[black-culture]

[ciup3k]

[desinteresse]

There are people in the comments going “People can recover?!?!” it’s so shocking how uninformed some people are.

Yeah absolutely the current death rate is 2% out of all the people who are diagnosed with the virus. That means the other 98% of the people who get infected recover and are just fine. (So this image isn’t an acurate statistic but whatever) It’s mostly dangerous for elderly people, people who work in healthcare and people with pre-existing health issues.

So no need to panic, just wash your hands and cover your mouth when your sneeze or cough.

[bareniabirkin]

Catana Comics

[vinovis]

[chibird]

Oftentimes, it hurts the more we resist the sadness. It makes me feel frustrated and guilty when I fight my sadness, so I’ve learned to just ride it out instead until I can feel calmer and ready for happiness again. 🌊

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[abstyle-stars]

MAC MILLER

[plumbobsandllamas]

Happy 20th birthday, Sims! 🎈

[the-memedaddy]

meirl

[studentlifeproblems]

[abyssm-sovereign]

I feel this even more deeply with each passing semester

[unamedwatcher]

[malchay]

So, I looked in the comments, expecting to see discourse or historical background etc, but I found none. Therefore, I decided to learn more and add background. Apparently this machine was used because of polio because polio paralyzes your lungs. According to the wiki article on this bad boy, patients would spend two weeks in there sometimes. They still have these machines, though much, much more modern but they’re barely used at all anymore: “In 1959, there were 1,200 people using tank respirators in the United States, but by 2004 there were only 39. By 2014, there were only 10 people left with an iron lung.” (x)

[meowren-deactivated20190915]

I’ve read about one man who still lives in an iron lung. He taught himself how to breathe again by gulping down air, but it’s quite laborious because of the paralysis. His name is Paul Alexander, and he’s a lawyer. He’s 71 years old and has spent 65 years in an iron lung. Wild, right? He’s been working on a memoir that he was inspired to write by the recent resurgence of cases of polio caused by anti-vaccers.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4414081 (can’t hyperlink because I’m on mobile, apologies)

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

It’s amazing to me to recognize that we only defeated polio in this past century - that my mother’s father had it (he got lucky, it only deformed his feet and thereby kept him out of a couple wars); my mother got the big vaccination that left her upper arm scarred; and by the time I was vaccinated, polio basically didn’t exist. My grandfather must have been born like around 1900, so - in the space of less than 75 years, this was no longer something that parents dreaded the possibility of every summer.

[derryderrydown]

In the 1950s, my mother would go to the corner shop. The owners had a daughter a few years older than my mum. She lived in an iron lung in the back of the shop. Vaccinate your fucking kids.

[ienchanted]

Lizzo performs onstage during the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards.

[breathturrn]

Harold, they’re lesbians

[multiscales]

[retquits]

the 2020 grammys was a gay cowboy paradise

[gahdamnpunk]

Honestly!!! This is just psychological trauma in the making

[yoshisnothere-deactivated202006]

[sandersstudies]

Man I remember when I was a kid and my mom would take me to the library and I'd come out with a stack of books like a foot+ tall - sometimes the librarians had to override the computer which told us we were checking out Too Much. And I'd get home and I'd plow through like three four five six chapter books in an afternoon and then I'd emerge for dinner only to go back for one more book, which I was still up reading two hours past bedtime and like damn those were the days huh.

[catgirlwarrior]

Goddamn throwback to when I had an attention span