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The older I get, the less judgmental I get about people doing their best and the more judgmental I get about people who acknowledge something and decide to ignore it and/or refuse to self-reflect.

Like, one is just humans learning as they go and making the best decisions they can with their current wisdom and growth. The other is people intentionally refusing to grow and making it everyone else’s problem.

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I don't think we can talk about how gross it is that channel 4 is focussing on bakers being unwell and leaving the competition early and fainting mid-show without talking about COVID.

Like I know the style of the show has changed in recent years, with more focus on the drama (RIP Mel and Sue you would never have let this happen) but it is not normal for people to be ill like this.

Bakeoff is filmed in the summer, when seasonal illnesses are usually lower. We used to rarely get someone off for a week but that was it. However, COVID isn't seasonal. For the last few seasons since 2020 this has been very common; contestants and hosts off regularly during the season.

COVID was surging over the summer. I do not believe these things are unrelated.

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i do not like that how much energy i have directly depends on wellbutrin. don't like that at all!! i've been dependent on medication for quality of life since i was 10, and having yet another tether to the pharmaceutical and health insurance industry's whims is indescribably frustrating.

i'm privileged to have access to meds and the abilities i do when i take them. but most of me thinks, these conditions makes me feel so helpless, i wouldn't wish them on anyone. a day vanished because my routine slipped, and no accidents are allowed; consequences immediately! for you, one hard slap in the face.

a smaller, less empathetic, more pragmatic part of me thinks, maybe i would wish experiencing this on some people. not on any young people, or anyone who genuinely has no awareness of the research, or who would mask and clean the air if they had the means to. but those people who consciously opt into the risk for themselves and others, and who won't take covid's disabling power seriously until they themselves go through it. choose to inflict suffering? try it yourself.

i wonder about this covid-lax group's overlap with people who advise others to "go off grid," like interdependence doesn't keep everyone alive. as with masking, as with everything (circle of life-core 🙂). many in the lax group would shake their heads at libertarians and point out the privilege, the walden of it all, but if they themselves don't mask? deeply unserious. hypocritical. "no one is safe until everyone is safe," so why spread a disease that's disabling and killing 3,000 people this week, and is asymptomatic in half the people who are contagious? disability justice and praxis MIA, empathy absent.

feeling fine has never stopped the spread of HPV, chlamydia, HIV, typhoid or SARS2. i know denial is appealing and appearance-based desirability seems paramount, but if you care about autonomy and not living under a dictatorship, not disabling each other is pretty important. consider the lobster values: if you think that everyone is equally deserving of a safe existence, why contradict that statement with your actions? impact over intent, right? going numb to the consequences makes other people go numb to your suffering, too. protect your humanity by preventing SARS2 circulation. it's never too late to be brave.

that didion quote about "the stories we tell ourselves in order to live" stays on my mind. some popular stories: masking is a personal choice, a matter of risk assessment. long covid is rare. if you don't know about the risks, you don't have to worry about them. if you didn't see repercussions once, you'll escape them again. any health challenge is surmountable with enough willpower. modern medicine can fix most things. "you do you" is a fine public health approach. the government has our best interests in mind.

facts an encyclopedia would accept: "it's a personal choice, a matter of risk assessment" is the same argument anti-vaxxers use, and just like not masking, it endangers everyone. no one exists in a vacuum. we're all connected (nyaaaah, zhavenyaaaahh☀️🦁🪨). the first stage of grief is denial. people can change when they want to change. communicable disease is communicable. with the vaccines we have, no one is SARS2-immune. science can't be ignored.

facts, cont.: it's hard to live with cognitive dissonance; doing so gnaws on the soul, and always manifests somehow. everyone wants to think they're a good person, but cognitive dissonance makes it harder to tell right from wrong, and easier to excuse harmful inaction. good germans were masters of it. accepting cognitive dissonance invites double-speak, and disintegrates the social contract of shared understanding, shared trust, shared laws, and shared standards. turning away from others' pain greases the slide into fascism. sacrificing the lives of some sacrifices the lives of all.

just my opinion: thoreau was a dick whose ego kept him from acknowledging the truth, that his "i'm in the WILDERNESS!" survival hinged on privilege and the women in his life. his mom, though? she lived in reality, in the community, and if u'll excuse the conjecture, i do believe she would’ve masked while doing her child son's laundry. masking serves self-awareness, maturity, and consideration, the holy trinity without which no hottie can appeal. no mask = ego off the charts = turn off of the decade = goodbye.

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One great thing about being covid-informed is I'm not feeling much of the Dread that some people are feeling about the next impending pandemic. Sure, I'm tracking it, but that doesn't change much. I'm still dealing with this one. Like yeah it might kill me, but I'm already taking the precautions I can. Some new ones as well, for bird flu, because I have a flock, but for the most part, I just get to go on with my life as I have for the last 5 years. Hell, maybe more people will even start masking again. That would definitely improve my chances.

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Recent moments only my CC community can fully appreciate:

Explaining that 40-60% of Covid transmission is asymptomatic/pre-symptomatic only for them to say that they’re not sick and they would know if they were.

Someone volunteers how gross air travel is only to have them explain once they get picked up at the airport that they forgot the masks I provided for them at home. When they’re coming to help me recover from a medical procedure.

The push and pull of trying to champion mask-wearing for All The Reasons (local measles outbreak, tuberculosis, flu/covid/RSV) without hitting the button which turns off people’s ability to hear me.

Resisting the urge to both correct incorrect strap position on an N95 (bottom one at the nape, top one around upper half to upper third of head) and to suggest ways to improve coordination with hairstyle.

Resisting the urge to infodump all the N95, respiratory illness, and air filtration lore gained over the last six years and instead attempt to breadcrumb bits of info which may stick.

Observing Covid infighting on posts where people just have to Be The Most Right or have elaborate takedowns of Swiss Cheese elements and wondering if these people are providing clarity despite their distasteful attitude or are infiltrating agitators.

Attempting a balance of sympathy for people who cancel plans due to respiratory illness with letting them know I HAVEN’T HAD A COLD SINCE 2022 but also trying not to make it sound bragging or judgmental.

The sinking feeling when I suspect that the majority of people I know have Long Covid symptoms but they’re blaming perimenopause or pre-existing mental health or a bad flu season.