#pandemic blues

[cognitiveinequality]

#For REALLLLLL #the fucking DRAMA of some people #like a toddler who refuses to wear pants to the mall #coronavirus #COVID19 #COVID is not over #pandemic blues #pls mask up and get ur shot

[ahollowyear]

I've been furious about this for years. It's 2 years to the day that the CDC held their mask burning party and like 700,000 people have died of covid since, all because the elite think it's cheaper to replace people than keep them whole.

#covid 19 #pandemic blues #pandemic 2023

[shammyb]

What Do ya'll think of the pandemic and all of it's uncertanties/shortages in support? Has your skin become way more sensitive? Has trying to obtain therapy/help become harder? Have you lost abilities you used to have/felt like its just more difficult to speak words in your brain like you used to? Have you been more prone to self-numbing activities? I wanna hear your experience. Youre def not alone.

#pandemic #pandemic blues #covid 19 #mental health #addiction #depression #anxiety #skin sensitivity #ask #me

[mbharestuff]

Down with the flu. We are out of DayQuil so I'm taking NyQuil but countering its dark effects by drinking coffee I think this is probably gonna be fine and normal, as an experience. :)

#flu #pandemic blues #dayquil #nyquil #coffee

[angfdz]

here it is on its own :)

#my art #acrylic painting #pandemic blues

[gravedangerahead]

My dad told Luke I didn't love him anymore and I know he didn't understand that but I cried anyway because that's the kind of idiot I am

#they take turns meowing outside my door #Rapha rambles #pandemic blues #covid19 #my cats #😭

[recursive360]

#Friday night #friday night vibes #snl #aubrey plaza #rock n roll #Saturday #saturday night live #cheers #flashback #retro #time travel #pandemic blues #covid-19

[incontactsg]

Navigating The Pandemic Blues As we wait out the end of this pandemic, let us focus on elements and areas of our lives we can control, adapt to and change. From this, we can also choose to count the areas of our lives that has, in fact, turned out more positively, list the lessons learnt and continue trudging on this path toward the new normal.

#Pandemic Blues

[puppyeared]

Why are ppl scared to call it what it is and say we’re still going thru covid on top of seasonal illness. Like. That’s pretty important right. I was watching the news and they were like oh yeah we have an unprecedented number of flu cases “as well as other sicknesses” without actually saying Covid. No announcement abt vaccinations or masking or anything. Also if I hear someone joking abt “war flashbacks” for mentioning covid I fucking hate u

#source: most of my family members are nurses and it was so bad for one of them they had to be put on a ventilator. in the hospital they #worked at. looking back I think I had a reason to feel a little offput by the shows of support early pandemic #with people tying blue ribbons around trees and lighting signs blue to support healthcare workers #I get that it was supposed to be moral support when we couldn’t do anything but follow health advisories #and it did matter to make them feel uplifted and do something than nothing. im not gonna deny that #but. you can still help now. u know that right. you still have a responsibility here #u can still mask up. u can still get vaxxed and call in sick to avoid infecting others #don’t leave it on healthcare workers to pick up the pieces just because they were doing it before. do u think they had a choice? #nobody likes picking up the slack for someone else and now that we have more tools to do smth couldn’t we just. do it???? #im not a virologist but i also feel like continuing to let it get worse by letting more mutations develop #could continue to set us back since this virus is pretty good at fucking us up long term and finding new ways to do that #while there are ppl still researching covid which is STILL A RELATIVELY NEW VIRUS. and studying possible treatment and cures #yapping #vent

[tomorrowusa]

Four years ago today (March 13th), then President Donald Trump got around to declaring a national state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic. The administration had been downplaying the danger to the United States for 51 days since the first US infection was confirmed on January 22nd.

From an ABC News article dated 25 February 2020...

CDC warns Americans of 'significant disruption' from coronavirus

Until now, health officials said they'd hoped to prevent community spread in the United States. But following community transmissions in Italy, Iran and South Korea, health officials believe the virus may not be able to be contained at the border and that Americans should prepare for a "significant disruption." This comes in contrast to statements from the Trump administration. Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Tuesday the threat to the United States from coronavirus "remains low," despite the White House seeking $1.25 billion in emergency funding to combat the virus. Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, told CNBC’s Kelly Evans on “The Exchange” Tuesday evening, "We have contained the virus very well here in the U.S." [ ... ] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the request "long overdue and completely inadequate to the scale of this emergency." She also accused President Trump of leaving "critical positions in charge of managing pandemics at the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security vacant." "The president's most recent budget called for slashing funding for the Centers for Disease Control, which is on the front lines of this emergency. And now, he is compounding our vulnerabilities by seeking to ransack funds still needed to keep Ebola in check," Pelosi said in a statement Tuesday morning. "Our state and local governments need serious funding to be ready to respond effectively to any outbreak in the United States. The president should not be raiding money that Congress has appropriated for other life-or-death public health priorities." She added that lawmakers in the House of Representatives "will swiftly advance a strong, strategic funding package that fully addresses the scale and seriousness of this public health crisis." Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also called the Trump administration's request "too little too late." "That President Trump is trying to steal funds dedicated to fight Ebola -- which is still considered an epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- is indicative of his towering incompetence and further proof that he and his administration aren't taking the coronavirus crisis as seriously as they need to be," Schumer said in a statement.

A reminder that Trump had been leaving many positions vacant – part of a Republican strategy to undermine the federal government.

Here's a picture from that ABC piece from a nearly empty restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown. The screen displays a Trump tweet still downplaying COVID-19 with him seeming more concerned about the effect of the Dow Jones on his re-election bid.

