Go to ground.news/elliot to easily dive deep on any topic from every perspective. Use my link to get 40% off the unlimited access Ground News Vantage plan.
@elliotsayshello it is a molecular healing/adaptation process, because of an atmospheric shift that's been happening, CORONA 🌞 it can be shown in the "space weather"
My wife has had 8 brain surgeries, we have been on a "soft" lockdown down for 4 years. I was fired from my job, I've lost friends and family. My wife is still safe, and she's never had Covid, this has irrevocably changed my life.
I know sympathies in sweet words online may not solve everything but I sincerely hope in the bottom of my heart that things get better for you and your wife. Have you tried a GoFundMe? Have you been able to find more work?
Doesn't it show you how fragile the idea of society and family are? I had something similar to this isolation when I went houseless and all those supports and all that care they said they would arrange disappear. You are locked in the world of those who you care for and those who care about you in real time. I'm grateful to hear you and your wife are well, you are not alone out here 🖤
you've made the right decisions and you're doing well. i also lost my job and have lost friends and family - but i got a new job (100% WFH), new friends, and screw my family i didn't like them anyway. but i'm one of the lucky ones who was able to adapt, i feel for those not in a position to adapt so well. being able to be in soft lockdown feels like a privilege to me. sometimes it gets me down as this is not the life i imagined for us, but i have come to accept it and just be thankful i had the freedom to take this option as the other option is way worse.
I know it is so hard, but I hope you can continue to pour love into each other, stay safe and hold on until science (and hopefully people) catch up. I am wishing your financial situation has or is improving and you find a new network of compassionate people who do not gaslight or discard you. 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
"Do people with peanut allergies make people around them not eat peanuts?" ....Yes? Some of them do if the allergies are severe enough? Because it can literally kill them?
When i saw that i was like..clearly youve never been on a plane when someone has a peanut allergy lmao. They not only tell you, but forbid snacks with peanuts and will not serve them. Imagine. Imagine how easy it is to actually care.
Like they’ve never been in a no peanuts classroom in school because a classmate has a severe allergy? Never experienced someone asking out loud if anyone has an allergy to something common before opening and eating a snack? Never had a friend who couldn’t have peanuts in his house because someone in his house has a severe allergy? Like I wouldn’t be surprised if most people haven’t experienced most of this but not at least one situation like these?????
@@PocketsandOutlaw 40+ years ago (and even more the further back you go) child mortality was way higher. A lot of those cases, especially even further back, were "sickly" children who died young without clear cause. Allergies are very likely a fair part of those numbers. Both ways of finding out what caused it and effective treatment for severe reactions was much more limited.
☝🏾✨ EXACTLY this. Exactly. Not to mention how many land lords and real estate outfits started sweating bullets: realizing that, if so many people were working from home, that that meant that almost no business would need to rent any of those big buildings or offices to operate in.
@@TreeHairedGingerAleFor real. I’d love it if that office space was utilized for housing, college campuses, or virtual farming tbh. Would be a much better use if the space. Sure some offices are important and necessary, especially for some disabled workers who need in person, but we don’t NEED as many as we have now.
This video and reading everyone's comments almost made me cry. I am disabled and have been immunocompromised my whole life, the pain and isolation I have felt being thrown to the wolves by pretty much everyone I know is almost as traumatizing as my fear of the disease itself. We are all in this together and y'all make me feel a little more optimistic about humanity. Thank you
My dad has a severe disability (Strumpell Lorrain, diagnosed in 2003), he took four jabs (after the fourth his disease even got worse, high likely the fact he already had three and infection, somehow created a damaging over-response) and he stopped wearing masks since a while. He never got sick again and he's in contact with many people who all stopped testing and masking. It's over bro, deal with it, even all the doctors I've met in last two years (cause I had to follow some stuff for my dad and also my mum) repeat the same thing. Anything else is just a moralistic exercise, pretending is helpful to something.
Thank you for sharing this. Slowly but surely, more people are putting the pieces together. Still a major wall of denial too, but I feel the dam will break at some point.
Someone put it bluntly to me once, "Seniors don't pay taxes. Sick people cost everyone money. What's the point in investing in them?". As i enter into the Healthcare profession as someone who grew up with a chronic illness, I've been so heartbroken by the realities (and I'm in Canada). I'm afraid for my future. Ableism is ingrained into so many different cultures around the globe. Health should not be a political issue, and yet it's politicians who decide the outcomes of public healthcare systems. MORE PEOPLE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS! I can't even get my professors or collogues to discuss these issues. It's very "hush-hush". It's shameful, and the rationale is "you can't break the publics trust" ....
It’s wild like they think they should die when they get old or they will never get old? People actively subscribe to being good little wagie slavies and as soon as you aren’t making money for the rich you are useless; as thats all we are, livestock.
"Seniors don't pay taxes. Sick people cost everyone money. What's the point in investing in them?" We should be calling rhetoric like that out for what it is. That is some straight up Nazi and Gilead-level type shit.
...when, realistically, it's the immuno-compromised people who should logically be throwing tantrums when others refuse to mask n' vax, because they actually have something to lose!
Fundamental attribute error, people thinking other people wearing a mask is virtue signaling but in reality theyre just concerned for their own well being and also others', long covid is no joke
@@nytro2765 , yeah, IDGAF about virtue-signalling, and am honestly nervous about covidiots singling me out and attacking me! Covidiots know they're in the wrong at some level, IMHO, so they have to make those of us who just don't want to get sick the villains.
@@dinosaysrawr I always wore a mask prior to actually getting covid, dont be afraid of wearing one either. Of the 2 and a half years of wearing one nobody ever said anything or confronted me, and should they ever hypothetically confront me for being concerned about my health, ill make sure they regret letting out even a peep about it. My health will never bend to anyones petty politics
My aunt's moved to assisted living, due to dementia. She contracted Covid, after having made it all the way to now without getting ill, and is now relearning how to walk. The levels of worry are indescribable.
Are there any links that make it affect the nervous system? Other than possibly organ, it seems to damage other bodily systems for high-risk patients. I'm just worried I've been asymptomatic..
Yes, you are right. It was about the system making you sick even without symptoms and then transforming you in an ethernal slave and client. You had to refuse the whole scheme from the start, sorry.
@@SipMyCharlatte Working with major health insurance companies including Medicaid has shown me it's all about billing as much, and as often as possible. There is not a lot of preventative care in America. We are all about medicating people and less about providing resources and education. Some private hospitals won't provide you any care unless you have a credit card or payment option available when you check in. For a real fun time, Google how much doctors make in other countries. Its a huge pay difference.
@@SipMyCharlatte Healthcare in the US is privatized, so the ultimate goal will always be to generate profits under capitalism, not exactly to completely get rid of an illness. But there's also a balance by other capitalist structures, since workers can't be too sick otherwise we can't work productively enough. So it's incentivized that at least some amount of people are sick, but not too many. If healthcare is socialized, then it would be incentivized to actually help everyone efficiently without as much concern for profits, since it wouldn't be a money maker but a true positive asset for society.
Not sure if people outside of the UK heard about this but recently the PM Rishi Sunak announced a new law which gives police the power to arrest people wearing face coverings at protests and demonstrations. The justification they gave for this was that people wearing masks at protests are likely doing so to "conceal their identity in order to threaten others". They said that passing this law was a way to "protect public safety"... my country is falling apart in front of my eyes, the government is slipping further and further to the far right of the political spectrum, and now they are warping narratives around masking to try to prevent the most at risk in society from making their voices heard.
"Not sure if people outside of the UK heard about this but recently the PM Rishi Sunak announced a new law which gives police the power to arrest people wearing face coverings at protests and demonstrations" It is hilarious, really :D Provaxers used corrupted politicians to make masks mandatory. People were happy about that.. So are you know about to experience how is it when police forces harass you ? :D mandating masks, vaccines is clearly pathetic (also a crime, since vaccines are invasive, dangerous treatments). Wearing face masks on the other hand is... Personally i dont have a problem with that, but potential criminals hiding their identities, their face playing their western cowboy games is extremely odd... not a problem for me, but seriously..
THANK YOU FOR THIS! I’ve been suffering from long COVID debilitating cough and a large reason why is because people where I live refuse to continue masking. I never stopped because I care not just about my health but the health of others!
@@Thaelyn1312 I feel you. I was disabled before I got Covid, in Jan 2024, and I don’t think I have long Covid, hard to tell yet, but have had fatigue, brain fog, and other issues before and much worse after, so I FEEL you on that. Fatigue is the worst. Edit: Typo.
tw // personal horror story regarding cv19 I hate the peanut comment the most. I hate it so much. I'm genuinely angry someone would use that as a "counter argument" like YES PEOPLE WITH PEANUT ALLERGIES DO REQUEST PEANUTS TO BE AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I got diagnosed with covid in november after a rapid test in the ER, which I went to because of severe full body pain that made me think for real that I was actually definitely dying (I have chronic pain in my limbs and back, and chronic headaches, if that helps with perspective). I quarantined for 7 days, as did my mom. Because of the timing, we missed a trip to visit my actually dying grandmother. She died the day we were supposed to be returning home (trip was postponed two weeks so we could recover first) and my ability to smell things still has not fully returned. *Days with missing 20% of my total possible sensory input due to a deadly disease I shouldn't have gotten in the first place: 139.*
I’ve been masking for four years now and people make me feel like I’m crazy or being mean for doing it 😭 I’ve lost my entire social life because people in my life chose to not be Covid safe instead of being around me so I’ve been extremely lonely the past several years. I have long Covid and it’s really messed me up, it’s better than some cases ofc but it’s been really unpleasant at best, and at worst really set back my mental and physical health. All the time I go in a loop with myself trying to convince myself I’m the problem because I’m the minority because everyone else around me has decided Covid is over I must be crazy or something to be the only person around who seems to take precautions and it’s so stressful and exhausting
you’re not alone i have struggled with the same feelings! not only do we feel alone, but we’re made to feel alone when ppl isolate and leave us out of public spaces. public space should be a human right.
