propaganda of the forced birth movement
carley-carley-carley asked:
Light doesn’t have a drivers license because he keeps all of the mirrors in a car angled to his face just in case the audience needs another visual aid of light being duplicitous and deceptive.
13eyond13 answered:
reminder that even if the world health organization says covid is over, it isnt.
Turns out it was just a bunch of news organizations completely misrepresenting what the WHO said. COVID isn't over. They're shifting from "world health emergency" to long term strategies because major countries failed to even contain it because they were so adamant to send everybody back to work as fast as possible. WHO's announcement that COVID is no longer a global health emergency isnt something to celebrate. It shows that everyone (governments and anti-maskers/vaxxers, mostly) collectively failed to care enough.
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1654477334139863041
of course. news organizations took this and rolled with it, misleading everyone into believing COVID is no longer anything to worry about. exactly what they said Not To Fucking Do
To be clear, this means Covid is now ENDEMIC. Which means it’s part of the permanent illness ecosystem.
So wash your hands, wear a mask if you’re ill and can’t stay home (but try to stay home that’s for the best), and keep on top of your Covid boosters. It’s also not a bad idea to carry wet wipes for high-touch areas, because people are fucking gross.
I still wear a mask every day and I can't imagine ever getting to a point where I'm comfortable enough to stop. I got covid when I was being the most careful I could be after lockdown: wear n95s (even outside), limiting contact with people, washing my hands constantly.
I was lucky enough to have it pretty tame despite my asthma but I don't want it again. I don't want to give it to my friends and family so I will continue to wear masks and continue to carry around hand sanitizer.
If only the leaders of the god damn world cared even a little bit about the safety of the population. Maybe then I wouldn't be so anxious all the time..
Literally the day after I reblogged this, I tested positive for Covid.
Here is what I need you to know that a lot of these posts won’t tell you: I FEEL FINE. The symptoms I’m having are the same symptoms as an allergy attack, and I do get those because I have a hate-hate relationship with the tree right outside my bedroom window. My throat’s a bit sore and I’ve got a headache and some fatigue. I work in a dusty warehouse that has pretty shit airflow so I literally wrote this off as “between the palo verde and work I’m not surprised, I guess it’s time to switch to Zyrtec for the summer.” The only reason I got tested is because my roommate turned out to be positive. Now my entire workplace has to get tested, because I truly thought this was just allergies. I unintentionally exposed dozens of people. Many of them have children. To say I’m horrified is an understatement. I alerted my manager at once to make sure everyone gets tested ASAP, but if I’ve done damage, it’s already done. There’s nothing I can do.
I don’t say this to downplay the severity of Covid. I say it to emphasize that if you feel poorly, STAY HOME. Get a test. Wear a mask. Apparently the current variant can present so mildly it literally passes for allergies. Which is good for people who catch it (I’d much rather be dealing with this than the ICU), but isn’t good for people who may be exposed through innocent ignorance and may get the exact same strain but much worse symptoms (and of course, long Covid is a threat no matter how mild your initial symptoms are).
I ordered a test for delivery through UberEats since they offer pharmacy shopping now, but I strongly recommend you just buy a couple to keep on hand. This battle isn’t over.
I am begging y’all to please wear a mask (ideally an N95, such as a 3M aura, or at least a KN95 or KF94) in public and in crowds, indoor AND outdoor, even when you DON’T feel sick or have any symptoms. At least 20% — and some sources say up to 60% — of cases are asymptomatic!!! Meaning you could feel completely fine, waltzing through the grocery store or restaurant or concert maskless, and be shedding virus and infecting countless other people!! Please mask up to protect yourself and others. If you’ve stopped, it’s never too late to start again. It is never pointless.
Also — just want to clarify a couple things mentioned above.
1) Covid is not endemic. Here’s a good explanation as to why:
2) While I’m very glad to hear the person above is experiencing mild acute symptoms, I hope people reading that don’t interpret it as a reason to drop precautions like masking, testing, avoiding crowds, etc!! And the next things I’ll say are not meant to scare y’all, but to reiterate the seriousness of this ongoing viral pandemic.
Covid is not becoming more mild. It is, rather, becoming more infectious and more immune-evasive, meaning immunity you may have from vaccines or prior infections protects you less as new variants evolve and spread.
