing at ted cruz getting out of mandatory quarantine, immediately shaking hands with an infected person, and being forced right back into mandatory quarantine 

[gcdk]

[guerrillatech]

Real fast.

[ultrafacts]

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[vancity604778kid]

ALICE ROOSEVELT WAS HARDCORE. “She was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, swore at officials, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach (Emily as in her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie. 

[optimysticals]

So what I’m reading here is, she was a Roosevelt?

[catsuitmonarchy]

Well I have a new hero.

[khoshekh-yourself-deactivated20]

Her whole wikipedia article is gold

“When her father was governor of New York, he and his wife proposed that Alice attend a conservative school for girls in New York City. Pulling out all the stops, Alice wrote, ‘If you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will.’”

“Her father took office in 1901 following the assassination of President William McKinley, Jr. in Buffalo (an event that she greeted with “sheer rapture.”)“

“During the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the ship’s pool fully clothed, and coaxed a congressman to join her in the water. (Years later Bobby Kennedy would chide her about the incident, saying it was outrageous for the time, to which the by-then-octogenarian Alice replied that it would only have been outrageous had she removed her clothes.”

“She was dressed in a blue wedding dress and dramatically cut the wedding cake with a sword (borrowed from a military aide attending the reception)”

“When it came time for the Roosevelt family to move out of the White House, Alice buried a Voodoo doll of the new First Lady, Nellie Taft, in the front yard.”

“Later, the Taft White House banned her from her former residence—the first but not the last administration to do so. During Woodrow Wilson’s administration (from which she was banned in 1916 for a bawdy joke at Wilson’s expense)…”

“As an example of her attitudes on race, in 1965 her African-American chauffeur and one of her best friends, Turner, was driving Alice to an appointment. During the trip, he pulled out in front of a taxi, and the driver got out and demanded to know of him, “What do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?” Turner took the insult calmly, but Alice did not and told the taxi driver, “He’s taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!”

“To Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had jokingly remarked at a party “Here’s my blind date. I am going to call you Alice”, she sarcastically said “Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and the policeman on my block call me Alice, but you may not.”

[mewjounouchi]

I love this woman.

[distractedbyshinyobjects]

WOMEN WHO NEED FUCKEN MOVIES.

[themauveroom]

This is Alice as an older lady. The pillow says “If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.” 

She is my absolute favorite. 

[liberalsarecool]

[7866890]

lmao can’t believe some people actually still think humans are a bipedal species when there are people who are born with 1, 0 or 3 legs….the number of legs is FLUID…maybe yall should have paid attention in biology class ;)

[laurierrose]

not to mention plenty of people literally swim or writhe around on the ground like a caterpillar to move from point a to point b. bipedalism is a western colonialist concept. some people don’t even move. reducing humans to their ability to use their legs for transportation wasn’t even a thing until the industrial revolution and everyone was forced to walk upright in factories

[radladiesunite]

If you think humans are bipedal you’re ableist af

[thousandxarrows-blog]

what do u mean humans dont have eight legs, have u seen spiders??? lmfaoooooo

[nineteen8y4]

Not to mention that some people don’t identify as having legs at all, or can’t identify with their legs and get dysphoric over them. Calling those individuals bipedal invalidates their identity and also constitutes literal violence which drives 50% of NBP individuals to attempt suicide, and is a civil rights violation. Just facts. So, why reduce anyone to their legs when it costs you zero pennies to respect NBPs? Why are BERPs (Bipedal essentialist radical persecutors) so obsessed with what is in our pants anyway? There is literally no difference between a prosthetic limb and one assigned at birth and this has been proven over and over. Pick up a book.

Not to mention you can easily just open your eyes and observe people moving every which way. I mean, plenty of people can and do walk on their hands. Others regularly lurch, shimmy, or crawl…like, ever seen a baby? Ever seen a toddler? The eldery? Are babies NOT human according to BERPs? None of us are born walking on two legs, Kathy! We’ve always been here yet this language denies our existence. There are literally endless ways people move around. Coercively assigning humans as bipedal at birth- before birth(!), is biological essentialism. Also, what about people born with only 1 leg, or veterans who have lost a leg at war or something? What about the veterans??? I thought you right wing fascists were all about veterans?? This shit is so hypocrtical and ableist tbh. Smh. Ageist too though. Def racist ngl.

