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yamameta-inc · 3 months

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The Swiss Cheese Model of Covid Prevention

An edited version of the swiss cheese model tailored towards the measures that you as an individual can take to minimize your risk of infection. Public health is ultimately what its name implies, public, but that doesn't mean you're powerless.

Covid prevention is not all-or-nothing. Think of it as risk reduction, rather than a binary.

Let's go through these step by step.

VACCINES

The current vaccines are meant primarily to reduce chances of severe illness, hospitalization, and death. They will reduce your chance of infection a bit--but not nearly as much as you might think. You should still get your boosters regularly, because avoiding severe illness is of course worth doing.

If you haven't gotten the updated monovalent vaccine yet, go get it. It is not a booster. Think of it as a new vaccine. It's targeted towards the XBB lineages, which are now the most common variants. Your last boosters were likely of the bivalent type, aimed at both the original Covid strain from 2020 and Omicron. The new vaccine is monovalent, meaning it targets one family in particular.

Some studies suggest that the Novavax vaccine, which is a more traditional protein-based vaccine, is more effective and safer than mRNA vaccines, and offers better protection against future variants. Of course, the data we have so far isn't 100% conclusive (the last paper I linked is a preprint). Make of these findings what you will, just something to keep in mind. The new Novavax vaccine's availability is still limited, especially outside of the US.

MASKS

Masking is one of the most effective ways to protect yourself. While it is true that masking and reducing Covid transmission protects those around you, the idea that masks can't protect the wearer is outdated information from the early days of the pandemic when medical authorities refused to acknowledge that Covid is airborne.

The key to protecting yourself is to wear a well-fitting respirator. You want to minimize any gaps where air might leak out. If your glasses get fogged up, that's a sign that air is leaking.

Headbands will always have a tighter fit than earloop masks (and therefore provide better protection). However, you can use earloop extenders to improve the fit of earloop masks. You can find these online. Your comfort in wearing a mask is important, but there are options for compromise.

The above graphic doesn't include elastomeric respirators. While some (like the Flo Mask) are expensive, they can be much more affordable than buying disposables--look for P100 respirators at your local hardware store, but make sure it fits your face well.

For more general information, see this FAQ. For mask recommendations (NA-centric, sorry!), see my list here or Mask Nerd's YouTube channel.

For situations where you need to hydrate but don't want to take your mask off, consider the SIP valve.

Not even N95s are foolproof (N95 means it filters at least 95% of particles--with the other 5% potentially reaching you). Most people will likely not have a perfect fit. There will be situations where you'll have to take your mask off. The key is risk reduction, and that's why the Swiss cheese model is crucial.

If you can't afford high-quality masks, look for a local mask bloc or other organization that gives out free masks. Project N95 has unfortunately shut down. In Canada, there's donatemask.ca.

AVOID CROWDED INDOOR SPACES

This is rather self-explanatory. Indoor transmission is much, much, much more likely than outdoor transmission. If it's possible to move an activity outdoors instead, consider doing so.

If possible, try going to places like stores or the post office during less busy hours.

Viral particles can stay in the air for a considerable amount of time even after the person who expelled them has left. Do not take off your mask just because no one is currently present, if you know that it was previously crowded.

A CO2 monitor is a decent proxy for how many viral particles may have accumulated in the air around you. The gold standard is the Aranet4, but it's expensive, so here are some more affordable alternatives.

VENTILATION AND AIR FILTERS

Ventilation is effective for the same reason that outdoors is safer than indoors. If it's warm enough, keep windows open whenever possible. If it's cold, even cracking them open occasionally is better than nothing. Try to open windows or doors on different sides of a room to maximize airflow.

HEPA air filters can significantly reduce viral transmission indoors. Make sure to find one suitable for the room size, and replace the filters regularly. You want to look for devices with HEPA-13 filters.

You can use websites like these to calculate how long it takes for a device to change all the air in a room. Remember what I said about viral particles being able to hang around even after people have left? If an air purifier provides 2 air changes per hour, that means that after 30 minutes, any potential viral particles should be gone.

If you can't afford a commercial air filter, here's a useful DIY filter you can make with relatively simple materials. The filtration capacity is great--but due to being built with duct tape, replacing filters will be a challenge.

If you have to hold meetings or meet with people at work, having a smaller filter on the desk between you will also reduce chances of infection.