While the acute phase of covid can result in mild symptoms for some people, the long-term effects are worrying. An increasing number of previously healthy young people are getting strokes, heart attacks, brain fog and other severe post-covid sequelae. Even mild cases can result in brain damage equivalent to an extra year of aging, and covid can impair your body’s ability to fight off future infections. An estimated 23 million Americans and 65 million people globally have or have had long covid, a cluster of often life-altering and debilitating symptoms that persist weeks, months, and even years after an acute infection. Hell, the WHO themselves recently stated that you have a 1 in 10 chance of developing LC with each infection, though some estimates put it at 1 in 5. Idk about y’all but I am not tryna fuck around and find out with those odds.
I’m not even going to get into the eugenic aspects of the way the US government and corporations are handling this pandemic, because I’m tired and don’t want to type all that out right now. But that’s another important reason to wear a mask, imo. Since the pandemic started, disabled people have been pushed out of society and repeatedly ignored and told the basic protections we’re asking for are too much to ask. They’re not. Caring for the people around you by wearing a mask is one of the most radical things you can do right now. Don’t let the government and capitalist corporations convince you otherwise.
Lastly, what we have to remember is that we are early on in this pandemic. We are just starting to see the long-term effects that repeat covid infections are having on people, and they are, frankly, horrifying. What will the world be like 10 years from now, if everyone keeps going along with the back-to-normal getting-infected-twice-a-year grind?
Anyways. Personally, for all these reasons and more, I’m not willing to take risks like going unmasked in public. I’ve avoided restaurants, bars, movie theaters, concerts, and other large gatherings since March 2020. I continue to wear an N95 in public, both indoors and outdoors if I’m around a bunch of people. I use other mitigation tools like air filters and antiviral nasal spray to further reduce my risk, and I…. may or may not have hypothetically used a fake name to get two Novavax shots even though I wasn’t eligible for more vaccines since I got a bivalent booster back in the fall. (No I didn’t. I would never do something illegal! Even if the government were dragging its feet on updating vaccine guidelines! Haha! You should definitely not do something like that!) is it hard to live like this? Fuck yeah. It fucking sucks sometimes. But you know what would suck more? Throwing caution to the wind and listening to corporations urging me to get back to normal and then getting repeatedly infected and probably becoming even more disabled or dying.
I would much rather make some sacrifices socially and listen to doctors and scientists and long covid survivors who have been sounding the alarm bells and screaming from the rooftops since 2020. Because I love my life, I love being able to do the things I’m able to do, and I don’t want to lose that by getting long covid. I don’t want to raise my risk of dying young from a stroke or heart attack. I don’t want to risk infecting someone else and condemning them to that fate because I wasn’t wearing a mask. And I doubt that any of y’all want that either, deep down. 💖
First cat video ever? 1899, colorized & speed corrected.
I am always blown away by this. Like. This little girl was alive and laughing and wearing her little hat and in the sunshine over 100 years ago. And her cat was eating little treats from her hands and having a fun little time over 100 years ago. Like. Their existence in history is recorded as so much more than the moody and serious black and white Victorian family portraits. AND WE GET TO SEE IT AND FEEL AS HAPPY AS THEY WERE! I have so many feelings!
If anybody wants to look it up, it’s called “La Petite Fille et son Chat”.
(◡‿◡✿)
(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”
(ʘ‿ʘ)ノ✿ “hold my flower”
✿\(。-_-。) “Kick his ass, baby. I got yo flower.”
i found it
the original post
i found it
this should have the opportunity to be on everyone’s blog.
*tour guide voice*
and here on the left ladies and gentlemen, you see one of the posts before everyone went batshit crazy
World Heritage Post
Everyone here is dead.




![screenshot of a CNBC article. text reads "Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned. Raina MacIntyre, a professor of global biosecurity at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, told CNBC that although endemic disease can occur in very large numbers, the number of cases does not change rapidly as seen with the coronavirus. "If case numbers do change [with an endemic disease], it is slowly, typically over years," she said via email. "Epidemic diseases, on the other hand, rise rapidly over periods of days to weeks." Scientists use a mathematical equation, the so-called R naught (or R0), to assess how quickly a disease is spreading. The R0 indicates how many people will catch a disease from an infected person, with experts at Imperial College London estimating omicron's could be higher than 3. If a disease's R0 is greater than 1, growth is exponential, meaning the virus is becoming more prevalent and the conditions for an epidemic are present, MacIntyre said."](https://64.media.tumblr.com/3fda034442820f2637645406882e89d7/7fae1b0a3b1ca164-b6/s1280x1920/461a710e7a516d604ceefc3b44a0f43657912033.jpg)















