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pretty much all I'll post here is about #COVID and how #COVIDisAirborne ; were I to refer to myself in the third person I'd be using they/them/theirs ; call me pip, pip zeroes; see also: zeroes.ca/@pip ( @ pip @ zeroes . ca ) 🖖 🟡 ⚪ 🟣 ⚫ & 🟣 ⚪ 🟢

[pipzeroes]

ALL YOUR BREATH ARE BELONG TO US.

This whole thing is based on the All Your Base Are Belong To Us meme. The warning at the beginning is because a.) the music is a subgenre of hardcore techno known as gabber and kind of loud, in case you are unfamiliar with this kind of EDM and/or the song in the original video, and, b.) concerns such as photosensitive epilepsy (at one point, 16 images appear in just under four seconds).

More background beneath cut.

(Writeup also posted on dreamwidth and post about video also shared on zeroes; video on Vimeo and on YouTube as well.)

A rundown on the content of the vid:

The images of the wolf are from the seventh episode of the fourth episode of The Simpsons, Marge Gets a Job; it is a wolf startled by LOUD NOISES. Then it's Cats from Zero Wing (the video game central to the All Your Base Are Belong To Us meme) with a SARS-CoV-2 virion for a face. And the poster for the 2017 film The Shape of Water (see also on zeroes). Then it's the webcomic Dinosaur Comics! (Thanks, Ryan!) Next a reference to the slipcase for White Town (Jyoti Mishra)'s Your Woman. (Just added a mask to the picture of the cat with the thumbs up; I am afraid I am unaware of the origin of the original cat meme...) Then it's the first page of All's Well, that Ends Well from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623. And then the scene from the 2022 film Glass Onion when Lionel Toussaint holds up a faxed message from Miles Bron: "Uber for Biospheres". Next, a reference blog/webcomic Hyperbole and a Half and a panel for one comic where the author portrays an initial manic enthusiasm when cleaning up: "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS".

The original Doge photo. (See also: DOGE on tumblr, DOGE on zeroes.)

And The Quest of the Virosols!!! I really appreciate these graphics. (Please note, I am not affiliated with the Aerosol Science Research Center, I am publicly disseminating useful information for educational purposes; All Your Breath Are Belong To Us is a PSA <3)

The record is based on Otis Rush's "All Your Love" and "COVID" was "Cobra" (see also: some images used to construct).

The Sudden Clarity Clarence meme!

An animation of a diaphragm exhaling and inhaling (with the little purple virosols added!)

And then False Knees Comic 296! (Thanks, Joshua!) (I am once again reminding you that I am not affiliated with the Aerosol Science Research Center.)

And the next six images are the only memes I've not made in this vid (and the person who added the masks to pictures of these images has approved the use of them in this video; thank you!)

Fruit by Alphonse Mucha (Source.)

Le Désespéré by Gustave Courbet (Source.)

Autoportrait by Tamara de Lempicka (Source.)

Trop tôt by James Tissot (Source.)

Autorretrato con Collar de Espinas by Frida Kahlo (Source.)

A photo of the models for Grant Wood's American Gothic standing beside the painting itself. (Source.)

Then the poster for the 1994 film The Mask. (See also on zeroes.) Next a scene from Datalore, the thirteenth episode of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

And a reference to a version of the album cover for Vangelis' 1985 album Mask. (See also: Vangelis' Mask (1985) is not to be confused with Vangelis' mask (Ninjago), which is a face cover worn by King Vangelis of the Kingdom of Shintaro (for like, a moment [while trying to find info about the album cover], I thought the Greek composer and arranger of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music had an alter ego known as the Skull Sorcerer, but apparently not). [mirror on zeroes])

Aaaaand the Original Goncharov shoe!!! (See also.) Then the 1984 film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind [風の谷のナウシカ "kaze no tani no naushika"]; the character Nausicaä wears this mask in the original film. Next, an image of a number of risks, originally published by the CDC.

