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Nate@natedub.bsky.social |
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Covid is not a cold, masking is praxis, let's take care of each other š· he/him reading (speculative fiction, philosophy) | gaming (video, board) | listening (metal, podcasts from the left)
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The John Snow Project
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CDC Recommends Multi-layered Protection Against COVID-19 as it recognises SARS-CoV-2 is a Year-round Threat
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Prisonculture
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No shame in feeling scared, overwhelmed and not knowing what to do. To me feeling one's feelings doesn't preclude taking action. These are confusing times. Give yourself some grace.
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Nate
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āThere is still much work to be done. But if you ever stopped masking, there has rarely been a better time to start again. Mask up and show your solidarity. Eric Adams will hate it.ā
Thank you @reallandsend.bsky.social and @avierkant.bsky.social ā¤ļø
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Nate
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"One leaves the film, instead, thinking of concepts, of the world around themāwith a heightened sense of the aesthetic, capable of seeing the everyday in a new light. And this light, like the light on the Hƶssās yard, is harsh: when you see the soil now, is that all you will see?"
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Death Panel
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In our latest, we look at the rise of anti-mask legislation in New York and North Carolina: how North Carolina managed to make its mask ban worse, why New York Democrats are trying the same thing, and how the rise of bans is an attempt to break solidarity
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My IRL friends call me Chris
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Great piece.
"If the COVID situation is tracked & the public warned, things donāt feel normal. But if we donāt monitor or mention it, then things can feel āback to normalāāfine, even."
Weāve Hit Peak Denial. Hereās Why We Canāt Turn Away From Reality
www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve...
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Nate
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Fantastic piece that really resonates with a book I'm currently reading, The Exhausted of the Earth - highly recommended, a galvanizing screed against internal resilience and instead advocating resistance to the myriad external forces currently worsening our lives and destroying our planet.
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Nate
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"We need to work harder to catch ourselves in the act of staying silent or avoiding uncomfortable information...We need to guard against lowering our standards for normalcy. When we mentally and emotionally recalibrate to the new normal, we also disassociate from our own humanity."
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Nate
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"The illness...must be colonization: through contagion or side effect, the brutality of colonialism folds back on the colonizer. The occupation exacts a price on its enforcers. Missing is historical time, through which we see that the problem starts with the decision to colonize."
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Nate
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My partner and I were both vaccinated annually since 2021 - but all it took was catching COVID for the first time in September 2023 and my partner has been struggling with long-term health issues since. Vaccines are crucial, but we still need other layers to protect each other, masking is caring ā¤ļø
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Nate
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Also my partner and I were both vaccinated annually since 2021 - but all it took was catching COVID for the first time in September 2023 and my partner has been struggling with long-term health issues since. Vaccines are crucial, but we still need other layers to protect each other.
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Nate
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Yep this is great, but access to them is effectively gated for a lot of people who canāt afford them (both domestically and internationally)! We need to push for both the science and the accessibility to them - theyāre not helpful when not in arms š
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Nate
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Which is why vaccines should be free to all and given twice a year with as updated formulas as possible given variant spread, totally agree. Iām also going to continue advocate masking as another layer to help mitigate transmission, especially since most people are not updated on recent vaccines.
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Nate
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Vaccinate, mask, and promote ventilation improvements along with continued research into Long Covid prevention and treatment - this isnāt a āsingle answer onlyā issue.
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Bilbo Yaga
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āThe Pentagon used fake social media accounts on multiple platforms to spread fear of Chinaās vaccines among Muslims at a time when the virus was killing tens of thousands of people each day.ā NECROPOLITICS: use of power to weaponize illness & disability. See also: mask bans. Resist. Wear an n95.
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Julia Doubleday
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I was nervous to write this bc I know all the outlets I called out have a lot more resources than me; however, Iām simply tired of watching journalists bill themselves as leftists while they silently watch us die. Enough.
t.co/5Y4qsQ6B4p
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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UPDATE: NY Governor Kathy Hochul said on CNN last night that she is considering a ban on masks. This is absolutely shameful! New York has suffered so much from COVID, and COVID is not over. We should be normalizing and depoliticizing masks, not banning them.
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Nate
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No worries, wishing you the best.
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Nate
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Hmm, I guess I look around me and see tons of unmasked people in large public spaces, and unmasked kids at school day after day, and that reads to me as people largely acceding to the view that catching Covid repeatedly is no big deal. Otherwise why keep risking catching it again and again?
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Nate
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I was more complaining that all we are left with to track Covid spread is wastewater data - that's why it's cited so much, even though it's unreliable as a metric. People have been told Covid is no big deal, and devoting more resources to tracking it reliably would be counter to that messaging.
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Nate
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Vaccines have certainly been shown to reduce chances of Long Covid, and everyone should get them - but there is no evidence showing they fully prevent it. Here's a good piece that provides a bunch of information to help understand why our current vaccine-only approach isn't sustainable, too:
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Nate
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I think the larger issue here is that wastewater is the only publicly available metric left for the vast majority of people to try to assess Covid prevalence, outside of anecdotal assessments. This has been a concerted effort on the part of our government to justify complacency over Covid waves.
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Nate
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Thatās really good advice, I should start doing that.
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Nate
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Yeah, I had one of those interactions yesterday - they tend to end in me getting blocked by the person whose rationales I am challenging, but I always try to engage in good faith.