As a bonus, HEPA filters will also filter out other things like dust and allergens!

REDUCE LENGTH OF EXPOSURE IF EXPOSURE IS UNAVOIDABLE

Viral load refers to the amount of virus in a person's blood. If you've been exposed to someone with Covid, how much you've been exposed matters.

You might escape infection if the viral load you've been exposed to is very small. Or, even if you get infected, there will be less virus in you overall, leading to milder illness--and crucially, a lower chance of the virus penetrating deep into your body, creating reservoirs in your organs and wreaking long-term havoc.

A low viral load is also less contagious.

This is the same reason that wearing your mask most of the time, but having to take it off for eating, is still much better than not wearing your mask at all.

RECHARGEABLE PORTABLE AIR FILTERS

You might attract some odd looks. But if you're at high risk or just want to be as protected as possible, small portable air filters can help. Try to find models small enough to take with you on public transportation, to school, or while traveling.

These devices will be far too small to clean the air in the whole room. The goal is to have it filter air in your immediate vicinity. Be sure to angle the device so that the air is blowing in your face.

Unfortunately, rechargeable devices are much rarer and harder to find than normal air filters, and many are also expensive.

The best option at the moment, apart from DIY (which is possible, but you need to know what you're doing), seems to be the SmartAir QT3. The size and shape are a bit clunky, but it fits in a backpack. Its battery life isn't long, but it can be supplemented with a power bank.

NASAL SPRAYS

There's some research that suggests that some nasal sprays may be effective in reducing risk of infection by interfering with viruses' ability to bind to your cells.

These sprays are generally affordable, easy to find, and safe. The key ingredient is carrageenan, which is extracted from seaweed. So there are no potential risks or side effects.

Be sure to follow the instructions on the packaging carefully. Here's a video on how to properly use nasal sprays if you've never used them before.

Covixyl is another type of nasal spray that uses a different key ingredient, ethyl lauroyl arginate HCI. It also aims to disrupt viruses' ability to bind to cell walls. Unfortunately, I think it's difficult to obtain outside of the US.

CONCLUSION

None of the methods listed here are foolproof on their own. But by layering them, you can drastically reduce your chances of infection.

The most important layers, by far, are masking and air quality. But you should also stay conscientious when engaging with those layers. Don't let yourself become complacent with rules of thumb, and allow yourself to assess risk and make thought out decisions when situations arise where you might have to take off your mask or enter a high-risk indoor area, such as a hospital.

Remember that the goal is risk reduction. It's impossible to live risk-free, because we live among countless other people. But you can use knowledge and tools to keep yourself as safe as possible.

#covid #this took a while... i feel like i forgot stuff #but i can't think of what atm

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why-animals-do-the-thing · 1 year

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What do you look for/ ask about when you visit a zoo? Is an AZA accreditation a guarantee of a zoo being good?

At this point, I don't take any accreditation as a sign that a zoo or sanctuary is good or bad. I've seen too many issues at AZA zoos and enough stellar unaccredited places to make any blanket judgement.

Here's some of what I look at to decide how I feel about a place:

Are the habitats in good repair? Is there visible deterioration in the habitat furniture, water damage, etc? Are there issues like exposed heating elements that could hurt an animal? Are exclusion barriers around heating elements or staff access well-built and secure?

Have things been recently cleaned? (Obviously, some animals poop in their water elements the second they're let back on habitat after cleaning - so this is more looking at stuff that's more than a day old, like visibly rotting/stepped in food).

Is the age/activity level of the animals appropriate for the habitats they're in? This one can take a bit of asking to find out, but it matters when places have older construction. Some of the outdated exhibit styles with less space to move or climb are fine for geriatric animals, but not for younger, more energetic ones. Facilities can often repurpose old exhibits for different species, too, if they can’t renovate.

Is the messaging and signage consistent with the ethos of the facility? Is the signage correct? If things are older I can forgive minor errors or outdated info because that stuff is expensive to replace, but new signs should be accurate. Also, if things are incorrect, what's the topic? An error about habitat range is one thing, a sign misleading guests about USDA regulations is another.

Are they doing animal encounters, and if so, how are they set up? Are they voluntary? Are they safe for both the people and animals?