People were not buying Trump's claims but they were buying PPE.

I took this picture at CVS on February 26th that year.

The stock market which Trump in his February tweet claimed looked "very good" was tanking on March 12th – the day before his state of emergency declaration.

Trump succeeded in sending the US economy into recession much faster than George W. Bush did at the end of his term – quite a feat!. (As an aside, every recession in the US since 1981 has been triggered by Republican presidents.)

Of course Trump never stopped trying to downplay the pandemic nor did he ever take responsibility for it. The US ended up with the highest per capita death rate of any technologically advanced country.

Precious time was lost while Trump dawdled. Orange on this map indicates COVID infections while red indicates COVID deaths. At the time Trump declared a state of emergency, the virus had already spread to 49 states.

The United States could have done far better and it had the tools to do so.

The Obama administration had limited the number of US cases of Ebola to under one dozen during that pandemic in the 2010s. Based on their success, they compiled a guide on how the federal government could limit future pandemics.

Obama team left pandemic playbook for Trump administration, officials confirm

Of course Trump ignored it.

Unlike those boxes of nuclear secrets in Trump's bathroom, the Obama pandemic limitation document is not classified. Anybody can read it – even if Trump didn't. This copy comes from the Stanford University Libraries.

TOWARDS EPIDEMIC PREDICTION: FEDERAL EFFORTS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN OUTBREAK MODELING

Feel free to share this post with anybody who still feels nostalgic about the Trump White House years!

#covid-19 #coronavirus #pandemic #public health #donald trump #trump's incompetent response to the pandemic #covid state of emergency #2020 #trump recession #51 days of trump pandemic dawdling #obama pandemic playbook #2010s ebola outbreak #nostalgia for trump administration #republicans #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[wildwizardcreation]

irl/rpf etho design tests !!! hes so cutes and also ☝ i am in love with him

#castingx #potionsx #shoutout to the rpf server for grabbing so many great mentions of how he looks irl #brunette blue eyed beauty #+ beauty marks big nose and (to be seen) massive fucking arms #i like to think his hair was short for a long time but then he got to experiment with the length during the pandemic #he is very gorgeous to me!!!!

[ahollowyear]

In love with Tunisian crochet, it produces a sturdier fabric than knitting, but is softer and more flexible than euro crochet. I'm off to the healthcare mines so I'm experimenting with different ear-saver types, since kn95s tend to look less intimidating than my regular n95 v-flex.

#crochet #tunisian crochet #fiber art #pandemic blues

[ratxklng]

EVERYONE WANTS TO BE ME !!!

#>dev art #>nevaeh pandem/harper #>human au #my art #oc art #oc artwork #humanoid #pink #purple #blue #suggestive #<- being safe #eyestrain #eye contact #my lovely awful thing #i did this on a whim #if this posts twice im so sorry #tumblr is being weird w me rn…

[estellardreams]

Okay, so... On Issue 4 in StH Cybernetic, we see Sonic go through a multitude of versions during each memory. So... I made this. A full timelapse in a way between where we started to where it ended (before the redesign version) off on past memories.

Left to Right: Before the War, Imprisonment/After the War, Metal Virus, Hospital.

Yep... Blue blur has gone through hell and back and he's still kicking.

#sonic au #digital art #sonic the hedgehog #One small detail I just have to point out tho: Imprisonment Sonic's physical body. Notice how... Thin it is. #Compare that to his previous self who has this full body #Not to mention the drastically pale blue - the glossy eyes - the dried blood and old bruises and dents - #The faint markings of bones sticking through #And then the Metal Virus memory... He's not there yet but you can tell his body is trying to recover #If only a zombie robot pandemic didn't force him to stop eating and just run for so long collapsing due to pain is common. #And then... The incident that led to him losing his left leg. That's an entire lore reason so GO READ THE COMIC! #(or at least that issue. Idk) #Sonic Cybernetic AU #🌸mine

[gravedangerahead]

You're supposed to wait 15 minutes, but the T line immediately got very purple, I don't think it's gonna fade 👀

#is it weird that the control line is much lighter? #pandemic blues

[mumblelard]

maniacally laughing just saw a street preacher with a spanging sign of doctor bronneresque density consensually stripper grind someone who was wearing a vest made out of dead beanie babies or a babo shaped babo

last week the blue moon landed on my birthday for only the second time in my life. so much that happened between those two birthdays was an unwinding of everything that came before, and a lot of that hurt, it really hurt, but now i feel strangely untouchable. i may get one more blue moon birthday in nineteen years. i can't wait to see what this new era brings

in the last week, i saw the giant snapper that rules the bull sluice. i ate fried chicken and seven-up cake, homemade pulled pork nachos, and waffle house. i went to the parade with both of my kids for the first time in a decade. i talked to a good friend on the phone for hours. i laughed so much. i made a delicious pot of very angry beans. i slept with my windows open for the first time since spring, and i drank coffee on my cool breezy porch

it's been a very good week

(oh yeah, and i learned a thing about myself that folks have been telling me since i was sixteen, but i finally heard them, and i am still laughing about it)

#mumblelard laughs #maniacally #blue moons #a hunk of bread a piece of meat and all the mustard you can eat #birthday mushrooms #surprise boxes #strange loops #hope #i was there for some of the beginning most of the middle and all of the end #a portmanteau from that sliver of time between the great wars #i want to be a turtle when i grow up #and that would fix everything #yeah lets go eat some sushi and not pay #pandemic era #fourth summer