My #CovidIsNotOver table at the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) at the Rhetoric Society (RSA)! Art by @JoBlakely and @violetblue ; zines by @hnewlevant ; flyers by @phpledge and bit.ly/lesscovid. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions on how to make it engaging--it's been lovely to meet other #CovidCautious people and create some visibility around #disability and #COVID .
You know how you can smell a cigarette from far away, across the room, or after they left, or outside across the yard, or up the sidewalk, or on a restaurant patio, or even not even know where it’s coming from, but you can smell it?
Covid is aerosolized, it spreads across distances like that too. But you can’t smell it.
Think about that next time you smell cigarette smoke. Think about it next time you get that “just a cold” again.
Radio news just now, talking about "job growth" and listing medical as first in their list of where such number goes up is happening.
Now why might we be seeing more need for medical jobs in now our fifth year of pandemic?
Meanwhile, ex-administration official they bring in to talk to the issue, skips right past this; talks about growth in hospitality jobs "after" pandemic "lock-downs".
It occurred to me today that even though over 1 million Americans have died from Covid, we have no national memorial or national day day of mourning and how the powers that be have decided to memory hole the whole thing and how wrong this is.
😷 C'est le 1er dimanche du mois, il y a la messe de l'#AutodéfenseSanitaire : les Canards Masquées sont de sortie chez les camarades de @cabrioles.
Pour cette 3e chronique nous avons bossé sur "la vulnérabilité". Eh bien ce fut riche de brainstorming(ssss) collectif vu tout ce que cette notion détient à tort et à travers. Nous n'avons pas prétention d'être exhaustif-ves pour un tel bref format d'écriture, alors volontiers pour apprendre de vos critiques constructives.
On y discute de comment la catégorie « vulnérables » a conduit la majorité de la population à se croire visiblement “invulnérable”. 🙄
In this 5th year of the Pandemic, I'm kinda gut punched by the abandonment of friends, some family and my peers.
I get punched again each time I see an event CFP shared with no health policy.
I recommend reading this piece by @MediaActivist . It's a very long, comprehensive read.
You aren't alone. This isn't your fault. Our society as it is set this up. It's just more of us are on the sharp edges of it. We're the canaries in the coalmine.
I have been fortunate enough to be one of the 10% of the population to not have had COVID-19, but today that changed. I have now been infected, despite my best efforts to protect myself and my loved ones. I have lived a life of isolation for the past 4 years, unable to live a participatory life, because our governments, including our Councils, refuse to take precautions to protect disabled people.
Not only do I have COVID, my parents, including my Mum who has cancer, have both got it. Mum will now miss this weeks round of chemo, all because selfish people refuse to wear a mask in public and stay at home when they are sick.
Tell me, should I now walk into our Council offices, community houses, libraries, etc. without a mask, so our bureaucrats can understand the fear I have experienced every day for the past 4 years? Should I be as selfish as they have been and put their health and lives at risk? No, because unlike them, I have a heart and actually care about our community; the very community they are paid to care about and to ensure the safety of!
I feel like death, but the fight is not over - I will be back soon to fight for the community I love. Godspeed everyone.
“People think, oh, I’ve gotten COVID, so that should give me some immunity. That’s actually wrong. It turns out that having COVID once gives you a little bit of immunity to that variant, but it doesn’t really give you much immunity at all to the next variant. So with new variants emerging every month, you only have about four to six weeks of immunity, effectively, from catching COVID.”
Omg. While our symptoms are different, SO MUCH of this woman’s story could’ve been mine. I was nodding my head the entire way through. She’s captured the essence of Long Covid perfectly.
Send sick kids to school.
Send sick workers to work.
Mask the disease with pseudoephedrine
(no actual masks)
Reduce and remove vaccinations and testing.
Ignore air quality.
This is our covid non-response from July.
It's foolish and against the current scientific evidence.
It's going to hurt and kill so many people.
Everyone is vulnerable.
Rappel que vous pouvez vous faire vacciner en France contre le COVID jusqu'au 14 juin. C'est ouvert à toustes, on peut prendre rdv en pharmacie. #CovidIsNotOver #AutodefenseSanitaire
🇮🇪 Irish health chiefs sound alarm amid spike in Covid cases and hospitalisations.
"The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has confirmed an almost 20% rise in cases in a week up to May 25"
"Fatigue, a high temperature/having chills and a dry cough are the top three Covid symptoms, according to the HSE but there are others to be aware of."