#pandemic stuff

[evilkitsch]

seeing people pass around articles with this quote in the headline

the “expert” in question quoted here is john fulton, a pharmaceutical industry consultant for vaccines, originally told to the daily mail, a tabloid notorious for its sensationalism.

he is not an expert in virology or epidemiology. he is an expert at selling vaccines.

i’m not saying bird flu isn’t scary, but if you’re gonna share information, please share information that comes from actual virologists and epidemiologists.

[falderaletcetera]

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this is the third day in a row I've had major trouble getting to sleep because of relatively minor covid symptoms, and luckily because I EVENTUALLY slept a solid amount yesterday I am not feeling quite so murderous today, but I seem doomed to just waiting for exhaustion to overcome the "my nose is blocked I can't breathe easily and I can't relax even with my mouth open" anxiety. and that will probably take several more hours.

like, I could admit that olbas oil and inhaling steam isn't doing the trick and ask a friend to get me decongestants. but my very bad throat only lasted a few days and the person who infected me is already testing negative so it's looking reasonably likely I'll be feeling better or moving onto different symptoms by tomorrow.

(sidenote but I've been getting frikking brain zaps for several days now - I'm not on any antidepressants, but since going on one years ago that's notorious for its withdrawal effects, which were in fact Fucking Terrible, I just get this sometimes when I'm very tired, so at least it's familiar - and like, freshly annoyed no doctor ever warned me this could be a thing, freshly frustrated there's so little info and research on the phenomenon.)

(but I did find some recent research that actually described it like I experience it and not just as "sensation of electrical shocks in the brain" - for me it's like sudden jolts of dizziness/disorientation still physically localised in the brain, and it's fascinating to realise it's related to eye movement for a lot of folks - and I'm very grateful for that, because this is the sort of batshit brain glitch that makes you think something's very, very wrong if you don't know what it is.)

(...also if you do, tbh. I may in fact start feeling murderous again if it hangs around for too long. once was bad enough.)

tldr REALLY looking forward to sleeping just a whole fucking ton when this is over, folks. I'm gonna invent whole new sleeping patterns about it.

also if anyone else here has dealt with brain zaps before, high fucking five [in hazmat suits], we deserve shirts <3

[paddysnuffles]

Airdrie mother, son transported to hospital by firetruck due to lack of ambulances | CBC News

An Airdrie woman is blaming a broken system after waiting nearly an hour for an ambulance, only to end up relying on a fire truck to help. 

Well fuck, that's where I live.

@abpoli. @allthecanadianpolitics

[christinesficrecs]

Thank you for all the well wishes! 💜 I’m no longer dying. 2 negative Covid tests and my smell/taste senses are on vacation but I currently just have a gross sinus infection so it’s a win. 🤓

[merakiaes]

My time in the pandemic has basically just been me being left alone in one room with my ADD, MADD and other mental illnesses;

I have so much to do

*does nothing of it*

*cries in procrastination while playing skyrim*

*gets migraine from playing skyrim for 12 hours straight and turns it off*

*tiktok*

*angry*

*bored*

What an ugly wall

I'm gonna stare at it for 20 minutes

*cries in boredome*

*eats in boredome*

*cries about eating in boredome*

*plugs in headphones and gets kidnapped by my maladaptive daydream disorder for two weeks straight*

*tiktok*

Did I take my meds? No. *takes meds*

*ten minutes later* did I take my meds two times?

*tries counting pills but is dyscalcic*

*cries in confusion*

*eats in confusion*

*cries in confusion about eating in confusion*

*numbers?????*

*angry*

*tiktok*

*maladaptive daydreaming*

*angry*

Let's renovate and organize our room at 3am

*cries in sleep deprivation while collecting trash off the floor*

*kicks the shit out of chair for existing and being in the way*

*tiktok*

*maladaptive daydreaming*

*angry*

*staring at paper that needs to be signed* what's my name? what my address? Is it 2020 or 2021? did I take my meds today?

