Notices by Alex Ross (psychoatberea@union.place)

@chris @skinnylatte COVID hasn't ended, media coverage of it ended. Vaccines are critical for reducing rates and severity of infection, and reducing risk of long COVID and ME/CFS. However, every reputable epidemiologist that isn't snorting ivermectin has publicly stated that trying to vaccinate your way out of a coronavirus is simply a fools errand. Coronaviruses mutate too quickly for vaccines alone to work. Not too late to mask up and protect your neighbors.

@chris @skinnylatte Ah. COVID truther. We wiped out a whole strain of flu during that time because of masking, and COVIDs documented effects on destroying T-cell memory are why we're experiencing surges in diseases people should have pre-existing immunity to. But some rando on the Internet knows better that the entire international health community. Blocked.

Strike alert, don't shop at King Soopers, workers in Colorado are on strike for modest wage increases, protection of their retirement, and reasonable staffing and supplies. Kroger, King Soopers parent company just did 7 billion in stock buybacks after the failure of the Kroger Albertsons merger. Via More Perfect Union: https://youtu.be/WHJnwJRCcQY

@tim Cis dude, and because it tends to slip in everywhere, I tend to try to reserve man or dude for when they would be gender affirmational. Particularly after hearing Fem and NB folks talk about how it made them feel excluded, or misgendered. I'm sure I've missed a few, but I'm trying to reduce and improve on that front.

@rameshgupta @mekkaokereke @heidilifeldman Yeah the white woman standing in the gas station today screaming for all to hear about immigrants ruining her country and how others couldn't know "how bad we have it here now." Whining that the Latino guys watching her show her entire, white, racist ass were laughing at her, she sure was being controlled by her husband. Who was nowhere in sight. Mekka is calling a spade a spade. We need to wake up and address this shit before it kills us all.

Not Losing You: a two minute PSA micro-movie supporting trans youth during the election #Vote

I'm straight and cis, and this is bloody important.

https://youtu.be/B0P0Uj6h_SY

As a former Teamster (ok, not a thing, once you're a Teamster, you're a Teamster for life, but I am an inactive member), I put my full support behind the #TeamstersNationalBlackCaucus, and all locals defying the Sean O'Brien and the national leadership to endorse Harris Walz.

https://www.gotnbc.com/?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&homeID=925715&page=Main