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We soon found that customers did not respect our arguments of public health, considering others, or the mandates. We switched to telling them “this is private property” and I’m sorry to say that was way more effective than “please, people with cancer pick up their medications here”
This country is a failed state built on childish selfishness.
Gonna get that tattooed on my ass
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DIY facemasks - If the fit is right!
#diy #homemade #facemasks #homemademasks #homemadefacemasks #coronavirus #covid19 #cotton #polyester #n95
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“At any given moment, there are hundreds of miles between us. Someday there may be less, but you can always count on me.”
Artwork done by @saherjafriarts. Check out this and more beautiful work coming out in the upcoming summer issue of The Medical Chronicles!
“This drawing represents the human connection in long distance in the 21st century. We can call, text, or send a meme in an instant. Does this make us closer than ever, or harder to really reach? …
How do you view human connection in today’s time? Are you in a long distance relationship or friendship? Tag your besties and share this message with them! ”
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Deadline: June 19, 2020
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Despite claims to the contrary, for the sake of the economy, the plague is not over!
This is especially true in areas where vaccination rates are low due to either lack of access or the anti-vaxers. Additionally, because of the variants that have been emerging, some of which are extra contagious, we might be seeing this plague sticking around for quite awhile.
Marked safe despite Biden’s ill holiday wishes for the unvaxxed
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Surreal Drone Tour of a Pandemic-Emptied San Francisco
This is a short drone tour of San Francisco with the shelter-in-place order in effect — it looks abandoned. Fisherman’s Wharf, downtown, Market Street, the Haight — I think I saw like 8 people total during the whole video. Heartening to see that people are taking shelter-in-place seriously.
Source:Kottke
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Ghost City Photos of a Usually Bustling Shanghai During Coronavirus Outbreak
For her series One Person City, photographer nicoco has been taking photos of Shanghai that emphasize how deserted the city was due to the COVID-19 outbreak that has killed more than 1000 people in China.
Source:Kottke
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The Pandemic Shows What Cars Have Done to Cities
Tom Vanderbilt, April 24, 2020 (Photo: Ernst Haas/Getty)
Along streets suddenly devoid of traffic, pedestrians get a fresh look at all the space that motor vehicles have commandeered.
The New York City streetscape has become a strange, inverted mirror image of the normal world. Suddenly, if you have a car, and actually have someplace to go, driving seems weirdly pleasant, almost rational: Congestion is rare, gas is even cheaper than usual, and parking is abundant. This is the Hollywood version of getting around Brooklyn: No matter your destination, you can find a spot right out front. During the coronavirus-induced lockdown, not many people are driving to work, shuttling kids on the school run, or sharing Ubers home from a Lower East Side bar. Vehicle traffic moves smoothly, now that it largely seems to consist of what traffic on urban streets arguably should consist of: the movement of goods to people, the movement of public transit, the movement of emergency responders and other essential services.
For people on the sidewalks, the situation is much different. Those islands of street-side serendipity where friends once spotted one another and stopped to chat—clusters that, as the urbanist William H. Whyte observed, so often happened at corners—suddenly seem like miasmatic hot zones.
Things that might have only slightly rankled before—the couple insisting on running side by side down a narrow sidewalk, the dog walker thoughtlessly unspooling a long leash, the large family strolling four abreast—are now sources of real anxiety. The usual strategies by which one pedestrian might avoid walking into another, such as ducking into the small patches of sidewalk space nestled between street trees and trash cans, are no longer sufficient. Also disconcerting is the sight of people walking in the street, or in bike lanes. At my local Trader Joe’s, a portion of the block-and-a-half-long line of would-be shoppers (stretched as it was by the six-foot intervals between them) extended into the street, close to traffic, presumably to keep the sidewalk free for walkers.
Moments of crisis, which disrupt habit and invite reflection, can provide heightened insight into the problems of everyday life precrisis. Whichever underlying conditions the pandemic has exposed in our health-care or political system, the lockdown has shown us just how much room American cities devote to cars. When relatively few drivers ply an enormous street network, while pedestrians nervously avoid one another on the sidewalks, they are showing in vivid relief the spatial mismatch that exists in urban centers from coast to coast—but especially in New York. […]
The status quo became untenable when a pandemic required six feet of social distancing between people—a distance wider than many cities’ sidewalks. In Canada recently, two performance artists with a group called the Toronto Public Space Committee drew attention to this problem by building what they called the “social-distancing machine.” It was a brilliant provocation. They used a large circle of plastic—like a hula hoop with a two-meter radius—to create a skeletaloutline of government-mandated air rights around the person wearing it. One of the artists suspended it from straps on his shoulders and then tried to walk through the city, keeping everything and everyone else at a safe distance. In a video released by the group, the hoop-wearer is barely able to navigate Toronto’s obstacle-laden sidewalks, much less share those sidewalks with others.
The social-distancing machine was actually inspired by an earlier device, the so-called Gehzeug, or “walkmobile,” created by Hermann Knoflacher, an Austrian civil engineer, in the 1970s. Knoflacher’s idea was to construct a wood-frame outline of a car that a pedestrian could wear to show how much extra space someone driving alone would consume. A cheeky, visually effective cri de coeur on behalf of cyclists and pedestrians, the Gehzeug was created at a time when even cities such as Amsterdam and Copenhagen—now renowned for their bicycle traffic—were turning their streetscapes over to the car. [Full article]
Source:The Atlantic
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Nabieva of Sisi!!!!
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Comic on having long-COVID as a young person. Sending love to others who may be similarly suffering.
(ID under the cut)
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From an allegedly serious and, uh, “factual” promotion video from a website¹ featuring “reliable, qualified and trustworthy” medical professionals from several countries, with, not surprisingly, radically negative views and opinions about the whole COVID-19 debacle, masks and vaccines. Especially the vaccines.
(Sections above in quote marks to imply sarcastic tone of voice.)
Just to take one of them, for example:
«There is nanotechnology present in this vaccine. Nanobots² in hydro-gels have been developed for military purposes. There are strong indications it could make you a controllable puppet by means of your own smartphone, connected with the 5G network³ and artificial intelligence. In this way you could lose everything that makes you human.»
— Dr. Johan Denis, homeopath⁴, “World Doctors Alliance”
Right. In terms of setting the bar high, this would be a challenge to any Limbo⁵ dancer.
The problem, of course, is that people are actually frightened into believing this hogwash and cluster of lies. Those in the video sound confident, use medical and technical terminology that may seem legitimate to the untrained ear, and it’s sometimes hard to spot whether these “professionals” themselves really believe in what they’re saying, or if they’re just enjoying the ride. This is a battle on two fronts: One to fight off the actual COVID-19 problem, and another to combat wilful and malicious disinformation campaigns such as that above. In as far as saving the world goes, we’re going to have to do it twice!
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¹Link withheld to avoid tickling the filters the wrong way.
²Wait, I’ve seen this movie…
³I can’t wait! As long as there isn’t a connection fee.
⁴Hang on, when they said medical professionals… I thought they meant actual *medical* professionals!
⁵Indeed, even a skinny child would struggle to crawl underneath.
When you’ve got omicron, so you start a new fallout new vegas file…
So, India is dying.
Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren’t amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I’d love it if we could talk about that for a minute.
If you can’t do anything else, please just read and reblog.
