#covid 19 related

[erene-e]

#funny #funny content #memes #meme #best memes #funnymemes #humor #dark humor #dankest memes #relatable memes #relatability #relatable #covid 19 #covid memes #2023 new year

[anti-ao3]

idk who the hell decided that masks are no longer mandatory in health services (hospitals, drugstores etc). like i went to this public health service yesterday, and although there were free masks for the public to use, the staff WASN'T wearing masks. and the place was filled with ppl, many of them likely sick.

that is insane. only 1/4 of the whole room wore masks. and none of them were from the staff. i am not exaggerating.

#lotus.txt #covid-19 #(not exclusively covid related but still) #ranting

[queerbauten]

Look, I know N95 and equivalent masks are the most protective against all strains of COVID (which is part of why I use them—the other part being that I can afford them), but

As a disabled essential worker, I would much rather see someone in a surgical or cloth mask than someone not try at all.

These masks aren't as protective as N95 and equivalent masks, but I'd rather people were to at least try stopping the spread of at least some variants, especially if surgical or cloth masks are all they can afford.

I've seen a lot of panic on social media about the reduced effectiveness of certain masks, and I'm concerned that could lead to otherwise well-meaning people giving up entirely.

Please don't give up.

#COVID-19 #if your analysis of the pandemic and its related safety measures doesn't account for class #shut up forever #classism #ableism mention #just in case

[thatmemeguy89]

Free is free

#memesdaily #funny memes #spicy memes #meme lord #memedaddy #meme page #meme #dankest memes #memes #dank memes #gross #covid 19 #relatable memes #funny shit #funny #follow me #follow

[maintitle]

I watched DS9's It's Only A Paper Moon yesterday, and I want to talk about it because it wasn't until right now that I understood why it slapped me across the face so much, and why I think that episode is so important to me.

This may be triggering to people with disabilities, heart conditions, disabilities from COVID, or medical or military related trauma. Read ahead at your own risk.

I developed a heart condition at 18 from the H1N1 virus (which is why I tell all my friends to take preventive measures if they had COVID, because these kinds of new and unknown viruses can have long-lasting effects on you we don't know yet). While I had a lot of tests and missed a lot of school that year, the effects of that wouldn't be clear for years until at 24 I got a pacemaker/defibrillator put in in what we later found out was a life-saving surgery. The trauma of that event took a long time to catch up with me. While I'm still facing symptoms and limitations from that period of my life, the immediate danger has passed. But it took A LONG time for the fear of what happened to me, the PTSD of that event, to catch up with me. I've dealt with huge panic attacks and hyper-obsessive fears regarding my heart since around twenty-nine, fears I live with and fight through in therapy to this day.

As someone facing those issues, I hooked onto A Paper Moon this watch in a way I haven't before. The issue deals with the loss of Nog's leg in battle earlier in the season, a traumatic experience he had in the middle of a warzone only halfway through their defense. During his recovery, Julian begins to play recordings of I'll Be Seeing You, put together by Vic Fontaine, a semi-aware holodeck program that is really popular on DS9.

Nog returns from surgery at the beginning of the episode, and is walking with a cane. Multiple people on staff, including Julian himself, is concerned over the use of the cane because medically, he shouldn't have a need for it. He shouldn't even be in pain based off of what they know from the new leg and the nerves around it, but he's in pain and having trouble walking. A lot of the arguments in the early episode revolve around people talking behind Nog's back about how they can't understand why he has the cane or why he's in pain when there doesn't appear to be a medical reason for it.

The answer is actually incredibly simple: It's not the leg, it's the trauma from loosing the leg. Nog, who is still incredibly young in the episode, had somehow seen himself as invincible, a young cadet wanting to prove Ferengi can be incredible members of Starfleet, who had seen quite a bit of action and was cocksure, and in one moment he not only lost that bravado, but he also learned he was mortal in one horrifying singular moment.

Obviously, Nog is lucky enough to live in an era where it's possible to replace a lost limb, but that doesn't change the fact that for a horrifying unmentioned, maybe SEVERAL DAY period of time, he was left on a makeshift bed, listening to fighting outside, knowing that he could be attacked at any time, could die at any time from factors not even exterior to him. And now he just has to... go back to life after that horrifying dose of his own mortality.

