Dr Rebecca Richardson
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Advanced Lecturer ( @PWRStanford ). Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian Literature ( @JHUPress ). 19th-c lit, ecocrit, history of econ., medical humanities
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In awe of the student who, after asking for a letter of rec, sent me a Google doc of advice for letter writers, links to the essays he'd written in my classes, copies of my comments on his writing, *and* a list of his memories & takeaways from each class 💫
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So even the CDC less than 2 weeks ago posted that PSA "your next COVID-19 infection could be your worst" & 2000+ ppl are dying per week of acute infections & every study is like "oh oops covid does this OTHER nasty thing" but we don't need to bother staying home when infectious?
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Pointed out on a reddit thread that dirty indoor air gets people sick & someone replied:
"Lol okay go lobby the government to change the building code and retrofit every single building in the province where people get sick."
And I'm like yeah -- exactly that??
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Number of times I got sick per year on average despite all my handwashing, vitamin c supplements, green smoothies, kale etc etc: 1-3
Number of times I have been sick since 2020 when I started masking in public spaces: 0
TikTok influencer, whipping up some nasty drink concoction she thinks will stop her from getting sick: “I’ll do literally anything to not be sick.”
…anything, you say? ANYTHING? Hmmmm… bet I can name one thing you don’t do…
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MaskLab just keeps delivering with these gorgeous designs.
Meanwhile, 3M is just totally giving up on having any role in thinking about the future of mask aesthetics, sigh.
P.S. If anyone needs a MaskLab code for 15% off,
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Seeing all this super super careful advice for avoiding bedbugs is so wild to me because then I just keep wondering -- what's their take on avoiding covid?
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This is why I've been listening to covid aware twitter & continuing to take precautions. The cycle seems to be:
1) hmm something weird is happening
2) accusations of fear-mongering if anyone suggests maybe covid
3) lots of time passes
4) study confirms it was covid; MSM is quiet
Yes. The kids' hepatitis was directly due to SARS-COV-2. Not Adenovirus.
Quelle surprise.
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Maybe worth noting that at this point when experts say we need to “monitor covid-19 patients for an increased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease related symptoms” that means— basically the world population?
Continually wondering what we’re doing in the name of avoiding masks
"Given our findings, we posit that over the coming years, there is a need to closely monitor COVID-19 patients for an increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease related symptoms."
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I always really hang onto these moments: Yesterday, at an outdoor birthday party, when covid cautions came up, a couple from Bend, OR totally agreed that the government is gaslighting us and explained their own precautions (working from home, masking in grocery stores, etc.).
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Early on Tuesday Brad (my bf) was feeling a little off. When I got home that evening he announced he was feeling sick, so we both started masking in shared spaces in the house. We turned up all our air purifiers (we've got 7 for our 2 bedroom apt) & cracked windows. 1/7
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Hmm almost like maybe it was a mistake to declare an end to the public health emergency.
I learned today via FDA why and when the new Covid boosters will be ready
—The reason for the delay is that the Covid Public Health Emergency ended May 11, 2023, so it requires a Product Licensing Application (PLA) instead of an EUA —Now projected to be available ~9/15
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I just don't remember, in the Before Times, having students who got sick multiple times in the span of a 10-week quarter w/ symptoms of a "respiratory illness," & complaining of having a bad immune system. I'm so angry for them.
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Air purifiers in a dumpster is a perfect encapsulation of the way that "living with the virus" has become "pretending the virus doesn't exist and memory-holing our understanding of how airborne infections work."
Brown: “While walking through campus in July, Christopher Vanderpool ’24 stumbled upon an unexpected scene: dozens of air purifiers in a dumpster.
‘That was my first (piece of) knowledge that we probably weren’t going to have air purifiers again.’”
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I'm getting increasingly concerned by the repetition of talking points that frame the "lockdowns" as worse than the virus that has killed millions of people and counting. What are the best examples of pushing back against this and other talking points?
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Sometimes it helps to do a quick test: if I swap out "covid" for "sharks" does this make any fucking sense?
"My partner is worried about swimming through shark-infested waters. I'm not! How can I get him to compromise bc his anxiety is really a drag?"