From my perspective people don't judge you because you want to protect yourself. That would be totally fine. The problem is, if you want others to behave the same way you do. Which has happened during the last 4 years. And this makes people tired. I personally don't go out anymore not because I fear to be infected by a virus, but simply because I lost my job and the job following that one because of the covid measures. Now, I am dependent on the income of my parents, which is honestly a bad feeling. So, when people are stressed out when they see a mask, it is not because they don't understand you or accept that you want to protect yourself. It is more about the stress that is caused by the overall measures that come with masks. I saw people yelling at younger people like me for not wearing a mask, even though most of them were following the rules for 80-90% of the time. Things like that just stay in your mind. And for me, I personally don't want to wear a mask for the next 40-50 years.
Please stop and work to make your life worth living again. Life is worthless if you dont have any friends and spend a lot of time stressing and worrying about things you cannot control. Maybe its time to admit that your reaction was not actually the best one? I get that the virus is still out there and it sucks, but nothing is worth losing friends and joy over.
It is deeply infuriating how easily immunocompromised people were written off as "not worth the effort" for even stuff as basic as wearing a bloody mask. Also absolutely wild how many people wear masks with their nose out. Thank you for talking about this, as a Canadian, we tend to get stuck with a lot of governmental policy basically being "well, they did it in the states".
We live in such a sheltered and privileged country, that for (most) conservatives and Boomers, being asked to wear a mask while in confined public spaces during a global pandemic, was the most traumatic experience they’ve ever had to endure, and have never “suffered” as much as during those few months. Not people dying, not people losing their livelihood, not people becoming permanently disabled, not the revelation that our economic system is hanging on by a thread, not the massive wealth transfer of trillions of dollars to the top 0.01%. Nope. The mere request that they be considerate of other people for two minutes was the straw that broke the camel’s back and just a step too far.
" that for (most) conservatives and Boomers, being asked to wear a mask while in confined public spaces during a global pandemic, was the most traumatic experience they’ve ever had to endure, " Did you wear face masks before? Like during flu seasons? Why would you expect others to wear 'masks' which does not give relevant protection? Why dont you use hazmat suits? O_o Which actually work. Why dont you wear face masks and take vaccines, and leave others alone? The 'traumatic' experience was the discrimination, the threats, the forced human experiments and the innocent people who suffered from the side effects of these vaccinations.. " Not people dying, not people losing their livelihood," People were dying and lost their livelihood because of these pro-mask pro-vax f a s c i s t s.
It's not about consideration, it's about science fact. We know from many research studies that mask use has no identifiable impact on the reduction or prevention of the spread of respiratory viruses. It's a complete false sense of security. If you want to wear one, be my guest, but do not require or demand of me that I mask up.
people are so dramatic dude. masking doesn't even feel like anything. now it's basically just like putting on a shirt. If you're somebody with respiratory issues maybe masking would be harder tho
What really bothers me is that people won’t even mask up anymore when they’re clearly sick. Just open mouth coughing all over the train or in the store like a toddler. I’m very sensitive to respiratory infections and I’ve just been really sick every few weeks now after being fine for years. It’s really discouraging.
People wont mask up if they work as someone that eateries homes like furniture delivery , plumbing. Before covid if you had an immunocompromised person in the house you could ask people to wear masks when they enter. people refuse service now.
Thank you for this comment! I got sick 4 times this winter, because my partner works at the university and there are ALWAYS sick students in the classroom. 😖😖😖
If you are concerned, wear a mask, but don't expect others to mask up. We know from many research studies that mask use has no identifiable impact on the reduction or prevention of the spread of respiratory viruses.
I lost my father to COVID19 during December of 2021. We saw him slowly deteriorate through the months before he ended up dying alone in the hospital with a tube down his throat just so he could breathe. Having to come back to school with people asking how my winterbreak was and later that day have a kid exclaim how "nobody cares about COVID, it's over already." It was hard not to break down and even now I still have classmates and teachers talk about how pointless all the mandates were. I wish people listened more, maybe i would still have my dad.
@@thorebergmann1986you’re still highly contagious even if you don’t have symptoms, and can easily spread it. You are also incurring organ damage that might not be readily noticeable, until you soon develop a chronic condition or your next infection, whether of covid or smth else. There are lots of papers that show this, feel free to do some research.
@@zkkitty2436And rhemost damage isit adding up and disabilitating effects that add up. It got less deadly but still is worsening symptoms for god knows how long Alfo the flu killed people, at least still bloody vaxxinate. Its not over, ifitslike the flu,the flu is still killing people and covid hasstill the disabilitating symptoms worsen god knows how long potentially
And that it becomes like the flu kinda still means,like why do people think flu vaxxinations and so are still cared for, still deadly. And covid has that disabilitating affects still Itsnot over,like the flu means less deadly but still dangerous, and bloody vaxxinate. It helps
@@zkkitty2436 Oh, I did my research. And I know there are good arguments on both sides. What bothers me is the question a) where does the virus come from? and b) what on earth is a virus? (and I don't accept the usual picture of a tiny little thing that just replicates itself and wants to kill us.. I think there is more to that) ah yes, and c) how do you want to put an end to it? because we cannot live in a society where everyone is a potential danger to his fellow human beings simply by existing. Do you want everyone to isolate and live in fear until the rest of his life?
As an Indigenous person in canada who lives with a disabled immunocompromised family, it's tough. There have been so many deaths and people on reserves contracting covid without knowing because of the lack of covid education since the pandemic "ended". The government body bags thing was a real thing that happened to other reserves my family lives on. I have a family member who can't get any covid vaccine because they're allergic to one of the main ingredients and they're immunocompromised as well. Even though I am not immunocompromised and go to the city more often, I still wear a mask everywhere in public and do my best to keep myself, my family, and those around me safe. In these past years, I haven't had covid once and it shows that masks work.
i wore a mask at my serving job for about 2 weeks after our states mandate ended and i had to take it off because i was very clearly getting tipped less than my non-masked coworkers. My managers don’t take COVID seriously anymore and are becoming just as harsh as before the lockdown with doctors notes and if you’ve ever been a server with no healthcare you know, that’s just a sick joke. We still have the forehead thermometer but once corporate stopped requiring managers to log temperatures, they stopped using it and send people home if they’re sick based on suffering performance. The U.S. continues to be a hellscape for the working class and disabled people.
This is something I constantly remind friends about. Taking zero precautions during their day to day means they put folks like you, whose choice to stay safe has been stripped away from them, at risk of contracting COVID and becoming disabled or unable to work because they want to "feel normal". I'm so sorry that you're in that position. It's not fair, and I wish people would see the harm of their actions.
"My managers don’t take COVID seriously anymore and are becoming just as harsh as before the lockdown with doctors " Did you take flu and other airborne diseases seriously before you were told about covid? Dont he a hypocrite. Masks do not actually work anyways. What you need is called a 'HAZMAT suit'. Just stop following the agenda of n a z i provaxers who discriminated innocent people and experimented on us..
So grateful to see someone draw attention to this but so angry that this has to be said My whole life I’ve been asked to adjust for other people (particularly being denied rights because of the religious and wilfully ignorant) and then when a pandemic erupts that puts every single person in danger suddenly I’m out of line for asking for basic safety. The disabled and chronically ill are already severely disadvantaged, Covid proved society would rather we just didn’t exist because basic decency is just too inconvenient
The most significant culture shock I had when moving to a different country was that most people still at least were surgical masks often but definitely when sick and that updated covid vaccinations are given in school. Doctors wear surgical masks. Air purifiers aren’t uncommon to see either in public spaces. The US made this so unnecessarily complicated. I got lax with masking at one point and caught COVID and I never want it again. I had long COVID which has mostly resolved but who knows what the effects will be in then ten to twenty years. The US is too complacent with death and disease in pursuit of profit.
Face masks are: ->useful in other ways than preventing disease (dust, gas, smoke, hiding your face) ->very normal in countries other than the US even before covid ->a smart piece of EDC wardrobe no matter what
Face masks were a relevation to me: I've always gotten sick way more frequently than others every year, been sick for longer than others with the same flu/cold. During 2020-2023 I wasn't sick a single time, for the first time ever. Despite annual flu vaccines being a habit of mine predating Covid-19. I already had a lot of habits to minimize getting sick, including thorough handwashing and sanitizing, so the only real change I made was surgical masks the first year and n95s after. Face masks are bloody magical! I only started getting sick again because of getting sloppy with them. They have given me such a huge quality of life upgrade.
Personally I prefer bandanas even though they're not as effective because medical face masks mess up my respiratory system for some reason, but yeah I agree, especially if you live in a city where many people drive old cars, masks/bandanas are essential
@@enravotaboyadjiev7466 if face masks mess up your respiration, you genuinely need to get investigated for your breathing issues: you can have a type of astma or COPD, or the like, all very serious health issues that will shorten your life significantly if not treated and managed. When you grow up having health issues all of your life, it's very difficult to know that you shouldn't be experiencing some of the things you take for granted.
I have cancer and on oral chemo. I will never not be immunocompromised. Quasi-lockdown is now my life. Want me dead? Fuck all y’all, I ain’t going nowhere.
The tiktok you showed is particularly interesting to me. I live in a third world country, and even here doctors are still seen wearing masks. This keeps both, the staff and the patients safe. It's really strange to me how doctors are refusing to wear masks in the US.
That is a very inaccurate and false assumption. We know from many research studies that mask use has no identifiable impact on the reduction or prevention of the spread of respiratory viruses. This is why, prior to SARSCOV2, there was never a recommendation to utilize masks to reduce the annual spread of the influenza. It's a complete false sense of security.
First of all, that comment reading section was pAiNfUl. Those voices 😫 Second and lastly, I rarely feel called out by your vids. I live in the middle of the desert, north of L.A. It is very easy to get complacent here because it's small. No one is coming to my little city unless they actually live here or work on the military base. I will do better 😊
It drives me crazy that my second mom is so resistant to masking and testing. She actually gave my first mom COVID when she came to visit without testing when she was sick, and last time she was here she *coughed in my face.* On accident, sure, but she didn't even try to cover her cough. 😑
Hell i hoped what sticks wouldat least be basic awareness tosash hands right and,not cough directly at people. And awareness. 😑 Because is valid for alot of infectuions, basic stuff that just is good to be aware in general. 😑
Everyday I think about the Tik Tok CrutchesnSpice posted about how eugenics was gonna come back bc of the pandemic. It gets more correct by the day. Never have I felt more cynical about humanity
I've never stopped masking. When they lifted the mandates at my school in 2022, I watched people choose comfort over health, and it made me so fearful that it worsened my already burgeoning agoraphobia, and my one fight above all was to stay inside--away from illness. Staying inside destroyed my grades. I could barely find classes online, and the ones that were proved to be too difficult for me. My entire major--except for a single professor who would later step down--was in person. It was heartbreaking to know that my own community would choose to let me fall by the wayside. Last summer, against my best efforts, one of my family members spread COVID to me and I became debilitatingly ill for 5 days. It felt like someone had cut my torso clean in half with a sword. After I tested negative, I experienced a persistent dry cough for a month. The worst thing about getting sick is knowing I was right. I watched my life fall apart. I was forced to pick it back up. And the whole time I was right! Now I'm right when I'm the only person in the room with a respirator on. When I get made fun of. When people talk about how scared they are of precautions. Of me. I don't want people to be afraid of this nebulous entity. I know that fear--I lived it for years. I want people to know that things are hard. I want them to put their trust in their communities and in themselves. And above all--I want better indoor air quality! God, it sucks.
The exact same thing is happening to me. The literal exact same situation. I caught it last year but I’ve had a cough, and runny nose ever since and it’s quite unlike me usually. I’ve been masking since it began and a little before cause I heard about it a little before it happened and got nervous. People are not accommodating anyone as they should, if they ever were. They expect disabled people to fade away on purpose
Yep vaxx,do the vetybasic things in everyday life that helps alot with several spreads, Anddammt its never wrong to have better indoor air quality Also of people can het sick without loosing jobs and can care to not infect cowerkersmighr be good too.
We need better out door air quality too! 9/10 ppl breath toxic air. Respirators are our friends for now i guess. Really sorry people couldnt care less about our community. I hope someday that will change. You are not alone!
Thank you for covering this. I'm tired of being treated like a conspiracy theorist when I'm just talking science and statistics and encouraging people to use respirator masks. My family stopped using masks over a year ago and I've been isolated with no safe social bubble to be unmasked around. I told them all about the dangers and haven't even eaten indoors with them. Recently my father caught covid and died. No one can tell me my anger at public health is uncalled for. I'd much rather truly be a conspiracy theorist than right. Wear high quality fitted masks and resist. Resist because it matters. You can change the lives of so many by the simplest and easiest form of protest and communal care.
If it makes you feel better, conspiracy theorists don't usually concern themselves with the wellbeing of others and seem largely motivated by fears of the individual. Caring about COVID, masking, and staying up to date on studies tends to be the result of wanting to do right by others. Community care is key, and looking objectively at the mess we're in and believing that people have a right to safely participate in society feels so removed from conspiracy.
Update (8/10/24): My whole extended family (minus me) got covid last week. My sister was required to return to work as a health care worker one day after she treated positive. When I was picking up my mom's prescription for paxlovid I was surprised to find out that that same hospital just stopped its pharmacy curb-side service for people who have covid the day before. Now my only friend has it as well. He got covid from going to his doctor's appointment at his hospital. Hospitals are cesspools. Protect yourself and wear a well-fitting respirator mask, especially in hospitals. People should feel safe going to the doctor and getting needed care.
It's really validating to see anything on covid-awareness, and there's always so many people saying, "Thank you for saying this. No one will listen to me." There's so many of us but we are made to feel divided and small. The more we speak on it, the more we validate each other and find community.
Just seeing this title and thumbnail gives me so much hope and really cements you as one of my favorite video essayists if not UA-camrs, period. Thank you.
I was a little kid during the 2003 SARS outbreak, and my nana made me wear one of those blue masks way back then. They wanted me to take it off cause it scared the other students and teachers, but I was an obstinate little shit so they ended up sending me home that day.
Thank you for making this. Ive been suffering from long covid for over two years now, culminating in a suspected stroke last fall. I'm 31. I cant work, i can barely clean myself, and i cant even go outside because covid decimates your immune system long term and if i get it again, i may not survive. But even dangers aside, my body can barely handle walking anyway so its not like i have the ability to leave most of the time. I hope people hear you and listen for once. My family and i are so desperate for anyone to just..protect themselves and their communities, for their own sake!!!
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS! I’m tired of being convinced that it was a thing of the past and that “no one is wearing masks now” like excuse me that’s not reassuring to people who are immunocompromised or have co-morbidities (depression is a co-morbidity btw).
I appreciate this so much. I definitely fall into the trap of "well I failed so I'll just give up". Not just with covid, but as a personal trauma response I am constantly working on. Thanks for the call out, the reminder that I'm not crazy for worrying or practicing precautions, and the hope in how many people are still fighting for this to be better managed. ❤❤❤
Thank you for using your platform to talk about this. I was diagnosed with an immune disorder in 2020 and cancer in 2021. I've been masking since the beginning and never stopped. My partner has been as well. We both work from home, which has been a blessing. We've somehow managed not to get Covid yet, but gosh it's been lonely for both of us. I'm constantly caught between feeling guilty for being "too strict" and "too lax". I want to be as responsible as possible, but I also feel guilty about holding my partner back. He mostly doesn't mind, but I know he gets restless. We go on more hikes now, which has helped some, but doesn't fix everything. We talk often about how much we both miss going to restaurants. We haven't been since Feb 2020 and I don't think I'll ever be able to eat at a restaurant again. It's a small sacrifice in the grand scheme of things, but it's also one of many small (and some larger) sacrifices we've both had to make for my safety (and his, of course; Covid can be devastating for healthy folks too). Sometimes the despair is hard to reckon with. I don't know how to explain it to someone outside this experience. Life will never even vaguely resemble what it used to be for some of us.
I've become very isolated due to the ongoing pandemic, mostly because friends and family interpret my caution as paranoia. They are willing to wear masks around me, but they've made it clear that they don't think there's anything to worry about and don't want to talk about COVID anymore. COVID risks + financial issues + seeking stability as a young adult = Staying home as much as possible and rejecting a lot of invitations. People will always point out that my behavior is self-isolating, but from my perspective there are very few options. I can't afford to get sick. I can't even afford to risk getting sick. I have no major health issues at the moment, and the situation still feels dangerous. How could I possibly ignore that a dangerous, disabling disease is currently spreading around the world and mutating faster than it can be researched? I'm personally ok with 'missing out' on a lot of experiences until we have public consensus that COVID is worth protecting against.
DON'T GET YOUR MASK WET! When he says "clean" - it's not with water! (All I've seen recommended is having one for each day of the week and storing them in a paper bag between uses, or to put them in sunlight for passive UV treatment, but once they're visibly soiled it's time to toss.)
Thank you for making this video. I'm one of the few COVID conscious people still left at my college and feel extremely socially isolated from my peers. I have been in a deep pit of depression since the winter started about how complicit with eugenics the vast majority of people in today's world are, and my heart has been taking a beating over it with how so much of my friends and family have drifted apart with me over this stance. It shouldn't remain a controversial thing to care about the vulnerable, even if you're lucky enough not to be (currently) among them. How a society treats its most marginalized members says everything you need to know about it, and as a society we've fucking failed tens of millions of people over the past four years.
thank you. VERY few people, including on the left, are talking about this. the disabled (and more) continue to be left to die. ive been in lockdown for 4 years.
I just tested positive last night so I'm sitting confined in my bedroom with the window cracked and a space heater on trying to keep my roommate from getting it.
Never stopped masking or washing, and I stay on the air filtration. Glad to know that other people aren't trying to play with their, and others, lives either! 🖖🏾✨
Its so frustrating trying to exist currently with how people are acting, i struggle with long covid daily and most people in my life don't care at all, wearing a mask is seen as extreme, even my own Dr doesnt wear a mask and laughed at me telling me to take mine off when i went to see him about my ongoing long covid issues. His office didn't even have a window open, no air ventilation, no hepa filter, and he said "take your mask off" like 🙄 ofc i didn't, but it genuinely shows how little care there is here (Aotearoa)
Bryony! I love your videos and you! I am AFAB and Black, I had covid right before vaccines and it was the WORST illness of my entire life! Getting access to care was awful as well because I didn't get married until last year and my spouse had insurance but I could not get on it because we were not married yet. It is ABSOLUTELY not like the flu people are talking about. I was so sick and voiding from every orifice everyday, every hour, and ended up so weak that I had to be wheeled into a hospital ER. Luckily, I never lost my sense of taste or smell and never had to be intubated. I lost nearly 30 pounds in two weeks from Covid and it was awful. I do notice, I have had a chronic cough and consistantly choke on my own saliva since then. I also seem to have lost a teeny tiny bit of lung capacity and run out of breath a little quicker than I used to. I want so badly for people to mask up and isolate again. I'm in the USA. My state, Texas, is extremely opposed to masking and vaccines that people literally get harassed and assaulted for wearing one. I got two doses of the vaccine plus two boosters. I'm gonna keep it up. I recommend everyone get Moderna! Johnson and Johnson is well known for having toxic products and is constantly being sued for it. Pfizer has had super sketchy practices too. Take what you can get in your area! but Moderna has been best for me.
thank you so much for talking about this. i feel like i'm going crazy. i need to find a way to communicate "we can make things better with minimum effort (masking)" in a way that gets through people's heads
on your points about misanthropy: almost every post i've seen either from friends or mask bloc accounts about covid safer precautions includes something about how "even if you stopped masking, it's never too late to start protecting your health and the health of those around you again". people who are doing the work of creating covid safer environments don't have the luxury of pushing away those who aren't already masking etc, this includes all of us
Finally this is talked about in more mainstream circles! Thank you. I have not stopped wearing masks and avoiding crowds. The findings on long covid are so frightening but I can’t believe people are so reluctant to protect themselves and others. I haven’t caught the disease yet and it amazes me how people accept memory loss and worsening health as if it’s “natural”. It isn’t. The people around me have aged 20 years in 5 after one infection per year.
Before I got Covid in 2022 I had what could be considered to be “Hyperphantasia” which means normally my mental imagery is extremely vivid and immersive. To the point I also have “Prophantasia” where I can project whatever I wanted into my actual field of vision. But the damage from Covid made it so that my mental imagery is bordering on Aphantasia. Very diminished. Like it’s there, but it’s “translucent” and my brain sadly wants to focus more on what’s in front of me. I hope I can regain my mental imagery in time. But some of us with Long Covid/Post Covid Syndrome sometimes selfishly wish that the majority who like to pretend that post infectious illnesses don’t exist, also succumb to it and join our ranks so they can see that it is in fact VERY REAL. Even debilitating illnesses such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (which viruses like Covid can cause) or horrific iatrogenic conditions like Empty Nose Syndrome (which is written off as “rare” despite the delayed reaction from weeks to years nerve damage and mucosal damage can take to manifest) are ignored and forgotten about. In the UK, healthcare is mostly free. But it’s a cardboard cutout and in order to get some semblance of quality treatment you have to pay.
That’s so wild, I caught covid for the first time this year and I noticed a significant shift in my mental imagery ability. I couldn’t project but I was a “imagines vividly whole movies” kind of person. “Translucent” is a really good way to put what it is now. I also NEED a nap like clockwork every day at 3pm also despite 9-10 hours of sleep a night, no change in lifestyle, no coffee, no booze, no drugs. Thanks for saying something about it - as an artist, it’s a really violating ability to lose and it’s really scary, especially when it was coupled with my loss of smell. I genuinely hope you recover over time. :/
I have hyperphantasia. It's really handy for the kind of work I do - fabrication/problem solving. I'm not sure how many time I'v caught COVID. I was a train cleaner during the lockdowns and myself and my crew all got hit with a terrible flew the Christmas before the lockdown announced. We all had COVID since then (multiple times) due to the exposure. Looking back we think that flew was covid also. I was dealing with fatigue as I was affected with pulmonary sarcoidosis during the pandemic and couldn't get medical treatment until it was over and when it cleared up I was hit with cancer. I don't say this as a "my life is worse than yours so keep trucking" but rather for context. My father was a tree surgeon in Cornwall and caught long COVID after boris started to let people go on holidays before the pandemic was over. It killed me to see him walk with a kane. He was in the navy for 40 years and was as fit as an ox before COVID. The cancer is gone and so is the fatigue and sarcoid but my life is missing it's spark. It's hard to be positive, optimistic or just plain outgoing. Everything in the uk is being pushed behind an ever growing paywall. I don't think it's necessarily the disease that has affected our imagination but I think we're traumatized by the lockdown and our individual experiences that happened during. It's why we feel so lost and uninspired. We're stuck in survival mode waiting for the next foot to drop and this is further exacerbated by the way the uk is being ran into the ground for profit. Everyone I knew came out of lockdown and became obsessed with work. I don't hear from any of my former friends. This is the theory I'v cooked up from my experience and would be interested to see if you concur.
@@jjskn93 What happens with Viruses like Covid is that they travel through nerves. This can dysregulate the Central Nervous System and cause dysfunction in the brain as a result. Also these Viruses can cause microscopic clots to form. In the brain, these microscopic clots can cause cognitive disturbances (Psychosis, Aphantasia, etc)
@@jjskn93 Dude, Covid gives you micro bloodclots and has given rise to disturbingly many young stroke patients (below 50 years). Random brain injuries (like from micro clots) absolutely will alter your brain function.
I’ve never stopped masking. I’m fully confident that my immune system is strong enough to deal with COVID if I ever get it (I’m one of the only people I’ve met who’s never had it, because I’ve been very careful) but there’s a lot of people who don’t have bodies as resilient as mine. I have a 91 year old grandmother and two friends who suffer from chronic pain, and quite simply I want them and everyone like them to be safe. That’s it. It’s not complicated.
It’s so easy to feel like I’m the “crazy” one for still caring among my friends. At least they’re pro-vaxx. But none of them wear a mask etc. I’ve been focusing on imperfect protection for myself: rapid testing 1x a week no matter what (I get 8 tests / month covered by Medicaid), masking indoors and in crowded spaces outside, masking at childcare gigs, air filter on when I have guests over, prioritizing being with friends that are more Covid conscious Thank you for this video ❤️
I admit that my resolve toward masking and keeping distance faltered for a long time. You can only have people completely disregard safety around you for so long until you feel like you're being paranoid. We didn't get infected for the first 2 years of the pandemic, it's only after restrictions loosened significantly that I got sick twice. I was never physically fit due to my mental health but after my second infection I now start panting after walking up the stairs. How is masking not a thing we do _aside from_ covid, anyway? Shouldn't it be, like, a common behavior that you put on a mask when you feel sick? But no, it's weird and paranoid. They rescended mandatory masking requirements in pharmacies in my country at the start of the year. _Pharmacies,_ the places you go to get _covid tests._
oh, and you can't get drugs delivered here, even with an electronic ID, so immunocompromised people _have_ to go to the pharmacy for their medication if they don't have helpful friends/family
It's hard to be the odd one out. It may be naive or self-aggrandizing, but I like to think that my wearing one may give others the confidence to start masking again.
What really stinks is we use to get paid to take off for covid. Now you're pressured to come back or no pay. It's hard because you have to be able to survive financially but of course your boss in most cases doesn't care. :(
EXACTLY ! Like i'm curently sick right now and like i do struggle with this right now. Plus i don't know if i have covid right now because i don't even have tests at home right now ! It now cost 40 $ to have home tests when it was FREE before mind you !!!! I don't have the money for that ! Plus i don't have time to go to the doctor . Also i hate how they shove the Qtip right deep in your nose ( I don't know if they still use that method which they shouln't because you don't need to go that far up to be able to make your test positive from my personal expierience. If they even try to go that far up i'm legit going to have a panick attack !) FOURTY FUCKIN DOLLARS !!!!🤬 Also don't getting get me started on the social aspect of getting a sick leave for work ! Most people would think that you are lazy or not strong enough for doing that !
Long covid ruined my life and foreseeable future until medical science can find some kind of treatment. I cant work or care for myself anymore. Im not even 30. This shit sucks
@@leonardofabbri7930 oh damn im a bot? Didnt know abt that ! Thanks for informing me… i gotta go to have an existential crisis now i definitely thought i was a human.
@@socialjusticeworm3820yeah doesn’t even make sense for bots to post things like what you did. Sorry you’re going through that. Our institutions failed us. Bots are all over minimizing covid so we will go out and spend money, that’s all the oligarchs funding the bots care about.
I hope this doesn't sound like toxic positivity but new science discoveries are rapid these days, better days are coming. I'm sorry about your health tho stay safe❤️
Thank you so much for speaking on the subject. i have so many people in my life approaching this subject with blind ignorance. YOLO is not medical advice
It's really depressing that trying to protect people's health is too divisive to get our government to act but they can push legislation through ban tiktok for being critical of them
That has an economic incentive though. The Tik Tok ban can only be circumvented by selling it to an American billionaire. This is another case of an issue not concerning or benefitting the rich not getting attention.
TikTok is surely more harmful to public health than Covid at this stage. Though of course thats not why they want to ban it. The most harmful things when it comes to health is stress and loneliness. Working to create a more social and stress-free society is much more important than preventing the spread of viruses, except for in special situations.
I felt more free during the lockdown and with mask mandates in place than now. When almost everyone wore masks and numbers were lower I could just go out, which is now waaay more risky sadly. On the other hand I feel like having a lucky superpower not having been sick in over 4 years.
i went to a concert last night, & not including my sister & i, there was maybe 3 other people wearing masks. it was the shrine auditorium in los angeles, which is a large indoor location. one of the people i saw masking also had mobility aids & was talking with two friends who... didn't wear masks. people really don't give a fuck about disabled people, not even ones they would call friends.
I was a cashier through most of the pandemic. I knew the government wasn’t taking it seriously when they didn’t even suspend the state lottery. Our store was packed with mostly older people who would come in to buy one beer or a single bag of chips. It seemed like they were just coming in because the CDC asked them not to.
There are so many complexities to what this is doing to us, not only physically, but mentally. The division, the isolation, the massive traumas, and the toll they're taking on our lives that I don't see talked about or tracked nearly enough. And don't get me started on the state of the US mental healthcare system! But I know a guy who isn't anti-vax, but won't get vax'd himself, has had Covid several times, goes back to work when he feels better, doesn't bother testing, works at a mall, of all places, doesn't mask, and complains that people don't care about his feelings when people are mean to him about not getting vax'd. It'll probably be several years before I'm in a place where I can have another conversation with him because I mentally just cannot right now. More isolation. Yay!
Watching this video again, and I just wanna say: huge props to the person who voiced the comments underneath that tiktok video You know you're doing your job right when I literally cannot watch that part of the video without wanting to implode/needing to pause the video for a few seconds/skipping that part of the video entirely 😭
one of the video’s strengths for me is how you talk about the gov’s/CDC’s/health institutions’ capitalist motivations for not enforcing better precautions and their poor public health messaging. i’ve noticed that part of why many so easily believe the lies is bc they can’t think of what anyone would gain from lying in the first place -- i think there’s this sense that we’re all affected by covid the same way, including the elites, so “why would politicians risk their *own* health by weakening precautions?” the idea that they would lie to us about while knowing full well they have the means to protect themselves against better than us would not be something most people would consider (nor that this could be a deliberate effort to get rid of the homeless, black and indigenous people). so i can see this being really helpful in bridging that gap in understanding! and thank you guys for this video. man it’s been so bleak since fully coming to the realization that things are as bad as they are, and the only thing keeping me and sanity going is that there are people online who still talk about covid seriously (mainly disabled/immunocompromised folks on twitter like imani). thank you for being part of that.
So much more has come out too! The quarantine period reduced due to an airline exec asking for it. The company who makes paxlovid wanting to make more money. Pharmaceutical companies complaining that cold medication sales went down during masking. There is so much that shows this is about making sure companies are not liable for spreading contagions.
Ive never gave up masking. We went 2 years without covid and my dad refused to mask up as soon as covid restrictions dropped it and he caught it and gave it to our whole family. And i have asthma and living with long covid. And i hate him for that he always and to this day acts like its just another cold and shows no remorse to giving it to us and me who has long covid
I'm so sorry that you and your family had to go through that. As someone who has gone through a similar situation with my family, I absolutely feel you; it's such a fucking frustrating and heartbreaking experience, especially if this sort of apathy is coming from a family member/loved one... You are not alone 🫂
@@gracefulcubix4730Yes, it is possible to get SARS-2 (Covid) many times. You can get the same variant or new variants. There are currently more than a dozen variants circulating, although one is dominant, and you can get two different variants within weeks of each other. Each infection causes cumulative damage. Maybe the first one is ok, you recover 99%. But the next one might knock you down to 95%. Some people get knocked down to being bedridden and never recover. Impossible to predict. The best thing you can do is follow the advice in the video… reduce exposures from indoors and shared air, wear a well-sealing N95, and keep up to date on covid vaccines.
