Notices by "You do you" is Eu-gen-ics. (beadsland@disabled.social)

"I think the missing item here, the thing that they really want us to forget…true object of all this forgetting, is the George Floyd Uprising.

"They want us to forget that, a mere four years ago, the president of the United States cowered in a bunker underneath the White House as rioters shook the gates and destroyed the guardhouse…. They want us to forget what it felt like to take the streets with one another, they want us to forget that we fought the police and won…"

https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/a-list-of-things-we-have-been-told-to-forget/

As expected, given FDA's second-guessing itself a week after the fact back in June, mRNA vaccines have been approved in the U.S., but Novavax not as yet.

To be clear, despite all the noise about KP.2 (the FDA's second-guess target) at the time, now appears to have been flash in the pan—it & other FLiRT cluster variants being out-competed by FLuQE upstart:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112975930224821835

Either way, JN.1 dynasty still reigns.

For now, KP.3 is closer to KP.2 than JN.1. Yet Pirola was unrelated to XBB.

@inquiline

I mean, they've already got a financial model that was subsequently adopted (with modifications to make it more onerous) for education financing, so is this really a guess?

Liberal urge to educate folk to righteousness…

Liberal commitment to belief that only thing stopping folk from right choices is lack of information…

Any career educator will tell you there's huge difference between students memorizing just enough information to pass a test, on one hand, and on the other, taking on knowledge such will shape them long after.

"What does this have to do with my life?" tends to be barrier to the latter outcome. Same holds true in "You have to live your life!" era.

I see your: "Learning about KN95s made all the difference"…

And raise you a cacophonous round—to the tune of Row Row Your Boat—of:

"No, no, no you don't
Havta mask anymore!
Happily, happily, happily, happily!
Covid's in the past!"

Sung loudly at folk wearing KN95s, N95s/FFP2s, FFP3s & elastometric respirators…

By random strangers and former friends all quite confident in certain unshakable knowledge that world of caring about one another's safety—let alone one's own—is rightfully behind us.

By the time mask mandates in various settings ended, it was not uncommon to see folk walking around NYC or sitting on a subway train in the same baggy blue they'd been given in March 2020…

Elastics so worn out that the flimsy piece of fabric wouldn't even serve as jock support for a long beard.

But tell me again how the only reason folk refuse to wear masks now is that cloth masks were too hard to breathe through…

And not that they were only wearing masks then due to rules & social pressure.

Honestly…

At a time when mask wearing is being criminalized—with laws attaching fines and prison time to wearing one, even deputizing population at large to harass people for wearing same…

When early on folk were targeted for violence for wearing masks while being Asian, and now targeted for policing for wearing masks while being Black… or anti-genocide… or disabled…

To have someone insist that the only reason folk ain't wearing masks is they were never informed about the right kind of masks…

Noting multiple charts on the timeline with Reagan's head pasted into them, ostensibly to indicate how the trends depicted start with his inauguration.

Notably the arrows indicate a point where the trend in question was already established during the administration that came immediately before.

The cognitive dissonance of saying "Here's where it started" and then pointing to after it started, again and again, unable to grapple with history that defies a neat #USpol partisan story… is telling.

The CDC is literally parodying the #CDCSays hashtag now:

https://sakurajima.moe/@literalgrill/112969428758746335

Number of women myself have encountered who have shared that they lived with—quietly managed—ongoing bleeding without seeking medical intervention until long after they better had…

This is a cultural problem of quiet suffering that goes well beyond hospitals in red states willfully keeping pregnant folk ignorant of medical options.

Somewhere along the line we got to the point where so many women individualized their health to the point that abnormal bleeding is just assumed to be their normal.

There is no timeline in which #MaskBans being allowed to spread is compatible with "democracy".

Don't give two shits who you elect. If you're not fighting for most vulnerable, your anointed chariot racing team champions just gonna double down on harm, all the while doing so in your name.

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time," says Angelou.

So.

Show. Us. Who. You. Are.

Based on what electoralists have shown us thus far, we have no other choice but to believe you.

"One co-writer of our Jews for Mask Rights open letter was booed during her testimony about her concerns about the bill and her struggle with Long COVID….crowd yelled obscenities when she shared her fears about harassment—a valid fear, considering another co-writer had been harrassed for masking in NYC just that morning…irony of…group allegedly “opposing hate speech” and ”concerned with Jewish safety” mocking a disabled Jewish speaker was not lost on us."

https://www.jewsformaskrights.com/resources/anti-mask-harassment-nassau-countys-mask-ban-hearing

HT @antiaall3s

@violetmadder

The French don't.

But then they have run-off elections and parties that manifest just long enough to put a candidate forward.

Rather than nearing two-centuries old institutional behemoths that write election law to persist themselves into the future.

Primaries are part of that persistence for the sake of persistence. The performance of democracy that forecloses any possibility of same.

#USpol

@antiaall3s

Where's this quote from?

Basically, Democrats have got what may very well turn out to be a milkshake duck on their ticket.

Nothing to see here.

#USpol

@ciggysmokebringer @violetmadder

Four years from how, with another 100,000 cops paid with federal money and however many more dozens of cop cities built & fully operational, we can talk about salty.

The fact that Democrats only mobilize when they think "we can beat these fucks!" is what terrifies me.

Our fucks are better than their fucks. What our fucks do once we beat those fucks? We don't give a fuck.

Fifty years on this planet. Have seen this play out too many times to suspend disbelief.

@ciggysmokebringer

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

A lack of receipts is just that, a lack.

Granting a good housekeeping seal of approval for never reaching the testing lab is… a choice.

And what receipts have turned up thus far would seem to be, on balance, pretty damning, however sparse.

To be clear, this is not the usual guff about not getting to vet the fool in primaries. Rather, anyone who could be vetted by popular opinion even sans primaries was justly disqualified.

@ciggysmokebringer

That the most likeable is the person with the least name recognition is a pretty damning statement about the party as a whole.

Okay, so just to catch up.

We're at the point where the Democratic ticket was decided by the virality of a belittling quip?

The Democratic National Chamberlains really are running on empty. Nothing but vibes.

#USpol

So, to be clear, in Nassau County, you can now be fined $1,000 or put in jail for a year if a police officer decides you're not wearing a respirator for health reasons.

Because, y'know, we can trust police to make sound public health decisions.

Who are we kidding?

We can't even trust doctors in twenty twenty four to make sound public health decisions.

But we're gonna make it the job of police to decide if the act of protecting oneself from illness is punishable with jail time or extortion.