Do I generally feel safe / welcome at the facility? This can be based on things like cleanliness, fence height, general vibe. I've been to places that just don't feel like they want to be a zoo, or want guests, and it was weird AF.

Are animals that are visibly injured or sick under veterinary care? Is it being messaged about transparently?

Are they taking appropriate COVID precautions around susceptible species? (This one is hard lately because IMHO I've seen mayyybe one zoo reliably making staff wear N95s around cats and primates.)

Are the safety precautions appropriate? Are there easy places where guests could contact animals that haven't been addressed? Are spots where people frequently try to reach out to fencing retrofitted or staffed to prevent it?

As you can see, I'm generally looking at how a place functions. There's no specific lines about it something is good or bad - I try to evaluate situations and look at how a zoo is (or isn't) addressing it. The reality is that not every facility has the money to emulate the aesthetics of the big legacy AZA zoos, and so you may see chain fencing or unpainted concrete. As long as it's safe and functional and the animal welfare is good, that's what matters. Renovations cost money. Signage costs money. Places always have to juggle what to prioritize, and big donations are often earmarked for specific projects or species. So for me it sort of boils down to "what are they doing, why, and how" plus a general vibe check.

#zoos #sanctuaries #zoo industry

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thatdiabolicalfeminist · 3 months

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Hi, saw one of your reblogs about masking and wanted to ask something. Sorry if you're not the right person to ask, feel free to ignore, I just haven't got anyone irl that even cares anymore. I've been masking daily this entire time ever since the pandemic first started, but I'm beginning to wonder, when are we going to be able to stop masking? Is there anywhere you can recommend where I can inform myself about this, about what our outlook is like re: COVID and other safety precautions and that type of stuff? The government's position in my country is pretty much just "masks are no longer mandatory" (I wasn't even allowed to get a booster this year, they're apparently not recommended for under 60s here unless you're high risk), and there isn't a culture of masking when sick here, so almost no one does, not even doctors. And it's starting to affect me socially as well, you kind of end up socially excluded/ostracized quite a lot when most places you go you're the only one masking (which I realize is not as bad as death or long COVID but I do have to admit it's getting to me). I guess I'm just wondering if there's anything else to look forward to other than masking indefinitely?

I'm really sorry but unless and until there are widespread, systemic safety measures in place, as far as I know masking is gonna continue to be your best option in terms of protecting yourself and others from covid and its complications :(

There are less effective but still useful options, like the covixyl nasal spray and nasal sanitizers, and iota-carageenan nasal spray and/or cpc mouthwash as post exposure prophylaxis—but those are most effective when paired with masking.

If you do at any point decide to stop masking, altogether or in certain situations, I hope you'll consider using some of those preventative tools. They're dramatically better than no protection at all.

Air cleaners like the corsi-rosenthal box can help if you're in a space where you'd be allowed to set that up. Socializing outside helps a little esp if you're spaced out.

But unless systems get put in place to overhaul ventilation systems and quarantine sick people etc the most effective option I'm aware of as an individual is a well-fitting N95/kf94/kn95 mask with no gapping at the cheeks or anywhere else.

It might be worth finding out who in your area is organizing to try to demand or implement better covid safety measures, and see if you can join them. Try disability advocacy groups—even if they don't have a project like that in place they may either know who does or be willing to help you set one up.

Lastly, I'm just repeating info I've taken in (hopefully accurately) from medical journal articles. I'm just an ordinary person, I'm not an epidemiologist or virologist or medical expert of any kind, so please do your own research as well. Make sure any info you accept as for-sure accurate is from peer reviewed medical studies published by credible scientific journals.

#asks #anon asks #covid19

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feminist-space · 9 months

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Wear a mask (respirators like N95s or KN95s or KF94s), especially in healthcare settings, in public transportation, in crowded places. Long covid has severe consequences that, coupled with the dystopian nightmare that is everything else, can be devastating. It's worth it to at least try to take steps to stay safe by wearing a mask. For ourselves and for the people around us.

If you need help getting masks, there are mask blocs throughout the country that you can reach out to. And Project N95 also has resources for those who cannot afford N95 etc respirators.

Excerpts from article:

"About one in four Covid patients experience long-term symptoms weeks or months after getting infected, according to multiple studies published last year."