The only thing that gets him by is that recording of I'll Be Seeing You by Vic Fontaine, because that's the only thing that he had to take him out of that horrifying situation while he laid on that makeshift gurney. The episode explores that idea by having him play it while trying to sleep, and eventually go to the holodeck and try to live in it with Vic after he was shamed for being in bed too long and for listening to said music for too long.

The funny thing is, Vic is the ONLY person, INCLUDING THE COUNSELOR ONBOARD DS9, who recognizes that his pain is valid. Vic, as a hologram, recognizes that his pain isn't crazy, it's as real as the injury he experienced, because Vic has a perspective that none of these hyper-worn-down Starfleet Officers or parental figures in his life has: His LIFE is a series of not-real instances of pain, of happiness, of dealing with other people he knows are holograms. Vic isn't like Moriarty in TNG, he's not like other semi-sentient Holodeck programs, he KNOWS he's a program but he also finds that life to be very real FOR HIM. The feelings of one of his bandmates are as real to him as the problems of Julian walking in to talk about one of the many women he simps for not feeling the same, because despite knowing they're not physically real, he CARES for them and takes their lives seriously.

Nog's feelings are real. His PAIN is real, even if a doctor can't understand why. Nog's in the middle of a long, extended panic attack where he's internalizing a near life-ending medical emergency and doesn't know how to DEAL with it. He loses himself in the program because it's the only place he can get past the trauma of the event, he's hostile to others who try and look at him with pity or as a hero because he doesn't want to be DEFINED by that pain. Vic knows this, and builds him up in other ways. Gives him a life to live, watches him slowly not need the cane and not even realize it, gives him tools and an environment to cope and generally is the only person that validates that trauma.

The episode is maybe one of the series best mental health episodes possible, and DS9 is generally REALLY good with these issues. As someone with medical trauma, I saw myself in Nog. I'm sure others who have experienced disabilities in the military see even more of themselves in him. We relate to it because we're constantly belittled or told our pain is in our heads, when the truth is we FEEL it. I feel it multiple times a month, when I lay down and go to bed and lay on my side just right that I can feel my heartbeat, and then I overanalyze it, and then that leads to a panic attack and me grabbing a pressure cuff or a fingertip pulse whatever it is to see if I'm okay, but by then I can't come down from the panic attack until it's done. I feel it when I'm helping someone move or if I'm on a casual walk and I feel my heartbeat spike, and my mind overreacts and wonders if this is normal exertion or a heart attack.

Not FEELS these things. It's real pain. And Vic doesn't invalidate it. It's as real as the injury itself, and it's not one that he'll ever truly conquer. But the episode gives him time, space and kindness to help him find coping mechanisms in order to continue with his life and dreams, and THAT'S Trek to me. A future where these things can be understood and worked through, without the constant shame that people with disabilities face when describing the trauma responses they suffer on a day-to-day basis.

In the end, Nog is heard. The main characters come to understand that what he felt is real. The episode gives him the time to work through complicated PTSD, and while he's not okay at the end, he's learning to live with it. And it's really fucking special to see this explored with a character we saw grow up into a man, on a show where the future is meant to be better than the present, written by writers in 1998 where they had no right to handle this as well as they did. This was an exceptionally special episode of television.

#Nog #Vic Fontaine #Holodeck #Star Trek #Star Trek: Deep Space 9 #Deep Space 9 #Star Trek: DS9 #Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #Deep Space Nine #tw: disability #tw: heart issues #tw: pacemaker/defibrillator #tw: COVID #tw: COVID-19 #tw: PTSD #tw: medical trauma #tw: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder #tw: military related medical trauma #i think that covers the tw tags #but if I need something else let me know!

[geekgirles]

COVID-19 really fucked up my sense of time when I'm reading a really good fanfic that's last updated in 2019 and I'm like, "Huh. Well, it wasn't that long ago, I'm sure they'll update again soon," and it legit takes me a while to realise just how much time exactly has passed and go, "Oh. Shit..."

