#COVID talk

[briarpatch-kids]

The new Futurama is so dated in a bad way. It's supposed to be "the future as imagined in 1999" we don't need amazon, streaming, and a covid episode.

#covid talk #Futurama

[magiccarpetman]

Cw for weight talk in this one.

So I have covid. Nasty cough, fevers, the works. I’m ambulatory and on the mend but not having fun.

This evening, an acquaintance from class visited and tried to cheer us all up by assuring us that covid makes you lose a bunch of weight.

Reader, I did not leap six feet forward to bite her head off. Because it would have exposed her, and that would be wrong.

“Well,” I said instead of biting her or going off about what a ridiculous line of bullshit she was spouting, “that would be a definite negative.”

One of my friends brought the mood back up by cracking a joke about how skinny I am, and the conversation meandered on, but I’m going to be stuck on this all night.

When you make that kind of comment, you never know the medical history of the people you’re addressing (not that it would be cool if you did). I spent most of my teens trying to gain enough weight that I would stop PASSING THE FUCK OUT all the time because, among other reasons, people who correlated weight and health were STARVING ME. So NO, I am not excited to find that I might lose some of the health I’ve managed to claw back for myself.

There were ten of us standing there, and I was the only one who said anything. I’m angry. I’m tried. I’m sick. Fatphobia poisons everything.

Goodnight.

#weight #fatphobia #rant #covid talk #weight talk

[yamameta-inc]

it blows my mind that we're just letting covid happen like.... not even the economic impact is enough to motivate people in positions of power to act because short term incentives will always win out. rich people have the tools to protect themselves so what do they really have to fear? but this is just insane. we don't even have a single antiviral capable of getting rid of covid in your body--paxlovid can only temporarily stop replication. it's unbelievable.

#covid talk

[elkian]

One incredibly frustrating thing about COVID in the USA is the constant, pervasive, Murica Fuck Yeah! culture could have been leveraged to end that shit quick. When described to my coworker, he bequeathed the phrase "winning COVID" which... yeah.

If we'd just slanted it as "don't you want to WIN COVID? Don't you want to prove the US is the best?? USA! USA! USA!" we could have had a chance, I think.

#im so tired #covid talk

[alexandenigtscreations]

For my first personal post of the year I am, once again, complaining about long haul covid. Got reinfected in November and it's been kicking my butt inchworm style ever since.

Even though I know that it can take a month or more for covid to add things (cuz was still dealing with round 1), it's different to realize that you are getting the #extra symptoms.

Like fatigue, chronic stomach ache and a damned cough that is explosively loud but never reaches a where it needs to. There are other things to but sleeping for 16+ hours on my off days ticks me off.

I'm an athletic 28 year old with ADHD. I don't know how to be tired.

Okay whining over, hope you all are fairing well. You have all been such dears.

#alexandenight #my art #personal #long haul #covid #covid talk #comic #floor time is necessary

[grimweathers]

my pcr test from saturday was negative, but i have been having mild symptoms on and off… and today i woke up feeling like hot garbage, coughing up a storm, and getting winded after a 10 minute walk with my dog……. so i’m doing another pcr test later today. i think it finally got me :(

#covid talk

[loveyourownsmiilee]

What they don’t fucking tell you about Covid long term side effects are that they can add onto your fucking depression in a way where you truly are numb to everything and everyone. I fucking hate this bullshit and I hate how it’s still affecting my life months after. 

#personal #juju rambles #covid talk

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

being a student during peak pandemic was so fucking surreal like. "it's not an excuse to fall behind" I cannot stress enough to you how much A Worldwide Plague Upending Life As We Know It is literally one of The Top Three Reasons to fall behind

#you go upstairs to hear the news talk about the death toll hitting 100k. you get some frozen waffles bc its all you've got stocked up #and you wont risk going to get groceries or takeout. you go back downstairs because you have a 3 page essay due. #you stare at your word doc with lofi playing and wonder why you can't just buckle down and work like normal. #or really. you pretend to wonder #because you know the reason you cant work like normal #you just refuse to allow yourself to believe its reason enough #mine #academia #covid mention

[flanphiptere]

If I end up getting Covid because of my work place Im quitting

#flan speaks #covid talk #vent.txt #I swear to GOD #'Flan why do you wear a mask Covid is over' YEAH IS IT?? IS THAT WHY WE'RE SHORT 3 PEOPLE TODAY?? #BECAUSE ONE IS OUT FROM COVID AND ANOTHER TWO ARE STAYING HOME UNTIL THEY KNOW IF THEY'RE NEGATIVE OR NOT #i fucking hate this stupid piece of shit country

[screaming-weevil]

Actively losing respect for some of my friends who, despite getting covid not even a month ago and/or having exposures THIS WEEK, are not wearing masks in public. kill

#mumblings and mutterings #covid talk

[briarpatch-kids]

Man, there really is a lot of privilege involved in who gets sick and who doesn't. I've been the same amount careful as my friend who works at a college and parents school age kids and all that but this is my first major exposure and this is her third infection because she can't stay home all the time and her husband's ex is irresponsible and keeps getting the kids sick.

