to anyone reading this, if you get sick with covid this season please please please treat it like a serious medical event. sars-covid19 is an incredibly aggressive vascular virus and it attacks and damages every system in your body. rest for as long as you possibly could.
research has shown that radical rest is instrumental in minimizing the damage that covid will inflict on your body. even if you feel fine, take it easy as long as you canālong covid can sneak up on you years after the initial infection and there are no cures and barely any treatments. while weāre at it, please start masking in public. itās never too late to start again. about 70% of covid spread is pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic, while rapid antigen tests flag false negative in more than half of cases. each covid infection compounds your risk of long covid and it, in turn, can trigger early onset of hereditary conditions (including lots of cancers). it suppresses your immune system. so you need to rest.
if this is scary to read, take care of yourself, but please confront it. yes, itās existentially terrifying. millions are suffering and there are more people dying from covid per day than 9/11, if memory doesnāt betray me. but, if you and me and our neighbors and coworkers and family donāt start doing something about it, it will Only get worse. consider the context of most kids of this generation having had covid over and over and over again. pediatric long covid is ALREADY more common than asthma. the average life expectancy is lowering day by the day. thatās the future we are heading into. please help us do something about it.
if you would like to help:
start with finding a respirator that will fit the shape of your face for a good seal, KN95 or better, and start wearing it in all crowded places (store, park, doctor, bus, etc). covid moves like smoke and hangs in the air i.e. even if the store is empty you could still get exposed. if youāre in a big metropolitan city, chances are thereās already a mask block near you. you can get a variety of different shapes and sizes and colors of masks for free from them. my local one provides and delivers free rapids, masks, and educational zines for example. consider donating or even better volunteeringāa lot of them are run by exhausted disabled people for freeāthey could use your help.
second, start talking about it. to anyone and everyone. your family, your coworkers, your doctor, neighbors and acquaintances, organizers of events youāre going to. most people do not know this. public health has been obscuring and minimizing the state of public health so we keep making money for the ruling class. the isolation length was literally shortened after delta airlines lobbied for it, even though most science back then already proved that you stay infectious for days on days, and the alarms on long covid were already blaring. talk about it. acknowledge it. post about it, tell people why you started masking again, print out brochures and zines and leave them around where you go.
third, look into the Clean Air movement. clean air is as instrumental to public health as drinkable water, proper waste disposal, and vaccination. with climate change rolling into full force, these things will save thousands of lives and we need to start fighting for them today. contact your local hospital, school district, parent groups, clinics, and representatives (on all levels) and demand universal masking in healthcare, as well as clean air in schools. we need to protect these kids. this will only get better if you and i make it better. so we need to make it better.
and take care of yourself. stress is a killer and rest is revolutionary.
"Sometimes I feel like I am living on a different star from the one I am used to calling home. It has not been a steady progression. I had to examine, in my dreams as well as in my immune-function tests, the devastating effects of overextension. Overextending myself is not stretching myself. I had to accept how difficult it is to monitor the difference. Necessary for me as cutting down on sugar. Crucial. Physically. Psychically. Caring for myself is not self- indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare."
- Audre Lorde. A Burst of Light: Essays. 1998.
iām just curious, is there any artist(s)who you know their entire discographyā¦ like everything they ever made is just imprinted in the back of your mind
*guy who doesn't know anything about sports and has never cared about sports in his life* hey did you know womens professional baseball is returning after 70 years and the games are going to be streamed for free on youtube and the season starts august 1st
I think this is so cool and it's awesome they're streaming games for free! I also think it's incredible that this picture is the one they used to advertise the opening day. It's like those videos where someone threatens the camera while their partner shows off their collection of rocks they found.
i think i tend to forget how good boredom is for creativity because we're all so addicted to numbing ourselves with screens and stimulation. but standing in the shower or going for a walk with no music or just sitting in your bedroom without being allowed to touch any screens & all of a sudden i have multiple new projects to start, a solution to a months-long plot problem & 4 new original characters
Also people being obsessed with Greek mythology as kids wasnāt invented by Percy Jackson. My dad read the Iliad and the odyssey in high school because one of his friends was super obsessed with Ancient Greek lit and he was like āwell I canāt let him be smarter and more well read than I am Iāve gotta catch upā
the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive