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In Leana Wen's latest edition of "The Checkup," she attempts to explain why public health measures work against the measles but not covid, and why they can be justified in the case of the measles but not covid.
Spoiler: these arguments don't hold up. 1/4
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A lot of people paying attention and frustrated, but just quietly doing the things they can to protect themselves.
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What...what is going on w/ the wastewater readings at Stanford?
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I've been thinking (worrying) about how we're in a critical moment for the ways we think about this and the earlier stages of the ongoing pandemic. The left has adopted many laissez-faire & right-wing positions -- leaving us even more vulnerable to this & future pandemics. 1/15
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He tested positive for covid this morning. He took two tests bc he was so surprised to see a positive. The line appeared darker than the control and w/in ten seconds. Fortunately he's feeling a little better after a good night's sleep. But well wishes & advice welcome! 7/7
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Real consequences to declaring the pandemic "over" & clawing back the chance to have paid sick days, health insurance, more of a safety net. Working people spending their budgets to protect others -- while the well-off happily fly & vacation when knowingly sick.
A young single mother ordered gatorade & pedialyte from a convenience store a few miles away. Nearly $10 in just my portion of the delivery fees, which surpassed her purchase cost. She & her toddler had COVID. She didn't want to infect others either. I wept.
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Going through San Francisco up to Sausalito today the way masking is falling along race/class lines was really striking. Many people even outside in the city wearing masks, and esp. on buses. Then, up at the expensive ceramics store, we walked in & everyone was white, no masks.
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If I make it through living in a not-big apartment w/ someone who was covid+ for two weeks, can I like, be in charge of the CDC or something?
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Healthcare workers & facilities should be leading the way with defining what it means to protect ourselves & our communities from a SARS virus that's still very much circulating.
#KeepMasksInHealthcare
#MaskWeekofAction
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As a PS: we don't know where he got it. His parents were visiting over the weekend but we'd all tested negative & were avoiding things like indoor dining. His parents aren't as careful as us tho, & he was w/ them more & ate outside on a patio one day?
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I'm delighted to see the Rolling Stone piece on masks but -- honestly? Anti-covid twitter has such better info. Where were the latest styles? The CAN99? Breatheteq? Mask Lab?
It read like someone had just rediscovered masks after tuning out since 2020
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Because luckily there are no vulnerable loved ones in any workplaces or schools
"This alteration would specify that a positive test doesn’t mean they need to stay home from work or school, but that they should avoid close contact with vulnerable loved ones." - Leana Wen
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Immediately after ordering a batch motivated by that "winter garden" design, MaskLab dropped these ADORABLE BEE masks. Ugh MaskLab just take all my money 😭
MaskLab just keeps delivering with these gorgeous designs.
Meanwhile, 3M is just totally giving up on having any role in thinking about the future of mask aesthetics, sigh.
P.S. If anyone needs a MaskLab code for 15% off,
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@calirunnerdoc
We know how to prevent covid infections — we don’t actually have many options for treating long covid. Seems like attention should shift to prevention in order to not have a horrific new “normal” 🙄
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Sigh. It's official,
@Stanford
has further undermined community health, chipping away at the masking policy -- just in time for a fall & winter wave. Amazing how, when you stop having people test, you can claim numbers are low and therefore we can stop doing public health.
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Before 2020 I wondered why we hadn’t solved for the colds and flus and herpes viruses & etc that lower our quality of life.
Now I marvel that we ever managed to control any pathogen anywhere for any amount of time. Even our experts in these fields can’t imagine a better world.
TRASH! "COVID-19 was always destined to be an endemic respiratory virus for which repeated infection would become a fact of life for humans."
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This idea that unhealthy air is only unhealthy for "sensitive groups" has got to go. It's not healthy for ANYONE to be out working or exercising or recreating in wildfire smoke.
*I don't mean to dunk on any one source or person saying this -- this language/logic is everywhere.
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@CDCEnvironment
Are you for real recommending wearing long sleeves but -- totally cool to breathe in endless pm2.5 pollution? A well-fitted respirator, kn95/kf94/n95 is gonna do a lot more for people's health than pants.
