What Did We Learn From Covid?
These days, a conventional wisdom has settled in that we somehow overreacted to Covid. That our response went too far, and we are now past those silly times. Here's the lesson to take away: we didn't do enough. Trump's response was idiotic and catastrophic (does anyone remember him saying blue state governors "have to treat us well" if they want coronavirus help?). Over 1.1 million Americans have died. Countless lives have been shattered by Long Covid. We let the virus be politicized by opportunists, and allowed false narratives about governments "controlling" us to dominate our media. The hard choices that were made to prevent even more death and suffering are now, ludicrously, seen as mistakes.
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long covid woes....
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✊ Disabled grief, disabled rage. ✊
prints 1 & 2
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Noragami Comic Strip 101
We need Yato’s COVID-19 portable filter charm
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Reminders to my fellow inkling and octolings! There is a covid resurgence happening! Better be safe than sorry! Where a mask if needed and be safe outside if you feel ill and If you work in areas where it's easy to spread infection! Be safe everyone!
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This is the Buddy for December 10th. Buddy goes to the doctor.
I won't say today's Buddy isn't partially autobiographical, but I hate going to the doctor. You gotta spend a fortune, wait in those depressing rooms while the receptionist talks with her friends on the phone, and then the doctor just gives you a list of exams to do.
Although I don't drink or smoke, I'm not exactly a man without vices, so I can't help but resent it when the rich bastard lording over me tells me I need to do those lifestyle changes.
People talk a lot, especially now in the age of COVID-19, about how we need to trust doctors. And the issue is not that I disagree, but rather that it's hard to do that when spending an afternoon in a doctor's office is such an unpleasant ordeal.
I used to listen to a podcast hosted by a neurologist, Steven Novella. And he'd criticize quack cures and bad medical science. I totally agree with him, but it seems like, instead of trying to convince people not to buy into this type of fraud, he'd be better off trying to make mainstream medicine more affordable, patient-friendly and transparent.
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February '22 - this one I recall very well, as I did it during my CoViD days. Seems quite self-themed, but I wanted to show that even being affected by a global pandemic can't stop me from creating.
If you're asking, the recovery was swift & sure, so might as well call it a nasty flu. But yay, I'm in the 98% of the population!
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Would anyone be interested in extremely slowly watching the character development of the mc in my comic, and a bunch of other characters but so far I've only got the one whose actually got a name and shit- I've also only mapped out the first issue and drawn up the first page but yk
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I kept seeing headlines like “Zachery Levi Tweets Anti-Vax Sentiment” or some bullshit and today I actually saw that James Gunn (thankfully) shutdown the bullshit idea that he should axe Levi for having an opinion he disagrees with, so I decided to actually look at this supposed “anti-vaxx” tweet that was oh so bad and worthy of him being axed as Shazam for:
This is it. This is the tweet. Like...what? This is what we’re cancelling people for now? Were people not just screaming at Pfizer for this nonsense just a few months ago:
Like come the fuck on, even if you are fully onboard the vaccine bandwagon, you’d have to be beyond stupid to be so onboard that you’re willing to go to bat for Big Phucking Pharma.
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You have flowers waiting to grow in you , it’s time to start watering them and seeing them blossom .
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