I have a physical disability that makes a lot of things hard to do. I can’t really have hobbies or a job if my brain declines. That’s one of the biggest reasons I still care about covid prevention. That and death (immunocompromised).
Caught COVID last December working my retail job. I mask up but a lot of customers do not. For the holiday rush, I was transferred to a smaller location with short ceilings and no ventilation.
I took my two weeks off but unfortunately passed on the COVID to my medically fragile 15- month baby daughter.
Even with my wife isolating me in our one-bedroom apartment while my two ladies slept in the living room. They had to.stay in the hospital for a few days including Christmas 😔
Since then, my sense of smell has decreased significantly. And I remain the only one of my several retail co-workers that continues to mask. I live in a left-leaning city, which means 1 in every 5 or 6 customers does mask.
My work provides the basic hosputal-like mask but I need.to research something with more protection but that is still comfortable to wear for an 8, 10, even 12 hour shift.
Wow, I’m so sorry you had to go through that scare with your daughter and didn’t walk away unscathed yourself either.
I’m trying to think of a good mask resource. I haven’t really looked into him myself, but there’s this guy that talks a shit ton about different masks and respirators and tests them to see how protective they are: https://twitter.com/masknerd?lang=en
He has a whole ass spreadsheet about it too lol: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M0mdNLpTWEGcluK6hh5LjjcFixwmOG853Ff45d3O-L0/htmlview?usp=drive_web&ouid=108355114845682180386&pru=AAABfniWips*ZW4K5ipiMBIUEgzyHDB1eA
I think I saw it posted on this site once before.
From what I’ve gathered, one of the main ways covid enters the brain is through the olfactory nerves. Using a nasal spray like enovid or covixyl might help prevent that in the event you are exposed, since they line your nasal passage with a layer of virus killing chemicals.
It’s still hard to believe how many people just stopped giving a shit. When the powers that be turn on the propaganda machine there’s little we can do to stop it, especially when it lines up with peoples desire for “normalcy”.
It is also very disappointing that many self-identifying leftists have also either fallen victim to the propaganda machine around COVID minimization or no longer care to keep themselves and their vulnerable comrades safe, at least in some contexts. I can sort of understand those feelings of weariness from individuals about nothing being done to mitigate all the death and suffering that COVID continues to wreak. I personally don’t agree with that choice though, obviously.
But idk, at a minimum, it is extremely disappointing to me that leftist orgs and unions in general are very anti-mask/pro-COVID at this point. I don’t understand what the fuck the point of being a leftist is if you are literally creating an environment that is especially dangerous to disabled/immunocompromised folks, like organizers should be all over requiring masks at events and giving virtual options. Especially because COVID is a workplace safety issue. What the fuck happened to “an injury to one is an injury to all?”
Last New Years there was a very bad thread here that involved a lot of "I love you all, but" passive-aggressive bullying of “shut-ins” for not being normal enough to go out and le party, complete with very helpful suggestions for the “shut-ins” like “kiss a stranger.” Because covid don’t real and loving “shut-ins” by bullying them would totally cure them. The “touch grass” mantra was downright
tier there, as was the assholishness-disguised-as-“love” fixation on normalcy.I remember that thread. It still angers me. I had to leave the site for a few weeks after all of that.
I’m glad you stayed and the "I love you all,
" concern trolling douchebag left and never came back.
Yuck.
i remember that shit. one of the most embarrassing threads ever seen on this site.
It’s perfectly in line with western leftism, abandon your principles the second it inconveniences you.
abandon your principles the second it inconveniences you.
I think it’s way simpler than that, but still characteristic of western leftism. Despite all the rhetoric and presumption of being opposed to the hegemonic capitalist system, they are still incredibly susceptible to propaganda, including and particularly, normalization.
The people around them stopped and “the experts” aren’t crying foul, so they agree that covid is over. They are unconsciously liberal due to their susceptibility to media and social narratives.
I had a doctor’s appointment a month or so ago and COVID came up, and my doctor straight up said that it was fine to choose to not mask since “we’re past the curve of lethality” or some shit. Like congrats doc, yes all the most vulnerable people already died, but I’d also like to not lose cognitive function because I rode the bus without a mask on.
Good news! You can enjoy the sit-in restaurant treats, at least until your sense of smell and taste are gone!
I wonder if it will end after a number years, or if people will just be permanently fucked after an infection.
So far I’ve avoided any covid infection. Hopefully I can keep it up.
I got Covid in January. Since then I’ve started dissociating my hands when using my phone or typing. Like they don’t match? It comes and goes. Seeing these headlines makes me wonder…
I hope you’re okay
Thanks! It’s not as bad as it was a few months ago thankfully.
I totally feel you. I’m sick, immunosuppressed, and not willing to take the risk that Covid would wipe out the little remaining joy I take from my body and the experience of living in it.
I’m literally more afraid of Covid making me more disabled than I am of it killing me. I have faced my own mortality enough to accept it. What I struggle with is living this broken body.
Neuroinflammation After COVID-19 With Persistent Depressive and Cognitive Symptoms Whats really cool is that they don’t seem to know if the damage is ongoing even after infection is over, wheeee
Same. I have bipolar and if my brain gets any worse i’ll lose what little quality of life I have left. But try to explain that to able people is like trying to teach philosophy to a brick wall. I’m glad hexbear and some of my friends are generally pro mask still.
“Before he got sick, he pictured the world this way. There are the people who are healthy, like him, and people who are sick, other people. And unconsciously, as we all do, he drew a line between the two groups, the two countries. Then when Paul Cowan was diagnosed with leukemia in 1987, he was struck with the fact that these are not, of course, two different populations, the sick and the healthy. Instead he wrote, “The world is composed of the sick and the not yet sick.” -Ira Glass (the real one)
I’m literally more afraid of Covid making me more disabled than I am of it killing me.
I feel like those of us with chronic illness experience come to this conclusion more often than not. Stay safe
You too, friend. We’ll muddle through this somehow.
One of my tabletop game members is a cancer survivor that is immunocompromised. We started doing online tabletop games so he could continue participating.
The biggest asshole in the group whined and dragged his feet for months and tried to drag the group down because “it was not the saaaaame.”
Yeah, when that asshole finally ragequit because the group was more on the side of the cancer survivor, it was not the same. It was better.