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Sadia
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Really think capitalism has a harder time coopting disability justice because disability activism requires that you value people beyond their labor. Disability activism requires you to see the humanity outside of what we can produce, the value of the existence of life
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Nate
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Lots of Covid minimization flying around the BlueSky these days. Whether apathy or motivated reasoning, it's certainly not in line with the continued accumulation of evidence indicating how badly we need to pursue actual solutions and continue our layered mitigations until we have them.
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Nate
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And on yours are the various people youāve passed this potentially disabling and debilitating disease on to, I guess.
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Nate
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Iāve been able to share her essays with people as approachable means of educating on continued risks of Covid infections, with studies cited and linked throughout. As a result, more people I know have started masking again, protecting themselves and others - thatās definitely āsomethingā Iād say!
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Nate
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I 100% agree with this - but I donāt think itās fair to claim Julia is doing this at all! I donāt feel fear when I read her essays, I feel more empowered to continue to care for others and advocate for better health for us all.
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Nate
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Like thatās literally how our capitalist system functions, there is exponentially more pressure applied to people to act as if nothing is wrong and get back to work to fatten up those elite pockets. Advocating care for othersā health is the opposite of that, Iām thankful Julia is doing that work.
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Nate
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Itās funny, because actually everyone proclaiming that Covid is no big deal anymore is trying to extract money from me.
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Nate
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Ah yes, the ableism coming from a āpromoter of rationalityā with PhD in his literal username, 10/10, no notes! š You can just say you donāt want to wear a mask, no need to pretend that there havenāt been continued findings (many of which Julia provided) showing why thatās still a very good idea.
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Nate
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āI donāt find it inspiring to laud 75,000+ preventable deaths in a single year as a victory. I also donāt find it doomerism to demand betterā¦I find it doomerism to accept notably worsened health outcomes and higher levels of illness than we had just a few years agoā¦ā - @juliadoubleday.bsky.social
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Nate
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"The reason right-wingers hate vaccination roll-outs and mask-wearing is as simple as the same reason Covid data collection has been largely abandoned: it reminds people that we're still in a pandemic, and that Covid is dangerous. And as stated already, capitalism and care cannot co-exist."
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Nate
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"...being unmasked doesnāt only convey the sentiment 'I donāt think I can be disabled by COVID,' it also broadcasts the accusation, 'I donāt believe YOU can be disabled by COVID'...[it] is an insistence on onesā inalienable right to expose others to COVID without their consent.ā - Julia Doubleday
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Nate
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Deaths from acute Covid infections are down - this is a good thing ā¤ļø Vaccines reduce the risk of death and severe outcomes, including Long Covid - this is a good thing, get updated formulas regularly ā¤ļø Each reinfection still contributes additional risk of Long Covid - this is a bad thing š·
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Nate
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Same, thanks for this clarification, @abbyc.bsky.social , I really appreciate your thoughts and insights, whether here, on your blog, or on Death Panel ā¤ļø
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Nate
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Nate
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In a recent thread for a post proclaiming low weekly death counts for Covid, I saw the same pattern as always - smug liberals using ablist insults to denigrate those who continue to mask. Not sure thereās much worse than smug liberals these days, whether itās in regard to Covid or Palestine.
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Nate
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Good one Gregg, and after taking a glance at your recent posts, I can see why youāre so dead-set against thinking about the welfare of others when it comes to Covid - Iāll let you get back to heckling protesters against genocide.
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Nate
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Yeah, Iām gonna continue to advocate for disabled and vulnerable people to have a right to participate safely in society, especially since Long Covid is continuing to increase their ranks with each passing day that people continue to refuse to mask for each other, and even attempt to outlaw it.
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Nate
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Iām sorry you donāt care about potentially disabling people in a society with no social safety net. But by all means, continue to radiate smugness, thatās a common theme Iāve found in people who canāt be bothered to care about others.
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Nate
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You are using self-reinforcing logic when you say ālook aroundā - if you continued masking, I would look around and see you masking. Social distancing doesnāt help with airborne transmission, ādropletsā were always a lie. Society is not breaking down - I donāt think thatās a symptom of Covid?
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The Left Page & Here Be Media
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NEW LEFT PAGE
Episode 79 - Gogmagog: Hybridity, innit? W/ Eden
(of Heavy Blog is Heavy, Death // Sentence and AnarchySF!)
We talk about the very weird book by Jeff Noon and Steve Beard, their fantasy non-England, and the many hybrid forms and shapes in the book!
Enjoy!
linktr.ee/leftpagehbm
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cc āµļø
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begging everyone to listen to this episode
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Death Panel
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Now unlocked: we take a close look at a widely shared piece from NPR which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable āanxietyā and as something immunocompromised people should let go of lest their loved ones consider abandoning them
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The Left Page & Here Be Media
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NEW HERE BE MEDIA!
Episode 39 - Scavenger's Reign (2023): How Space Exploration Leads Us Back to Ourselves w/ @natedub.bsky.social!!
We talk about this great SF show,its integration of psychological and social, and how we relate to the environment and ourselves!
Enjoy!!
linktr.ee/leftpagehbm
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Nate
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"...the meaning of life is to never give up āĀ no matter if itās too late to prevent catastrophe; no matter how many disasters pile up; no matter how overwhelmingly powerful the enemy is. And...no force in the world today...practises this meaning like the Palestinian resistance." - Andreas Malm
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Nirali
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Instead of going to shows from artists that not only take zero COVID precautions but actively perform while contagious, follow your local Clean Air Club to find COVID-safe shows in your area!
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Artie Vierkant
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We recorded this yesterday afternoon, and while it appears increasingly likely the house may address some of the public health issues with the bill, thereās a whole lot more at stake that needs pushback and bodes poorly for future expansions of criminalizing masking and protest:
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