"Are you going to wear a mask forever?"
Dude that's not even in the top 1000 things I'm bummed about doing forever. I have to wash my dishes forever. Brush my teeth forever. Do laundry forever. Wearing a respirator forever is nothing.
This pandemic showed me a side of humanity that I'm never going to unsee for the rest of my life. I knew humans were capable of great evil, but I didn't realize how easy it would be for 90+% of people to be cool with perpetuating a mass killing and disabling event.
There's something so incredibly gaslighty about having people defend actions that prolong the pandemic by saying they want the pandemic to be over.
I DO TOO, DUDE. A lot more than you do, in fact, because I'm willing to change my behaviour to achieve that.
Just got a call for my IUD replacement appointment.
Me: Is it possible to arrange some kind of pain control? It was really bad last time?
Lady on the phone: We just tell people to take whatever they take when they have period cramps 🥰🥰🥰
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If you are contributing to the spread of covid by not masking or by holding large unnecessary gatherings, you are contributing to people dying and developing long-term health issues. If being told that makes you feel bad, that's because doing that is supposed to feel bad.
Got a second call from the gynecologist's office re IUD insertion.
"You can take advil."
"If you can't take advil, you can take extra strength Tylenol."
"If you're really worried about it..you can take advil *and* Tylenol."
This is fucking insulting.
The way we normalize unnecessary suffering in healthcare that predominantly affects women is enraging. They would NEVER expect a cis man to endure that level of pain as standard practice when minimizing it is so fucking easy. But they torture us and gaslight us about it.
POV: You're getting surgery tomorrow and part of your preparation is making sure you can prove it if the hospital infects you with sars-cov-2 because they won't try not to. (Also got a PCR test yesterday, should get the results tomorrow)
I don't want to direct anger towards this person, but I will never keep my experiences of IUD insertion to myself for fear that I will stop somebody from getting an IUD. This view probably comes from a good place but frankly the implications of this suggestion are horrific. 🧵
I don't understand what part of this is confusing. The sides are not "I love pandemics" vs "I don't like pandemics". They're "I want to pretend the pandemic is over while ensuring it never ends" vs "I want it to ACTUALLY end."
a) the pain is N O T the same as period cramps. At least for me. Not even a little bit.
b) I have an IUD because of the pain of my period cramps which fuck up my garbage spine so L M A O
I don't want to hear people complain about cancelled flights/concerts/etc anymore. Like sorry your plan to ignore a pandemic until it magically goes away isn't working out, I guess. You should have understood that was ridiculous *and* you were told that it was.
@CDCDirector
Sacrifice implies consent that wasn't there. It also implies some benefit came out of the cruelty, which is weird when the only thing that "research" showed was known for hundreds of years, namely that untreated syphilis is bad.
I'm emotionally preparing to live the rest of my life in a disaster movie and conservatives think they're going to scare me about the DEBT? The numbers in the computer are kind of a moot point given that we're all being sacrificed to oil barons anyway.
I don't have the words and this doesn't feel real, but after taking 7 years to finish my degree and struggling to find accessible employment for 2 years after that, I was just offered a dream position as a recruit analyst with the Disability Team at Statistics Canada.
"I don't let fear control my life," says person choosing to risk permanent systemic damage and death for themselves and others because accepting reality is too scary.
If covid ever gets taken seriously again, people are going to lie and say they were one of the ones who was careful. There was a time when I was ready to accept that gracefully, but at this point, I'll tell you and whomever you're talking to that you got people killed.
There's no law that says you can't treat symptoms AND try to improve the problem? And there's also no law that says your spine isn't going to be a jerk regardless. Bipedalism is a curse and an affront to the vertebrae gods.
I'm so fucking scared. I'm doing it again because it's better than period cramps fucking me up monthly for 5 years but it was so bad last time. Cannot put the fear or the pain into words.
Just looked at the clinic's info sheet on IUDs and LMFAO you lying fucks. Some pain/discomfort is a hell of a way to say "excruciating during insertion and the entire next day". This is not my first rodeo.
@fatfabfeminist
And even with taste fully intact, imo white claw tastes exactly like flavoured soda water with no alcohol. And they're advertised as "seltzers", which can be confusing. I have no trouble believing this could be a mistake.