#tay dont look #covid talk

[wherestoriescomefrom]

rian johnson took all that time, put in all that effort to make glass onion a fantastic period piece to the first four months of pandemic, a prescient narrative that anticipates the stupidity of rich billionaires, and then pulled the rug from under us because the world of benoit blanc just straight up doesn't have the mona lisa anymore

#Some geniuses in the notes are talking about how it wasn't the real mona lisa #And I'm editing my tags because tumblr is a website with minimal reading comprehension #But the POINT is that he went through all that effort to make the world canon complaint with ours #Only to DESTROY a cultural artefact real or not #Having massive political implications for the world #And that's what I was pointing out. Here and in another reblog that presumably no one will care to fish out #It's in the replies for those looking #Anyway I hope rian johnson makes ten of these without the mona lisa #Also as a side note. So many movies have ignored covid #Not this man. He's like no we'll include it. But if we divert from canon reality #We're going to destroy the mona lisa #Love that for him. Icon #hello void this is ridiculosity #knives out #glass onion

[thehallstara]

anyways happy pride to all my high risk queers out there, to all my disabled queers for whom events aren't accessible to, to my immunocompromised folks who can't risk attending events where people aren't masked or taking covid precautions! happy pride to my fellow cripqueers that want to be out there fighting and celebrating with their friends and family and can't because it's not safe for them to do so– you're not alone and you deserve to celebrate too. we all do.

#s.txt #okay to rb by the way #ngl this is mostly for myself but it's also something i feel strongly about #especially given everything i've seen lately talking about weighing risk vs pleasure as if they're mutually exclusive #or that there aren't high risk queer folks that deserve to access queer joy as well #i would literally kill to be able to celebrate pride with my queer fam this year and i can't bc i can't afford a reinfection #and it makes me so sad #queer #pride month #covid mention #covid isn't over

[baladric]

i feel like i skipped the actual covid part right into long-covid and honestly i can’t say im surprised, bc that’s what i’ve been most scared of the whole time :’) my brain fog is so dense that everything just feels distant all the time, and so much as going downstairs exhausts me so deeply i end up short of breath and having palpitations, and i can’t think and i’m so fucking dizzy, have had a headache for a solid week, and it’s like. my body didn’t even have the decency to give me the validation of being super sick first. i coughed for? maybe a day. never had a fever for maybe an hour, still never tested positive on a home test and i didn’t have the resources to get to a center to get a legit test, and i’m just. staring down an interminable future of this. which is melodramatic of me probably, but idk what else to think? i barely got sick and i’m already in long-haul symptoms and that bodes so fucking ill. i’m so scared to go to work tomorrow bc it means i have to drive twenty minutes both ways at night, and i feel like i’m gonna fucking crash if i try? except lmao i’m not even scared really, bc that would require being able to feel emotions as more than a vague fuzz or a fleeting blood pressure spike. idk! idk idk idk fuck everything, im so fucking tired

#personal #covid talk

[alexandenigtscreations]

Well, ya boy just tested positive for covid.

Joy...

#alexandenight #my art #covid talk #not even over long haul from 2020 #imma bite someone if this interfears with my top surgery consult

[holyvirgilscriptures]

When a person belonging to a minority group says or does something bad, you are, of course, free to criticize them. But it still does not give you the right to be a bigot. Noah Schnapp sharing stupid, careless, and uninformed geopolitical opinions deserves to be called out, but it does not mean that you suddenly get to tell him that he should have been gassed by Hitler or killed by anti-Jewish hate groups or terrorists — both things I've read on Twitter and on Tumblr. It does not justify you calling him homophobic or antisemitic slurs.

"But he deserves it!" you argue. First of all, why do you think so? What makes it okay for any person to be given the green signal to get called slurs, or have people advocate for them to get hatecrimed? And more importantly, you are only signaling to your Jewish friends that you are actually capable of antisemitism. Same thing goes with your queer friends, or any friends belonging to a minority group. When you justify one form of bigotry, even to just one person — you justify all forms of bigotry.

So if you find yourself doing any of these, ask yourself why it's so easy to slip into bigoted rhetoric instead of simply focusing your criticism on what a person did/said.

#here's another example: a couple years back many chinese idols made statements supporting the ccp #despite the fact that the ccp was comitting genocide on its muslim population #it was awful and i have stopped supporting any of these idols #but that doesn't mean i could call these idols sinophobic slurs #and when anti-chinese hate crimes because of covid were spiking it didn't mean i could say that these chinese idols deserved to get beat up #because that is a horrible fucking thing to say #noah schnapp #antisemitism #this is probably the last thing i talk about noah bc again people care too much about him #i'm aware i hold a shockingly unpopular opinion lol #a person from x minority doing something disagreeable is not and will never be grounds for you to act bigoted