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Wednesday he felt worse and took another rapid test, again swabbing cheeks & nose. Another negative. We kept up the masking & air purifiers. Whatever it was, no sense in both of us being sick. We ate dinner in separate spaces while facetiming. Happy Valentine's Day to us! 3/7
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Why it's important to consider more than "how many people are in a room" when deciding to wear a mask or not: when I entered my classroom today, it was empty, lights off -- CO2 reading at 1360. After opening windows & running fans, even after ~15 students arrived, kept below 800.
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What would be simple for people to follow? How about "stay home until you test negative on a rapid test, to be sure you recover fully & that you don't pass on the infection to others"
It’s doublespeak, with tortured and unconvincing rationale. They twist and turn uncomfortably to attempt to make the logic fit the desired outcome.
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Love that Ashish Jha was effectively calling his colleague Eric Topol “random anonymous dude on twitter.”
I would hope that even a quick comparison would make clear to the vast majority that Topol is far more trustworthy
The new CDC Covid "no isolation" guideline promotes people shedding virus to infect others
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This is why I get frustrated with the way “zero covid” gets portrayed. Before 2020, we could agree that the goal is to *not* live with deadly viruses. Even if it takes time & effort & has to be slow & piecemeal — that’s always been the goal. It’s not “extreme” to still think that
Polio has a 99.95% survival rate. Still rather important to prevent it. 99.5% don’t get permanent paralysis. Nobody argues we should learn to live with polio. Why the different attitude to SARS2? Real question…
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Frustrating to see folks in the local FB "Still Coviding" group swap stories about not being able to access paxlovid, either to preemptively have while traveling, or even during active cases. Meanwhile, White House shills saying no need to worry about covid bc paxlovid exists.
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@ZoeSchiffer
How long before workers realize they could actually have a lot of power if they all like... combined to say no, we would prefer to work from home (and you know we can cuz we did for years w/ the same or more productivity).
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I'd like to suggest that rather than treating a partner's very valid concerns about covid as a space for "compromising" around "individual risk assessments," that loved ones instead show solidarity by calling the CDC & representatives & expressing support for covid mitigations.
I definitely think it’s difficult to have a partner suffering w LC while the rest of the world acts indifferent to further disabling or killing him, however the problem is the social abandonment and not LC patients. Sometimes eating indoors is not “fair” it’s cruel
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This morning I wake up to a text "Please call me when you are awake." (This isn't necessarily as ominous as it sounds bc he's gen x and prefers calls to texting and uses full punctuation when texting.) Still, I'm guessing you know where this is going... 6/7
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@drvolts
I actually found it much easier to live with a pandemic under Trump because liberals saw through that bs. I’ve found it profoundly worse to live under Biden normalizing this amount of illness and death — and liberals happily going along with it
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Just saw someone asking about the covid surge on nextdoor and I am shocked -- shocked!! -- to see so many people actually sharing good info -- including linking to
@PeoplesCDC
! -- and encouraging the updated vax and masks and generally acknowledging that covid is still a thing
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Friday still feeling crappy, still isolating. I tell Brad to test again -- sometimes people only test positive later in the course of an illness, and it'll make me feel better. Try testing when there's been a break since you last ate, drank, used mouthwash etc. 5/7
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He took a rapid test and it was negative. His symptoms perfectly aligned w/ sinusitis, which he's had before, and which he was hypothesizing could have been triggered by his allergies. I was a little skeptical, like isn't it usually a bacteria or virus? Well, keep masking. 2/7
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Covid aware twitter, how would you respond to your colleagues inviting Monica Gandhi to speak to students on your campus?
I know they mean well, but -- I'm horrified that we're platforming someone who's been wrong on so much and contributed to minimizing this ongoing pandemic.
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"Living with covid" is dangerous in & of itself, but it's also dangerous for how far it shifts what "normal" is. If it's "normal" to accept (at minimum) 1000 ppl dying/week of a preventable illness, then how can you care abt--& fund--initiatives for things that aren't as deadly?
