theruran 💻 🌐 :cereal_killer:
boosted
Sharing a positive story for my fellow covid-conscious folks: I got to see both sides of my family on separate occasions this December, because they were all willing to do a combo of masking, molecular testing, and social distancing to make it happen.
This includes a suburban evangelical cohort, a bunch of teenagers, and littles in daycare-- 18 people in all
Sumana Harihareswara
boosted
For my covid cautious mutuals: I’m running @recuperandoelaire which will be a mask bloc, website and a free library kind of thing in the future.
Most covid19 resources are in English. So this would be a way to help translate and spread covid preparedness materials.
The name has a double meaning: it means catching your breath. But I kinda wanted to add the “let’s take back the air” on it as a call to action. Anyway. Ideas are always welcome. #CovidIsNotOver
Jess Mahler
boosted
Reposting from someone on another platform (with permission) because I feel like I've seen articles posted on here that would fit this description...
does anyone have articles or opinion pieces in their back pocket that they can link me to that describe intersections between COVID and other systemic injustices? I'm working on a paper for my PhD and I'm using covid to make the argument that periods of crisis get narrated as crisis when they pose a threat to the status quo, and crisis gets narrated as ordinary when action to prevent the crisis poses more of a threat to the status quo.
I wanna drop in reference to intersections with things like economic inequality or prisons (or anything else I'm sure there are loads of intersections) to point out that part of why covid 'ended' was that addressing it properly was starting to pose a threat to neoliberal normality.
(and this is a topic of interest to me as well!)
Reposting from someone on another platform (with permission) because I feel like I've seen articles posted on here that would fit this description...
does anyone have articles or opinion pieces in their back pocket that they can link me to that describe intersections between COVID and other systemic injustices? I'm working on a paper for my PhD and I'm using covid to make the argument that periods of crisis get narrated as crisis when they pose a threat to the status quo, and crisis gets narrated as ordinary when action to prevent the crisis poses more of a threat to the status quo.
I wanna drop in reference to intersections with things like economic inequality or prisons (or anything else I'm sure there are loads of intersections) to point out that part of why covid 'ended' was that addressing it properly was starting to pose a threat to neoliberal normality.
(and this is a topic of interest to me as well!)
Chip Butty
boosted
They say there is no glory in prevention, but also…
For my covid cautious mutuals: I’m running @recuperandoelaire which will be a mask bloc, website and a free library kind of thing in the future.
Most covid19 resources are in English. So this would be a way to help translate and spread covid preparedness materials.
The name has a double meaning: it means catching your breath. But I kinda wanted to add the “let’s take back the air” on it as a call to action. Anyway. Ideas are always welcome. #CovidIsNotOver
Isaac Freeman
and 5 others
boosted
In the early days of the COVID pandemic, there was a brief but widespread outburst of solidarity; of people protecting each other, supporting each other through difficult times. In many cases across demographic boundaries. For a brief time, people could experience what widespread solidarity might look like, what it might be able to achieve.
And then suddenly, as if by magic, a disinformation campaign spawned - about masks, vaccines, the severity of the disease, and so on. A disinformation campaign that many (capitalist) governments gleefully participated in, all in name of 'the economy'. A campaign that quickly became explosive and drew lines in the sand, often with violent consequences.
And it seems like by now, almost everyone - including most leftists! - have completely forgotten that this period of solidarity ever existed. It doesn't show up in retrospectives, it doesn't show up in discourse. And everyone now talks about COVID purely in terms of "us versus them". As if there have always been 'teams', always been 'sides'.
I think about this a lot.
Claudius Link
boosted
Hey #CovidCautious Mastodon, sagt mal eure Tipps für zuverlässige Masken (FFP2 oder FFP3) mit senkrechtem Mittelfalz!
Suche fürs nahe Umfeld nach Ersatz für das offenbar nicht mehr hergestellte Modell RM 100 von Medisana (FFP2). Besonders gern gesehen sind Empfehlungen für Masken, die auch großen Nasen passen.
They say there is no glory in prevention, but also…
Hey #CovidCautious Mastodon, sagt mal eure Tipps für zuverlässige Masken (FFP2 oder FFP3) mit senkrechtem Mittelfalz!
Suche fürs nahe Umfeld nach Ersatz für das offenbar nicht mehr hergestellte Modell RM 100 von Medisana (FFP2). Besonders gern gesehen sind Empfehlungen für Masken, die auch großen Nasen passen.
did i mention that #covid19 fucked up my sleep schedule?
In the early days of the COVID pandemic, there was a brief but widespread outburst of solidarity; of people protecting each other, supporting each other through difficult times. In many cases across demographic boundaries. For a brief time, people could experience what widespread solidarity might look like, what it might be able to achieve.
And then suddenly, as if by magic, a disinformation campaign spawned - about masks, vaccines, the severity of the disease, and so on. A disinformation campaign that many (capitalist) governments gleefully participated in, all in name of 'the economy'. A campaign that quickly became explosive and drew lines in the sand, often with violent consequences.
And it seems like by now, almost everyone - including most leftists! - have completely forgotten that this period of solidarity ever existed. It doesn't show up in retrospectives, it doesn't show up in discourse. And everyone now talks about COVID purely in terms of "us versus them". As if there have always been 'teams', always been 'sides'.
I think about this a lot.
Billy Smith
boosted
Remembering these words from the now late Alice Wong today: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-isnt-going-anywhere-masking-up-could-save-my-life