Reposted Matti Aleve:
https://zeroes.ca/@maleve/110438444466147947Honestly I felt much better at the start of the pandemic than I do now and here’s why.
At the start of the pandemic, at least around here, there was a real motivation to pull together and overcome covid. At work we were busy building equipment to facilitate manufacturing of ventilators and PAPRs
The most charitable characterization of now is either at best apathy, at worst, anti-science misinformation. We can’t even get our 💩 together to provide good air quality for kids in schools.
Currently reading: Funny in Farsi by (ISBN 9780307430991)
Finished reading: Lovestar by (ISBN 9781609804268)
We should not have to worry about getting COVID while receiving healthcare and workers should not have to fear contracting it at work. We know that COVID is airborne, people can be infectious without showing symptoms, and two-way masking is effective at reducing its spread.
The People’s CDC has some great resources and action materials. Check out their website, specifically “Keep Healthcare Safe” under the “Actions” menu. You can contact your governor, county health officials, and healthcare executives to tell them they should make masking the new infection control standard for healthcare.
In the meantime, please continue masking indoors and in crowded outdoor spaces. This is an act of love and reciprocal care. We are interdependent and there is no individualizing of risk during these times.
Art credit: @schmutzparty on Twitter who said to “take, share, and distribute widely.” A high resolution version is also available.
My sleep schedule has been, uhh, erratic and poor for a while. Last week was particularly exhausting, but I started to reset over the weekend.
Small wins this week: I’ve been in bed reading (not on my phone!) by 11pm the last two nights. Feels good!
But do they bring all the boys to the yard?
Hey #SanDiego, We All We Got has a fancy new volunteer page if you want to sign up to help with #MutualAid grocery distribution every 2nd and 4th Saturday: weallwegotsd.com/volunteer
Our next distribution is May 27 at Azalea Park (corner of Poplar & Violet).
Consider signing up if you have the capacity and please boost!
Want to read: Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by (ISBN 9781642598278)
via Haymarket Books
Bookmarked: The government giving up on COVID protections means throwing immunocompromised people to the wolves
"Return to normal" frames indifference to suffering as a morally neutral position and public health as a matter of personal preference. But there is no neutrality in the individual actions that comprise public health; they either cause harm or prevent it. Segregating the "unfit" from the "fit" is not a matter of debate. It is an abomination and a core tenet of eugenics.
Yeah :/ I promise I’m trying to post more than just COVID stuff but it’s really been bumming me out recently.
While we lose more tools for tracking #COVID transmission levels, I found that HHS is still publishing hospital capacities weekly. Here’s a screenshot of SoCal data from today.
So many over 90% full and the vast majority over 60% full.
this is fine
Bookmarked: COVID-19 Hospital Capacity in San Diego County and Surrounding Area
Weekly data from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. You can select the state and county from the dropdown to find information about your area.
Watching the ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) Action Network’s press conference:
“#MillionsMissing 2023 will demand bold, urgent governmental action for the millions of people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), Long COVID, and other infection-associated, complex- chronic diseases.”
Listened to The COVID Tracking Project Part 1 on the Reveal podcast.
Pretty good first episode (of three in the series). It’s easy to forget how poor the initial US response to COVID was, but also nice to remember the solidarity of people stepping up to try to fill the gaps.
I am definitely feeling some anger and hopelessness with the end of the US public health emergency today. Capitalism steamrolls on, crushing us with messages (misinformation) about “individual risk” — as if your choices have no impact on anyone else during the ongoing pandemic.
COVID is causing long-term issues in 10-20% of infected people (source) even if they had mild symptoms during the infection. Infected people can spread it before they show symptoms or may never show symptoms.
Please #WearAMask indoors and in crowded outdoor spaces. If you have stopped masking (I get it!), it’s never too late to start again.
One of our community members needs financial assistance in their process of becoming a US citizen. Any donation amount helps as well as reposting the request! #MutualAid
Ouch! Five in two years? Convincing me to stay on the beach, haha.