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yamameta-inc · 18 days

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Normalizing constant mass reinfection with COVID requires shoving a lot of inconvenient data out of the way. From excess heart attacks and strokes, to falling test scores, to unprecedented rates of long-term illness, to record worker sick days, to overwhelmed hospitals, to increasing student absences, it all has to be buried, denied, or explained away.

With “immunity debt” becoming an increasingly strange explanation as the months and years continue to pass, COVID normalizers need a new culprit to pin sky-high student absences on. This week, the New York Times decided to run with an even flimsier, even less-evidenced explanation for the “post-pandemic” school absence crisis:

underlying it all is a fundamental shift in the value that families place on school, and in the culture of education during the pandemic. “Our relationship with school became optional,” said Katie Rosanbalm, a psychologist and associate research professor at Duke University.

It is truly astonishing and staggering that major news outlets are getting away with inventing ideological explanations for what is a clear, national and international expression of increased rates of illness. It’s particularly bizarre because this ideological explanation- that parents must for some reason value school less now- is attended by neither data nor even anecdotal evidence. Does it accord with anyone’s experience that parents are taking school “less seriously”?

Quoting a psychologist as your first resource to analyze widespread absence also points to an institutional bias toward casting these absences as the result of poor decisions made by parents, rather than reflective of material conditions imposed on the public.

Almost unbelievably, the paper goes on to note that teachers are also missing more school- a mysterious coincidence to the authors, surely- before providing a list of reasons that finally mentions illness, last and certainly least. The piece, however, doesn’t acknowledge that teachers are sick more often, or that they, statistically, have one of the highest rates of Long COVID. It instead states that, “since the pandemic, more people are actually staying home when they’re sick.” It provides zero evidence for this claim, nor does it provide any data about rates of school attendance while ill, before or since 2020, but simply repeats it multiple times.

Source: trust me, bro.

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#covid #what is there to even say #everything is so stupid

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prudencepaccard · 1 year

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just submitted my dissertation to my committee after working nonstop for like. 48 hours

now to take a sleeping pill and set an alarm for idk 24 fucking hours from now so I can get up in time to eat polish food and see a play with my friends tomorrow night

#almost couldn't send it because I was afraid I'd accidentally pated something embarrassing into the 340-page document somehow #this is a very common OCD obsession #everything is so stupid #I'm happy thought I just need to like un-lose my mind for a bit

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6stronghands · 2 years

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sick

I feel like I’ve been in a lupus flare for over a year now and it’s really starting to piss me off. Also: got my third booster a couple weeks ago and got really goddamm sick, only started to feel lupus-flare-level-shitty again yesterday.

I don’t mean to be a little bitch because just about everyone is in a very bad, very really really bad way. Literally everyone is chronically or acutely or mentally ill or financially unstable or trapped in bad work or personal straits or other hardships and a million other burdens and in so many ways and means. There is A LOT of heartbreak and horror going around my god.

But I feel panicky lately, like I’m not gonna finish all my knitting and writing and parenting and other life shit, like maybe people like me aren’t going to make it through the very end of the pandemic. Like I know everyone is sick of masks and angry people and shit politicians and utterly soulless corporations but if this is the new normal, maybe middle-aged lupus chicks are the new old people. I mean I FEEL old, and I ACT old all the time lately. Maybe 50 isn’t the new 40, maybe it’s the new 80. Feeling kinda down about it, needed to vent, sorry.

#personal #is this lupus 2.0 or lupus +???#is this long covid plus lupus?#is this just regular but extra stressed lupus???#who the fuck knows?????#not the doctors lol but also not lol fuck them #why the fuck don't we know more about the immune system i mean fuck me #we have a remote controlled toy jeep on Mars but we can't cure lupus and all the other weirdo immune shit????#and the fucking dems have decided to use gig workers for their pandemic plan???#everything is so stupid #everything is a lot #i mean i'm sorry to whine but fucking hell #i'm mostly truly ok #i comprehend my privileges; like i mean that sincerely #i'm just feeling really worn out and impatient and angry lately #i'll get over it #i always do #but i'm eating dark chocolate and popcorn and watching bad horror on tubi insteaad of working and that is OKAY

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ineeners · 2 months

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sometimes it feels like i'll never be good enough for anyone or anything i make will never be good enough, and i keep comparing myself to other people and the response they get to things they make and i feel so invisible and sometimes it makes me really want to just not do anything anymore

#i'm so tired #everything is so stupid

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naturecalls111 · 5 months

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Gotta let your future kids know, cook! Gimme a sharpie!

