Really feels like immune system myths are central to covid minimization. Almost anyone I've told about my caution will lean on their "strong immune system," or the way it "seems to have calmed down now that it's used to covid" which instantly tells me they know very little about the way covid interacts with the immune system.
It also clues me in that they're probably fine with covid spreading as long as they think they're strong enough to "resist" it, which is, to be frank, some very stupid, very normalized nazi shit that a ton of people do under fascitalism.
So that's a fun flavor of wishful thinking people engage in; that at least they'll probably survive.
That's a fun thing for someone to choose over reality; that other people will die, but they probably won't, so they don't need to worry.
Heartwarming.
But the thing about covid, is that none of this hyper-normalized nazi shit will save you from it, because nobody is "strong" enough to "resist" it. It's not about "strength", because covid doesn't even play well with these idiot-sentiments.
Covid gives a fuck about your strong immune system the way a bull gives a fuck about a china shop with a bunch of wavey red flags all over it; your "good genes" won't save you from something that subverts, evades, and disrupts the human body's defenses.
It's just more class-homicide, which you're pressured into ignoring while the rich mostly do okay as usual. You can look at a lot of other health issues they've commercialized in a similar light. You're not gonna be one of Daddy Money's special selects; they just want enough of us dead and brain-damaged that we stop making problems for them while they finish turning the planet into a cigar burn. They know what covid can do the same way they know what climate change can do and they want this atmosphere of denial because it's just so much more lucrative than informing the public's consent. I don't know how they could make it much clearer, but their work in that area is ongoing.
The things the news tells you to lean on while you huff plague at work to prop up their pyramid scheme? Vaccines and good vibes and victim blaming your coworkers any time they have to call in sick? Those aren't going to save you from covid setting up shop indefinitely and time-warping your insides. Very-doable math says pretty much all of us have had it. That means it really fucking matters how much of it you can avoid from now on.
If I wasn't clear, I am saying that despite whatever sweet nothings you whisper to yourself, it is ✨overwhelmingly-likely💫 that covid is already fucking shit up inside of you, and you should try to live accordingly. Maybe your caution and privilege are such that you have actually managed to avoid it entirely. Admitting that this is possible in theory, I would still bet against it.
It moves like smoke. Outside is not enough. Six feet is not enough. Baggy blue masks are not enough. Half-assed yet full-priced vaccinations are not enough. We didn't have enough time, enough warning, enough smart and compassionate people looking out for us. The world fumbled with it for a moment and then decided to commit to dropping this ball so hard and forcefully, you'd have thought they had run it over a goal line and spiked it.
It trampled on anybody's "strong immunity" and it never left. We're straight up going to die sooner because of it. That is happening. That decision was made for us by our owners. If you really start to look around, you can find a lot more of those decisions. Things that are remarkably harmful, to you, your family and your community, which you are simply expected to ignore and downplay and normalize and treat as some big whoopsie that society made while holding hands, instead of, you know, calling very-avoidable homicide what it is, no matter the myriad forms it takes in our modern "civilization".
One decision you can make for yourself is to inform your non-consent, and mitigate further damage from the often-openly-hostile people who work every day to CHOOSE this nightmare reality over a better one where we stopped full-fucking-gas driving ourselves extinct, but if you see me holding my breath, it's not because I'm waiting for that; it's because the air keeps getting better at killing us.
[#]CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #h5n1
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@trashcaster fascitalism - portmanteau of fascism-capitalism?
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@bjornsdottirs Yep! I'd like to say I coined it but I doubt I'm the first to push such good friends together.
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Another layer:
"Fasciitis is an inflammation of the fascia, which is the connective tissue surrounding muscles, blood vessels and nerves."
"Fasces," etymologically, means band or bundle, load or burden. Colloquially, we know a fasces to mean an axe bound to a bundle of wood, used to symbolize power over life and limb.
Fascism is designed to inflame the social fabric that connects society together, while capitalism conditions us to see each other as competition
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I had planar fasciitis in 2021. It felt like angry worms in my feet. Actually, just my left foot. Large dogs.
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@trashcaster
Yeah. I try to tell people, the stronger your immune system, the worse covid will damage your body, because it turns your immune system against you
I try to find these little catch phrases
But nothing really works
It's like trying to tell people that autoimmune disease is caused by having an immune system that is too strong
People just can't process the concept
I think it's because when they say strong immune system they don't really mean something biological. They mean I am special and God loves me more
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tiny ?lemma?: not everyone in a country is better off with a "strong currency", but non-wonks assume strong must be good and stronger better
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@trashcaster Have you read this piece about Health Supremacy?
https://msteenhagen.medium.com/loathe-fascism-then-dont-be-a-health-supremacist-c8841acdf69
[#]healthSupremacy #CovidIsNotOver
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@maggiejk Nope, I'll revisit after work but it was worth the boost skimming.
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