PacificNic

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

Remember when conservatives hated "communist Russia"?

I remember it like it was yesteryear.

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

I declare this to be the Clusterfuck 20's.

broadwaybabyto, 2 months ago to disability

I’m hearing an increasing number of people say they won’t even discuss common sense Covid mitigations because they’re so angry about the restrictions placed on them at the beginning of the pandemic. Their anger is literally preventing them from protecting themselves and others.

I often ask if they’ve considered how angry they will be if Covid disables them and places permanent restrictions on their body? Especially knowing it was preventable. I’ve yet to get a good answer.

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #disability

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

It occurs to me that most people probably still think they're "better" than anti-vaxxers.

They're not.

Not if they aren't masking.

Late-comers to fascism don't get brownie points for abstaining from eugenics a little longer.

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

Maybe we ADHDers should carve out a profession teaching all the COVID victims how to cope with loss of executive function and working memory.

We are experts, after all.

One of us should do it.

Later.

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

Note to self:

-Remember to make notes to self

hannu_ikonen, 2 months ago to random

If you have ADHD, it's hard to explain to (cishet non-ND) non-ADHDers the Othering you experience at every step of seeking treatment to correct an executive function neurocircuitry aberration/variance.

From day one I've received feedback about my hyperkineticism, hyperverbality, impulse control, inability to follow multiple step tasks, my reactivity, rejection sensitivity.

And people wonder why I've only finally found peace working remotely & by cutting out my parents from my life.

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

There's a reason people shit on the humanities. People trained in the humanities know how to think.

A real education makes them mandatory.

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

Miasmas was a better theory.

If the people had respirators back during the plague and you told them they bless the air as it enters their lungs, the plague wouldn't have happened.

Yeah, I know they think it spread exclusively by flea bite but I think that's probably ALSO horseshit.

Like, c-mon. THAT many people died from flea bites?

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

Offices aren't real.

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

🧟 Bruuuuunch with usssssss! 🧟

subjacentish, 2 months ago to random

95% of Medical Treatment is just labelling something, I swear.

You realize as soon as you unpack the acronym or know Greek & Latin.

"Oh your chest hurts? Yes, we know about this. It's called Chest-Hurt-itis."

"Oh your brain & liver are inflamed? You have Multiple Inflammatory System Syndrome."

elana, 2 months ago to random

Yesterday I tried to explain to J-M about different biosafety levels: “BSL-3 is for airborne pathogens. BSL-4 is for airborne pathogens that people are scared of.”

Covid is level 3. It’s not less infectious, and we don’t have any treatments for its disabling long-term effects. It’s just not as scaaaaary (to the people who make these decisions).

Droplet vs. airborne is also based on feelings: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/112118829709114342

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

In some ways, I welcome the extreme limitations in career choices foisted on us by a suicidal, eugenicist society. For me as a person with ADHD, there were way too many options before.

It's also annoying, but there's a silver lining, too.

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

Here's the thing about RTO: if I'm going to be forced into an unsafe environment regardless, my current job sure as hell wouldn't be the kind of job I'd make that sacrifice for.

If my job is going to kill me, it better be something super fucking fun.

Greengordon, 2 months ago to Canada

This article largely blames social media for this:

“For the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, happiness has decreased in all age groups, but especially for the young, so much so that the young are now, in 2021-23, the least happy age group,”

Sure, it’s not the climate crisis, our leaders pandering to the rich, crackdowns on protests, rising autocracy by old white men, skyrocketing housing prices…nah, it’s social media.

#cdnpoli #Canada

GeorgiaOnMyMind, 2 months ago to random

I’ve had two doctors mention to me this past week the importance of maintaining good brain health to avoid dementia and Parkinsons-yet neither one mentions avoiding Covid. One was surprised I’ve avoided it this long and didn’t understand how I could maintain that since it’s everywhere.

What am I missing? Why isn’t Covid in their discussions for brain health (and Parkinsons)?

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

My conviction that we're right is unshakeable now, but so is peoples' resolve to pretend things are fine.