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Freddie Oversteegen Was Right

When I see a world denying an airborne viral pandemic, and I have grown up seeing hand hygiene, cooking, boiling, and all sorts of other sterilization-centric activities intended to prevent disease embraced, *and on top of that* I see the consequences of COVID denial in front of my face, day after day, in the minds & bodies of the injured,

I start to feel like I learned that 2+2=4 but the majority of the 'professionals' around me did not get that -- that math, or reality, or a virus don't give a fucking shit about your desire to will 2+2=5 into existence. That reality is telling you to stop trying to make Fetch happen, ya bunch of covid denying Weiners.

4 Oct 2024 at 21:59 | Open on zeroes.ca
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Freddie Oversteegen Was Right

Anyway, I'm done fucking ranting.

4 Oct 2024 at 22:20 | Open on zeroes.ca
Corvid Crone
64 mastodonz logistics co-op

@hannu_ikonen that take, that we were traumatised by covid mitigations, and not by the death and destruction caused by the disease and its ongoing effects, is everything that is wrong with public health practice, laid bare

4 Oct 2024 at 22:38 | Open on mastodon.nz
64 mastodonz logistics co-op

@hannu_ikonen “masks won’t work because people won’t wear them correctly, we can’t tell people to wear masks” was a time

4 Oct 2024 at 22:39 | Open on mastodon.nz
J.H.Noyes

@64 @hannu_ikonen

Endlessly kvetching about masks is one way to do it, another way to do it is to make the NAIAD explain why so many youngsters are displaying brain changes consistent with the onset of Alzheimer's Disease.

To be clear, I'm talking about stuff like this:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/

Intersecting with this:

journals.lww.com/co-psychiatry.

@64 @hannu_ikonen

Endlessly kvetching about masks is one way to do it, another way to do it is to make the NAIAD explain why so many youngsters are displaying brain changes consistent with the onset of Alzheimer's Disease.

To be clear, I'm talking about stuff like this:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/

4 Oct 2024 at 22:57 | Open on mastodon.online
Falcon Darkstar

@64 @hannu_ikonen at least for me, the trauma was about us doing a few things:
- Relying on the police state
- Prioritizing individual behaviour and sacrifice while ignoring anything systemic, because clean indoor air would cost landlords money
- Watching us still not fix air quality
- Fear of the consequences of catching the virus itself

Now I admit, a previous line of work has unfortunately left me somewhat inured to mass casualties, and if it didn't I would likely have trauma about that too.

@64 @hannu_ikonen at least for me, the trauma was about us doing a few things:
- Relying on the police state
- Prioritizing individual behaviour and sacrifice while ignoring anything systemic, because clean indoor air would cost landlords money
- Watching us still not fix air quality
- Fear of the consequences of catching the virus itself

4 Oct 2024 at 23:05 | Open on mastodon.falconk.rocks
Falcon Darkstar

@64 @hannu_ikonen that's not about whiteness. It is about privilege a bit though; we are all denied the privilege of being safe participating in society without needing to worry about masks, and we have all had to watch our society flail around with shaming and use of force around quarantines and masks followed by denial, exposing the probability that the next time our collective safety is threatened, our society will again leave us to bear the consequences, while maybe punishing us too.

4 Oct 2024 at 23:11 | Open on mastodon.falconk.rocks
Haily Merry

@64 @hannu_ikonen To be fair I think you can make a very reasonable and persuasive case for both, it doesn't have to be one or the other. Lockdowns were no doubt necessary, but they evidently did lead to a hole bunch of unintended consequences, people living with abusive partners / families, kids with learning disabilities or who just struggled to adapt or who's schools were ill equipped to help them do so, to name but a few.

5 Oct 2024 at 0:25 | Open on dragonscave.space
HumToTable
J.H.Noyes

@hannu_ikonen They think that if they deny it hard enough they'll be safe. It's magical thinking on an institutional scale.

4 Oct 2024 at 22:40 | Open on mastodon.online
Lynn Keller

@hannu_ikonen I'm an NP, have lost friends who died caring for infected COVID and vaccine deniers, new NP's who will never go back to nursing. Curious if you link the NPD/Trump trance with other extreme belief/behavior distortions

4 Oct 2024 at 23:35 | Open on socel.net
Freddie Oversteegen Was Right

@majordopolis if Trump doesn't have both APD & NPD, I'd be blown away.

4 Oct 2024 at 23:37 | Open on zeroes.ca
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