#care wear

[autismserenity]

know someone who enjoys horror stories? share this one! it's true!

hahahahahahahahahaha aarrggghhhhhhhhhh 3,000,000 deaths due to COVID-19 last year. Globally. Three million. Case rates higher than 90% of the rest of the pandemic. The reason people are still worried about COVID is because it has a way of quietly fucking up your body. And the risk is cumulative.

I'm going to say that again: the risk is cumulative.

It's not just that a lot of people get bad long-term effects from it. One in seven or so? Enough that it's kind of the Russian Roulette of diseases. It's also that the more times you get it, the higher that risk becomes. Like if each time you survived Russian Roulette, the empty chamber was removed from the gun entirely. The worst part is that, psychologically, we have the absolute opposite reaction. If we survive something with no ill effects, we assume it's pretty safe. It is really, really hard to override that sense of, "Ok, well, I got it and now I probably have a lot of immunity and also it wasn't that bad." It is not a respiratory disease. Airborne, yes. Respiratory disease, no: not a cold, not a flu, not RSV.

Like measles (or maybe chickenpox?), it starts with respiratory symptoms. And then it moves to other parts of your body. It seems to target the lungs, the digestive system, the heart, and the brain the most.

It also hits the immune system really hard - a lot of people are suddenly more susceptible to completely unrelated viruses. People get brain fog, migraines, forget things they used to know.

(I really, really hate that it can cross the blood-brain barrier. NOTHING SHOULD EVER CROSS THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER IT IS THERE FOR A REASON.) Anecdotal examples of this shit are horrifying. I've seen people talk about coworkers who've had COVID five or more times, and now their work... just often doesn't make sense? They send emails that say things like, "Sorry, I didn't mean Los Angeles, I meant Los Angeles."

Or they insist they've never heard of some project that they were actually in charge of a year or two before.

Or their work is just kind of falling apart, and they don't seem to be aware of it.

People talk about how they don't want to get the person in trouble, so their team just works around it. Or they describe neighbors and relatives who had COVID repeatedly, were nearly hospitalized, talked about how incredibly sick they felt at the time... and now swear they've only had it once and it wasn't bad, they barely even noticed it.

(As someone who lived with severe dissociation for most of my life, this is a genuinely terrifying idea to me. I've already spent my whole life being like, "but what if I told them that already? but what if I did do that? what if that did happen to me and I just don't remember?") One of its known effects in the brain is to increase impulsivity and risk-taking, which is real fucking convenient honestly. What a fantastic fucking mutation. So happy for it on that one. Yes, please make it seem less important to wear a mask and get vaccinated. I'm not screaming internally at all now.

I saw a tweet from someone last year whose family hadn't had COVID yet, who were still masking in public, including school.

She said that her son was no kind of an athlete. Solidly bottom middle of the pack in gym.

And suddenly, this year, he was absolutely blowing past all the other kids who had to run the mile. He wasn't running any faster. His times weren't fantastic or anything. It's just that the rest of the kids were worse than him now. For some reason. I think about that a lot. (Like my incredibly active six-year-old getting a cold, and suddenly developing post-viral asthma that looked like pneumonia.

He went back to school the day before yesterday, after being home for a month and using preventative inhalers for almost week.

He told me that it was GREAT - except that he couldn't run as much at recess, because he immediately got really tired. Like how I went outside with him to do some yard work and felt like my body couldn't figure out how to increase breathing and heart rate.

I wasn't physically out of breath, but I felt like I was out of breath. That COVID feeling people describe, of "I'm not getting enough air." Except that I didn't have that problem when I had COVID.) Some people don't observe any long (or medium) term side effects after they have it.

But researchers have found viral reservoirs of COVID-19 in everyone they've studied who had it.

It just seems to hang out, dormant, for... well, longer than we've had an opportunity to observe it, so far.

(I definitely watched that literal horror movie. I think that's an entire genre. The alien dormant under ice in the Arctic.)

(oh hey I don't like that either!!!!!!!!!) All of which is to explain why we should still care about avoiding it, and how it manages to still cause excess deaths. Measuring excess deaths has been a standard tool in public health for a long time.

We know how many people usually die from all different causes, every year. So we can tell if, for example, deaths from heart disease have gone way up in the past three years, and look for reasons. Those are excess deaths: deaths that, four years ago, would not have happened. During the pandemic, excess death rates have been a really important tool. For all sorts of reasons. Like, sometimes people die from COVID without ever getting tested, and the official cause is listed as something else because nobody knows they had COVID. But also, people are dying from cardiovascular illness much younger now.

People are having strokes and heart attacks younger, and more often, than they did before the pandemic started. COVID causes a lot of problems. And some of those problems kill people. And some of them make it easier for other things to kill us. Lung damage from COVID leading to lungs collapsing, or to pneumonia, or to a pulmonary embolism, for example. The Economist built a machine-learning model with a 95% confidence interval that gauges excess death statistics around the world, to tell them what the true toll of the ongoing COVID pandemic has been so far.

Total excess deaths globally in 2023: Three million.