Steamed Hams. (See also: ...and you call for "cleaned hands" despite the fact COVID is obviously airborne... [mirror on zeroes])

(I am once again reminding you that I am not affiliated with the Aerosol Science Research Center.)

GEORDI LA FORGE! (See also: Hand washing as but one component of a "Swiss cheese model" composed of preventative measures including personal actions [such as wearing a well-fitting mask, physical distancing, avoiding crowds, and "staying home when sick"], as well as public measures [such as standards for ventilation and air filtration of indoor spaces, effective messaging on disease prevention, and reliable support for those needing to "stay home sick"], mitigations which, when used in combination, significantly reduce the spread of airborne disease.)

WEDNESDAY FROG MEME! (See also: It is Airborne, my dudes. [mirror on zeroes])

S'CHN T'GAI SPOCK! (See also: logic clearly dictates that SARS-CoV-2 spreads via infected breath [and can remain suspended in the air, travelling inside tiny specs of moisture, floating like smoke or mist]; therefore, COVID is airborne; mask up, live long, and prosper [mirror on zeroes])

The woman yelling at a cat meme.

The Is This a Pigeon? meme. (See also: "Droplets" are basically spittle, falling to the ground not far from the source [the infected person's mouth]. "Aerosols" are pretty much breath, tiny particles of infectious virus-containing-moisture that can remain suspended in the air [able to float distances greater than a metre]. [mirror on zeroes])

Darmok and Jalad at 2 metres! (See also: 2 metres physical distance helps you to avoid droplets [infected spittle] but "COVID is airborne" and floats like cigarette smoke, so even 2 metres still means a risk of airborne transmission [from infected breath]. Like Tanagra, 2 metres from a potential source of infection is still a place of potential danger. [mirror on zeroes])

Napoleon Dynamite (the shirt with "COVID IS AIRBORNE" originally says "VOTE FOR PEDRO"). (See also: I spent last summer making Corsi-Rosenthal Box filters, like, fifty of 'em! The SARS-CoV-2 floating in the air kept trying to attack my cousins, what the heck would you do in a situation like that? [mirror on zeroes])

Pokemon! (See also: if COVID aerosols/breath builds up somewhere indoors that isn't well ventilated, and the air is not filtered well enough, you may get sick even after an infected person has left the room. [mirror on zeroes])

AVATAR. (And yes, the font used for "AIRBORNE" is Papyrus.) (I am once again asking you to remember that I am not affiliated with the Aerosol Science Research Center.)

GONCHAROV!!! GONCHAROV!!! (Thanks Beelz!) (See also: Written by Mattwo JWHJ 0715. [mirror on zeroes])

The Always has been meme. (See also: Aerosols/breath (tiny bits of infected moisture) can remain suspended in the air and are able to float distances greater than a metre. [mirror on zeroes])

(I am once again asking you to remember that I am not affiliated with the Aerosol Science Research Center.) Aside from the images which just are what the are (e.g. the CDC infographic, the ASRC graphics), and the six images related to paintings, all memes were put together by yours truly. <3 The song was, originally, "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by the Laziest Men on Mars, which sampled music created by Tatsuya Uemura and Noriyuki Iwadare.

Re-writing of lyrics, and the audio and video editing, were also my doing; REAPER for the audio editing, GNU Image Manipulation Program for the meme making, Shotcut for the video editing.

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[affixjoy]

My darlings, my loves, my fellow weirdos, I am begging you all to REST after you have covid.

I know it is very hard, and our society asks you to get back up and running at full speed as soon as possible, before you’re even done testing positive even.

But please my friends, please rest.

If you push too hard too fast you might be sicker for longer, you might be doing long lasting damage to yourself.

So please my beautiful nerds, take care of yourselves and REST.

[wowbright]

I don't have an X account so I can't read her entire thread, just the first tweet. But I read the article (which is subtly linked in the posts above, but I will link obviously below for people who want to see it), and I don't understand how Danielle Beckman came to the conclusion that the study supports the idea of not exercising for 6 to 8 weeks after a covid infection.