I'm reading about the progression of HIV, and I'm more terrified than ever about what the long-term impacts of sars-cov-2 could be. We have no idea what happens 10 years post-infection. What we know about the impacts up to just over 3 years post-infection doesn't bode well.
Fun fact about the unemployment rate: The calculation only includes people actively looking for work. As more people exit the labour force due to disability, a high percentage of those who can still work will be able to find jobs, reducing the unemployment rate.
There are many reasons I'm not willing to roll the dice on long Covid. One is that I saw a cardiologist for suspected POTS, a common condition that long covid can cause, and he told me I don't have it after doing the wrong test then acted like I was crazy for pointing that out.
I hate the performed ignorance of asking somebody why they're wearing a mask. Most likely, it's to protect myself from covid, and whether you think it's necessary or not, you know that's the reason.
It's extremely fucked up that my highest-risk activities are GETTING MEDICAL CARE. Somebody please enlighten me as to how that ✨personal risk assessment✨ is supposed to work.
Statistics Canada has released 2022 mortality data. Despite constant insistence that COVID is over, more Canadians died from COVID-19 in 2022 than in 2020 or 2021 (the "height of the pandemic"). It was the 3rd leading cause of death.
I'm so exhausted of having to explain to people that the pandemic is still a serious problem. I have to pull up all this data and go point by point when the person I'm talking to is extremely confident in the opinion they've formed solely on vibes.
More people should know that Kitty Genovese was a badass lesbian living her best life in 1960s NYC before her horrible murder was twisted into an inaccurate allegory for copaganda. (Listen to the
@yourewrongabout
back catalogue to learn more about that)
"COVID is just like any other respiratory virus".
Common cold: 2 deaths from 2020-2022
RSV: 73 deaths from 2020-2022
Influenza: 1,709 deaths from 2020-2022
COVID-19: 50,062 deaths from 2020-2022 (25,031x cold deaths, 686x RSV deaths, 29x flu deaths)
Can somebody recommend a podcast where the hosts are aware of the seriousness of covid? Not a podcast about covid. Just one that isn't ruined by casual minimization and talking about the live shows they're doing internationally with zero precautions.
Also please don't tell me to get a different doctor. I'm not in this situation because I've never once considered just "getting a different doctor", a thing that's rarely possible in Ontario, the place where I live. You can safely assume I'm not just ignoring "simple solutions".
I love that my attendance at family events is important enough to my family for them to badger me, push my boundaries, and make me feel guilty, but not important enough for them to consider measures to limit the risk of SARS-COV-2 transmission. Fuck all of them.
Nobody is confused. We are rightfully horrified that you have chosen reduced protections *because* the protections worked, despite the ongoing danger. How much preventable deaths and chronic illness caused by your hospital is acceptable to you? Throw out a number.
We wanted to clarify - and sorry to have caused confusion on an earlier post - our position on mask wearing; masks are still being worn in a number of clinical settings and where it is a personal preference - this is respected across the Trust…
Wearing a bra is a million times more inconvenient than wearing a mask so maybe everybody could be a little less dramatic about the latter when the alternative to wearing one is spreading a deadly and disabling virus.
Holy shit. I don't usually read news articles about COVID because I just track the data itself. I'm looking at recent news articles for something else, and they are just fully making shit up. CBC, CTV, global, more local outlets. Filled with lies.
I am once again asking for people who have purposely avoided any and all information about covid for years to maybe shut the fuck up about what you think is going on with the pandemic. You chose to not know. Keep the opinions you pulled straight out of your ass to yourself.
I'm quickly losing hope that anything will ever be safe again. I do not want to get SARS-COV-2. I do not want to develop long covid. I intend to do everything in my power to avoid all of it but the things in my power are slipping away by the day.
I'm so fucking exhausted by people claiming the pandemic has improved when I follow the data closely and it says the exact opposite. Cite your source or shut up. What you feel to be true in your little heart is not data.
I have expressed several times that this procedure was extremely, severely painful last time. They open your fucking cervix and put shit in your uterus. Tylenol? Tylenol. I wish the people I've spoken to a very merry excruciating pain with no management.
