Stillmasked

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

@1goodtern Is the point to continue to get this outbreak to spread?

These guys gave out 10,000 doses of antibiotics to people including some who just went into a nightclub. And then they share this bullshit. It's just not true. No, it's not as transmissible as covid or measles, but *almost nothing is*. But it doesn't need *prolonged contact*.

@DissentFu Not far behind you and I feel exactly the same.

Teachers and healthcare workers are holding the entire United States economy together right now. Teachers and healthcare workers have the chance to do the funniest thing...

@MeetJess My bingo card is already full. I don't have room for anymore bad things

Not now

@melina_b_harris I saw the same study and interpreted it the same way. I also tried to get everyone I know to understand those implications.

There were Chinese studies early in the year in 2020 February that said that covid hung in the air and was passed on to someone on a bus 30 mins after the infectious person left I acted accordingly, the government did not and are still not

@TheChefsGardens Americans love spending so much that even the ones who can afford to save money every month still live paycheck to paycheck.

This is funny Paying for stuff, consuming it and then paying for more stuff to consume is literally all people do

@chaitrovert Ppl have become so used to black and white. There is no more room for shades of gray. Vaxxes either work or they don't. Same goes for masks. You're sick or healthy. They don't see that vaxxes and masks can help but don't work 100% of the time. Some diseases make others worse, etc

when will yall get it into your heads that sars-cov-2 is not competing but helping other pathogens to give you deadlier diseases?

@drseanmullen Oh gosh. Me too. We should get better rates.

I want reduced insurance rates! ✅ Novid ✅ 7-day/week respirator-user

Couple comes in for their annual review. $2.8 million. Well invested. Solid Pension. Completely on track. I ask the question I ask everyone. "How is your daughter doing?" Mom's face changed first. Their daughter is 39. Hasn't asked for anything. Never complained. But she's been in the same apartment for six years. Daycare alone is $1,800 a month. Down payment feels impossible. Dad said "we always figured she'd get it eventually." I pulled up a simple chart. Statistically they live to 88. She inherits at 56. Maybe 60. At 60 her own retirement is eight years away. The money that could change everything at 39 arrives when her finish line is already close. Neither of them had ever seen it framed that way. The annual gift exclusion is $19,000 per parent per child. They can move $38,000 a year to her. No gift tax. No estate implications. Over ten years that's $380,000 transferred while they're healthy enough to watch it matter. Dad looked at his wife. "Why are we waiting?" Most families leave everything at death because nobody showed them the math of giving it while they're alive.

@KeruboSk My brain wakes up 15-30min before I need to get up. It just does. It's nice during the workweek but I hate it during weekends or vacation.

Apparently there are people who wake up before their alarm… and just get up. Just one alarm. No snooze. No struggle. Explain yourselves. How do you do that?

@cdtwriter Worn as chin straps, just to be compliant.

They'll be surgical masks no doubt.

@lsthart And those who you thought you could trust would be trying to hide their bite marks.

The pandemic completely changed my understanding of how people would react in a zombie apocalypse. Most would die in the first episode...

@Zedzies @KashPrime @YouAreLobbyLud This is playing a bigger role than people want to acknowledge.

@KashPrime @YouAreLobbyLud Yeah, plus damaged immune sytems.

These students were probably living in closely packed, ancient, poorly ventilated rooms. Spread of disease is inevitable. Many illnesses are more airborne than we'd like to think. It's sad that we didn't learn anything from the pandemic about proper ventilation.

@envidreamz I hope this doesn't end up as bad as it could get.

The disinformation about the meningitis outbreak is coming out faster than feral animals to an unsecured garbage can! Now they want to blame the meningitis outbreak upon the MMR vaccine advocacy last year for the rising cases of Measles. facebook.com/share/p/1C1URE…

@LauraMiers @catladyactivist They will panic and they will have a very hard time adjusting. They are, as we speak, still blissfully unaware of the war with Iran and all the knock-on effects that will have on everything. Not to mention all the things they've gotten so used to ignoring for the last 7 years.

@catladyactivist As we hear people won’t be able to afford to leave their homes soon, I think about the years of practice we’ve had. We were living in reality & we adapted. We correctly identified society’s impending collapse & prepared accordingly. The Pretend Normal folks are going to panic.

Yeah, we're in the SEVENTH YEAR of this now. It's not like this was a brief thing that disabled folks had to weather through. This is life now, and we're effectively excluded from most of it unless we're willing to risk out lives or what's left of our health.

@TheChefsGardens I know too many ppl who are living in complete ignorance of any "bad news." Pandemic? That's been over a long time ago Cov? No one gets that anymore Why are gas prices so high? What war? Meanwhile, I've been restarting my very small garden and trying to buy a lil extra food.

When you consider that most don't even know they're still living in a pandemic it's not surprising

@michael_hoerger I love how all of these articles are always in the past tense, as if they aren't continuing to undercount deaths as well as disability that should be attributed to cov infections. 🫩

*We* did not severely undercount deaths, and given the past-tense framing, many are underestimating the number of excess deaths the U.S is likely to experience from 2026-33.

@cb_grl @drseanmullen @jlerollblues I would mount a camera just to catch the moment he gets sprayed with water. 🤣

@drseanmullen @jlerollblues Mount a motion detector that sprays water right there.

Sling shot in the eye

Had a very bad interaction with a dishonest electrician. Installed a security camera in front of our house, just in case. And recently noticed that the neighbor who always let his dog 💩 in our yard, no longer does that. Hooray for small wins.

@NukitToBeSure I agree and it's why most people refuse to acknowledge the scientific evidence of aerosol transmission altogether. Being able to claim ignorance is how most of my family can live with their choices.

I think that in some cases, the better someones grasp of science, the stronger their need to reject aerosol transmission. Because if they accept that it's a dominant mode of transmission and really understand what that means, the implications are far-reaching and incredibly frightening. For the layperson, it's just "Oh, so like coughs but further yeah? Well I'll take extra vitamins LOL" and they get on with their life of episodic illness, possibly debilitating, but with (to them) unclear vectors. For someone with a good grasp of science, if they really understand what almost every respiratory infection having airborne potential means, than they understand that if true, almost all of the modern indoor spaces we have would be unsafe without massive IAQ upgrades- and in many cases those upgrades might not even be physically possible. If airborne transmission is dominant = Nearly all of our indoor physical infrastructure is dangerous and obsolete without costly upgrades. That is a massive, massive social, political, and financial upheaval to contemplate- and people able to see the big picture implications, rejecting it at a visceral level, when a comfortable, nostalgic paradigm of handwashing and coughing into their elbow is right there for them to cling to, is somewhat understandable. It will take a long time, and a great deal more work before many come around- and many never will. Semmelweis's findings were not accepted during his lifetime- and those were a comparatively minor upheaval.

@1goodtern I can see it.

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