The study was not about that. It compared post-exercise biological markers in people with long covid against those in people who had had covid-19 infections but did not develop long covid. Which means everyone in the study had covid at some point, but only some people developed long covid, and the study did not look at whether the long covid versus non-long covid people resumed exercise immediately after recovering from their infection.

I have seen this advice not to resume exercise immediately after an infection elsewhere, so presumably the conclusion is being drawn from a variety of evidence (as alluded to in the reply by David Joffe). If anyone has access to the entire x thread and can talk about what else the x poster said let her to her conclusion, I would find that helpful. Thanks!

[affixjoy]

Adding a little more for those who don’t have Twitter!

The whole thing was a response to this TikTok, I can’t figure out how to link it here but here’s a screenshot:

David Joffe linked this resource, I haven’t dug deep into it but here it is for those interested!

World Health Network - WHN

There’s a lot of general info and studies out there about rest being important during and after illness like covid, this Time article is usually the one I share with family and friends when they test positive:

Why You Should Rest—a Lot—If You Have COVID-19

It could help prevent Long COVID

I’m not a doctor, not an expert, I just have one chronic illness, want to avoid another.

[amaditalks]

Right now the US is experiencing the second worst spike in COVID since the beginning of the pandemic. Right now, about 1 in 20 people have the virus, it is estimated that when this wave is over, 1 in 3 people will experience an infection.

It doesn’t have to be that way. COVID is not an inevitability to just passively accept, it is a life changing disease (every time) that you should use every tool and tactic at your disposal to avoid.

You already know what to do. If you haven’t received the updated vaccine, do that. (It’s not a booster, it’s an update, in the same way the annual flu shot is updated.) Mask, any time you’re near people you don’t live with or where anyone else has been in the last 30 minutes. (This includes outdoor spaces, like picking up a no contact delivery or pumping gasoline.) Avoid crowds. Now is not the time for concerts and hockey games or even a leisurely stroll around Target to browse. Clean your air and demand clean air in your workplace and your kids’ schools and anywhere anyone in your family has to spend time.

If 1 in 3 Americans contract the virus on this wave, that means that another half million people are likely going to die, mostly elderly and high risk. (Like me.)

It also means that 11 million people — or more — are going to be disabled, at least short term, when this is done, and there are no reliable predictors for who does and does not develop post-COVID disability.

Those numbers are horrible. But don’t let them terrify you into paralysis, let them galvanize you into action to protect yourself and your family and community.

[healthywealthyandwise]

slight correction: COVID can linger in the air for up to 6 hours - a lot longer than just 30 minutes. treat any indoor air not in your residence as potentially infectious, and put on a mask with a tight seal around your face.

[pipzeroes]

I don't know what to do in the longer term month-to-month it's been day-to-day

and systemic changes; these need to happen, but, what are feasible, what can be brought about?

it can seem so insurmountable

regardless

I endeavor to hold on, here, metaphorical waters rising as the plague is spreading

and hope you are hanging on as well

a person I may never meet is still someone I can care about

all the best, lots of love, and wishing you strength and wellness

may we remember the reality of the pandemic now and in the future

<3

COVID floats like smoke

COVID is airborne

COVID is ongoing

COVID is NOT "mild"

COVID is NOT over

COVID impairs immunity

[pipzeroes]

Nagging cough, nagging cough It's been nagging on and off Now it's naggin' all the livelong day That nagging cough That won't go away

That nagging cough It's in the schools That nagging cough And the hospitals too In fact, it's hard to think of Anywhere without a nagging cough

Nagging cough, nagging cough It's been nagging on and off Now it's naggin' all the livelong day That nagging cough That won't go away

That nagging cough Is running wild That nagging cough Oh, but they tell you it's "mild" It's almost like they're in love, In love with the nagging cough

Nagging cough, nagging cough It's been nagging on and off Now it's naggin' all the livelong day That nagging cough That won't go away

That nagging cough It just nags and nags That nagging cough You better pack your bags Because it's hard to get off When you're riding with the nagging cough

Nagging cough, nagging cough It's been nagging on and off Now it's naggin' all the livelong day That nagging cough That won't go away Now it's naggin' all the livelong day Why won't that cough Just go away?

https://geoffberner.bandcamp.com/track/that-nagging-cough

[intersexfairy]

COVID IS NOT JUST A FUCKING COLD. IT'S NOT A COLD.

getting COVID multiple times does NOT decrease your risk of serious complications.

