It was true with mutual aid at the beginning (when we did our local network, it was mostly punk folks sewing masks and making hand sanitizer from distillery-donated rotgut, at least at first).
And now it's solarpunks masking up and hacking things into Corsi Rosenthal boxes
I would hope pandemic safety would be a completely normal and acceptable behavior that everyone encourages it.
When did our citizens become so screwed up to say "it's a hoax."
@TopKnot @gwensnyder Honestly, I rarely worry about those who still claim it's a hoax. It's the majority, who believe in COVID but have decided there is nothing to be done and are more content to accept serious health decline (of everyone) than just wear a mask, who really disturb and concern me.
(Thinking of pandemic safety as punk mutual aid really buoys me, on what was a bleak day of my kid returning to a mostly unmasked school. Thank you. ❤️ )
@aehdeschaine @TopKnot @gwensnyder
Agreed. I look at our neighborhood school community, for example, which pulled together and did the right thing for two years… but which this year pretty much abandoned all caution, save for a handful of families. It’s like everyone has collectively chosen to forget about covid, and anything that could limit the spread of viruses, even as they complain about how often they’re getting sick now.
@TopKnot @gwensnyder @aehdeschaine
And those families? We’re all on the edge of the mainstream for one reason or another. Which makes me wonder how much vulnerability to peer pressure is at play here.
@shawrd773 @TopKnot @gwensnyder "even as they complain about how often they’re getting sick now"!! I have family (in a medical profession, no less) who still espouse the "immunity debt" malarkey. I'll be very curious to see how that plays out vis a vis their new baby.
And I have felt the peer pressure for sure, the longing to be fully social, the intense hatred of my mask, etc. But I am angrily defiant now. I thought it was spite, but after this thread, I'm going to call it punk.
@gwensnyder https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/fashion/vivienne-westwood-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhlSlUZCibbVMMnrxqAwubO3r0xgHnzaTeYUipdyOMZRoSN8kuLZbZmY5F7-QWnc-J7Ee1lQu1unKgYNlZxSgKsr9yNk8pZKClq9ce9Bmpums-SV-99-2bhNSzoJLYhzuTm4U6KO2H6SeeIhy1aUQVgopNkfVig3GVZhfuWV74ohaQtmKspFZt4Rj0fZSGVvvSOCx12PNqObRy0-RBhEqgCGmmVxYjAnupGJAZCClvGTmd94XI_4b5fONAQO6X_K30waVLgr6MJwWXlQtZKhI9zzZ0&referringSource=articleShare
“What I am doing now,it still is punk,” Ms. Westwood wrote in her memoir. “It’s still about shouting about injustice & making people think, even if it’s uncomfortable.
“I’ll always be punk in that sense”
It’s unfortunate Westwood couldn’t bring #punkRock #philosophy to the fashion world..she’d have lived longer
Had I been in her position, I’d have sent air-tight hi-filtration fashionable masks,HEPA helmets & HEPA necklaces down the runway🖤#punkAF #punk
@gwensnyder When do we start putting pins, badges, spikes, and Misfits and Dead Kennedys patches on the cloth mask covers over the N95s? Black Flag? DRI? Melvins? Minutemen? Fugazi?
Gives a whole new irony to Suicidal Tendencies...
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