[fairlyradmother]

Love it

[blue-gwen]

Also non-bipedal people with 2 legs EXIST. RESPECT THEIR IDENTITY. Legs are a social construct.

[dailyavengers]

#tired dad

[world-of-cats]

[jourjean]

CEOs be tweeting “we’re in this together” from a germ-free soundproofed panic room in their Hamptons mansion 

[cognitohazardous]

[gcdk]

https://www.feministcurrent.com/2020/03/22/what-if-your-identity-doesnt-matter-at-all/

What if your identity doesn’t matter at all?

Post-coronavirus, will a “My non-binary status is about life and death” seem more clearly like the joke it is?

MARCH 22, 2020 by MEGHAN MURPHY

In a matter of a week, we’ve all been yanked back to reality. Most of us, anyway. It seems some stragglers remain blissfully ignorant, continuing on with their lives much as they would have pre-global pandemic. Refusing to care about anyone but ourselves remains a popular pastime among humans, as ever.

GQ published a badly timed article last week, just days before reality (and panic) set in for most, profiling Ezra Miller — an actor I’ve never heard of and wish I had still not.

Miller is 27-year-old, insists on being referred to as “they” or “them,” and has a personality to match these demands. He is intolerable, in other words. The fawning interviewer, who can’t have been more than 30-years-old themselves, or they wouldn’t have fallen for the embarrassing charade of faux-intellectualism, conveyed through the use of as many big words Miller could memorize, quotes the actor saying things like:

“Straightness and cis-ness and whiteness and racism, as in the belief in race, physical appearance as a determining factor for fucking anything, including ethnicity, ethnography — these are all like the circus, the carnival, the Hollywood instead of all the different storytelling practices… All these things are relatively recent colonial inventions.”

Genius! This is a man who knows his history (and can convey ideas in a clear, cogent way). Obviously, the notion that females are women and males are men is a modern invention of oppressors! Same with heterosexuality. Pre-colonialism, no one could tell what sex anyone was and no babies were produced at all. That’s why civilization fully collapsed in the 19th century, and the planet is now inhabited by aliens. Oh did you guys not learn that at college?

To support his historic expertise, Miller adds:

“We’re better at sex than y’all. We’re better at art. We’re better at warfare. These are things carried in the old understandings of so-called, whatever-you-want-to-call-it: non-binary, queer, genderqueer, trans, gay, lesbian. Just like the neurodiverse peoples, these people are all sacred beings, superior to other beings.”

I’m sorry, dear. But you are 27. You are definitely not better at sex than anyone. Moreover, anyone so narcissistic as to insist they exist outside material reality — those who identify as “non-binary, queer, genderqueer, and trans,” in other words — is probably not much of a hero in bed. A chubby, polyamorous inside cat of a human, posting facetuned selfies of themselves in an attempt to force the world around them to validate their fuckability, is unlikely to thrive in warfare.

And here we are: in a time that has been compared, by numerous people, to World War III. It is major crisis, at very least, that will have a major impact. And where are the Ezra Millers of the world? The young trans-identified and non-binary warriors? Well, apparently joking about “boomers” dying from coronavirus; posting dramatic selfies of themselves fake crying outside their mansions; complaining that their cosmetic surgeries have been postponed, due to hospitals being overwhelmed by treating actual sick people; and buying lingerie.

Diana Willow Penrose Thomas — formerly David William Penrose Thomas — who has been writing a column for The Telegraph about his transition at 60-years-old, and informed us last week that the pain of childbirth was comparable to having his legs lasered, says what he worries about the most, in terms of the impact of this pandemic, is his hair:

“My wondrous weaves need adjusting on a regular basisbecause the longer my hair grows, the more they detach from my scalp. If I can’t get to the salon safely before the end of April, my lovely new ’do will be flapping around like a tarpaulin in a force-10 gale…

It is a “terrible pandemic,” Thomas knows, but nonetheless contributes that, “keeping up appearances feels important.”

“The Four Horsemen may be riding down the road, but sisters are dyeing it for themselves,” Thomas writes, imagining thousands of women across the globe, fists up in solidarity with his vacuous insults.

