Notices by Carol Connolly (carolconnolly@mastodon.social)

Spontaneous aneurisms would occur pre COVID, but are far more common in our post COVID infection world. We all need to be prepared to act as fast as Deputy Whitmore's husband did

https://archive.is/VD6Bs

O'Gorman (supported CETA and coalition with FF/FG) as likely leader and, once the dust settles, Hackett (also supported CETA and coalition) as likely deputy leader.

So that's The Greens firmly positioning themselves as a business friendly centrist party for the next decade 🫤
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Voted! Glad I followed @gavreilly's suggestion and put my list on my phone, they are long ballots 😂
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What's your plan for getting to the polling station tomorrow for the Irish and European elections?

I am not hearing much buzz about voting, and creating voter apathy is one of the far right's paths to power.

Use your vote, and keep the far right out!

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@Antiqueight I really wish I could give you positive news about living with a messed up immune system and post exertional malaise but uh.... It's awful. So yes, avoiding getting those two symptoms that are also common in long COVID would definitely make your life happier!
But don't beat yourself up when circumstances outside your control mean you have to roll those dice. It happens! I will have to do it on Tuesday myself to access medical care. Be kind to yourself.

@Antiqueight we are learning so much about this virus so rapidly it is absolutely fascinating. And scary. But the science is so so cool and teaching us so much about how the immune system works.
But the recent studies that have proved that each infection makes you more likely to get long COVID, that the odds of you being luck decrease with each infection, that it is not an equal roll of the dice each time.... Shit.
So every time you /don't/ catch it matters. So we just try our best.

@Antiqueight ... Out what is practical and what is workable and adding in new situations and new science means your masking choices will change. Like, I used to wear cloth, now I only wear Auras. I used to not mask outdoors, now I often do. I often unmask in healthcare settings because those people have power over me.
So I say... Trust your gut about what is right for you. And be OK with changing when you learn new things. And give yourself grace when the world pushes you into something 2/2

@Antiqueight if a sterilising vaccine for COVID came out tomorrow I would still need to mask due to all the other bugs I catch (I am working on getting my immune system back up and running but it is a long process).
But... There isn't a sterilising vaccine yet. And personally, I think by next summer the sheer number of people with long COVID would make you relieved if you keep masking.
But it is so, so hard to go against the world. I am not surprised most people have stopped. And working... 1/2

I am voting Yes to The Family Amendment and No to The Care Amendment / women.
FLAC explain the problems with 42B here
https://www.flac.ie/news/2024/02/19/flac-legal-and-human-rights-analysis-of-the-propos/

The gov have chosen wording that lets them wriggle out of their responsibilities. I won't help them do that with a Yes vote

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@Antiqueight think of it like the 8th amendment - the number medical people prosecuted was tiny. The "chilling effect" was enough.
(Very definitely not saying what happened was OK)

@Antiqueight yeah October would be for XBB1.5, which is the current booster variant

@Antiqueight unless you have had one from SEP 2023 onwards, you haven't gotten the latest XBB1.5 . You can currently get it at many chemists. You qualify as you are frequently interacting with an elderly person (your mother) even if you have no specific underlying conditions yourself

@Antiqueight well if you want to talk anything through when you are starting down that path, absolutely do reach out to me if that would help. I have been through the system enough times!

@Antiqueight :-( that is a miserable way to be any day, but especially Christmas Day

@Antiqueight you have reminded me to put my morning painkillers on my bedside table so thank you!

@Antiqueight I ADORE The Champions. Completely obsessed with it. Apart from the delightful nonsense of the actual plots and the reused sets, I am fascinated with the idea of them become more and more alien from the rest of humanity, and the only people who understand them are the other two people going through the same experience

@csharpwords @Antiqueight I'm a David Suchet fangirl, but I did like Branagh's Orient Express and was looking forward to Death on the Nile when I started it and was very sad when it was... What it was.

The nicest thing I can say about A Haunting in Venice is that it is not quite as bad as Branagh's Death on the Nile.

Not quite as bad. But still extremely bad.

@Antiqueight aha! I have found out the difference. If you don't pay, the number and layout of the ads you see doesn't change (as far as I know). But the adverts will now be targeted, and your data is scraped to determine what ads they send you.
The EU is not happy with Meta about this, so we'll see how it works out

@Antiqueight as far as I know, there is just now the option to pay for an add free version.
If you don't pay, as far as I know you get the exact same as right now, where your timeline's every third or so post is an advert