The tumblr post of the above statement is the most popular pipzeroes tumblr post thus far
And I am thinking about creativity! And art! And spontaneity! And chaos! And how people try to harness this energy (for malevolence, profit, or with the intention of spreading awareness about [issue]).
And what I added in the tags there goes here, too (if you're down to make COVID memes or art or music or other creative works, and you care more about helping than hurting, and like havvin' a laff lol consider DMing me here)
I like fun unreality mass pretenses, like Goncharov, and not those unfun unreality mass pretenses, like pretending COVID is over and/or "mild".
#goncharov #unreality #COVIDisNOTover #COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisOngoing #COVIDfloatsLikeSmoke #COVIDisntOVER
The first post in this thread included an uploaded image, meaning the hyperlink to youtube didn't translate to an embedded video, so, here it is now, the video embedded (in case you like watching things in the same tab instead of opening the video in a new tab/window)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3LSXadmLk4
#COVIDfloatsLikeSmoke
#COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisntOver #COVIDisNOTover #COVIDisOngoing #COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #pandemic #MaskUp #AllYourBreathAreBelongToUs
All Your Breath Are Belong To Us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3LSXadmLk4
Mirror on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/882143353
Writeup with links and more context on Dreamwidth: https://pipzeroes.dreamwidth.org/517.html
#COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNOTover #COVIDisOngoing #COVIDfloatsLikeSmoke #COVID #COVID19 #SARS2 #SARSCoV2 #pandemic #maskup #mask #masks #masking #<3
Mask up, live long, and prosper. 🖖
Excerpt from https://medium.com/@cdl.tuebingen/someone-infected-neil-gaiman-with-covid-19-24ddbbd9f91d
Neil Gaiman didn’t just get COVID-19.
Someone INFECTED Neil Gaiman with COVID-19.
And many someones in overlapping layers of responsibility ENABLED this infection.
This linguistic shift from the passive to active voice might seem irrelevant but, instead of just echoing the framing we see in the headlines — that Neil Gaiman got COVID-19— it’s time to own that somebody has infected Neil.
The passive voice has served a macabre purpose in this pandemic. The passive voice, by erasing the subject of the sentence, neatly obscures accountability, and with it our own role in unmitigated infections. Moreover, it has prevented us from identifying the layers of responsibility in enabling infections on a mass scale. This mental block is the first obstacle to advocating for effective mitigations and constructive solutions. It stops us from preventing infections. But that is changing now.
It is time to own the damage that we are causing by infecting others with COVID-19. I believe that we all know, deep inside, that we are causing harm. And many of us are suffering from the cognitive dissonance of pretending that we aren’t. Because, in a pandemic, this is serious and large-scale harm.
This harm that, according to estimates, has killed over 25 million people and disabled at least 65 million and counting. The sooner we face the harm we are causing by infecting other people, the less damage we will cause to ourselves, to our loved ones, to our community, to strangers on the other side of the world. And to people who entertain and inspire us, like speculative fiction author and TV creator Neil Gaiman. And inspiration is necessary when we are facing so many challenges. It’s that simple.
#COVID #COVIDisNOTover #COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisOngoing #MaskUp #masks #masking #mask #SARSCoV2 #pandemic #airquality #NeilGaiman #DavidTennant
Still working on the All Your Breath Are Belong To Us video (gradually) and actually might be getting near completion (ha ha yes); audio here: https://www.tumblr.com/pipzeroes/728731254678290432
More context in the thread: https://zeroes.ca/@pip/110069652708129811
One thing, though, is that I'd like to emulate the original video sequence at the coda, the end part of the song where it's like "BASE BASE BASE BASE...!" (except it's "BREATH BREATH BREATH" etc.)
It'd be a bunch of images quickly changing, a different one for each "BREATH" (16 images in under 4 seconds).
The thing is, though, that for some people quickly flashing images can have consequences (photosensitive epilepsy, nausea, migraine etc.)
This is the original sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg&t=231s (video queued to that point; warning, quickly changing images, in case viewing stuff like that is an issue for you- and also, uh, it might be a bit loud, so, warning if you are on headphones).
I know that the risk of photosensitive epilepsy is increased based on the frequency of the flash (that is, how quickly the light is flashing), the brightness, and the contrast with background lighting...