Osterholm says: "Over the next several months, we're about to see the public health system in this country systematically dismantled. I've never seen anything like this in my 48 years in the business — the amount of clawback that has happened with resources and funds."
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Day 13 and bf is still testing positive, still feeling sick. One bit of good news, the line is now faint. But tell me more, OR and CA and soon the CDC, about how we only need a one day isolation period
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@j_g_allen
I don't think people are gloating so much as they're expressing some pretty justifiable frustration w/ the fact that we have a CDC director who refuses to address the main problem behind covid's continued spread -- we need to clean the air & wear masks. (And dev. better vaxes.)
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PSA: do not read the NYT coverage of CA & OR reducing covid-19 isolation to *1 day* if you expect journalists covering public health topics to have a basic understanding of science and human behavior and/or ability to ask follow-up questions when an interviewee is making no sense
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Thursday still feeling crappy, still isolating ourselves. He's still feeling like it's sinusitis. Our one moment of being laxer is eating dinner on opposite sides of the apt. with three air purifiers going between us and windows open. 4/7
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@christapeterso
Besides the writing the logic here also makes no sense. Why fantasize about what to do with a lottery win when you actually have enough money not to bother checking if you won? Like I’d expect more of a fictional character let alone a— I assume — person?
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I feel so strongly about this bc we could actually make our societies safer and healthier if we just learned the big lesson from the pandemic that *how you feel does not necessarily line up w/ whether or not you can give others a virus that can kill and disable people*
Having a covid+ person in the house is making it abundantly apparent to me that these 1 day policies make no fucking sense. Brad maybe had a slight fever 1 evening. Otherwise he's had manageable symptoms & today felt much better -- but he turns a RAT bright red in seconds
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An update!! MaskLab emailed me!!
They appreciate that their designs are getting this love & made a code for extended use, 15% off: DRREBECCA15
❤️😭
Sadly there's not a restock in the immediate future w/ "winter garden" BUT the "ceremony plaid" design will be back in ~a month
Immediately after ordering a batch motivated by that "winter garden" design, MaskLab dropped these ADORABLE BEE masks. Ugh MaskLab just take all my money 😭
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@NohaAboelataMD
How awful! I wish we had more reliable rapid tests. It's bananas to me that we're still basically relying on the first versions of these inventions.
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@ravenscimaven
I bring it with me around campus -- it's been useful! If it goes over 1000 I've been able to follow up w/ the university environmental health & safety folks. It meant one classroom with high readings got new signage about using windows + fans & a new HEPA filter ❤️
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I keep thinking of that phrase that went viral a few years ago, "I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people." *Children* trying to recover in the hospital at risk of covid infections because healthcare workers want to see you smile.
It no longer feels safe to take my son out of his hospital room
@StanfordChild
for him to enjoy common areas of the hospital. Unmasked people everywhere, including every single person working the front desk.
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@Bob_Wachter
@TIME
@Jamie_Ducharme
@ashishkjha
@dr_kkjetelina
@PeterHotez
I'm baffled as to why a healthcare professional would say we need to "reprogram our minds" to just live with a deadly and disabling disease that keeps evolving to get around our immune systems. I'd rather do the simple things to NOT have this be our "normal."
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Great job public health -- now people who would absolutely be considered "high risk" based on age alone are insisting the pandemic doesn't exist in any meaningful way anymore.
are there people for whom the public health crisis called the "pandemic" still exists in some way? these people are roused to angry tweets if you suggest, or rather state, that the public health crisis no longer exists though isolated cases of COVID continue. why is this news?
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@CDCgov
Meanwhile, science says: "Most adults have replication-competent SARS-CoV-2 for 10–14 after symptom onset. N antigen testing is a strong predictor of viral infectiousness & may be a more suitable biomarker, rather than absence of symptoms or viral RNA, to discontinue isolation.."
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Stanford PSA: wastewater levels of covid-19 on the rise again.
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This anecdote pretty much sums up where most of the world is at with dealing with an ongoing pandemic
Our member donated a large clinical-grade air purifier/filter to a local youth group. They returned it after 3 weeks saying that parents didn't like to see it as it "reminded them of the dangers of Covid for their kids".
