Notices by PacificNic (pacificnic@zeroes.ca)

It occurs to me that most people probably still think they're "better" than anti-vaxxers.

They're not.

Not if they aren't masking.

Late-comers to fascism don't get brownie points for abstaining from eugenics a little longer.

@pinkdrunkenelephants @VeeRat @novid You are so deeply incorrect about the current situation, I couldn't even begin to have a conversation with you about it.

@pinkdrunkenelephants @VeeRat @novid COVID is not over. The aggression against the victims of the ongoing pandemic is the logical conclusion to the anti-lockdown, anti-vaxx, anti-mask mentality.

@VeeRat @novid "Therefore, as Long COVID patients become louder, as their presence becomes more undeniable, as their numbers grow, the COVID normalization project must pivot from attempting to disappear these victims to steadily stigmatizing them."

This is absolutely what is going on and it's fucking dangerous. It's dangerous to all of us.

I asked someone I know who stopped masking why they think people go silent at the mention of COVID.

They said they thought it was because people know they need to talk about it but don't want to talk about it because it's uncomfortable, so they just shut down.

@Brad 🫠

Lockdowns were the closest we ever got to having a global revolution. People had time to think, for once.

Which is why we'll never have them again.

Anthrax, ebola, bird flu, airborne rabies... Whatever.

Nothing will be enough for them to take that risk again.

There's a reason they only ever talk about how "traumatic" the lockdowns were, but nobody talks about SARS.

People get told what to believe by the oligarch-owned media, then think they've been represented by the oligarch-owned government because it implemented the policies the people were told they wanted.

Lockdowns weren't unpopular. Masks weren't unpopular.

The change wasn't organic.

Now, the oligarch-owned #CDCSays its hands are tied.

How fucking democratic of them.

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Here's my first amigurumi project! Not perfect, but I'm mostly happy with it for a first attempt. It was supposed to be a bunny, but I didn't like the pattern and things evolved. Still trying to find a way to make the mask removable and re-attachable (a crochet N95 is beyond my skill for now and I didn't have white yarn on hand). I'm also going to add a bunch of colorful yarn to the mohawk.

My kid requested monster teeth. LOL.

More hair

*Nice* people are polite, but they're not necessarily good.

*Good* people are often assholes, if you're an asshole.

I'm not nice to shitty people. You shouldn't be either.

@bryan_edward Holy fuck. Those people on the outside, I assume, are gone.

I think some people don't understand that feudalism was/is a social/economic system; not a time period. You could theoretically have a feudal state and still have modern conveniences.

It's an arrangement of power.

It's not the same as pre-industrial agrarianism just because the height of those two things coincided.

I'll never forget that feeling from the beginning of the pandemic that a better world was possible. People had a moment to breathe and they started making changes. They quit their jobs, left toxic relationships, moved cities or left the city, relearned forgotten skills from generations past, and started to question their institutionally approved goals and values.

It scared the shit out of people in power, which is why they have been weaponizing our emotions and breaking and hardening our hearts ever since.

We have an instinct to protect the community and the system has been trying to degrade that instinct for decades with sophisticated propaganda, but the good side of people is still there. We just need a pause.

The good part of us is battered and bruised, but not yet dead. I don't think people forget. I think they've seen that something is wrong and that we could do better.

I think there's still hope.

The way governments and institutions have implemented COVID minimization propaganda makes it clear to me that, no matter how bad it gets, they have no intention of ever backtracking.

When people ask me if I feel isolated because of my COVID precautions, I very truthfully tell them no.

It's not the precautions that are isolating.

It's the alienation that comes from realizing most people are willing to kill their neighbour for brunch that's isolating.

And giving up precautions isn't going to change that problem.

I have met multiple people who "don't know anyone with long COVID" that are suffering from post-COVID-like symptoms, following a COVID infection.

Time is a conspiracy created by Big Clock to get you to buy watches.

I opted out. Wrist-mounted sundials only, for me.

Someone I know has been sick with "not COVID" for a couple weeks and has lost 22 lbs. His wife, who recently had a heart attack despite an extremely active lifestyle, has lost 11 lbs from the same thing. She's down to 88 lbs. This is not a safe or healthy weight for her.

This guy made fun of my dad for masking at work but this one illness has cost this guy thousands of dollars in lost work.

Regardless of what it is (almost definitely COVID), WHY would you choose not to mask when you don't have any sick pay?!?

I don't fucking understand people. Humans are fundamentally irrational.

#CovidIsNotOver