Katie Mack

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 06:39 UTC

Sometimes regular maintenance or exams are necessary in the course of one’s life and so one must enter a medical facility

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 06:37 UTC

🙌

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 06:34 UTC

I mean, I have no intention to, but even if I did, it wouldn’t change how germy hospitals are

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:33 UTC

I hope it all goes okay! (FWIW I kept mine on when I spoke at AAPT in winter and no one seemed to care)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:25 UTC

Dude did you come here just to antagonize people? Maybe do something else?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:23 UTC

okay

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:23 UTC

Mind-boggling

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:22 UTC

While sitting outside today I saw some mosquitoes and put on a ton of bug repellent and when Zero came over and (as is her custom) casually licked me knee the face she made was a sight to behold 😭

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:20 UTC

Yeah all public transit is next on my list. But hospitals are at the top

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:18 UTC

Yeah even if Covid went extinct tomorrow, healthcare facilities should always be mask-mandated

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:14 UTC

Ughhh 😖

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:10 UTC

Here is a gift link to an article about how it’s not really dangerous if it’s just on the skin and you wash www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/u...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 02:01 UTC

I frequently wash my face (and my hands after touching a pet)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:56 UTC

I’d love to know (and share) what hospital is endangering its employees by prohibiting them from protecting their own health with masks

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:55 UTC

😭

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:37 UTC

You’re not crazy! People are making absolutely wild life choices!!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:37 UTC

😑

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:36 UTC

🤯

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:35 UTC

All the germs AND all the people most harmed by the swapping of germs!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:34 UTC

Yes! Like… they have seen the charts! They know the sick people are there!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:30 UTC

Went to a clinic today for a routine medical thing and was once again amazed by the number of people who are happy to hang out and just freely breathe in all the air juice inside the germ emporium

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 00:43 UTC

For having the wrong political opinion, specifically

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:42 UTC

This is a good idea! I need to seriously restructure my own work week because it is a mess

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:58 UTC

Well hopefully it’s just temporary. Nothing wrong with taking a break

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:55 UTC

I don’t know what happened — did he deactivate his account?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:46 UTC

Whoa yikes I’ll delete my comment

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:58 UTC

Yes

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:58 UTC

No I was a small child

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:56 UTC

I also wasn’t reading newspapers in the 80s

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

I wasn’t on social media then

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:52 UTC

I’ve so many people taking other folks’ opinions VERY personally. A: “we should vote against Trump” B: “how dare you blame disaffected marginalized people for this” C: “both options are bad” D: “how dare you blame those of us who are trying to save democracy for this” etc etc

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

I don’t really want to armchair-psychoanalyze people but I swear I haven’t seen folks so constantly and universally marinating in their own stress hormones since like April 2020

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

Everyone is angry about the world and scared about the future and defensive on account of being pretty sure (correctly or not) that someone else is blaming them for something terrible and I don’t know if any of that will help but it’s probably useful to acknowledge what’s happening and breathe a bit

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:33 UTC

I still think this and I try to keep it in mind even while 80% of my feed is people expressing outrage and vitriol at anyone who isn’t wholeheartedly promoting some specific opinion about the best path forward for the world

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