If you’ve ever wondered what you’d do in a genocide, the answer is whatever you’re doing now.

wwiii has started. Help people.

My country’s healthcare system

tw: sexual violence, forced birth

Why don’t you compare those numbers to the number of deaths caused by covid-19. Way more people have died or become disabled from covid, it’s not even close. https://ncov2019.live/data

To Othello: You are super cool and I really appreciate reading what you have to say. I really appreciate your perspective and all you give to this community. I hope the rest of us can make this a good enough place for you to stay. You deserve a good place where your comrades have your back. [/gen, angry on your behalf, hoping you stay]

To the white fragile people who were being assholes to Othello,: Raise your fucking standards for yourself. Read. Learn. Don’t take out your fragility and big feelings about race on black people. Do you feel upset when a black person expresses feelings about race? Do some reading about the history of racism. Do some emotional work. Don’t turn your ignorance and your feelings into a burden for black people. Don’t take out your insecurities, your anger, your fragility, your fear on black people. Deal with it yourself. If you don’t have the tools, find them. Research. Learn. And if you don’t have the energy for that, then shut the fuck up.

To my fellow white people on this site: We have to do better about defending our black, indigenous, and people of color comrades on this site. Yes, it takes work to learn, it takes time and energy and discomfort and going outside of our comfort zones. But we have to do that work, and we have to do a better job. We have to collectively create a site where our black, indigenous, and people of color comrades feel safe, where they know we’ll be there for them and have their backs. It’s fun to shitpost, and shitposting is an important part of the culture here too. But we also have to do ongoing work to make it so that when we see racism, we notice it, and call it out. It might take the mods a while to get to delete and ban racism, but we should be there to back our comrades up and make racists feel unwelcome. An important part of leftism is making sure that we have spaces that feel good for our comrades to be in. We need to be able to create and maintain spaces that are supportive. With the federations having happened, there’s been somewhat of a focus on bringing leftism to other communities, educating outsiders etc, but we also have to remember that gaining numbers by bringing in outsiders is not the only factor affecting numbers. If we bring in assholes, and then they drive out people from minority groups, then we haven’t actually gained anything good. We need to create spaces where our black, indigenous, and people of color comrades can stay. And from my digging to try to figure out what this was all about, it sounds like some (or all? not sure) of the users harassing Othello were from inside hexbear. So we need to do better. We need to go out of our way to do the emotional work, educate ourselves, and actively look for racism on the site so we can stamp it out.

The only people who are post-pandemic are the ones who have died from it. The propaganda machine is a conveyor belt to our graves. [/srs]

I hope you can get paxlovid. Good luck, comrade. I hope you have a good recovery. [/gen]

Ugh. That’s really rough, and super fucking unfair. I hope you and your family recover well from it. I hope you can get paxlovid. And I hope none of you get long covid or any other serious complications. What an evil fucking system we live in, where the danger is clear in sight, and everyone is just herded into the path of danger so the rich can get their profits. I wish the best to all of you. [/gen]

The FDA approved the new Phizer and Moderna vaccines a few days ago. Now that both the CDC and FDA have approved them, the vaccines will begin to be available to the public next week. According to the CDC, the Vaccines.gov page will be updated to include vaccination locations in the next few days. Walgreens and CVS are both offering appointments for the new vaccine. Vaccination appointments can be scheduled now for as early next week.

Yes, it is different. If you were vaccinated about a year ago, you probably got the 2022-2023 vaccine. The CDC is now recommending people get the 2023-2024 version of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Edit: I’ll try to make that more clear in the original post.

Hey could you spoiler your title for sexual violence? Edit: thanks

That’s great! I hope mask culture will be normalized elsewhere as well.

Are you saying Sami people are responsible for the sins of colonizers because their skin is pale? The Sami aren’t colonizers. They’re indigenous people. Educate yourself about the Sami people before you talk about them. You’re being racist, and you should stop.

Ahh but why not cut out the middleman, capitalism is efficient! /s For real though, I feel like they are doing everything they can to brainwash people into not noticing anything is different. No masking means no visual and tactile reminder that things are different. No added ventilation or air filters means no change in routine… If there’s nothing different, then people won’t be asking what the government needs to do to bring things back to normal. You’re totally right though, the government should take simple, effective measures like this to protect people and reduce unnecessary disability and death.

Yeah. Even when reporting was at its highest, there were all the cases that weren’t being tested because many people don’t have access to healthcare.

Yeah. You feel like you are being gas-lit because you are being gas-lit. Everyone is. The entire media apparatus, and everyone who is dependent on it for their worldview have moved on. They’re hiding this ongoing, preventable tragedy in plain sight like they do with everything else. People, even highly educated people, are convinced that they know critical thinking, yet we’re all being farmed and shepherded like lemmings off a cliff. We’ve got to keep being the ‘weird’ people who mask, who keep taking measures to be safe, who keep questioning the official narrative and trying to figure out what’s actually going on. Maybe we can create the beginnings of a cultural shift towards masking and paying attention. As the death toll grows, as more and more people become disabled and lose loved ones, perhaps the worldview of some will shatter, and they’ll see that those masking were right all along. And then we can get some of them to be careful too. Every case prevented can save a life, can save a person from the difficulty of unnecessary disability.

Yeah. They wanted the pandemic to be over, they decided it was “over”, and they changed the data they reported to support that. We basically have to piece together for ourselves what’s going on, and do our best to protect ourselves and others, because the governments will alter reporting however it suits them.

Edit: spelling

Ohh gotcha. Sorry, I actually forgot that some people don’t have any disabilities. Almost everyone I know has something. Apart from that, I’m not sure… perhaps you could look for activities that are covid-safe by nature? Like a hiking group, where people could be socially distanced and outdoors, which would allow for a safer social activity. Perhaps you could find people who are safe about covid by doing activities that are safe from covid. [/gen]

You could probably see if there are any disability- related support groups in your area. People who are more aware that they could die if they get sick are more likely to be taking protective measures.

No worries comrade [/gen]