COVID is SERIOUS ILLNESS that can KILL you, even IF you're perfectly healthy beforehand.

you CANNOT rule out whether serious complications will happen to your our others.

if you're sick MASK UP, and STAY HOME whenever possible.

[spooniestrong]

MASK UP PEOPLE!

[spooniestrong]

[greelin]

we are on like covid variant #100037 and rsv/flu/pneumonia cases are rising and people will show up unmasked and be like “yeah i’ve been sick for days :/” like. ok. Get the fuck away from me then? why are you out here breathing on everything. the very least you could be doing is masking. NOT hacking into open air every two seconds.

[greelin]

i feel genuinely insane for getting annoyed whenever people just cough into their hands and touch shit or directly cough into the air but it’s like. that’s bad. right. that is rude. that is not something you should be doing. above the age of three. can we acknowledge this. Hello

[chiefmedicalofficersblog]

The worst is people calling me (us) “crazy” for “still wearing a mask” and “not wanting to go out”. Yeah, I take two immunosuppressants. Getting sick will very likely kill me. At the least it will put me in the ICU. I’m barely existing as it is, I don’t need more medical problems.

Infuriating. I hate it. Can’t even go to the hospital/doctors and have them wear masks. Full of sick people, many whom are ill/infectious and/or immunocompromised, and no one can be bothered to mask.

[ysolt]

idk. it's never too late to start drawing. get a wacom intuos for 44 bucks and pirate an art program. use the billions of tools available to make it easier. trace 3d models. redraw existing drawings. make an elf and draw her 3000 times. you can do it. and if you are actually unable to hold a pen, dont go typing in prompts for some ai art, write fanfiction or original stuff. writing is art. it has just as much value it just takes longer than 1 second to appreciate

[pipzeroes]

You don't even have to pirate anything if the software's free anyway:

GIMP

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Free and Open Source Image Editor

(See also.)

[pipzeroes]

I mean masking for pathogen reasons, not costume etc. reasons (and ideally with a well-fitting, effective mask preventing air from leaking in from gaps between face and mask; surgical masks stop spittle but not airborne transmission).

Do you mask up?

Haven't stopped; indoors if others are/have been there, outside if others near

Didn't stop masking but don't wear one outside (take it off as soon as I exit)

Masking now; stopped masking for a bit, but now I'll wear one outdoors if crowds

Stopped masking for a bit but I'm masking again indoors; never wear one outside

I mask if someone asks me to but only then

Stopped masking as soon as it was no longer required, won't start again

I never masked and screamed if asked to, even by people who had to for their job

Voting ended onJan 3, 2024

Also maybe check out this video if you like gabber and/or memes

[affixjoy]

Me watching everyone we were supposed to spend indoor Christmas with test positive for covid one by one. I’m feeling much better about my insistence that we only see people outside who have no symptoms until this surge has calmed down.

[pipzeroes]

I mean masking for pathogen reasons, not costume etc. reasons (and ideally with a well-fitting, effective mask preventing air from leaking in from gaps between face and mask; surgical masks stop spittle but not airborne transmission).

Do you mask up?