I’ve had many conversations about still wearing a mask on public transport, doctors offices and crowded spaces, none of them bad, mostly just curious. But I’ve also seen people see me wearing a mask and seeming relieved to sit next to me or put on their own, now not being the only one. I still get tested when I feel sick or before going to large gatherings. Thankfully, my friend group is also very COVID conscious (often due to being disabled/immune compromised themselves), so it makes me feel less alone and also taken care of. I’m also currently fighting an administrative penalty given for being masked at a protest (based on Austrian versammlungsgesetz, which provides exceptions for medical reasons, the first being infection risk). I’m glad I have the resources, time and counsel to not worry about it, but I’ve had friends cite the random application of that law as reasons why they don’t go to protests, which is a shame though understandable. Idk where I’m going with this, but thank you for the video. It made me feel seen.
Thank you so much for posting this! The only other people I've seen acknowledge covid are mostly small creators or people in my own life, only like a handful of big creators have said anything about it. I miss being able to safely go out and make friends!
THANK YOU for talking about this, I've been working on a big covid essay because it has been so frustrating to me how many people are just pretending this isn't the case and how much that's hurting us as a whole
I appreciate this video so much. My parents retired a few years early(RN & airport security) because of how bad the surges were. We all have some issues with respiratory issues. Of course now we’re like guess we’ll stay inside , mask forever, and just be forgotten I guess. It’s scary but we just can’t give up and actively kill each other. I will also say people who want you to just get over it, how is that even a life? The newer drugs are the lemonade I’m holding to tight. I hope everyone has something they can hold onto as well ❤❤.
Thank you form making this, my partner has long Covid after getting Covid 1 time last year and they were perfectly healthy before. This will happen to more of us if we don’t take care of each other.
Fun fact: "Let them eat cake." in it's historical context means basically "Let them eat the lining of their ovens." It's nowhere near the sweet treat that cake has evolved to mean in modern times.
It doesn't help when so many people buy into it being over before government do. 1) While I think this is due to the considerably low mortality rate (by pandemic standards) of 10%. What we picture as pandemics is that it has a high mortality rate of at least 30%. 2) Unfortunately even when it's a pandemic. People think only for themselves, they want to go out. Although this is a public good, they have selfish interest they don't care if other people get infected, the important thing is that they don't get infected, their love ones don't get infected. People who respond with me me me to people complaining about standard safety procedures like DOCTORS OF ALL PEOPLE should be wearing masks on IMMUNAL COMPROMISED PATIENTS, are hypocrites. They think about me me me way before. 3) Some people got infected will just shrug it off, and think to themselves it's probably just the common cold. 4) Some even think this is fake. And when Trump says it's not to much to worry about, this solidifies their information by the person they want to be listening. This pandemic could be over by 2021 if all countries shut down for a bit. Take some economic damages for a bit. While richer countries provide poorer countries the means to enforced this. But this is too ideal. But even if all the corruption, This can considerably would have saved more lives. I think the US has caused the catalyst of countries relaxing their restrictions.
Elliot, thank you SO MUCH for making this video. It feels like practically no one on the left is talking about this! I feel like I'm constantly shouting into the void about this. THANK YOU, THANK YOU for putting this video out. (Also I love the Death Panel, they're so great, everyone please listen, they have taught me so much)
I’ve always had a great immune system but I have had COVID twice now and it was extremely brutal for me both times. I just count my blessings that I was vaccinated before I caught it because I cannot imagine what would’ve happened to me if I hadn’t been. I still mask and I rarely get sick. I would say maybe 5% of my university masks consistently (and I can’t expect them to) but I wish that people would mask when they are visibly sick. Even before COVID I think we should’ve been masking to prevent our communities and immunocompromised people from being i
This is the most important thing we could be talking about, and I really appreciate all the resources! I’ve been more afraid to go out and do anything because I can’t trust that anyone is being even as safe as they were in 2020 or 2021. I’ve been terrified because it was impossible (for me) to even find data on what’s going on. Thank you so incredibly much.
Thank you for talking about this. I've taken some risks on things that were important to me (to be in my best friend's wedding) but i never stopped masking at work. It feels like i never will but maybe air filtration will become standard like clean tap water. I take care of my dad and made sure he had paxlovid immediately the one time he's had covid. He had had a booster recently too and he came through okay. It's hard. It's really hard. I'm trying to build community with an outdoor softball league and it's great but then they want to go to bars afterwards and god this shouldn't be on us as individuals! we shouldn't have to choose between socializing and a debilitating virus!
thank you so much for making this. I've been isolated for 4 years abandoned by my friends and family and I can't even have my dream job. It's so infuriating how people do not gaf and won't until it affects them. and by that point it'd be too late
@@leonardofabbri7930that's rich coming from people that stop masking just because the government said it's over. just because they stop showing the amount of people dying
Good day, Elliot! Excellent & informative video on COVID! I wear masks in crowded environments but am often too lax otherwise. I focus more on avoiding crowds above all else, but I'll keep this video in mind as I navigate my outings. Also, just a friendly heads-up that when I checked out your bibliography, I saw that I have editing access to the document. You'll definitely want to change this to view-only ASAP. Take care, stay safe and keep spreading awareness!
thank you thank you thank you for making this video, nobody wants to talk about it but it's all around us. I got long covid this past year and it fucked my entire life up. it's really affirming to see someone with a larger following discussing this because the intentional disposal of disabled people and the complete lack of awareness by abled society is so profoundly alienating.
Thank you for this video, Elliot! While not in the US, I've been masking the entire time and have no plans of stopping (even though a lot of people where I live seem to be now); I developed a lot of anxiety of me and my family getting sick because of the pandemic and especially now that I've been having other unrelated health issues come up for myself. Also thank you for teaching me about Masc Blocs! I'm going to look into them to try and find respirator masks for me and my family! ❤
I understand reading the comments in an exaggerated voice for comedic purposes, however it made it impossible for me to understand without looking at the screen. I would consider turning it down a bit for people who cannot read what is shown on the screen.
thank youuuu for this video holy shit. i still mask and take precautions for myself, my dad, and my friends - i get so many shitty looks and questions. i go to the DOCTOR'S OFFICE and people are maskless. it's insane lmao
Also, as someone with many family members from elementary to college, a pandemic shouldn’t mean COVID precautions should be denied. Boomers and billionaires have already gutted out third places, and coerced milennials into parroting “touch grass” to today’s youth. What common nondigital activities do you think a pandemic is less important than?
For real. Though Ill just add, I’ve heard many people use “touch grass” towards bigots who refuse to listen or go outside their hatred bubble mor than I’ve seen what you mentioned-prob because of where I spend my time on the internet-so it has some other usage as well, and thought you might find that interesting. /Gen 😊
Depending on the environment, going on walks and such is much less risk than being indoors. I'd say touching grass is plausible in a lot of cases. It's safer than going into a shop, to other houses, etc.
As an immunocompromised person with long covid who has never stopped masking, I thank you for making this video. That being said, I think it’s better if I sit this one out. 😅
Covid will never be over. That doesn't mean that we should keep being afraid of it forever. People will get it. Most will experience a normal cold. Some with weak health may suffer worse. Just as if they contracted a number of other infections. It sucks but its nothing exceptional. There have always been viruses in the world. Not theres some more. Stressing and worrying about it very much is unhealthy and is in fact more likely kill you than the virus. Stress weakens your immune system and your internal organs. Spreading stress and worries are not really any better than spreading viruses. You stay at home when you have an infection and you stay offline when you have an urge to share your fears and worries.
"But if I act like covid-19 is over, odds are it can't get me. Amirite? *sarcasm" Why would you change your behaviour? Did something change? Nothing has changed.. the pLandemic and provaxers did not change anything, actually. Human rights are the same. We have the same rights.. and n a z i provaxers abuse our rights the same way they always been.. So you dont need to act differently.. Respect and protect human rights. Say no to n a z i s m. Stand against human experiments and violence. Stay healthy and good.
I've always used a kn95 mask in public transport anyways. I'm on the spectrum (specifically, I am hypersensitive to stimuli), but it also helps with COVID 19 spreading less.
The college I want to transfer to mandates up to date Covid vaccines, (as in the most recent ones coming out), still does testing and masking as needed, and still has resources for tracking. I really hope I am able to go and finally do college as a disabled student while feeling safe. The current college I go to, a community college, is not as up to date, they mandated vaccines before, in like 2022 and 2023, but I’m not sure what guidelines they use now. So far I’ve been safe, and masking as I need to, and seen a few others with masks at times.
I’m a long covid person where the worst of it lasted 2 years of me for I’m still dealing with some minor stuff. The amount of politicization and just outright denial of covid even existing is really bothersome. This attitude toward disease is going to have horrible consequences for world health even for diseases we already know exist and the consequences of like the flu or measles
"he amount of politicization and just outright denial of covid even existing is really bothersome. " Is it? Hundreds of millions of innocent, unvaccinated people were discriminated, humiliated, threatened and abused worldwide by provaxers. Is that not the thing that should be bothersome?
I wore a mask when I was ill with a high fever and sore throat during exams , it really helped my sore throat bc it was winter and the cold air made everything feel worse , the mask also kept my nose warm when I was outside , and also I just didn’t want to spread anything
Go to ground.news/elliot to easily dive deep on any topic from every perspective. Use my link to get 40% off the unlimited access Ground News Vantage plan.
thank u elliot for ur perspective and insight
Thank you so much for this!! 🖖🏾✨
@elliotsayshello it is a molecular healing/adaptation process, because of an atmospheric shift that's been happening, CORONA 🌞 it can be shown in the "space weather"
My wife has had 8 brain surgeries, we have been on a "soft" lockdown down for 4 years. I was fired from my job, I've lost friends and family. My wife is still safe, and she's never had Covid, this has irrevocably changed my life.
I know sympathies in sweet words online may not solve everything but I sincerely hope in the bottom of my heart that things get better for you and your wife. Have you tried a GoFundMe? Have you been able to find more work?
