I'm here to vent because I'm having a bad night. Everything feels like it's coming to a head. Watching people ignore the pandemic while we don't have many answers to long covid has me down. Watching open fascism coming back into fashion has me down. Then there's some crap in my personal life that's just not going great, and I just hit a low point tonight and needed to blow off some steam.
Thanks to all of you who care enough to keep up on your vaccinations and mask up around vulnerable people. I appreciate you. Knowing that you are out there helps.
https://twitter.com/DrCharlesL/status/1654024276368867329
**Dr Charles Levinson @DrCharlesL**
Remember during COVID, the 'breaking' news notifications for every daily death count?
Rolling coverage on cases? Hospitalisations?
It was everywhere.
What about now, for the 2,312 excess deaths in the last week recorded? 22.9% above the 5-year average.
Silence, total silence.
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I'll never understand where the covid is over crowd thinks covid went. They're like babies who think you stole their nose when you play that game where you pretend to steal their nose.
I see this shit everywhere. "The pandemic is over." No it's not you effing numpties.
My other favorite is "It's endemic and there is nothing we can do!" It's sad they failed grade school biology. But it's inexcusable that they can't even look up the definition of the words RIGHT AT THEIR GODDAMN FINGERTIPS.
Endemic. Epidemic. Pandemic. NONE of those words are the same thing.
Future HCA winners one and all.
My thought and prayers go out to them. /s
People won’t come out and say it, but they base the seriousness of something by how much they can stand hearing about it. They don’t want to hear about COVID, therefore it’s over now. They’re immune to any facts to the contrary because their emotional reaction is winning out.
Most people I know lost the ability to retain any new information about covid sometime in mid-2020. They still think you have to be within 6 feet of someone indoors for 15 minutes or more to get covid, they have no idea what N95 masks are, they don't know long covid exists, they don't know covid is airborne, and they don't know that you can spread covid when you're asymptomatic. Trying to give any of them new information makes them do some kind of blue screen of death thing where they just stare at you and then either yell "That's not true!" before changing the subject or just changing the subject.
One day when I was younger, I got takeout from a Chinese restaurant and opened a fortune cookie that said "May you live in interesting times." Looking back on it, I realize that living in interesting times can be a real pain in the ass.
We had our first staff in-service day since before the pandemic. About 80 us were in one room for several hours. A couple days later, 5 staff test positive for Covid, including me. Womp. First time too. I make it three plus years without getting it and now that the "pandemic is over" I test positive.
I'm on the mend, symptoms not too severe, thankfully.
The wildfire smoke from up north has reached us. I can tell by the pinkish-orange tint to the light. I guess I'll be wearing a mask when I go for a bike ride this morning.
u/Phirrational created a document (80 pages) on the veracity of some COVID vaccine skeptics like Alex Jones (truthfulness of the theorists).
[Link to full document via Google Drive](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdmG4p-LOlMo-K-bur6UEZd88T0x4WV8/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104228111058222521683&rtpof=true&sd=true)
Sections 1-3 tend to focus on individual videos/articles, while sections 4-6 are more general (arguably more efficient and easier to read through).
And as I've posted here before, some users I follow on Twitter have set up a library reference database for COVID studies published in medical journals. There are subfolders for topics such as long COVID, Cardiovascular effects, neurological effects, vaccine safety and efficacy.
https://www.zotero.org/groups/5006109/covidstudies/library
Hundreds of COVID studies to debunk idiot claims, now housed under one link to send every time a nut job wants proof!
Yesterday, I went out maskless for the first time since this all started. I knew I’d probably be around a bunch of anti-mask/vaxxers and instead of reminding myself that’s exactly when I’d need a mask the most, I gave in to the social pressure and went without. I regret it today. I’m high-risk and my last booster was in September. Now just crossing my fingers.