So, I am thinking:
- Instead of having the images flash in their order of appearance, sorting them so it only goes light-light-light-dark-dark-dark instead of light-dark-light-dark-light-light to help reduce the risk.
- And if it does reduce the risk but there could still be risk, how I would word a note beforehand to be concise and effective...
Any other thoughts from those with experience mitigating these kinds of risks would be appreciated; thanks.
#COVID #COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNOTover #COVIDisOngoing #SARSCoV2 #epilepsy #photosensitivity #migraines #seizures #PhotosensitiveEpilepsy
The following text is an excerpt from the linked article, posted 2023-09-10:
We don’t really talk about coronavirus at all... This has only been encouraged by the government, which has honed the message “Covid is over”, as if saying this somehow makes it so... the result is a kind of mass denial – an agreed forgetting. The subject crops up from time to time. A breaking news banner announces a new variant. A friend texts that she’s stuck in bed “with the worst summer cough”. Then we carry on – until we are forced to remember once again...
...the daily number of positive coronavirus tests in England has been increasing since the end of June – a trend that is likely to grow in the coming weeks, as we socialise more indoors and children mix at school... at last count, 1.5 million people [in the UK alone] were experiencing long Covid symptoms that adversely affected their daily activities, and the virus still poses a significant risk of death to many people...
While some healthcare workers are taking precautions at their own discretion, NHS staff in England don’t have to wear a mask, and the majority who have respiratory symptoms are no longer asked to test for Covid. That means a patient with lung disease could be forced to get treatment from a nurse with a Covid cough...
The trouble is, denial is not a long-term plan. Coronavirus is effectively a fire. Ignoring it doesn’t stop the virus – it just lets the damage spread. The paradox of the pandemic has always been that the only way to “move on” is to actually engage with it...
But it also means confronting our impulse to believe that all of this is unnecessary and arduous. Even the phrase “Covid restrictions” – a term used by almost every media outlet – is loaded, suggesting low-key mitigations are heavy burdens rather than simple ways to free clinically vulnerable people. That the virus primarily “only” affects those with underlying health conditions has always been the unspoken excuse for indifference.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/10/covid-coronavirus-disabled-vulnerable-people
"HEPA filtration is beneficial in reducing bioaerosols, including SARS-CoV-2, as well as other respiratory pathogens in the hospital environment. It should be used in combination with other prevention strategies, including improved ventilation; appropriate isolation; and, during periods of high community transmission, widespread testing and N95 masking...
In BC, public health policies such as universal masking and universal admission testing are no longer in effect. We know from other jurisdictions that discontinuation of universal admission testing was associated with a significant increase in hospital SARS-CoV-2 transmission and that nosocomial transmission remains common in the Omicron era, with infections that carry a 3% to 13% mortality risk. Updated, evidence-based, and precautionary provincial guidance is urgently needed to improve indoor air quality..."
#COVIDisOngoing #COVIDisNOTover #COVIDisAirborne #Mask #Masks #Masking #WearAMask #MaskUp #COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2
Like everyone, I want the pandemic to be over, but I want it to end in the safest way possible for our most vulnerable members of society. A conversation in mid-2022 with Dr Jean Warneboldt, my friend, hospitalist, and quality champion, reminded me that for some of these most vulnerable patients, the air in the hospital can be deadlier than the diagnosis that brought them in.
Article published August 15, 2023:
"New COVID-19 hospitalizations have accelerated for a fourth straight week, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data now shows...
Emergency room visits for children ages 0 to 11 years old have also climbed steeply. Measured as a percentage of all visits in the age group, nationwide COVID-19 rates in these kids are now tied with seniors for the first time in a year. Other CDC data suggests visits from the youngest kids, ages 0 to 1 year old, are seeing the steepest increase.
In some parts of the country — like the region spanning Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas — the share of COVID-19 ER visits involving children ages 0 to 11 have already far surpassed older adults."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-hospitalizations-rise-fourth-week-eg-5-variant/
#COVIDisOngoing #COVIDisNOTover #COVIDisAirborne #COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2
ER visits are also climbing, with the steepest rise in kids.
“Our leaders have really sent the message that it’s inevitable you’re going to get COVID, everyone has COVID, this is going to be here forever,” [Chantal Moore] said. “And we really have to push back on that narrative and really challenge it because it’s not a very hopeful message, and the reality is there are concrete things we can do that are proven to reduce our infection risk and prevent us from spreading the virus to our loved ones.”
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