I'm never getting married after seeing so many people live the nightmare of finding out their partner doesn't care about people's health and lives years into their relationship and having to do expensive homework to end it.
This is 100% speculation, but I've been increasingly wondering if world leaders are botching the COVID response to either mitigate climate change (by mass death rather than anything affecting capital) OR to reduce our ability to fight back as they cause more and more destruction.
It's bullshit that those of us trying to avoid covid have to justify our lack of attendance at family gatherings. How about YOU GUYS justify having gatherings with 4 generations of family with no precautions in a pandemic? Explain THAT to me.
Also gabapentin isn't even the fun kind of pain drug, at least for me. It just makes me really tired and makes my brain feel like soup. I decided to stop taking it daily because it sucks, but also nerve pain sucks, so it's nice to have around.
As a disabled person, I promise you you'll be treated even worse if you become disabled by long covid than you'll be treated for wearing a mask. I'm not minimizing the latter, just noting that not masking isn't a winning long-term strategy for social approval.
Sorry I'll never buy the idea that a significant number of people recklessly spreading COVID don't know any better. If you truly believe this, you haven't tried to educate as many people as I have or your conversations went a lot differently than mine.
PLEASE read this if you live in/around Ontario. The wastewater signal data was updated, and while the most recent data may change, the increases in many regions are extremely dramatic. 🧵
Sorry I haven't been doing COVID updates. It's honestly hard to feel like there's even a point when anybody who would care is already well informed. But here's the Ontario wastewater update. 🧵
Do we think the covid denial fever will break at some point? I feel like I can cope with a lot, but being expected to play along with a post-covid fantasy while people get sick and die every day as a direct result is getting to be a lot.
Words can't convey the disgust I feel. I certainly don't think I'm an especially good person, but I kind of thought doing the bare minimum to not kill people was a fair expectation and I guess not.
Thank you for all the support and most of the suggestions. I need to mute this because I'm getting overwhelmed but I'm going to list some of the pain relief suggestions and bring them up to my GP and maybe call the gynecology place back bc not sure when I'll hear back from them.
Imagine thinking you're the victim when people who can't get groceries, work outside the home, or get medical care safely because you don't wear a mask and keep having massive indoor gatherings are asking you to not do that.
If you wear a mask, people will think you're weird.
But if you don't, people will know you don't believe the health and lives of those around you are important enough to justify mild inconvenience.
I'm very at peace with my choice to seem weird.
If you've ever been shocked by how many people did not evacuate the twin towers after the first plane hit, or how long it took to convince people to board the lifeboats on the Titanic, AND you're doing nothing to prevent SARS2 infection, that's you now.
@LazarusLong13
I think we're quickly going to see that athletes who take covid seriously are outperforming others. It's strange that covid safety generally isn't taken seriously by athletes when they put so much time and effort into optimizing performance and getting covid can fuck it all up.
I get that the pain isn't severe for everybody. But from research I've read, countless anecdotes, and personal experience, severe pain isn't uncommon. Menstrual cramps aggravate my fucked up spine that already causes daily nerve pain. That is why I have a fucking IUD.
They talk to me like I'm a child. This is not anxiety. I know this procedure causes me severe pain. I know Tylenol and advil don't do shit for severe pain. I'm not even asking for opioids, although this is a pretty good use for them. Literally anything that actually works.
I don't regret being a relative hermit in my attempts to avoid SARS-cov-2, but being in public has become pretty overstimulating as a result. I wish people would take precautions so I could do it more and not have my brain switch into battery saver mode after a few hours.
Is it just me, or are many people currently coughing/clearing their throat constantly and unable to speak for long periods without getting out of breath?
Nobody is obligated to take this advice, but if you're a podcaster who is ignoring COVID (i.e. most of them), I'd love it if you could just keep the "weird bug" you had over Christmas that's still affecting your cognitive and physical functioning to yourself.
Only counting those who die in the acute phase of SARS-COV-2 in the death toll of this virus is like saying the Chernobyl nuclear disaster killed 31 people. It might be hard to quantify deaths caused by long-term effects, but it's undoubtedly significant.
I wonder how many people have gotten covid because they can't afford their own place and get sick from roommates. I bet it's a lot of people, particularly in Hamilton where I live.