"A May study from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that both unvaccinated and vaccinated people are at risk of long Covid. The risk is higher for the unvaccinated, but the study suggested that vaccines only reduce the risk of long Covid by 15%."

"The report estimates that 2 million to 4 million of those people are currently out of work due to long Covid."

"If 4 million long Covid patients are out of work, the lost earnings could be as high as $230 billion, the report says.

That’s nearly 1% of the country’s current-dollar gross domestic product (GDP) of $24.88 trillion."

"The condition can undeniably impact a patient’s life, work and health. Last year, the Americans with Disabilities Act labeled long Covid a disability because of how it can limit the major life activities of patients.

A July 2021 study from the Patient-Led Research Collaborative measured the condition’s effect on patients’ work over the course of seven months. Only about 27% of long Covid patients worked as many hours as they did before failing ill. Roughly 23% weren’t working at all, as a direct result of long Covid. That included being on sick leave, disability leave, quitting, being fired or being unable to find a job that would accommodate them."

#wear a mask #long covid #please wear a mask #covid

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liminalweirdo · 6 months

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HI! please sign this petition to tell the CDC to protect healthcare workers and their patients. Protect your disabled, vulnerable, and immunocompromized community members! THIS POLL CLOSES ON OCTOBER 25th

#lgbtq+#disability community #queer #queer community #immunocompromised #covid cautious

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pandemichub · 4 months

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"Proceeds from the Project N95 shop and financial contributions from our donors are no longer enough to support our charitable mission. We have made the difficult decision to wind down operations and donate remaining inventory and funds in order to do as much good as possible with our limited remaining resources."

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toxinellebug · 3 months

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Shadybug & ClawNoir First Receiving the Miraculous Part 1

It is at the end of the day after the first, rough, week of school that both Marinette and Adrien head up to their respective bedrooms, miserable and feeling a deep sense of resentment towards the world.

Marinette is upset because despite FINALLY being free from beneath Chloe’s foot- no longer in the same class and Chloe seems to have found a new favorite target- the damage to her reputation still remains.

Most students are still wary that any attempt to befriend the “baker girl” will incur Chloe’s wrath upon them. The few who DO try to converse with her only do so to confirm that she is The crazy Water-phobic girl from the video posted last year (remember, in this universe, Marinette had NO friends, not even Socqueline Wang, so the incident with Kim at the pool, S5 episode 14, “Derision” was posted) in attempt to further laugh at her expense- someone even tried to pour out their water-bottle on her to see if she would freak out.

Mrs. Dupain-Cheng’s reasoning that Marinette just needs to “get over it” because people would forget about it when enough time passes, and that if she “just ignores them, they will get bored and leave you alone.” Is not only false, but has Marinette convinced that her mother truly could NOT care less about her!

It doesn’t matter that Marinette re-invented her whole look or took preventative measures to avoid being pranked ( See past post, “Shadybug/EmoMarinette Headcanon origin” ) School is still miserable.

Coming home is miserable because now she can’t even distract herself from her misery with her hobbies since according to her mom, staying up late drawing pictures and doing craft projects is WHY she has trouble waking up and getting to school on time so until she becomes mature and responsible enough, she needs to focus on studying.

It’s not fair. She never did anything wrong! Why does she have to suffer??

But then, Marinette notices a package on her bedroom desk; wrapped neatly in brown paper, no postage, but there is a small envelope on top with her name written on it in calligraphy.

There’s no way her mom get her a present for no reason.

If it was from her Father, he would’ve been too excited and greeted her at the door, eager to watch her open it.

Can’t be from Nonna; her grandma is still serving a detentionary sentence at a Labor Camp.

Suspicious.

Inside the envelope is a note;

“Mlle Marinette Dupain-Cheng, you have been chosen.

The items being entrusted to you are a matter of utmost secrecy and should be used with discretion.

May they enable you to do upon others that which has been done upon you, with interest.

Please ensure you are alone.”

No name is signed.

This is quite possibly the most suspicious thing in the entire history of suspicion.

It’s too complicated to be one of Chloe’s pranks…. But still!!!

No harm in being cautious;

Marinette leaves her room and comes back wearing an N95 mask, a flimsy plastic face shield (some eye protection is better than NO eye protection.) a pair of oven mitts, and armed with two long, metal tongs, and a can of bug spray (just in case).