#one piece #fanart #zosan #sanji vinsmoke #roronoa zoro #Zoro’s the bassist of the band #joined for Luffy and stayed for Luffy but fell in love with the Guitar/keyboard/everything player in the meantime #I like to think Sanji plays so many instruments it’s stupid #like piano and violin are his main things but that doesn’t fit the punk/rock vibe of the band so he easily adapts #anyway I’m rambling #I just have this one band AU for the strawhats #their journey from middle school to adulthood basically #Okok I’ll shut up now

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99-devilz · 3 months

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my friend called v1 lame so i made this in response. blood thirsty war robot cries like booboo idiot and is dangled like sobbing wet pathetic creature

#this is kinda stupid so im only poasting on tumblr #im scared of my 100+ new followers on twit from my stupid goober animation #ultrakill #ultrakill v1 #ultrakill gabriel #ultrakill shitpost #this was also semi made in response to those posts of hakita holding v1 like cattus #i thot they were funne....#i also want to hold the little machine like creature!!!#its so small compared to everything else in garm....

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heartorbit · 4 months

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stay warm! 🌟🍬🤖🎈

#stupid idiot forgot his mittens. to the shredder #merry yurimas.#polysho #project sekai #pjsk #prsk #emu otori #tsukasa tenma #nene kusanagi #rui kamishiro #proseka #Oh my god im waking uo for the stupid broadcast in like 6 hours im dumb as fuck #WEH. WEH #merry whatever the fuck #AUUUUUU excited to have nothing to do and draw for myself for um 12.. days. Oh my god theres only 12 days til 2nd sem. Oh fuck everything #I NEED TO DRAAAAAAAAW.#guys help i was going to draw song covers i want but i need to sleep cause i have stuff tomorrow but listen #if rks gets a snobbism cover i called it. Ok? ok.#i think it would be funny and just if they dont get another duet again. get the ruinene treatment. CAN WE FREE RNN ACTUALLY ITS CHRISTMAS #what was the other thing. um carnival that song i want it added so bad idk if theres sny songs with its letter count but please.#literally played nijiro stories on repeat while drawing this we need them back #fucking NBOODY TOOOOLD ME ITS EMUKASA WEEK ON STIPID TWITTER IM NOOOOTHING IM NOTHIN #i usually acknowledge that i dont have the moxy to do fanweeks but i really want to be drawing more and faster so i will participate.#emurui week is like march iirc. you wont get away from me this time.

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inkskinned · 11 months

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one of the things about being an educator is that you hear what parents want their kids to be able to do a lot. they want their kid to be an astronaut or a ballerina or a politician. they want them to get off that damn phone. be better about socializing. stop spending so much time indoors. learn to control their own temper. to just "fucking listen", which means to be obedient.

one of the things i learned in my pedagogy classes is that it's almost always easier to roleplay how you want someone to act. it's almost always easier to explain why a rule exists, rather than simply setting the rule and demanding adherence.

i want my kids to be kind. i want them to ask me what book they should read next, and i want to read that book with them so we can discuss it. i want my kid to be able to tell me hey that hurt my feelings without worrying i'll punish them. i want my kid to be proud of small things and come running up to me to tell me about them. i want them to say "nah, i get why this rule exists, but i get to hate it" and know that i don't need them to be grateful-for-the-roof-overhead while washing the dishes. i want them to teach me things. i want them to say - this isn't safe. i'm calling my mom and getting out of this. i want them to hear me apologize when i do fuck up; and i want them to want to come home.

the other day a parent was telling me she didn't understand why her kid "just got so angry." this woman had flown off the handle at me.

my dad - traditional catholic that he is - resents my sentiment of "gentle parenting". he says they'll grow up spoiled, horrible, pretentious. granola, he spits.

i am going to be kind to them. i am going to set the example, i think. and whatever they choose become in the meantime - i'm going to love them for it.