3,000,000.

Official COVID-19 deaths globally so far: Seven million. 7,000,000. Total excess deaths during COVID so far: Thirty-five point two million. 35,200,000.

Five times as many.

That's bad. I don't like that at all. I'm glad last year was less than a tenth of that. I'm not particularly confident about that continuing, though, because last year we started a period of really high COVID transmission. Case rates higher than 90% of the rest of the pandemic. Here's their data, and charts you can play with, and links to detailed information on how they did all of this:

Here's a non-paywalled link to it:

https://archive.vn/2024.01.26-012536/https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates

Oh: here's a link to where you can buy comfy, effective N95 masks in all sizes:

Those ones are about a buck each after shipping - about $30 for a box of 30. They also have sample packs for a dollar, so you can try a couple of different sizes and styles.

You can wear an N95 mask for about 40 total hours before the effectiveness really drops, so that's like a dollar for a week of wear.

They're also family-owned and have cat-shaped masks and I really love them. These ones are cuter and in a much wider range of colors, prints, and styles, but they're also more expensive; they range from $1.80 to $3 for a mask. ($18-$30 for a box of ten.)

#covid isn't over #covid 19 #disability rights #disability advocacy #wear a mask #covid conscious #covid cautious #mask up #wall of words #public health #health care

[kathaynesart]

Out of the frying pan and into the fryer we go.

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Whew, finally done! Sorry it took so long, this is the largest update I've done yet clocking in at about 15 pages (compared to my usual 7-10). Also, congrats to those who guessed Todd for the distraction! Poor guy went through the last of his mystically preserved lemons just for this moment. What a bro.

#I'm probably the only person who likes Todd haha #Donnie and I both have sensitive wrists so we don't like wearing dangly bracelets #up next is finally some action #rottmnt replica #replica #save rottmnt #rottmnt #I'm not dead #just tired #this is the worst possible time to update but I don't care #kathaynesart #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #unpause rise of the tmnt #tmnt #that's a lot of mugs #Donnie cleans them all regularly #hi agent bishop #that's some darn good lemonade #cw pregnancy

[antlerlad]

protect your friends! protect your neighbours! mask the fuck up!

covid isn't over!

#graphic design #wear a mask #if youre going to be an antivaxxer under here. i dont care. leave. #im teaching myself illustrator heehoo

[phoenixonwheels]

Just your regular reminder to those of you (that’s most of you) not masking because you’re “not high risk” and “don’t have a preexisting condition” that a covid infection is a preexisting condition and you are now high risk.

[ID: Tweet from LizWhatsHerFace @RealGayArbys “Look at this graph. If you're on infection number two or three, your risk of being hospitalized if you get Covid again is VERY heightened. And your risk of a lot of other bad stuff happening is higher too. You need to act accordingly. You likely don't know what number you're on.” Graph showing the impact of reinfections from Covid on hazard ratio from various conditions, US Veterans affairs population. Data comes from a 2022 study published in Nature titled "Acute and postacute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection." As the study abstract states, the data shows that "First infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is associated with increased risk of acute and postacute death and sequelae in various organ systems."]

#not caring about immunocompromised people has made you immunocompromised #funny how that works #karma is a bitch #wear a fucking mask #covid 19 #wear a mask

[solarmorrigan]

Any time Eddie reaches for Steve's hair, Steve stops him. Whether it's when they're kissing and Eddie wants to bury his hands in it, or something more casual, like when Steve is sitting in front of Eddie while they watch a movie and Eddie idly tries to play with it

The moment Eddie's hands start to stray backwards from Steve's face, or upwards from his shoulders, Steve stops him. He's actually grabbed Eddie's hand midair once

Everyone assumes it's because Steve's hair is Off Limits

It's actually because Eddie keeps forgetting he's wearing his dumbass chunky rings and they once got so tangled in Steve's hair that Eddie had had to slip his fingers out of them before he could actually work them free, and now Eddie isn't allowed to touch Steve's head unless he takes the rings off first

#speaking as someone who used to have long hair and got it tangled in my jewelry more frequently than I'd care to admit #I cringe a tiny bit every time I see pictures of Eddie carding his fingers through his own or Steve's hair while still wearing those rings #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #eddiesteve

[themarvelmarauder]

James Potter wears contacts when he plays qudditch. And Regulus hates it. That's the post.

#marauders #marauders era #james potter #i dont care that he can do magic #he wears contacts because its easier #and because i wear contacts when i play footy #regulus black #jegulus #starchaser #sunseeker #regulus hates him in contacts #he thinks james needs his glasses

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

coming to terms

#ethan winters #leon kennedy #lethan #resident evil #resident evil fanart #rebhfun #roomate au #smile #i think ethan runs cold #this is my excuse for him wearing a jacket and hoodie indoors #bro is a corpse sorry #leon is awkward but he cares

[buttl0rd]

competitive shitting who's gonna win

#a lot to unpack here #kenny shittin with the seat up he's gonna join mrs donovan if he aint careful #cartman not wearing underwear dont worry abt it... #u know they're having a philosophical discussion here #south park #eric cartman #kenny mccormick #sp cartman #sp kenny #kenman #i guess? #buttf(art)

[triona-tribblescore]

conversation with a friend went a little like this

#really quick silly doodle before i buckle down doing college work for the night #arent we all a little tired of having to grow up? #i am #make sure to take care of yourself <3 #have a warm drink and wear a cozy hoodie or something #rottmnt #rottmnt fanart #rottmnt leo #rottmnt raph #TCEST DNI!!!!! #cant believe I gotta add that #but just to be safe x #tribbleart #<3 #whats their duo name again?