#true story #last time this happened to me? #yesterday #covid pandemic #covid 19 #coronavirus #fanfiction #fanfic #fic #fanfiction.net #ao3 #archive of our own #ship #otp #passage of time #funny #relatable #meme #dank memes

[dreamly]

i agree with a lot of music fans and journalists/critics/artists that “lockdown”/“pandemic”/“quarantine” albums usually aren’t great and also don’t do very well, but i do think there is one truly incredible (at least in quality i haven’t looked at numbers and tbh i don’t really care) and maybe not the most obvious exception (well maybe it is obvious but i don’t see this album talked about a lot since like the month it came out and i don’t think i’ve seen it talked about in the conversations about art inspired by covid-19/lockdowns). anyway can we play a little game where you guys guess what album it is (this might help me find more good music or at least music you think i’d like as well as be [hopefully] fun!)

#i would also exclude folklore/evermore and unreal unearth from that statement not just bc i think they’re great but mostly bc i wouldn’t #call them ‘pandemic’ albums #like obviously folklore and evermore were made during that time but only two songs on folklore reference the pandemic/lockdown/isolation and #it’s sort of referenced in the sound in that both of those albums are generally quieter for taylor and that might reflect the actual #emotions of isolation and loneliness but i don’t think the sound necessarily reflects/refers to the actual material conditions of #lockdown or covid-19 #rather folklore/evermore contain just a few lyrical and sonic references to the emotions caused by that situation but again. not as many as #there were initially perceived to be #side note i think actually the most ‘lockdown’ song on folklore or evermore is mirrorball #and i think the reason mirrorball works so well is that despite the fact that both the overall concept of the song and the lyrical content #seem to directly reference covid-19 lockdowns and closures #it (mirrorball) is still extremely relatable #and i think what’s absolutely true about the album i’m referring to in the actual text of the post #is that it is at least mostly very relatable for most people (although probably for women in particular) #and actually i would say that the album im talking about has very similar themes and concepts to mirrorball but translates and expands upon #them into the form of an entire album #ok very long side note over. in terms of unreal unearth not being a lockdown album it’s true that andrew has literally said it’s not one #but also there aren’t even any small lyrical sonic or conceptual references to the pandemic like i mentioned there are a few on folklore #and evermore. #i did watch an interview where andrew says there /might/ be one lyrical reference but i can’t find it (message me if you know what he meant) #i would call unreal unearth something that i think andrew is understandably hesitant to refer to it as #and that is a breakup album #and i think the reasons he’s hesitant to call it that is that sometimes when people say a piece of media is about a breakup they use that to #reduce both the emotions and experiences covered in the work and the quality of the work #but i also think that in music specifically breakup albums are often (not always. often) a seminal important and iconic moment in a career #and are in many cases considered by many to be the best or at least the most iconic albums by an artist #examples of that include Rumours and even Red #congrats if you read all these tags you’re a real champ #i have so much to say about this topic and topics related to it sorry! #love ya and please take a guess

[panicismydefaultstate]

Being chronically ill and developing new symptoms and illnesses can be terribly and unendingly frustrating. Particularly when you go to Drs and they refuse to do anything about it or even consider that something else or new is wrong. The fear and overwhelming feeling that something is so terribly wrong in your body, only to have no one care or think it’s important enough to investigate.

#mini rant #chronic illness #disability #i’m so done #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #chronically ill #is this relatable #fibromyalgia #i hate being sick #dysautonomia #anxiety is through the roof #functional neurological disorder #covid 19 #actually disabled #spoonie #spoonie stuff #doctors can be wrong too #complex pain disorder #medical gaslighting #medical trauma #new symptoms #why won’t they listen #fuck this #disability activism #invisible illness #physical illness #disabled problems #we deserve better

[lustfulsacraments]

this site made my ocd worse and continues to make it worse, doesnt matter who i follow, what posts i block, how i spend my time here i just Know this site is just. straight up bad for ocd. half my ocd tics and intrusive thoughts are literally things from this site

ive known this but last night was really the clincher, i had to literally stop myself before a new ocd behavior developed BECAUSE OF TUMBLR, a place i try to go to look at images and chill out, and yet STILL will be zapped with the worsttttttt guilt tripping, nit-picking, scrupulous, "let me put the fear of god into you for a sec" type of posts. i have never felt such terrified fear of knowing my brain almost developed a new fucked up thing to torture me with and im so so glad i was able to direct it somewhere else and got over it

i dont want to leave, because really this is the ONE social site i use and i refuse to move anywhere else or take up discord. and really i just want to look at images and collect them. but is it worth it when im a fucking stressed mess bc ocd is ruining my life and this site is making is actively worse

