There is no such thing as “natural immunity” against covid, since immune reaction isn’t really a measure of anything but immune activity and whatever “protection” an infection grants someone 1. fades very quickly 2. is just as likely to cause immune dysfunction or even 3. wipe immune memory.
This is the most accurate description I’ve ever found, thought it was worth spreading ❀
Reblogging again because it’s been a while. Also a reminder: grief can be about all sorts of things. It isn’t just for people who have died. You can (and should) grieve about lost friendships, missed opportunities, becoming disabled, large life changes, the future you thought you’d have, the parents or grandparents who weren’t what you needed. Genuinely a lot of things can cause grief and that is absolutely normal, okay, <i>and healthy</i> to have.
After 13 years of this, it’s still funny to me that detailing a full mental breakdown on tumblr is standard fare, but posting a nice selfie is a fraught decision.
When caught naked in public, the wise man hides his face not his genitals.
it’s crazy how going to the grocery store has always been a horrible miserable time but now they’re like we gotta make it worse. we have to put armed security guards out front to stop you for your receipt. better hope you didn’t instinctively throw it out at the trash can right next to the self checkout like you’ve been doing for the past decade! oh and need some toothpaste? well good news. we have a smaller second store inside of the store where we keep our most precious valuables like tampons and wine coolers so you can go wait in this completely overstuffed line while the one employee they could spare to run it checks out everyone who wants to buy anything considered too much of a shoplifting risk. want shaving razors? better settle for like disposable bics or you get to stand here in front of this plexiglass case blocking the whole aisle while you wait for another one of the 4 employees they have running a store that 20 years ago would have had at least 3x that on site manages to catch up with whatever responsibility creep mind numbing bullshit they’re expected to do before coming to help you. they’re probably just hoping you give up and leave before they have to bother with it. but I’ve preemptively given up and just accepted that anything they keep locked up is not something I get to buy here. and don’t worry!! it all costs more than it ever did!!! next I think they’ll probably start just playing air raid sirens over the pa system at select intervals to increase customer turnover or something. maybe they just spit on you. idk I’m workshopping here I’m not as innately sadistic and hostile to human life as your typical grocery store upper management seems to be.
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don’t worry guys they keep the frozen pbjs in the back now they’re finally doing something to fight against the unforgivable crime wave of uncrustables theft
there’s something really sinister about just how much higher the broncos number is than any of the immediate runners up on Uncrustable Consumption. its not doing a lot to improve my already low opinion of denver
So turns out the US are setting babies up for a lifetime of illness and increased likelihood of liver cancer in Guinea Bissau in the name of “research”
7000 newborns will be denied the neoneatal HepB vaccine until 6 weeks to ‘prove’ that the HepB vaccine is linked to neurodevelopmental disability on the directions of the Department of Health vis RFK Jr and in collaboration with researchers in Denmark, despite the fact that the vaccine’s efficacy rate and best protection is when administered to newborns, and the total lack of correlation between vaccination and neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Guinea Bissau has some of the highest rates of HepB on the continent, and infants are the group at the highest risk of contracting HepB, leading to chronic hepatitis & long term hepatic diseases like cirrhosis and liver failure as well as increased chance of liver cancer.
The study can’t be carried out in the US or Denmark because it fails almost every benchmark for medical ethics — surprising absolutely nobody, it is in fact heinously unethical to expose babies to preventable disease that causes liver failure and liver cancer, but the “study” has been green lit in Guinea.
Fuck the US imperial project in Africa, fuck RFK Jr and the US Department of Health, and fuck every single collaborative researcher in Denmark. This is some nightmare Tuskegee Study shit and every single individual involved deserves to be in The Hague.
I just looked it up and it looks like this drew so much ethical concern that the study was canceled. But jfc, this should never have been on the table in the first place
i’d make a joke about “let the HUSBAND giggle under the covers and tell HIS WIFE to put that camera away before dying before HIS WIFE’S story starts” but lets be real he’d still get more fanart
sir do you understand that you are being criticized right now
The best thing about tumblr is you can just make a criticism of a very specific person completely unprompted and then that person will appear as if summoned in your notes to prove your point for you.
if you have moral scrupulosity OCD and you have to apologize for a fairly unserious mistake via professional email, you have to save that shit as a draft and re-read it an hour later before you send it. not to ‘check’ it again to see if your apology is 'good enough’ (thus feeding the OCD itself) but to make sure you only apologized once, politely and succinctly, instead of groveling like a wretched dog (successfully denying the OCD what it wants)
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