[b4rfbrain]

playing it cool is soooo incredibly stupid

tell people you love them. tell them you miss them or think about them all the time. respond right away. text them first.

people are so cold but being warm feels so good. close interpersonal relationships that hold meaning are one of the best things that this world has to offer. don’t deny yourself from that experience out of pride or fear of rejection.

#and people who don’t like when people are openly enthusiastic and caring about them aren’t worth your time #social interactions are already hard enough why not just be direct and as open as you can be #it feels so much better to wear your heart on your sleeve and get rejected rather than keeping it in

[hinamie]

just looking at these hand poses was enough to give me carpal tunnel and that's how u know they're prime megu material

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #megumi fushiguro #yuuji itadori #megumi #yuuji #fanart #jjk fanart #itafushi #sometimes u gotta take a break from drawing megumi to draw different megumi and thats on self care #smiling megu for the soul he said heart emoji i said :D #i tried to do the poses myself and . u kno. im not convinced hands are meant to contort that way guys :( it hurt :( #so yuuji can share my pain i think tht bit is cute #tried smth a bit different w the skin rendering and i rly rly like it holy #very early era vacuumchan inspired :'> lov them SM sighs #also ripped megus jacket directly from a pinterest fit bc one of us deserves nice things :(((( #if sukuna wont stop wearing megumi in canon ill just play dress up to cope

[churroflavoredwaffles]

doodles of my personal ctommy design

#Sorryyy the format is like so weird these are all on one huge canvas so. the cropping is hard #Ummm Context! this is a special outfit made for prayer/religious reasons #he does not wear this everyday that would be crazy. He still has the cardigan/khakis #cdream also wears a similiar garment yet slightly different <- Becausde they were in church together you get it #<- ​ok sorry for rambling this is just for anybody who cares #dsmp #c!tommy #ctommy #dream smp #dsmp fanart #doodlez

[nighmoons]

i enjoy how in the percy jackson fandom whenever the demigods are being drawn they are given outfits and accesories that play homage to their godly parent (e.g nico with ghouly tshirt motifs, percy with shell bracelets) when in canon these demigods are wearing an assortment of shirts and pants that they find at the bottom of a bargain bin at target, whatever that has not been destroyed in the recent war or camp shirt.

#will solace canonically wears CARGO shorts #i dont think the demigods care much about the concept of fashion #too busy trying to survive #but i appreciate the artistic sentiments #pjato #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #nico di angelo #annabeth chase #will solace #grover underwood #rachel elizabeth dare #percyseries #hoo #jason grace #piper mclean #leo valdez #hazel levesque #frank zhang #other characters etc etc u get my Point #pjo fandom #disney plus

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

chinese school uniform fashion: tracksuit, sports polo shirts, water proof jacket, jogging shoes, sportswear, oversize, convenient, suitable for most movements, resistant to dirt and easy to clean, pockets are deep and can hold a lot of things, and girls do not have to wear a skirt

#china #douyin #video #fashion #chinese fashion #chinese xiaofu/school uniform #a few schools may have western uniforms but nobody cares #high school students in china wear sportswear as their formal dress for occasions like commencement and graduation

[pretty--in--purple]

kabru as a psych student who KNOWS about ethics guidelines and KNOWS he's not qualified to make diagnostic statements and therefore spends every moment with laios grinding his teeth to dust because HOW DOES THIS MAN THINK HE'S NEUROTYPICAL!??!?!?

#like half a year into their friendship falin mentions that laios was clocked as autistic as a young kid but never officially diagnosed #and that he doesn't personally think he checks the boxes bc #'it's not an abnormal level of interest in animals EVERYONE cares that much about migration' #and kabru smashes his phone #laios: don't you just hate it when wearing a sweater gives you a headache? #kabru: i'm not a clinician i'm not a clinician i'm not a clinician- #based on my experience as an autistic psych student #kabru #kabru of utaya #laios touden #falin touden #<in tags only #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #labru

[kangaruthi]

sleepy harrow

#edit: people keep saying she’s too flat for a binder which is true #but what you need to understand about harrow is she’s drawn to dumbass self care decisions like a moth to a flame #this is a modern au if she can’t pass out in a haunted basement by god she WILL sleep in a binder she doesn’t need to be wearing anyway #also i think of it as an irl exoskeleton equivalent #she did NOT need to be doing all that with the bones either but she did it for the flair and to feel safe in her body #harrowhark nonagesimus #the locked tomb #art #fanart #digital art #sketch