It is true that we currently don’t have access to the luxuries many are accustomed to, and I’m not sure when we will again. But those of us with rational heads on our shoulders realize not only that what is important right now is not what will become of our manicures, but that, even if we are concerned, now is not the time to complain. Not when so many are suffering very real, very serious problems, and while we are all (or should be, in any case) fearful about what the future holds.

If anything, what we should learn from this is that, in the grand scheme of things, your pronouns; your complaints about “misgendering” and invalidation of your imagined uniqueness; and your overdependence on superficial, unnecessary cosmetic alterations like fillers, botox, weaves, laser hair removal, hormones treatments, and plastic surgery, should not be our top priority.

And don’t get me wrong, I have a rather superficial streak myself. But I also don’t feel it would be the end of the world if I had to file my own nails or if my roots grew out. I do feel it would be the end of the world, if, say, a deadly virus killed tens of thousands and our society collapsed, due to lack of employment, income, and access to food and healthcare. Oddly my existence and sense of self do not depend entirely on my ability to access a boob job, or to get my leg hair permanently removed. Nor would I fall to pieces if someone failed to recognize, based on my outfit, what my relationship to gender was, inside my head.

“Ezra Miller confirming that trans people are superior to other folks? Motion passed,” PinkNews crowed.

But the truth is that anyone who is so heavily reliant on a weave, surgeries, laser treatments, filler and botox, as well as on fashion, for their “survival,” is not going to survive trying times like these. Claims that “misgendering literally kills” or that one’s cosmetic surgeries are a matter of life and death are laughable at best, and contemptible at worst, considering our current circumstances. Those who are so weak of mind that they fall apart without strictly controlled forms of validation will not have the mental fortitude to withstand isolation and a sudden withdrawal of fawning attention from yes-men, due to society’s sudden need to pay attention to, well, things that actually matter. Currently, no one is going to care about your OOTD or the trauma of being “misgendered.”

If you want people to believe you are a “superior being,” you need to work on resilience. You also need to contribute something of worth to society, beyond self-indulgent whining, flagrant superficiality, and profound fragility, manifested as a demand that the entire world become your helicopter parent. People who have chosen weakness as their political manifesto cannot simultaneously announce superiority.

I have noticed a distinct lack of identity politicky hot takes online since COVID-19 threw us all into turmoil, and am interested to see if, when we do return to a version of normalcy, our priorities are reordered. Post-coronavirus, will “My non-binary status is about life and death” seem more clearly like the joke it is? Or will we immediately forget our close call, and go back to the vapid narcissism that passes for politics this decade?

[truebluemeandyou]

How to Make a Face Mask for Hospitals and Medical Centers

Hospitals and medical centers across the country are asking sewers to make face masks to protect out health workers. You can google “how to sew face masks for hospitals” to find out where fabric masks are being requested.

Stillwater Medical Center is asking sewers to follow the face mask pattern from buttoncounter.com here.

From Deaconess Health System:

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Citing shortages, Deaconess Health System, including Henderson’s Methodist Health, has asked the public to sew face masks for staff fighting coronavirus.

“This does follow CDC protocols that you can find on their website that if all other supplies are not available, that handmade masks that meet certain criteria are acceptable,” Deaconess spokeswoman Becca Scott said.

The release with the video, pattern and instructions was posted to the Deaconess Facebook page Thursday morning and is available at www.deaconess.com/masks. A PDF of the pattern is available here and embedded at the bottom of this article.  

Deaconess has “a sample video” about how to make the masks, which Scott said will be sterilized when they come in.

From Forbes here:

Additional Resources for Open Source or Volunteer COVID-19 Projects:

One of my favorite how-to sites is Instructables. The DIY Cloth Face Mask has almost 100,000 views. It is a step-by-step instruction for those who need it. Kudos to ashevillejm.

In 2006, CDC released a Simple Respiratory Mask design using heavyweight t-shirts in its Emerging Infectious Diseases journal. More of an academic post, but some ideas in it.

A Facebook group was formed last week: Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies. It is worth a visit — in just a few short days there are 20,000-plus members and volunteers.

If you are looking for some research and street-level testing of various materials for DIY mask-making, this post from Smart Air Filters is exceptional: What Are The Best Materials for Making DIY Masks? It also includes a few great links at the end of it.