*cries in confused frustration*

*throws fit in confused frustration*

*takes confused frustration out on family*

*cries in guilt and self-hatred*

*plays more skyrim, forgets to eat for two days*

*cries in hangry and migraine, trembles in low blood sugar*

I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO!!! *cries in stress while scrolling on tiktok*

*turns numb after all the crying*

*stares into wall* .... did I take my meds today?

*takes meds for the 2nd time*

*maladaptive daydreaming*

FUCK OFF CHAIR!!!!!

*tiktok*

[copias-thrall]

Second shot yo

[0chaotic-0night-0witch-0]

Witch kit: what you need on the go

This is what i carry on a regular basis for my witchcraft. Whenever I have a purse, i have all these with me

Paper, pen, pencil and eraser, for on-the-go sigils

A pocketknife, preferably one with a scissors attachment

At least one cigarette lighter, whether you smoke or not (i don’t) to burn things

Chalk if you’re into drawing sigils on concrete and things

A phone...... yeh....

Hand sanitizer (also, for this time-period... duh)

Gloves to keep energies off you when handling them (but also because of the current pandemic going on, like HELLO)

Sunglasses for glamours and protections

A compact or other hand mirror for various things including divination

You preferred divination method, if portable, is also a good include

A pack of cards

A key (house, locker, car, skeleton key that doesn’t open anything, don’t matter) for personal wards

All cheap, easily accessible things (apart from the phone i guess but eh). All things that will come in handy for any spellcasting

[ziskandra]

RL Reflection 2020

I don’t talk as much about RL stuff here as I used to, but I thought it might be nice to have a space to reflect upon the past! (God, I miss the LJ heyday, I have every highlight and lowlight of high school recorded in meticulous detail there, and it’s strangely precious to me).

Where do I even start. It was a very weird year! At the start of March I got offered a promotion I’d been working towards for a while, and I was so excited about finally having a set roster and no longer being permanently on-call, because I could finally go interstate on the weekends, go out drinking on my days off, and do all the things I love! Hah. Hah. Hah. I even put in annual leave for a wedding I was meant to attend in May...  My city locked down for three months, reopened in June, and in six weeks was recording several hundred new cases a day, so we were locked down again (with mandatory mask laws) from late July to the end of October, with even harsher restrictions such as not being allowed more than 5km from home without a permit, only being allowed out to exercise once a day, etc, an 8pm curfew... As an essential worker, it was just... weirdly surreal being stopped by the police and asked where I was going and what I was doing all the time. It was the weirdest fucking time. Better than the alternative (so much better than the alternative), but still. Fucking weird. There’s no other way to describe it. 

I feel like a lot of my personal relationships have really suffered and I’m struggling to connect with people in the same way. I’ve always really valued being able to see friends in person, and as a hopeless extrovert (mostly cured of their social anxiety) who’s long learnt to spread their boundless energy over multiple people, the feeling of taking up too much space in a time like this is really overwhelming. Now that things are much better here and we’re allowed to socialise again (with limits), I just want to see people all the time, but I know that many others aren’t in that headspace yet. I miss being able to just go over to a friend’s house with no plan and sit with them for a while, you know? I want to be there for my friends and loved ones, but it’s like my usual mechanisms are unavailable to me. In any case, I’m grateful to be living in an area where things are relatively safe again. It is a bit strange to be talking about something utterly mundane with international friends and have them respond like everywhere in the world has been as hard hit as them. Like every time I talk about going out, I have to preface it with REMINDER: I LIVE IN AUSTRALIA. The sheer scale of the global trauma is incomprehensible, so I try and be as understanding as I can, but sometimes it feels like people from other countries want us to stop going by our day-to-day lives because they’re suffering, like we’re rubbing our relative freedoms in their noses, like we can do something about the crises over there? And God, I wish I could (wouldn’t anyone?) but I cannot, and I think we have to grasp our normalcy (and for me at least, that’s basic human connection) where we can (when safe to do so).  Anyway. This is just me dumping my thoughts on WOW. WHAT A WEIRD YEAR IT’S BEEN. 

Cautiously optimistic to see what 2021 has in store.