Haven't stopped; indoors if others are/have been there, outside if others near

Didn't stop masking but don't wear one outside (take it off as soon as I exit)

Masking now; stopped masking for a bit, but now I'll wear one outdoors if crowds

Stopped masking for a bit but I'm masking again indoors; never wear one outside

I mask if someone asks me to but only then

Stopped masking as soon as it was no longer required, won't start again

I never masked and screamed if asked to, even by people who had to for their job

Voting ended onJan 3, 2024

Also maybe check out this video if you like gabber and/or memes

[casmarotta]

save these (or download them here) to use for posters, social media, zines… whatever u want! it’s never too late to start wearing a mask again :-)

[moth-ghoul]

hello, i made a zine asking people to keep wearing masks and i used these as the front and back covers, i hope that's okay! (i'm not selling the zines or anything i'm just gonna leave them places)

[casmarotta]

YES this makes me so happy, this is exactly why i made them :^) thank you so much for creating this and sharing!!!

[probablyasocialecologist]

[redpandarascal]

same as it ever was

[pipzeroes]

I've been thinking about Ignaz Semmelweis a lot lately! And thinking about COVID and despair! To try and summarize what I've been thinking:

1.) It can feel really, overwhelmingly distressing to see what's happening now and it can be easy to feel like "things never change, it's always people wanting to maintain the status quo, and those trying to fix things are attacked for it"

and

2.) Semmelweis died tragically (and ironically; of an infected hand while he was institutionalized), but the efforts and innovations of Ignaz Semmelweis have doubtlessly improved many things for many people

So, I have found it frustrating, demoralizing, seeing fewer masks in public around me, sometimes being given condescending or perplexed looks for wearing a mask, having people I thought were friends decide pretending things are fine is better than taking care, but!

I try to not burn out. This is not a sprint. It is a marathon.

Hoping that in the decades to come, people will be looking back at the early 2020s like, "Haha, no, really, people weren't… WASHING HANDS… as a way to prevent an airborne illness? Like, it was know COVID was floating through the air, but people were doing something that helps prevent disease spread by physical contact? And like, there were attacks on people for wearing PPE? Sounds fake."

And in the meantime I try to

Avoid the disease

Avoid being pathologized for AVOIDING A VIRUS THAT CAN NOT ONLY KILL BUT CAUSE LONG TERM IMPAIRMENT AND FLOATS THROUGH THE AIR IN TINY BITS OF MOISTURE SIMILAR TO THE WAY CIGARETTE SMOKE SPREADS

Avoid despair about the ridiculousness of everything

Because it's one thing to be in denial about the reality of the nature of COVID's airborne spread and its actual severity (HELLO, THE S IN SARS-CoV-2 STANDS FOR SEVERE), but acknowledging this reality won't fix things if we just despair or become resigned.

And it can be so hard! Just doing what you can to deal with the immediate situation may be all we can do with our emotional/financial/energy resources! This is not to try to guilt you if you haven't been "active enough".

But I've seen people have this kind of attitude that's like "well, humans are idiots, obviously COVID is airborne and bad, and humanity is getting what it deserves because people are bad and stupid, and since we all may die of plague anytime let's do what we want!"

I've also seen, "I can't do anything about it, there's no point in trying, it's too big."

Despair can eat away at us, but we can work on resisting it. Even if we give in some days, this does not mean another day won't come when we can push back against it.

Even if we can't make health authorities publicly acknowledge reality, even if our family and friends and others around us seem to disregard the reality of COVID's danger and how it spreads, even if we can do no more than get by day to day, we can try to push back against our own despair!

RESIST DESPAIR!

To do so is not nothing!

[pipzeroes]

[ Goncharov +

( All Your Base Are Belong To Us +

COVID =

All Your Breath Are Belong To Us) ]

x @ pip @ zeroes . ca

[pipzeroes]

featured in the

All Your Breath Are Belong To Us

video

[pipzeroes]

COVID is Airborne!

#COVIDisAirborne because aerosols/breath (tiny bits of moisture) can remain suspended in the air and are able to float distances greater than a metre (kind of like Koffing).

If someone has COVID, SARS-CoV-2 can spread with their breath. That means you can get sick even if you are several metres away from someone, especially if neither of you are masked (or aren't wearing a mask well- like below your nose!)

In fact, if COVID aerosols/breath builds up somewhere indoors that isn't well ventilated, and the air is not filtered well enough, you may get sick even after an infected person has left the room.