I hope it gets better and you probably made the right choice
Hope you and your wife stay safe ❤
Doesn't it show you how fragile the idea of society and family are? I had something similar to this isolation when I went houseless and all those supports and all that care they said they would arrange disappear. You are locked in the world of those who you care for and those who care about you in real time. I'm grateful to hear you and your wife are well, you are not alone out here 🖤
you've made the right decisions and you're doing well. i also lost my job and have lost friends and family - but i got a new job (100% WFH), new friends, and screw my family i didn't like them anyway. but i'm one of the lucky ones who was able to adapt, i feel for those not in a position to adapt so well. being able to be in soft lockdown feels like a privilege to me. sometimes it gets me down as this is not the life i imagined for us, but i have come to accept it and just be thankful i had the freedom to take this option as the other option is way worse.
I know it is so hard, but I hope you can continue to pour love into each other, stay safe and hold on until science (and hopefully people) catch up.
I am wishing your financial situation has or is improving and you find a new network of compassionate people who do not gaslight or discard you.
💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
"Do people with peanut allergies make people around them not eat peanuts?" ....Yes? Some of them do if the allergies are severe enough? Because it can literally kill them?
Schools often have a no peanuts in school lunchbags from home policy because of how common that allergy is.
When i saw that i was like..clearly youve never been on a plane when someone has a peanut allergy lmao. They not only tell you, but forbid snacks with peanuts and will not serve them.
Imagine. Imagine how easy it is to actually care.
Like they’ve never been in a no peanuts classroom in school because a classmate has a severe allergy? Never experienced someone asking out loud if anyone has an allergy to something common before opening and eating a snack? Never had a friend who couldn’t have peanuts in his house because someone in his house has a severe allergy? Like I wouldn’t be surprised if most people haven’t experienced most of this but not at least one situation like these?????
Strange how peanut allergies are so common nowadaya where it was basically unheard of 40+ years ago...
@@PocketsandOutlaw 40+ years ago (and even more the further back you go) child mortality was way higher. A lot of those cases, especially even further back, were "sickly" children who died young without clear cause. Allergies are very likely a fair part of those numbers. Both ways of finding out what caused it and effective treatment for severe reactions was much more limited.
It was a “funny coincidence” that most anti-covid measures ended when inflation threatened economies lol
☝🏾✨ EXACTLY this. Exactly.
Not to mention how many land lords and real estate outfits started sweating bullets: realizing that, if so many people were working from home, that that meant that almost no business would need to rent any of those big buildings or offices to operate in.
@@TreeHairedGingerAleFor real. I’d love it if that office space was utilized for housing, college campuses, or virtual farming tbh. Would be a much better use if the space. Sure some offices are important and necessary, especially for some disabled workers who need in person, but we don’t NEED as many as we have now.
You mean, when it threatened to chip away at the resources of the rich.
And People's Livelihoods. And the Mass Protest over those Measures.
@@neox6439 it all started in 2018 and they kept the noise up until traction built up.
This video and reading everyone's comments almost made me cry. I am disabled and have been immunocompromised my whole life, the pain and isolation I have felt being thrown to the wolves by pretty much everyone I know is almost as traumatizing as my fear of the disease itself. We are all in this together and y'all make me feel a little more optimistic about humanity. Thank you
My dad has a severe disability (Strumpell Lorrain, diagnosed in 2003), he took four jabs (after the fourth his disease even got worse, high likely the fact he already had three and infection, somehow created a damaging over-response) and he stopped wearing masks since a while.
He never got sick again and he's in contact with many people who all stopped testing and masking.
It's over bro, deal with it, even all the doctors I've met in last two years (cause I had to follow some stuff for my dad and also my mum) repeat the same thing.
Anything else is just a moralistic exercise, pretending is helpful to something.
@@leonardofabbri7930 I ain’t reading all that
I’m happy for u tho
or sorry that happened
@@cryptkeeper69 I know, you are a bot
Thank you for sharing this. Slowly but surely, more people are putting the pieces together. Still a major wall of denial too, but I feel the dam will break at some point.
Someone put it bluntly to me once, "Seniors don't pay taxes. Sick people cost everyone money. What's the point in investing in them?".
As i enter into the Healthcare profession as someone who grew up with a chronic illness, I've been so heartbroken by the realities (and I'm in Canada). I'm afraid for my future. Ableism is ingrained into so many different cultures around the globe. Health should not be a political issue, and yet it's politicians who decide the outcomes of public healthcare systems.
MORE PEOPLE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS! I can't even get my professors or collogues to discuss these issues. It's very "hush-hush". It's shameful, and the rationale is "you can't break the publics trust" ....
As a fellow disabled and chronically ill person, I agree. We honestly need to end capitalism if we have any chance at ending or diminishing ableism.
It’s wild like they think they should die when they get old or they will never get old?
People actively subscribe to being good little wagie slavies and as soon as you aren’t making money for the rich you are useless; as thats all we are, livestock.
"Seniors don't pay taxes. Sick people cost everyone money. What's the point in investing in them?"
We should be calling rhetoric like that out for what it is. That is some straight up Nazi and Gilead-level type shit.
And then our meds or aids pay the price :/
The "you do you" people are the first one to get upset at you for wearing a mask or refusing to hang out in indoor settings.
It's absolutely mental
...when, realistically, it's the immuno-compromised people who should logically be throwing tantrums when others refuse to mask n' vax, because they actually have something to lose!
Fundamental attribute error, people thinking other people wearing a mask is virtue signaling but in reality theyre just concerned for their own well being and also others', long covid is no joke
@@nytro2765 , yeah, IDGAF about virtue-signalling, and am honestly nervous about covidiots singling me out and attacking me! Covidiots know they're in the wrong at some level, IMHO, so they have to make those of us who just don't want to get sick the villains.
@@dinosaysrawr I always wore a mask prior to actually getting covid, dont be afraid of wearing one either. Of the 2 and a half years of wearing one nobody ever said anything or confronted me, and should they ever hypothetically confront me for being concerned about my health, ill make sure they regret letting out even a peep about it. My health will never bend to anyones petty politics
My aunt's moved to assisted living, due to dementia. She contracted Covid, after having made it all the way to now without getting ill, and is now relearning how to walk. The levels of worry are indescribable.
Are there any links that make it affect the nervous system? Other than possibly organ, it seems to damage other bodily systems for high-risk patients. I'm just worried I've been asymptomatic..
It's all about following the money. I work in healthcare, the system wants us sick and to profit off it.
Whoever released Covid wants a lot of people to die off in general, it's obvious
Yes, you are right. It was about the system making you sick even without symptoms and then transforming you in an ethernal slave and client.
You had to refuse the whole scheme from the start, sorry.
How did you find that out?? Genuinely curious, since I've never heard this from someone inside the industry
@@SipMyCharlatte Working with major health insurance companies including Medicaid has shown me it's all about billing as much, and as often as possible. There is not a lot of preventative care in America. We are all about medicating people and less about providing resources and education. Some private hospitals won't provide you any care unless you have a credit card or payment option available when you check in. For a real fun time, Google how much doctors make in other countries. Its a huge pay difference.
@@SipMyCharlatte Healthcare in the US is privatized, so the ultimate goal will always be to generate profits under capitalism, not exactly to completely get rid of an illness. But there's also a balance by other capitalist structures, since workers can't be too sick otherwise we can't work productively enough. So it's incentivized that at least some amount of people are sick, but not too many. If healthcare is socialized, then it would be incentivized to actually help everyone efficiently without as much concern for profits, since it wouldn't be a money maker but a true positive asset for society.
Not sure if people outside of the UK heard about this but recently the PM Rishi Sunak announced a new law which gives police the power to arrest people wearing face coverings at protests and demonstrations. The justification they gave for this was that people wearing masks at protests are likely doing so to "conceal their identity in order to threaten others". They said that passing this law was a way to "protect public safety"... my country is falling apart in front of my eyes, the government is slipping further and further to the far right of the political spectrum, and now they are warping narratives around masking to try to prevent the most at risk in society from making their voices heard.
Wouldn't t that also affect people from religions that do face coverings? Might be an angle to fight against the law
"Not sure if people outside of the UK heard about this but recently the PM Rishi Sunak announced a new law which gives police the power to arrest people wearing face coverings at protests and demonstrations"
It is hilarious, really :D
Provaxers used corrupted politicians to make masks mandatory.
People were happy about that..
So are you know about to experience how is it when police forces harass you ? :D
mandating masks, vaccines is clearly pathetic (also a crime, since vaccines are invasive, dangerous treatments).
Wearing face masks on the other hand is... Personally i dont have a problem with that, but potential criminals hiding their identities, their face playing their western cowboy games is extremely odd...
not a problem for me, but seriously..
Yeah the UK's been derailing since Brexit. I honestly don't know anymore, it's getting ridiculous.
THANK YOU FOR THIS! I’ve been suffering from long COVID debilitating cough and a large reason why is because people where I live refuse to continue masking. I never stopped because I care not just about my health but the health of others!
I'm so sorry comrade. I have Long Covid myself, the fatigue is killin' me. Finally got some stuff that might help but good gods 🌸
@@Thaelyn1312 I feel you. I was disabled before I got Covid, in Jan 2024, and I don’t think I have long Covid, hard to tell yet, but have had fatigue, brain fog, and other issues before and much worse after, so I FEEL you on that. Fatigue is the worst.
Edit: Typo.
How many vaccines have you taken?
If it's 5 FKN STOP
@@neox6439 I'm due for my fifth one. Right after I got the novavax, I felt **so much** better. Vaccines are definitely helping me.
tw // personal horror story regarding cv19
I hate the peanut comment the most. I hate it so much. I'm genuinely angry someone would use that as a "counter argument" like YES PEOPLE WITH PEANUT ALLERGIES DO REQUEST PEANUTS TO BE AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I got diagnosed with covid in november after a rapid test in the ER, which I went to because of severe full body pain that made me think for real that I was actually definitely dying (I have chronic pain in my limbs and back, and chronic headaches, if that helps with perspective). I quarantined for 7 days, as did my mom. Because of the timing, we missed a trip to visit my actually dying grandmother. She died the day we were supposed to be returning home (trip was postponed two weeks so we could recover first) and my ability to smell things still has not fully returned.
*Days with missing 20% of my total possible sensory input due to a deadly disease I shouldn't have gotten in the first place: 139.*
wow that’s awful, i’m so sorry for your losses
Crazy, If you took iv3rtm3ct1n you be fine over night.