Unwrapping a brown paper parcel with only cooking tongs is far more time consuming than one would think, but Marinette knows from experience not to trust unmarked boxes.

Finally opening the cardboard flaps, she braces herself for…. Nothing?

Nothing crawls out, nothing oozes or splatters, and nothing emits a noxious odor.

She dares to actually peek inside.

An anti-static foam pouch with something thin and flat inside.

Okay, she may be the opposite of popular, but there’s no way someone hates her enough to send an explosive…. Right?

Forgoing the tongs and the oven mitts, Marinette carefully unseals the pouch and pulls out a mini-tablet; 22 centimeters and as thin as her phone, sleek and black, but no markings or brand logos. Even still, something about it feels expensive.

Chloe may have money, but that doesn’t mean she’d waste it on an expensive gift just to prank Marinette.

Looking further inside the package, she sees a small, black, hexagon box.

It’s strange; the black lacquer on the sides has a slight haze to it, like the antique jewelry box her mother has.

But the lid is a shiny, black enamel that looks brand new. Perhaps the box was re-finished after the original design was damaged?

She’s about to open it, but thinks better of it-

Setting it down gently, she picks up her can of bug-spray; if anything so much as twitches, she’ll fog up the room!

Carefully creaking the lid open with one hand, can at the ready in the other, Marinette is woefully unprepared for the blinding pink light that bursts free.

As the light dims, she waits for the spots to clear from her vision…

Seeing that her vision is fine and those spots are actually on a large, red, hovering insect, Marinette empties the entire can of bug spray in the creatures general direction as she curses out the universe.

Eyes watering and throat burning (since N95 masks aren’t designed for chemical warfare), Marinette’s heart drops into her stomach at the sound of a tiny cough.

She has no idea if bugs can cough (fun fact, they can’t.) but the fact that whatever it is can make a sound means it’s still alive.

Since toxic chemicals are no longer an option, she switches to blunt force trauma as her modus operandi and hurls the empty can, as well as everything else within arm’s distance at the black and red floating thing.

The only thing stopping her from chucking the mini-tablet as well is her thumb brushing against a side button, triggering a red, grid-like laser projection that scans her face, causing her to drop the tablet in shock.

A feminine but obviously A.I. voice announces “Identity confirmation complete: Marinette Dupain-Cheng, approved.” Before the screen lights up with a VERY familiar red, x shaped symbol;

The Supreme.

Everyone knew that symbol. It was in textbooks, on flags, printed on currency, it was even engraved onto the Enforcers badges.

It was the symbol of the force the governed the Earth. After having unified all nations and establishing world peace after ending the 2nd world war, the Supreme created a world government and established laws in order to ensure peace and order for future generations.

No one knew the exact details of The Supreme, or even if it was just one person or a council of several. But everyone recognized the symbol of absolute authority.

That symbol was now glowing on the screen of the tablet in her hands.

Marinette swallowed hard; the symbol of The Supreme wasn’t something to be taken lightly. Using the symbol without permission for non-official reasons of any kind was a serious felony.

If this was a prank, it was one designed to get her arrested.

But, if it was real…

No, this was crazy! She was just a normal girl with a normal, albeit cruddy, life.

Why would The Supreme even care about who she is, let alone give her anything?!

‘May they enable you to do upon others that which has been done upon you, with interest.’

What has been done to her…

Years of being insulted and humiliated, her property destroyed, being tripped, splashed, sprayed, dumped on, lockers full of roaches, homework stolen, gum spat in her hair, being blamed for things she had nothing to do with, isolated and shunned… Was this seriously an offer for her to get payback?

Why? If The Supreme hated the Bourgeois’, it’s not like they would need a teenage girl to make the whole obnoxious family disappear.

But, did it really matter?

Until now, Marinette has never had anyone on her side. No one had ever been willing to stand up to Chloe. Teachers always took Chloe’s side. Her own mother acted like Marinette getting bullied was her own fault! Even her dad was such a doormat, all he ever did was tell her to try to stay positive and suggest she offer pastries as a way to make friends, as if there was no problem that couldn’t be solved with food.

If there was even the smallest chance to give that brat a tiny taste of her own medicine, to make her pay for even a fraction of the trauma she’s caused over the years, did it really matter how or why???