#the posts is question that fucked me up last night were about covid heart attack related deaths for young ppl #i dont talk abt it but i now know 2 ppl that have just. died in their sleep. they were 19 and 30 respectively #almost developed a ritual to prevent (what i fear) will happen to my husband about it #why cant people talk about things on here without making it 1) a moral thing and 2) a fear mongering obsession #you know? its not that the world sucks its the way its talked about and posted and argued and its just too much for me i cant do it anymore

[foxghost]

Kidlet used to be sick every month or so, pre-covid. And then covid and mask mandates happened, and there were literally 2 whole years I didn't have to worry about child-home-sick-with-cold. Then as soon as the masks were no longer mandated they're back to the once a month, like clockwork

DH: blah blah blah masks don't work *spews anecdata from elsewhere*

How does???? he say that ??? with the anecdata at home staring him in the face???

I am once more taking care of a sick child and I wish everyone would just either wear a mask or not go to school already when they're sick

#fox text #covid-19 #fox is a parent #well it's not covid but the post is covid-related

[high-quality-tiktoks]

All jokes aside, stay safe yall!

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #funny #lmao #relatable #mood #covid #covid 19 #coronavirus #dating #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt+ #gay #covnasty

[zoekrystall]

Did I ever complain abt that publicly idk anyways I need to get to the big city (2h to and 2h back, not much for the states but sure for me) and next to not wanting to bc cold, they gonna stab bc blood test and my body hates making that easy to locate (dif place but I will never forget the time I got stabbed like three times and still no blood so new appointment had to be made, I have a fear of needles otherwise it would be whatev), and even more risky bc gatherings were recently do I prob hate the most that like. I'm hungry.

I'm hungry and I suck at eating enough so I often go out w not much in my stomach. I survive but it sucks really bad that I can't either buy smth once I arrive to eat on the way back or pack smth to like eat on the journey bc no-one wears a mask and the virus stays rampant so I can't take my mask off until I'm back home. At the inbetween stop I maybe could but I rather won't risk anything. Esp in winter I could bring smth warm to drink w me at least but I rather don't in the crowd I gotta walk through. Least people are when I'm only a few mins away from home and at that point I can always just wait a bit longer.

Tbh I dread going outside and limit it to only shopping and appointments bc even if I could walk here prob somewhere without many people do I rather just stay indoors and try to limit irl reminders of how many people can't be bothered to care bc that just nosedives my mental health. It doesn't help that I still try to nudge my irl friends to care more.

#a wild lux appears #I also feel stuck in am I ablebodied or disabled limbo reg physical. On record I only got vitamin deficiencies #Ik my body is weak but that could be due to things that change if I took more care and the right stuff #Idk idk my state feels like it changes biweekly or smth #I just know I relate to some things #And also that it sucks since it started having to wonder if covid or the usual bc some stuff do I have since forever randomly #Idk idk I just woke up from a few hours nap I need to slowly get ready. Why can't the train strike start today already #(I also know that when I'm already done going to the city where I just sit could I not deal w going to a strike or smth next to anxiety #making me feel like passing out n maybe actually happening. I leave that to the people that can actually handle that) #Anyways need to get ready now hn #I will complain the whole time but I need to go. Hnnnnn #I just need to think abt the refill that I can't get otherwise. And then the next appointment is anyways only in 3-6 months again #Plus I got another one tomorrow morning so today will force me to fix the schedule enough so tomorrow won't suck #Bc otherwise I would just pass out fully now but like that at prob like. 18-19 then. Hn. #Hate the cold bc layers hate the heat bc I could pasd out you can't win w my body #At this point I just use the tags to stall I'm really off now to get ready OTL

[pennyngram]

Knitting is trending! Can't figure out why but what a beautiful day all the same!

#knitting #knitblr #also what's the relation to science and covid 19?