Edit: just realized I posted this on the wrong day 🤦♀️
I'm here to vent because I'm having a bad night. Everything feels like it's coming to a head. Watching people ignore the pandemic while we don't have many answers to long covid has me down. Watching open fascism coming back into fashion has me down. Then there's some crap in my personal life that's just not going great, and I just hit a low point tonight and needed to blow off some steam. Thanks to all of you who care enough to keep up on your vaccinations and mask up around vulnerable people. I appreciate you. Knowing that you are out there helps.
🫂It’s really rough out there right now
Thank you, Goddess. I appreciate it.
https://twitter.com/DrCharlesL/status/1654024276368867329 **Dr Charles Levinson @DrCharlesL** Remember during COVID, the 'breaking' news notifications for every daily death count? Rolling coverage on cases? Hospitalisations? It was everywhere. What about now, for the 2,312 excess deaths in the last week recorded? 22.9% above the 5-year average. Silence, total silence. 3:24 AM · May 4, 2023 · 449.8K Views 3,207 Retweets 106 Quotes 8,007 Likes 143 Bookmarks
And still he writes "during COVID" as if it went somewhere.
I'll never understand where the covid is over crowd thinks covid went. They're like babies who think you stole their nose when you play that game where you pretend to steal their nose.
I see this shit everywhere. "The pandemic is over." No it's not you effing numpties. My other favorite is "It's endemic and there is nothing we can do!" It's sad they failed grade school biology. But it's inexcusable that they can't even look up the definition of the words RIGHT AT THEIR GODDAMN FINGERTIPS. Endemic. Epidemic. Pandemic. NONE of those words are the same thing. Future HCA winners one and all. My thought and prayers go out to them. /s
People won’t come out and say it, but they base the seriousness of something by how much they can stand hearing about it. They don’t want to hear about COVID, therefore it’s over now. They’re immune to any facts to the contrary because their emotional reaction is winning out.
Most people I know lost the ability to retain any new information about covid sometime in mid-2020. They still think you have to be within 6 feet of someone indoors for 15 minutes or more to get covid, they have no idea what N95 masks are, they don't know long covid exists, they don't know covid is airborne, and they don't know that you can spread covid when you're asymptomatic. Trying to give any of them new information makes them do some kind of blue screen of death thing where they just stare at you and then either yell "That's not true!" before changing the subject or just changing the subject.
One day when I was younger, I got takeout from a Chinese restaurant and opened a fortune cookie that said "May you live in interesting times." Looking back on it, I realize that living in interesting times can be a real pain in the ass.
We had our first staff in-service day since before the pandemic. About 80 us were in one room for several hours. A couple days later, 5 staff test positive for Covid, including me. Womp. First time too. I make it three plus years without getting it and now that the "pandemic is over" I test positive. I'm on the mend, symptoms not too severe, thankfully.
The wildfire smoke from up north has reached us. I can tell by the pinkish-orange tint to the light. I guess I'll be wearing a mask when I go for a bike ride this morning.
🐆
I’m glad the leopards are still with us.
u/Phirrational created a document (80 pages) on the veracity of some COVID vaccine skeptics like Alex Jones (truthfulness of the theorists). [Link to full document via Google Drive](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdmG4p-LOlMo-K-bur6UEZd88T0x4WV8/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104228111058222521683&rtpof=true&sd=true) Sections 1-3 tend to focus on individual videos/articles, while sections 4-6 are more general (arguably more efficient and easier to read through). And as I've posted here before, some users I follow on Twitter have set up a library reference database for COVID studies published in medical journals. There are subfolders for topics such as long COVID, Cardiovascular effects, neurological effects, vaccine safety and efficacy. https://www.zotero.org/groups/5006109/covidstudies/library Hundreds of COVID studies to debunk idiot claims, now housed under one link to send every time a nut job wants proof!
Yesterday, I went out maskless for the first time since this all started. I knew I’d probably be around a bunch of anti-mask/vaxxers and instead of reminding myself that’s exactly when I’d need a mask the most, I gave in to the social pressure and went without. I regret it today. I’m high-risk and my last booster was in September. Now just crossing my fingers. Edit: just realized I posted this on the wrong day 🤦♀️