The sound of another tiny cough makes her look up- she almost forgot about the red and black whatever-it-is.

Said ‘thing’ is still hovering over the dropped box, uninjured by thrown objects and clearly not phased by the toxic cloud that has begun to dissipate, though its antennae does seem droopy.

Is it normal for bugs to have blue eyes?

It doesn’t have those creepy, gross, pinchy-thingies on its face (aka mandibles), but there IS SOMETHING weird where its mouth should be, or, well, where Marinette thinks its mouth should be. (Honestly, she doesn’t know much about bugs expect that they are nasty).

It’s staring at her, and maybe it’s the fumes getting to her, but she could swear it looked sad.

How was a giant, sad looking bug supposed to help her?

Looking back down at her tablet, she noticed a small flashing icon in the bottom left corner.

Tapping it pulled up a message screen with brief description of the creature, a kwami, a concise set of instructions, and bold-text list of rules.

The kwami served as a source of power, and was controlled by…. A pair of earrings?

Marinette assumed these so called miraculous earrings were inside the hexagonal box the kwami was lingering near.

Wearing these jewels and saying the transformation phrase would supposedly give her extraordinary abilities. Abilities she was free to use as she saw fit, under the strict conditions that she was never seen, that no one served witness to her powers, and that any trace of magic was erased.

The public could not be allowed to know of the existence of magic or supernatural abilities.

So long as she followed these rules, anything she did with the miraculous was admissible and free from legal repercussion.

Failure to adhere to these rules would result in severe penalty.

If Marrinette read that right, it meant she’d just been given the means and the permission to make Chloe Bourgeois’ life a waking nightmare, with no consequences so long as no one sees her do it.

Was there a catch? Probably.

Did she care? Nope.

Putting down the tablet, Marinette crawled over to the fallen box, keeping a wary eye on the kwami.

The earrings didn’t look all that special. Kind of tacky, if she was being honest.

The red and black polka-dotted studs reminded her of little ladybugs… which was probably what the kwami was meant to look like?

Whatever.

Putting them on felt even less magical.

Thankfully, looking in the mirror shows that they are no longer that childish red with black polka dots pattern, and are now plain black studs.

Picking the tablet back up, she scrolled through the information once more to find the transformation phrase.

For one, terrifying moment, the kwami is rushing towards her face, and it takes everything Marinette has not to scream as the red bug is sucked into her earrings.

The dark pink light that washes over her form and moves her body seemingly against her will, ripples of static energy cascading down each limb, is enough to finally convince her that this is no prank.

She kinda likes her hair in niújiǎotóu, even if it is too similar to the single bun style she wore last year when she was still a pathetic push-over.

But the rest of her appearance looks like some kind of toxic insect, (fun fact: black ladybugs, also known as pine ladybirds, are black with red spots and their bodies are full of toxins which are used to ward off predators and can cause allergic reactions in humans.)

The ribbons around her double buns literally look like antennas.

She scowls.

She HATES bugs.

Not a fan of polka-dots, either.

But… if she were to ignore the spots,

She doesn’t mind that the top half resembles a black bolero.

She thinks that the bottom giving off the impression of thigh high boots might be a bit much, but she DOES like the platform heeled soles.

Her mother would NEVER let her wear platform boots.

Her face isn’t as hidden by her bangs, but it’s not a bad thing- dark red lipstick, darker than blood; yet another thing her mother would NEVER approve of.

She liked it.

She also liked the red eyes.

They looked dangerous. They looked like the eyes of a person NO ONE would dare mess with.

She looked, no, she felt stronger.

And if everything detailed on the tablet was true, she was.

Examining her gloved hands as she opened and closed them, she decided she could live with the spots.

No, not just live; she was going to THRIVE.

She was going to make Chloe Bourgeois’ life HELL, and relish every moment of it!

A shout from her father on the other side of her room’s trapdoor, from the bottom of the stairs, informs her that dinner will be ready soon.

She de-transforms and hurriedly snatches up the tablet and the letter, climbing to the loft of her bedroom, she stuffs them under her mattress. She will need to come up with a more secure hiding spot later, but this will suffice for now.

The kwami thing is back.

It’s looking at her like it’s waiting for something.

Creepy.

The tablet said this creature would obey her every command, so Marinette orders it to stay hidden in her room until she comes back.