I’ve been masking for four years now and people make me feel like I’m crazy or being mean for doing it 😭 I’ve lost my entire social life because people in my life chose to not be Covid safe instead of being around me so I’ve been extremely lonely the past several years. I have long Covid and it’s really messed me up, it’s better than some cases ofc but it’s been really unpleasant at best, and at worst really set back my mental and physical health. All the time I go in a loop with myself trying to convince myself I’m the problem because I’m the minority because everyone else around me has decided Covid is over I must be crazy or something to be the only person around who seems to take precautions and it’s so stressful and exhausting
I’m so sorry you have to go through this
you’re not alone i have struggled with the same feelings! not only do we feel alone, but we’re made to feel alone when ppl isolate and leave us out of public spaces. public space should be a human right.
From my perspective people don't judge you because you want to protect yourself. That would be totally fine. The problem is, if you want others to behave the same way you do. Which has happened during the last 4 years. And this makes people tired.
I personally don't go out anymore not because I fear to be infected by a virus, but simply because I lost my job and the job following that one because of the covid measures. Now, I am dependent on the income of my parents, which is honestly a bad feeling. So, when people are stressed out when they see a mask, it is not because they don't understand you or accept that you want to protect yourself. It is more about the stress that is caused by the overall measures that come with masks.
I saw people yelling at younger people like me for not wearing a mask, even though most of them were following the rules for 80-90% of the time. Things like that just stay in your mind. And for me, I personally don't want to wear a mask for the next 40-50 years.
Be sure to wear two or three masks and get every booster possible. 🤪🤡🌎
Please stop and work to make your life worth living again. Life is worthless if you dont have any friends and spend a lot of time stressing and worrying about things you cannot control. Maybe its time to admit that your reaction was not actually the best one? I get that the virus is still out there and it sucks, but nothing is worth losing friends and joy over.
It is deeply infuriating how easily immunocompromised people were written off as "not worth the effort" for even stuff as basic as wearing a bloody mask. Also absolutely wild how many people wear masks with their nose out. Thank you for talking about this, as a Canadian, we tend to get stuck with a lot of governmental policy basically being "well, they did it in the states".
cry more and get more furious, we don't care
@@leonardofabbri7930 That's why you don't care enough to spam your disinformation on a video that you could easily ignore.
damn i got propaganda'd ig
i'm glad i know this now
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle(cue the red and blue lasers).
this^
and now that we know, let us all try to do better together
It's okay. Acknowledging it is a big deal, so thanks for that. We can all do better together as this gets through to people.
It’s never too late 💖
Don't worry, learning news is always good. It IS propaganda's greatest weakness!!
We live in such a sheltered and privileged country, that for (most) conservatives and Boomers, being asked to wear a mask while in confined public spaces during a global pandemic, was the most traumatic experience they’ve ever had to endure, and have never “suffered” as much as during those few months. Not people dying, not people losing their livelihood, not people becoming permanently disabled, not the revelation that our economic system is hanging on by a thread, not the massive wealth transfer of trillions of dollars to the top 0.01%. Nope. The mere request that they be considerate of other people for two minutes was the straw that broke the camel’s back and just a step too far.
" that for (most) conservatives and Boomers, being asked to wear a mask while in confined public spaces during a global pandemic, was the most traumatic experience they’ve ever had to endure, "
Did you wear face masks before? Like during flu seasons?
Why would you expect others to wear 'masks' which does not give relevant protection?
Why dont you use hazmat suits? O_o Which actually work.
Why dont you wear face masks and take vaccines, and leave others alone?
The 'traumatic' experience was the discrimination, the threats, the forced human experiments and the innocent people who suffered from the side effects of these vaccinations..
" Not people dying, not people losing their livelihood,"
People were dying and lost their livelihood because of these pro-mask pro-vax f a s c i s t s.
Man I actually hadn't thought about that, that is a really good point!
It's not about consideration, it's about science fact. We know from many research studies that mask use has no identifiable impact on the reduction or prevention of the spread of respiratory viruses. It's a complete false sense of security. If you want to wear one, be my guest, but do not require or demand of me that I mask up.
people are so dramatic dude. masking doesn't even feel like anything. now it's basically just like putting on a shirt. If you're somebody with respiratory issues maybe masking would be harder tho
@@cat-mf1sk
What about being a little bit dramatic about the discrimination of hundreds of millions of unvaccinated people?
What really bothers me is that people won’t even mask up anymore when they’re clearly sick. Just open mouth coughing all over the train or in the store like a toddler. I’m very sensitive to respiratory infections and I’ve just been really sick every few weeks now after being fine for years. It’s really discouraging.
People wont mask up if they work as someone that eateries homes like furniture delivery , plumbing.
Before covid if you had an immunocompromised person in the house you could ask people to wear masks when they enter. people refuse service now.
it should literally be common curtesy for people to wear masks when they're sick smh...
You'll be fine, stop living in your head.
Thank you for this comment! I got sick 4 times this winter, because my partner works at the university and there are ALWAYS sick students in the classroom. 😖😖😖
If you are concerned, wear a mask, but don't expect others to mask up. We know from many research studies that mask use has no identifiable impact on the reduction or prevention of the spread of respiratory viruses.
I lost my father to COVID19 during December of 2021. We saw him slowly deteriorate through the months before he ended up dying alone in the hospital with a tube down his throat just so he could breathe.
Having to come back to school with people asking how my winterbreak was and later that day have a kid exclaim how "nobody cares about COVID, it's over already."
It was hard not to break down and even now I still have classmates and teachers talk about how pointless all the mandates were.
I wish people listened more, maybe i would still have my dad.
thank u, nearly impossible to find anyone on youtube with any following saying a single thing about this
Fabsocialism made a video about covid if you haven’t seen it!
The ones telling you all to live in fear
@@neox6439 Say something beyond a thought-negating mantra. Think for yourself for a bloody second.
@@neox6439 u live in fear of reality tho ☹️
hi bae
Remember that one of the symptoms. Is that 53% who contract it. Show no symptoms 😅
What follows from this?
@@thorebergmann1986you’re still highly contagious even if you don’t have symptoms, and can easily spread it. You are also incurring organ damage that might not be readily noticeable, until you soon develop a chronic condition or your next infection, whether of covid or smth else. There are lots of papers that show this, feel free to do some research.
@@zkkitty2436And rhemost damage isit adding up and disabilitating effects that add up.
It got less deadly but still is worsening symptoms for god knows how long
Alfo the flu killed people, at least still bloody vaxxinate.
Its not over, ifitslike the flu,the flu is still killing people and covid hasstill the disabilitating symptoms worsen god knows how long potentially
And that it becomes like the flu kinda still means,like why do people think flu vaxxinations and so are still cared for, still deadly.
And covid has that disabilitating affects still
Itsnot over,like the flu means less deadly but still dangerous, and bloody vaxxinate. It helps
@@zkkitty2436 Oh, I did my research. And I know there are good arguments on both sides. What bothers me is the question a) where does the virus come from? and b) what on earth is a virus? (and I don't accept the usual picture of a tiny little thing that just replicates itself and wants to kill us.. I think there is more to that)
ah yes, and c) how do you want to put an end to it? because we cannot live in a society where everyone is a potential danger to his fellow human beings simply by existing. Do you want everyone to isolate and live in fear until the rest of his life?
As an Indigenous person in canada who lives with a disabled immunocompromised family, it's tough. There have been so many deaths and people on reserves contracting covid without knowing because of the lack of covid education since the pandemic "ended". The government body bags thing was a real thing that happened to other reserves my family lives on. I have a family member who can't get any covid vaccine because they're allergic to one of the main ingredients and they're immunocompromised as well. Even though I am not immunocompromised and go to the city more often, I still wear a mask everywhere in public and do my best to keep myself, my family, and those around me safe. In these past years, I haven't had covid once and it shows that masks work.
i wore a mask at my serving job for about 2 weeks after our states mandate ended and i had to take it off because i was very clearly getting tipped less than my non-masked coworkers. My managers don’t take COVID seriously anymore and are becoming just as harsh as before the lockdown with doctors notes and if you’ve ever been a server with no healthcare you know, that’s just a sick joke. We still have the forehead thermometer but once corporate stopped requiring managers to log temperatures, they stopped using it and send people home if they’re sick based on suffering performance. The U.S. continues to be a hellscape for the working class and disabled people.
This is something I constantly remind friends about. Taking zero precautions during their day to day means they put folks like you, whose choice to stay safe has been stripped away from them, at risk of contracting COVID and becoming disabled or unable to work because they want to "feel normal".
I'm so sorry that you're in that position. It's not fair, and I wish people would see the harm of their actions.
"My managers don’t take COVID seriously anymore and are becoming just as harsh as before the lockdown with doctors "
Did you take flu and other airborne diseases seriously before you were told about covid?
Dont he a hypocrite. Masks do not actually work anyways. What you need is called a 'HAZMAT suit'.
Just stop following the agenda of n a z i provaxers who discriminated innocent people and experimented on us..
Yeah, mRNA technology is g3n3 Th3ra4py.
Get educated.
I’m too poor to eat out much, but when I do, if I ever see a server wearing a proper mask, I’ll tip 50-100%.
take your shots guys safe and effective am i right : )
So grateful to see someone draw attention to this but so angry that this has to be said
My whole life I’ve been asked to adjust for other people (particularly being denied rights because of the religious and wilfully ignorant) and then when a pandemic erupts that puts every single person in danger suddenly I’m out of line for asking for basic safety. The disabled and chronically ill are already severely disadvantaged, Covid proved society would rather we just didn’t exist because basic decency is just too inconvenient
As an immunocompromised person organizing a mask bloc - thank you so much I've been devastated that so few people are still taking this seriously
The most significant culture shock I had when moving to a different country was that most people still at least were surgical masks often but definitely when sick and that updated covid vaccinations are given in school. Doctors wear surgical masks. Air purifiers aren’t uncommon to see either in public spaces. The US made this so unnecessarily complicated. I got lax with masking at one point and caught COVID and I never want it again. I had long COVID which has mostly resolved but who knows what the effects will be in then ten to twenty years. The US is too complacent with death and disease in pursuit of profit.