I'm so fucking overwhelmed. My employer is trying to force me back to the office. My union is useless at best and hostile at worst. My mom is inviting me to another unsafe family event. Tomorrow is the five year anniversary of my Granda's death. It's too much.
It's so annoying listening to old podcast episodes from 2020-21. Self-righteous progressives laughing at people ignoring the existence of a pandemic as if they won't be doing the exact same thing by 2022.
Canada began 2023 with more COVID-19 patients hospitalized than at any point in 2020 or 2021, peaking at 16.2% above the 2021 max and 33.9% above the 2020 max. We're currently at 70.5% of (or 29.5% below) the 2021 max and 81.1% of (or 18.9% below) the 2020 max. Covid isn't over.
In my view, telling people to stop sharing their stories means deciding you know what's best for other people's bodies and that you will hide information from them if it might lead to them making a different choice.
People getting IUDs are entitled to informed consent, and the medical field is not offering that. In my experience, they do not disclose that many people experience severe pain during insertion. I understand that isn't universal, but it's absolutely common enough to mention.
I've stopped answering questions like this or "why are you wearing a mask?" in good faith because they're not being asked in good faith at this point. You know the answer. You want me to feel weird about it and I don't respect your opinion enough for it to work. 🤷🏼♀️
“You know you don’t have to wear masks anymore?”
OMG yes everyone knows!!! Seeing 99% of folks unmasked is a big tip off 🙄🙄🙄
Anyone masking now is OBVIOUSLY making an active choice.
✌️ Questions ✌️ that are in reality cloaked demands aren't needed.
@becslieb
It's actually barbaric that it's standard practice to just straight up torture us. That it's even a question of whether they will provide any pain control before rummaging around in our cervixes.
It's actually evil to say those advocating wearing masks are trying to stop people from "living their lives" considering that dropping protections has caused many people to LITERALLY stop living their lives. As in, their lives have ended.
@GHMansfield
This happened to my mom's boss. He had cancer. He was in his forties and was clear several times that he did not want a DNR but it sounds like it was an ongoing issue. It's so disgusting that people are pressured on a decision like that and I'm sorry you've experienced it. ❤️
How much longer do I have to live alongside people ignoring and perpetuating a mass murder and mass disabling event? I say this all the time but it's very much destroying me. What will it take? Anything?
How the fuck am I supposed to live in a world where nobody gives a shit about preventable death and chronic illness we don't have effective treatments for occurring on such a massive scale? Pure evil from every direction.
The medical care people with long covid can expect is mostly just neglect and/or gaslighting. I'm not looking for more opportunities to experience that at the moment.
WAIT. If having migraines with auras increases my risk of stroke to the point where I can't take most hormonal birth control pills, why haven't I seen any info about risks of stroke post-covid to people with migraine auras?
If you are able to wear a mask, and you are going to indoor and crowded outdoor public spaces without a mask, you are almost certainly killing and disabling people. Your feelings don't change that. Whether somebody tells you doesn't change that. Only precautions change it.
At the beginning of the pandemic, I rewatched "How to Survive a Plague", a documentary about AIDS activism in the 80s and 90s. I had completely forgotten how prominently Fauci and his failures were featured.
I’ve been reading about previous pandemics & it’s really struck me how many of the same folks that were known for screwing up previous responses are the same people that feature prominently in the SARS2 response.
It's actually so fucked up when people imply those of us taking precautions against covid don't want it to go away. I DON'T KNOW MAN, I'M THE ONE TAKING ACTIONS TO HELP IT END SOONER AND YOU'RE THE ONE PROLONGING IT, SO YOUR THEORY HAS SOME ISSUES.
My mom: “I’m worried about your mental health for reintegrating into society if Covid ever went away.” 🙄🙄🙄
Zero concern for my mental health fighting for survival when our global leaders have decided people like me are an acceptable sacrifice for billionaire profit.
I experienced horrific pain during my first IUD insertion. Among the most painful things I've ever experienced. I never regretted getting an IUD. I was only enraged that I went into it unprepared.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but blocking everybody who tells you why you're sick all the time might be the reason you still don't know why you're sick all the time. 🤷🏼♀️