She has so many ideas, but she’s going to have to go about it carefully. Only an idiot would rush into things without a plan.

She would wait until after her parents were asleep, then she would test out what her new powers were capable of.

After that, she would write down step by step each and every way she would exact her revenge.

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The Supreme waits.

Patience is a virtue that has benefitted him for decades.

Children are easy to exploit; let them enjoy themselves, let them get a taste of power, let them savor the addictive thrill until they can no longer bear to be without it.

All good things to those who wait…

PART 2

#shadybug #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fandom #miraculous paris #miraculous world #toxinelle #mlb s5 #claw noir #griffe noire #The Supreme #chloe bourgeois #marinette dupain cheng #Tikki #Kwami

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captawesomesauce · 8 months

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So I'm just getting a bit of my stuff prepped for Hurricane Hilary and these pics are just a snippet of what I've got lined up. The thing is, I'm not too worried about Hilary as I'm planning on staying home, chilling, and just reading on my kindle until it passes. BUT, all of this stuff is good to have in case of an earthquake which can happen any day of the week, any time of the day! So it's good to be prepared! For those who want my list that I have been checking off today, it's below the read more. The key things are:

Food (x)

Water (x)

Meds & First Aid (x)

Cash on hand (x)

Gas in car (x)

Fans for dealing with the heat (x)

Solar Panels & Battery packs (x)

Stuff to do (arts/crafts/kindle) (x)

Wet weather gear (x)

Clothes 1 pair of leather wildland gloves Clothes 1 pair of padded extraction gloves Clothes 2 Fire Brush jackets Clothes 2 Hard hats Clothes 2 pair of good closed toe shoes Clothes 2 pair of gorilla grip safety gloves Clothes 2 rain coats Clothes 2 rain hats Clothes 2 Umbrellas Cooling 1 Fan/lantern (C batteries w/4 extra batteries) Cooling 1 standing room fan Cooling 3 handheld fans w/water tanks Fire 1 Fire extinguisher outside front door Fire 1 window/balcony escape ladder Fire 3 Fire blankets (1 in the kitchen, 1 bedroom, 1 office) Fire 4 Fire extinguishers throughout the house Food 1 long bbq lighter Food Lots of blueberries Food Lots of canned soups Food lots of condiments Food Lots of crackers/chips/Pretzels Food Lots of freeze dried fruits/veggies Food Lots of Nuts and Trailmix Food Lots of ramen Food Lots of shelf stable/canned meats Food Lots of veggies Light 1 handheld led lantern/flashlight Light 12+ led lights for rooms Light 2 chest mounted lights with reflective harnesses Light 2 handheld flashlights Light 2 head mounted lights Light 8 led puck lights med 1 large stocked first aid kit w/burn & trauma supplies med 1 small stocked first aid kit with bleeding supplies med blood pressure cuff Med N95 & P100 masks med pulse ox meter med stethscope Misc Cash on hand in small bills Power 1 100w Solar Panel Power 1 car jumper/battery pack Power 1 Large Battery pack 146WH 42000mAH Power 1 Large Battery pack 150Wh 40800mAH Power 1 Large Battery pack 250WH 64800mAH Power 1 orange solar panel battery pack (10,000) Power 1 orange solar panel battery pack with wireless charging (10,000) Power 1 white battery pack Power 2 21W Solar Panel Power lots of rechargeable and non-rechargeable AA/AAA batteries Radio 1 desk scanner with NOAA weather alert Radio 2 handheld transceivers Radio 2 programmed handheld scanners w/NOAA radio SD Mace Peppergun SD Taser Stuff to do 2 kindles loaded with books Stuff to do arts and crafts projects Tool 1 demolition tool Tool 1 folding pocket knife Tool 1 Machete/Saw Tool 1 Multipurpose Shovel (shovel/e-tool/window breaker/fire starter/saw/axe) tool 1 raptor EMS shears Tool 1 SOG multitool Tool 2 full rolls of duct tape Tool 2 full rolls of masking tape Tool Various Bungee cords Tool Various ropes & tie downs Water 1 5 gallon collapsible water bucket in the tub Water 1 5 gallon water bottle w/dispenser Water 1 large pitcher of water Water 2 30 cup water filter pitchers Water gallons of bottled water Water multiple 2l and 3l camping bladders of water

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