I saw a blog about travelling with boat buddies indicating that groupthink could lead to minimizing dangers, which was a reason to not rely on the boat buddy system. Made me think of the Covid-conscious community and how a bunch of us would probably be decent boat buddies.
That lowkey guilt when I’m about to delete an email acct I’ve had for ~20 years that somebody from the Before Times might feel compelled to reach me and that’s the only address they have. Oops. Sorry, I’m gonna miss that “vague compliment before asking a favour for my labour” email, buds.
Officials ignoring airborne transmission was a deliberate choice and we got screwed. This piece past-tenses the airborne mitigations that could’ve been put into place to prevent the damage done. Damage is still being done and we could prevent more damage.
Clean air and respirator use could be implemented by the general public now, without government mandate and Covid spread could be legit reduced now.
What annoys me about the articles about long Covid is when they look for people who are finding ways to be productive and active in spite of their conditions. Like, who doesn’t love a good triumph of the human spirit story, but it’s the sort of thing that ableists use against the chronically ill to say “look, if they can do it, why can’t you” (sometimes the ableist and the chronically ill person are one in the same).
If you haven’t, for example, persevered to write the Great American Novel through your brain fog, forgive yourself. (“great” and “american” aren’t the aspirations they used to be anyway.) If you haven’t been to a cafe or pub in years, those places are gross and shouldn’t be given business until they improve their air quality anyway.
If the best you can do is hang out to see if science can rustle up some effective treatments, that’s a valid way to be.
I am Very Cranky about signing up for services/platforms to use online and then finding out shitbags are involved with it. (I haven’t cancelled proton or pixelfed yet, but now I don’t want to use them, but if I start deleting accounts, I might get into a “I don’t know who’s not a shitbag involved in anything I use” mood and delete everything.)
Which is to say, don’t directly recommend any alternatives unless you for definite sure know there’s no shitbaggery and you are also not a shitbag.
PBS wants those feel-good all-American pandemmy stories. Get ready to read another round of fuzzy accounts of how the Lockdowns™️ of 2020 feared folks up so much they gleefully booked their revenge travel the moment they got jabbed, that LC keeps some folks in bed most days but they find joy going unmasked to crowded restaurants every few months, that catching Covid every season is totally worth it for Freedom™️…
I got a perfume sample with a drug store order recently and just did a little spritz. It’s been a good long while since I’ve used/smelt perfume and it is overpowering. The scent isn’t unpleasant, but, yeah, I can dig why you wouldn’t want to encounter it in an enclosed public space. Like, settle down, chemical flowers.
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