[picayunetown]

guess who’s got the ‘rona~

I’ve got four vaccine loads in my system so it mostly feels like a nasty-ass cold. STILL NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT, THO

#coronavirus #covid-19 #a nasty cold with poop-related functions

[polarisbibliotheque]

Little update ^^

Well, well, who'd've known, yours truly is reckless and got Covid "-.-

I blame Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard and my constant love for going to concerts after such a long time in this godforsaken lockdown :)

(my Dante side is showing)

Anyways, I'm isolated in my room now. I'm making this lil' update so I can tell you people: do take care of yourselves - but if you are in a risk group, take care of yourselves in double, please.

A year ago, my sister and my dad got Covid - they felt almost nothing. They just got really grumpy and locked in their rooms, waiting for the day of their sweet, sweet freedom. Apart from that, they felt only like a mild flu, nothing much.

As some of you know, I've an autoimmune liver disease - which puts me in risk group. I could barely get up yesterday - I slept the whole day, got up at 7 p.m, had fever the whole day and through the night, couldn't eat without feeling miserable and slept until 2 p.m today. My whole body hurts, my head also hurts really bad, I couldn't properly work on my artist tasks for the week, and I am so so so tired I think I'm gonna faint sometimes.

But worry not, I'm already feeling a little better today. I think the worst day was yesterday. Hopefully by next week I'll already be ok regarding this.

I'm just writing all this because seriously, we all react differently. I was so scared to get Covid and everyone kept telling me like "oh, it's ok, don't worry, if you get it you'll feel like a flu and in 2 days you're good" - I've been feeling like this for 4 days now. I'm really sick and miserable.

Point being: my reactions to this are VERY different than everyone else's and I'm not being too over the top when I'm still wearing masks and taking care of myself when going out.

Don't let anyone make you feel bad for taking care of your health too. It's better to look like a weirdo than being sick like this, trust me ;)

My mom, in the other hand, is taking relentless care of me and is the one single being in this household to seem not to get sick. I say she's like Highlander, nothing can touch her.

Seriously. The woman ate a dead oyster in her youth and only felt a little sick in a flight home. She is the toughest being I've ever seen in my whole life. She got an Extreme Unction from a priest who thought she was going to die when she was like 12 years old and, lo and behold, the woman persevered.

Greek half-immortal heroes know nothing compared to my mom.

I do think Eva is pretty much like her in that department, no demonic or human disease could touch her

All in all, everything is fine. I'll take this isolation time to draw like a mad-woman, be more serious when studying languages, learning to play the guitar properly and writing more stuff to you guys.

I'll keep you all posted! And remember TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES DESPITE WHAT THE WORLD THINKS OF IT!

#polaris speaks #life update #covid #covid 19 #tw covid #tw pandemic #pandemic #I'm putting all these in the tags so people who don't want to see pandemic related things don't have to read it #I do hope it works #but yeah all in all don't worry about me #I'm miserable but fine HAHAHAHA #it's not like I haven't been sick for the past 4 years almost #I'm just really disappointed at myself #I'm feeling like a foolish reckless woman who should've known better #(yeah yeah my Vergil's showing) #nevertheless I'll be here more I think #'cause I'm stranded in my bedroom now #*empty smile*

[queerbauten]

so fun fact a little while ago a bit of coffee I didn't realize was still in my cup managed to spill onto all but two of my KN95 masks (and the only reason one was spared was because it's in my locker at work)

good news:

I've got a set of 50 new masks, which I ordered before this incident, coming to me this Wednesday

bad news:

I work Sunday–Tuesday this week (and then also Thursday–Saturday, but that's fine)

Now, I don't have the money to so much as buy a five-pack to bridge the gap. All I have is the money to go to Dollarama and buy a pack of 3-ply masks, which I will then wear two of while working Tuesday.

Ideally, you understand what I'm getting at with this post, which is that if I see you complaining about someone """only""" wearing 3-ply masks and/or cloth masks, I'm going to breathe all over you

#COVID-19 #The Biophone gets personal #now if you were to send me $50 to buy new KN95s I'd be okay with that. that would be cool. #but it's funny how the Venn diagram between 'advocates' who whine about people wearing low-quality masks and the people... #... doing COVID-related mutual aid/charity work seems to be two distinct circles #unsanitary mention