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Sigh just saw that Leana Wen is repeating "immunity debt" talking points in her newsletter today, blaming these outbreaks in China among children on lockdowns -- not even mentioning the possibility that covid itself might be a contributing factor
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This is delightful: my mother just messaged me asking if I'd seen that New Yorker piece (🤮). And then she sent me a People's CDC link saying "this looks like a good map of spread." Some readers are indeed reading between the lines & using that abysmal piece to get resources!
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"Large-scale population measures such as required masking, vaccines and isolation periods have not contained the virus..."
Um they actually did? But we stopped bothering to do anything and just let the virus spread? Also classic "perfect is enemy of the good" fallacy here. 3/4
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That NPR article was such a reminder that even those people who literally make research and writing their job will just not bother to dig that deeply when it comes to covid.
The expertise is out there -- it's all over the "still coviding" groups, twitter, the people's cdc, etc.!
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I usually save my bird photos for Instagram but seems like with the news lately we could all always use more birds?? Especially when they’re hummers in flowers.
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MaskLab doing a better job than a lot of local govs/public health officials w/ messaging about masks and air pollution.
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@clhubes
The stories here 😭 This much illness is not inevitable. We need clean indoor air standards & paid sick leave & better tests so people can tell when they/their kids are infectious. Also wanted to share this to push back on some responses below...
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It's tough seeing group photos of doctors/cancer researchers not bothering to mask at large professional gatherings. If they don't mask there, will they bother masking on the trip home? Will they bother eating outside instead of inside? Will they mask around patients?
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@MalakaGharib
I'd question framing this as an "individual problem"-- e.g. "Jackson says the main problem area he sees with couples in this situation is their individual assessment of risk" --when this is a *societal* & *systemic* concern. The problem is our society's lack of response to covid.
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Covid aware twitter, what readings/resources would you recommend for people* who think they have "immunity" to covid-19? Any recent analyses of how the term "immunity" is being used?
*A friend's cancer dr is saying they prob won't get the new vax bc "had covid already."
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I really want to understand what happens to so many people in med school to write off sars2 as a "textbook virus" bc the more I read about the history of medicine & chronic illness the more respect I have for how much we still don't know & the fragility of human life & health
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Very worried about the way ocd (& etc) is being weaponized to claim that entirely reasonable ways of giving a shit about one another are a sign of “illness”
There's a push to cast COVID-aware people as being mentally ill.
This was an ad that just ran on
@CBS
in the U.S. about OCD.
One of the "OCD fears" featured is:
"What if I bring COVID home to my family?"
What a sick joke. COVID KILLS AND DISABLES.
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@sfchronicle
Maybe instead of basing mandates on political posturing & wishful thinking & setting random dates we should just like, keep protections against an airborne virus until said virus is not actually circulating? These people who were given this virus through negligence should sue.
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Catching up on the Atlantic article w/ the clickbaity and misinformation laden "What happens when everyone first gets immunity to the coronavirus as a very young kid?" That should prob read "What happens when everyone gets covid-19 over and over, 1-3x/year, starting as a baby?"
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My aunt is having a new bathtub put in & she's worried about covid & workers coming in their house so my mom was like "ask them to wear masks, & not those silly baggy things, real masks." My mom also encouraged her to get her first HEPA filter ❤️
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@j_g_allen
It's also, I think, very fair for those of us being subjected to a policy of what amounts to forced infection -- for those of us who have to work to live -- to punch up at the person who is condemning us to this forever-pandemic when she could be standing up for the science.
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It would be so amazing if some rogue employee at the Washington State Dept of Health posted this new and improved version
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Jfc this just gets better & better. In a reply to this post, someone says:
"Yeah, great idea. Why don’t you start a GoFundMe to help pay for it?"
DUDE YOU JUST REINVENTED THE CONCEPT OF TAXES FOR PUBLIC GOODS/SERVICES.
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Just wait for the climate change version of this. "People really want things to feel normal. So we're going to have to stop reporting on the fact that the southwest is out of water and the west is engulfed in fire tornadoes and oops we're losing Miami to the sea."
