When I ask people to mask it’s not out of a virtuous superiority or even an ethical code. It is because I am in the depths of this hellhole, and I am *screaming* at you not to come down here, and definitely not to shove anyone else in.
EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social
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The pandemic showed me that most people are incapable of self preservation.
They’re incapable of going against the crowd.
They give in to peer pressure and creature comforts even if it could mean death and disability.
It’s been wildly disappointing.
It’s painful to know how many people see your life as not worth protecting.
It’s gut wrenching to know they view you as better off dead.
It’s hard to hold on to hope when people still complain about masking while millions are dead & even more disabled.
It’s been a painful six years for the Covid cautious because we’ve had to come to terms with just how selfish and ableist some people are.
Many folks believe that brief stay at home orders and mask mandates were the worst thing to ever happen to them.
It’s been six years since Covid was declared a global pandemic.
Most people moved on years ago.
Decided to go “back to normal” whether it was safe or not.
They left people like me by the wayside.
They abandoned the vulnerable.
They embraced the comfortable lie.
on 3/13/2020 my family went into quarantine to avoid covid
6 years; well over half my son's life
it has been and remains the worst period of my life by a huge margin - if anything it gets a bit worse each year - but as much as it fucking sucks and i wish i were done i don't regret a second of it
We could've stopped this years ago. Instead we're starting WWIII in the Middle East.
When the US is allowed to act with impunity and the debate around it focuses on who is winning, the credibility of the rules-based order has already eroded.
It is then unrealistic to expect Russia, China or any other country to treat selectively enforced rules as binding.
Six years. Six fucking years of isolation. “Remember back during the-” no. It’s here now and some of us didn’t get to pretend it ended.
And telling people "COVID is over" was literally to undermine people's sense of community and collective power and interdependence to make folks easier for the bosses to coerce and exploit and harder for folks to work together for good.
And folks didn't even realize what they were giving away.
I mean, it's not a thing that's necessarily a personal choice one can break out of. Hyper-individualism is forced on us in any number of ways.
That includes the switch from "we're all in this together" to "everyone for themselves" that was touched off by "you don't have to mask if you're vaxxed."
The rise of online vibrant events in early Covid offered a lot of hope for disabled/chronically ill people who have access issues attending IRL events (including going into a flare later). Anti-Zoom reactive sentiment pushed a lot of people into being more isolated again.
"The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence"
"The pandemic has killed over 30 million people worldwide, left more than 400 million suffering from Long COVID... It is one of the most catastrophic events in modern history—and it is not over."
I really wish this had just carried over and became a norm.
Mask when you’re sick, in a crowded area, in medical settings - if these small changes had stuck we would see so much less disease transmission.
Like, let’s also get fresh air and hepas!
Shared air is gross!
the worst part is we actually made good progress on a lot of the right lessons (given congressional resource constraints) and then it all got blown to hell by the worst people you know
No conspiracies required, one way or other Trump is a jackpot for Putin.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Russia rakes in $150mn a day in extra revenue from surging oil prices
Photo looking up into ornate glass cupola above entrance hall of museum with gilded plaster ceiling, large dark stone columns and a crest above a door.
Photo showing stone carving, looking up at it, focusing on extremely stylised rendering of calf muscles of a man striding. Cuneiform text is visible across the centre of the carving.
🏺🗃️ Grabbing some time for artefacts - who wants to join me for a live-posting visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge?
First 👀: amazing stylised muscles on a massive calcite carving from Assyria c. 800s BCE
Re-upping this because many of you don’t know the truth about why everyone is always sick these days. Spoiler alert: it’s Covid.
And Covid continues making you sick in silent, stealthy ways 😷 N95 in public before you’re diagnosed with diabetes, liver disease, ME/CFS, cardiovascular disease, cancer…
Very disappointing, though ultimately unsurprising, to see the DOJ surrender in the middle of the Ticketmaster-LiveNation case after political pressure from the top. Hopefully the states will continue to push to break up a monopoly that should have never been allowed to exist in the first place.
Think we’ll ever find out the real story of why all those Repub senators showed up in Moscow on 4th of July 2018?
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
This is false.
Jamal Harrison Bryant, a Megachurch pastor, has said the boycott is over. He is not leaders, plural. He and his church were not the ones to start the calls for boycott.
Nekima Levy Armstrong, who founded the Racial Justice Network, and other Minnesota civil rights activists were.
The thing you never stop hearing about the Dem elite — that their messaging on certain issues was captured by a noisy sliver of the population who don’t talk like normal people — is all that’s happening to the entirety of elite gop, admin and otherwise — comms and policymakers
I joined Dr. Susan Kuo from @longcovidcan-co.bsky.social to talk about Long COVID — what we've learned, where we are, and what's ahead.
youtu.be/T3WD-tTFSWQ
I love that every single piece of tech now just arbitrarily resets itself without warning
when people say "this isn't who we are" or "this is unprecedented, and historians won't be able to explain how things got this bad", lemme remind you that historians can provide any number of examples of US science experimenting on Black and brown people sans ethics or consent
🎙️New episode of Infectious Dose is live.
And this is such an important conversation.
I’m joined by biomedical researcher @mark-ungrin.bsky.social to talk about something we don’t discuss enough:
What happens when scientific errors become institutional policy.
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Big is right. They are hiding the truth of this war daily and in a thousand ways.
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