BennoHey USA friends: Go check your voter registration. Even if you're not in a state that is being shitty about its voter rolls. Just do it because you're cool like that.
(Yes, this is a repeat. It's a good one to repeat though. Go on, do the thing.)
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I play other people’s records on Data Transmission Radio—Mind The Gap, Saturdays 12AM GMT/6PM CST. #housemusic #deephouse #garage Otherwise here for Covid news, MedMastodon, politics and climate. She/her.
Its Not A Hoax 🤞
Ⓥ🏴☠️"There have always been viruses, and there have always been immunocompromised people, but prior to COVID there was never this level of viral spread, with a virus of this severity, with this ability to reinfect, with this level of transmissibility. Immunocompromised people are under constant siege, with levels of disease unseen in modern times being normalized in all public spaces.
For many disabled and immunocompromised people, segregation is as complete as their need to avoid COVID. Indoor dining, of course, is out. Going to bars, happy hours, work events, weddings, conferences, parties, anything where large groups of people gather is a risk, even in a high-quality mask which will leave you unable to eat, drink, and a likely target for snide remarks and mocking jokes. Because again, the political messaging coming from the top encourages healthy people not only not to protect vulnerable people, but to mock and deride them."
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/out-of-control-covid-means-permanent
@jackyan OMG...So, since I've been friends with you and @queenoliviastr for...OMG, over 14 *years* now...I'm well-versed in many aspects of Kiwi slang. But imagine my surprise when it made it onto Saturday Night Live! Now, this sketch series was 10 years ago at best, but check this out!!
(PS: And for the record, as I've aged, so has my depth perception. I can park fine in parking lots, but in our garage? I need a YPLAC sticker. Ha!)
Augie RayThis is so insane, IMO. What happens if an #Olympics athlete tests positive for #COVID19? "There are no set rules in place to stop Team USA members from choosing to compete if they have a positive COVID test result. However, athletes might be unable to — or choose not to — compete if their symptoms are severe enough."
Everyone is acting as if the lower fatality rate has made it safe to spread COVID. They're ignoring all the long-term health risks.
The #COVID19 denial at the #Olympics is really something to see.
The Great Britain chief medical officer, Charlotte Cowie, says there is "fear of infections and COVID incidents in the village." Is the answer masks? Ventilation? Avoiding crowded spaces? Nope. "She assures them there are mental health leads, psychologists, doctors, and physios ready to help."
Help with what, exactly, after one is infected?!? Why not strive to PREVENT them in the first place?
Laffy2/ Via Elie Mystal:
I know that the white media doesn’t want to piss off their meal ticket… but has anybody asked Trump “Do you think childless women should be able to vote?” And if so “Why did you pick a VP candidate who doesn’t?”
Like, id ask him myself but Trump doesn’t exactly return my calls.
I swear to fucking god, it’s one thing for the media to want Trump to win, but what really pissed me off is how AFRAID they are of him that they won’t even press him on BASIC fucking questions
JA Westenbergweird how "populist" only ever means folks who want to put other people in camps, never folks who want billionaires to pay taxes
Ed Suominen6/ We are all immeasurably worse off than we were back in February 2020, whether we acknowledge that or not. It’s what we have done in the meantime that points to something we do have control over, that cannot be killed off my an infection or a tyrant or a raging mob.
Our character.
It’s what we are as much as who we are. Many have shown how little of it they actually have.
Did you decide to forget all you learned about this virus and its manifest dangers because it was no longer convenient?
In the days and weeks ahead, many Americans will be doing what many of my grandmother’s countrymen did after she left Germany for America in the 1920s. Trying to accept the reality of an authoritarian thug they once laughed at in a seat of power. That all those hateful diatribes he made against people like them are only going to get worse, until it’s no longer just talk.
Most of those will find some sort of appeasement the only possible action. They will try to be good Nazis and seek to… 🧵