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@MalakaGharib
Also this is a small thing but please don't hassle people when they choose to wear a mask outside! I often wear one preemptively because I want to be able to approach people and make small talk without making them feel awkward by donning a mask at the last minute.
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Instead of torturing logic and forcing really bad false analogies about indoor playgrounds (seriously don't read the full thing without going in prepared for this!), we could just admit both sars viruses & the measles are bad, actually, & shouldn't be forced on us?
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If I still have to take my flip flops off and remove half the stuff from my bags in order to get on a plane, I think we should keep masking in healthcare facilities & other places that provide essential services that *everyone* should be able to safely access.
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@SketchesbyBoze
All valid & would add (tho less scandalous!) that a lot of them had wives & servants who literally did all the work of everyday life. And some of them had family money. Imagine what you could do w/ endless drugs, endless money, & endless household help! ALL THE BOOKS
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@sjs856
It's so striking that some people look back on "lockdowns" as the worst thing ever, we can never again protect human health & life at the cost of brunch, while another % of us are like -- wow, our collective action did something of lasting benefit. Why can't we do more of that?
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"The nature of the coronavirus is such that no level of population immunity will stop the disease from circulating...the coronavirus vaccines, while protective against severe disease, have limited effect on reducing infection."
Not, in fact, a great reason to do nothing! 2/4
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@talulahshARC
My bf tested negative on his first two days in the early days of his symptoms -- finally a positive test on the morning of day 5. I'm sure a lot of people just give up after the first test or two & assume "not covid."
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A great piece. But why do we keep framing things like this?
"The perception that the pandemic is no longer a crisis is understandable."
IT IS NOT UNDERSTANDABLE. Stop ceding the framework to people who are actually not in any way demonstrating a rational response to this virus
“A massive new study confirms
#LongCovid
remains a significant risk even for those who had the mildest of cases”
“..barring the emergence of new treatments for Long COVID.. a future of misery could await a stunningly large cross-section of humanity”
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@loscharlos
@CDCgov
I feel like those of us paying attention keep talking — but people who are psychologically blocked (don’t want to believe they or their loved ones will be at risk, don’t want to contemplate future fall out, etc) aren’t open to facing it
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Shopped at Trader Joe's for the first time in a long time, as there's (relatively) low covid at the moment. The CO2 was surprisingly high -- it wasn't particularly crowded but it was between 1200-1500, even near the door as I was checking out
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I wonder if everyone bellowing that we must live w/ covid-19 by pretending it doesn't exist also take this approach to, say, ticks and Lyme disease. Like, do they stomp through long grasses in spring wearing all black clothing?
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Already, this is manufacturing consent and hiding agency. To be in the world is to be exposed to a SARS virus. "SARS-CoV--2 will find [babies]" -- vs. "Our policy choices mean we'll be exposing & infecting babies over and over."
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The pandemic has starkly revealed two very opposed lines of reasoning:
1) wait, viruses are bad & being sick is awful -- why should we put up with that, w/ or w/out covid?
& 2) viruses are just part of human life!! being sick is good, actually, why don't you want to be sick??
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@julia_doubleday
Oh I can answer that one! My field is 19th century lit and one of my favorite figures to read and write about is Harriet Martineau. Literary critics today whose work I love in this area — Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Rachel Ablow, Maria Frawley
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@ashishkjha
Despite taking every vaccine he's been eligible for, my bf was as sick as he's ever been & tested positive for 2 weeks. We should isolate while infectious. The science hasn't changed, we're still seeing too much death & illness, & the CDC should seek to make us safer, not sicker
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Just picked up pre-made Thanksgiving dinner* from the grocery store & grateful again to live in a place where I'm rarely the lone masker & people (generally) just take seeing others in a mask as normal
*highly recommend if you're actually not into big cooking extravaganzas
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@lisa_iannattone
They need to stop with the tentative “maybe one more month?” “just two more weeks?” tiny extensions. People need to be able to plan for safer travel and commutes farther out that this. Nothing has changed until we have better ventilation and vaccines and very low virus spread.
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