"too many people don't wash their hands after using the bathroom i guess they want another pandemic"
1: yeah i totally agree that's gross
2:
*leans into mic* covid is spread by breathing shared air and that's how it became a pandemic not fucking fomites you've had 6 years to internalize this what the FUCK are we doing here
@eniko I guess it scares people too much to acknowledge that the very air we breath can be dangerous?
I mean, we could deal with it and make it less so, but that means admitting that the problem exists in the first place.
@obfusk @eniko Yeah, I know one of the biggest reasons we were required, as a global society, to stop acknowledging COVID-19 and start trying to pretend it away instead because all the initial mitigations were eating into short term profit margins too much.
I mean, with the means we have available now, ultimately that could have been solved and capitalism could have continued, but only short term profits matter anymore now it seems.
@nazokiyoubinbou @eniko Agreed.
It is hard for most people to recognize and understand that we live in a biological soup that we cannot see or directly sense, and that includes but is not limited to viruses, prions and all the other bioactive stuff floating around in air and water. We are not separate from our biosphere, not even inside a Class 10 clean room.
Secondly, people don’t easily grasp that this means all that stuff is already in our bodies, even becoming part of us (like ancient virus DNA). Mostly, our bodies manage pretty well. But now we have new challenges to our immune system, for example. To stay resilient and healthy, we need to help our bodies out by limiting our exposure, limiting the amount of crud inside us so our bodies are not overwhelmed or subverted (as with COVID-19).
@meltedcheese I'm sure (I hope) that you didn't really mean it that way. I just have to address it because there is a lot of misinformation and even straight up hokum out there designed to sell people all sorts of things, to keep them trying "alternatives" etc etc rather than addressing the quite simple issue that you develop COVID-19 not because you were exposed to "chemicals" in daily life, but because you were exposed to SARS-COV-2 viral particles.
Sorry, just really had to be clear...
@eniko one can be shifted to individual action, the other needs institutional investment. so, it is taken very seriously, on the "we don't invest on anything that doesn't gives clear financial results" way. i'm way past mad at this point, i've internalized what "everlasting rage" feels like, and can empathize with the drive to radicalize... /sigh
so, we keep masking. and making our own spaces safer, while inching closer to conflagration.
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