Face masks are:
->useful in other ways than preventing disease (dust, gas, smoke, hiding your face)
->very normal in countries other than the US even before covid
->a smart piece of EDC wardrobe no matter what
Face masks were a relevation to me: I've always gotten sick way more frequently than others every year, been sick for longer than others with the same flu/cold. During 2020-2023 I wasn't sick a single time, for the first time ever. Despite annual flu vaccines being a habit of mine predating Covid-19. I already had a lot of habits to minimize getting sick, including thorough handwashing and sanitizing, so the only real change I made was surgical masks the first year and n95s after. Face masks are bloody magical! I only started getting sick again because of getting sloppy with them. They have given me such a huge quality of life upgrade.
Personally I prefer bandanas even though they're not as effective because medical face masks mess up my respiratory system for some reason, but yeah I agree, especially if you live in a city where many people drive old cars, masks/bandanas are essential
@@enravotaboyadjiev7466 if face masks mess up your respiration, you genuinely need to get investigated for your breathing issues: you can have a type of astma or COPD, or the like, all very serious health issues that will shorten your life significantly if not treated and managed. When you grow up having health issues all of your life, it's very difficult to know that you shouldn't be experiencing some of the things you take for granted.
I like stealing things
@Cato76 same here. Just don't steal from your neighbors. Billionaires and corpos are fair game.
I have cancer and on oral chemo. I will never not be immunocompromised. Quasi-lockdown is now my life. Want me dead? Fuck all y’all, I ain’t going nowhere.
sunshineluvs You’re a peach!
I'm sorry you have to go through this, I hope you can get miraculously cured.
Nobody should feel such pain, and your life shall be eased.
The tiktok you showed is particularly interesting to me. I live in a third world country, and even here doctors are still seen wearing masks. This keeps both, the staff and the patients safe. It's really strange to me how doctors are refusing to wear masks in the US.
propaganda is wild, There are an insane amount of anti vax nurses in the US now. How can you be a nurse and anti vax????
HAZMAT suites work.
Face masks dont stop the spread of airborne viral particles hence infections...
Basic knowledge.
That is a very inaccurate and false assumption. We know from many research studies that mask use has no identifiable impact on the reduction or prevention of the spread of respiratory viruses. This is why, prior to SARSCOV2, there was never a recommendation to utilize masks to reduce the annual spread of the influenza. It's a complete false sense of security.
ceciliacole5098
People.. always forget..
Just another thing making them so limited.
First of all, that comment reading section was pAiNfUl. Those voices 😫 Second and lastly, I rarely feel called out by your vids. I live in the middle of the desert, north of L.A. It is very easy to get complacent here because it's small. No one is coming to my little city unless they actually live here or work on the military base. I will do better 😊
I hope my Chorus of Horrible Gremlins wasn't *too* bad of an experience 😅
@Danae_O I will forever hear those voices when I read troll comments now 🤣🤣🤣
@@monimuppet6132 *good.*
@@Danae_OIt was an immature and sad strategy.
Thank you for planning to do better ❤
It drives me crazy that my second mom is so resistant to masking and testing. She actually gave my first mom COVID when she came to visit without testing when she was sick, and last time she was here she *coughed in my face.* On accident, sure, but she didn't even try to cover her cough. 😑
Hell i hoped what sticks wouldat least be basic awareness tosash hands right and,not cough directly at people. And awareness. 😑
Because is valid for alot of infectuions, basic stuff that just is good to be aware in general.
😑
She sounds like a really crappy person you need out of your life.
You are still alive, show the woman some respect.
@@neox6439 The woman tried to kill her. Fuck you.
Everyday I think about the Tik Tok CrutchesnSpice posted about how eugenics was gonna come back bc of the pandemic. It gets more correct by the day. Never have I felt more cynical about humanity
I feel more and more cynical every day because it is extremely obvious that most people are selfish pricks aaa
I've never stopped masking. When they lifted the mandates at my school in 2022, I watched people choose comfort over health, and it made me so fearful that it worsened my already burgeoning agoraphobia, and my one fight above all was to stay inside--away from illness.
Staying inside destroyed my grades. I could barely find classes online, and the ones that were proved to be too difficult for me. My entire major--except for a single professor who would later step down--was in person. It was heartbreaking to know that my own community would choose to let me fall by the wayside.
Last summer, against my best efforts, one of my family members spread COVID to me and I became debilitatingly ill for 5 days. It felt like someone had cut my torso clean in half with a sword. After I tested negative, I experienced a persistent dry cough for a month.
The worst thing about getting sick is knowing I was right. I watched my life fall apart. I was forced to pick it back up. And the whole time I was right!
Now I'm right when I'm the only person in the room with a respirator on. When I get made fun of. When people talk about how scared they are of precautions. Of me.
I don't want people to be afraid of this nebulous entity. I know that fear--I lived it for years. I want people to know that things are hard. I want them to put their trust in their communities and in themselves.
And above all--I want better indoor air quality! God, it sucks.
The exact same thing is happening to me. The literal exact same situation. I caught it last year but I’ve had a cough, and runny nose ever since and it’s quite unlike me usually. I’ve been masking since it began and a little before cause I heard about it a little before it happened and got nervous. People are not accommodating anyone as they should, if they ever were. They expect disabled people to fade away on purpose
Yep vaxx,do the vetybasic things in everyday life that helps alot with several spreads,
Anddammt its never wrong to have better indoor air quality
Also of people can het sick without loosing jobs and can care to not infect cowerkersmighr be good too.
Look into natokinaise
We need better out door air quality too! 9/10 ppl breath toxic air. Respirators are our friends for now i guess.
Really sorry people couldnt care less about our community. I hope someday that will change. You are not alone!
The day you realise it was all a scam... Everything they showed and told you.
Everything....
Thank you for covering this. I'm tired of being treated like a conspiracy theorist when I'm just talking science and statistics and encouraging people to use respirator masks. My family stopped using masks over a year ago and I've been isolated with no safe social bubble to be unmasked around. I told them all about the dangers and haven't even eaten indoors with them. Recently my father caught covid and died. No one can tell me my anger at public health is uncalled for. I'd much rather truly be a conspiracy theorist than right. Wear high quality fitted masks and resist. Resist because it matters. You can change the lives of so many by the simplest and easiest form of protest and communal care.
If it makes you feel better, conspiracy theorists don't usually concern themselves with the wellbeing of others and seem largely motivated by fears of the individual. Caring about COVID, masking, and staying up to date on studies tends to be the result of wanting to do right by others. Community care is key, and looking objectively at the mess we're in and believing that people have a right to safely participate in society feels so removed from conspiracy.
Update (8/10/24): My whole extended family (minus me) got covid last week. My sister was required to return to work as a health care worker one day after she treated positive. When I was picking up my mom's prescription for paxlovid I was surprised to find out that that same hospital just stopped its pharmacy curb-side service for people who have covid the day before. Now my only friend has it as well. He got covid from going to his doctor's appointment at his hospital. Hospitals are cesspools. Protect yourself and wear a well-fitting respirator mask, especially in hospitals. People should feel safe going to the doctor and getting needed care.
It's really validating to see anything on covid-awareness, and there's always so many people saying, "Thank you for saying this. No one will listen to me." There's so many of us but we are made to feel divided and small. The more we speak on it, the more we validate each other and find community.
THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT COVID. dear god, i do not see it nearly enough. i greatly appreciate your presence on this platform
Just seeing this title and thumbnail gives me so much hope and really cements you as one of my favorite video essayists if not UA-camrs, period. Thank you.
fr
I was a little kid during the 2003 SARS outbreak, and my nana made me wear one of those blue masks way back then. They wanted me to take it off cause it scared the other students and teachers, but I was an obstinate little shit so they ended up sending me home that day.
Thank you for making this. Ive been suffering from long covid for over two years now, culminating in a suspected stroke last fall. I'm 31.
I cant work, i can barely clean myself, and i cant even go outside because covid decimates your immune system long term and if i get it again, i may not survive. But even dangers aside, my body can barely handle walking anyway so its not like i have the ability to leave most of the time.
I hope people hear you and listen for once. My family and i are so desperate for anyone to just..protect themselves and their communities, for their own sake!!!
Holy crap. I am so sorry, and I’m so angry at the systemic and individual thoughtlessness that resulted in you getting long covid.
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS! I’m tired of being convinced that it was a thing of the past and that “no one is wearing masks now” like excuse me that’s not reassuring to people who are immunocompromised or have co-morbidities (depression is a co-morbidity btw).
Are you on anti depressants?
Because their side effects are SUICIDAL THOUGHTS.
I appreciate this so much. I definitely fall into the trap of "well I failed so I'll just give up". Not just with covid, but as a personal trauma response I am constantly working on. Thanks for the call out, the reminder that I'm not crazy for worrying or practicing precautions, and the hope in how many people are still fighting for this to be better managed. ❤❤❤
Thank you for using your platform to talk about this.
I was diagnosed with an immune disorder in 2020 and cancer in 2021. I've been masking since the beginning and never stopped. My partner has been as well. We both work from home, which has been a blessing. We've somehow managed not to get Covid yet, but gosh it's been lonely for both of us.
I'm constantly caught between feeling guilty for being "too strict" and "too lax". I want to be as responsible as possible, but I also feel guilty about holding my partner back. He mostly doesn't mind, but I know he gets restless. We go on more hikes now, which has helped some, but doesn't fix everything. We talk often about how much we both miss going to restaurants. We haven't been since Feb 2020 and I don't think I'll ever be able to eat at a restaurant again. It's a small sacrifice in the grand scheme of things, but it's also one of many small (and some larger) sacrifices we've both had to make for my safety (and his, of course; Covid can be devastating for healthy folks too).
Sometimes the despair is hard to reckon with. I don't know how to explain it to someone outside this experience. Life will never even vaguely resemble what it used to be for some of us.
stay safe blud you got this. I believe he understands your boundaries and also wants you to be safe too
Same with me. Stay strong both of you.
I've become very isolated due to the ongoing pandemic, mostly because friends and family interpret my caution as paranoia. They are willing to wear masks around me, but they've made it clear that they don't think there's anything to worry about and don't want to talk about COVID anymore.
COVID risks + financial issues + seeking stability as a young adult = Staying home as much as possible and rejecting a lot of invitations. People will always point out that my behavior is self-isolating, but from my perspective there are very few options. I can't afford to get sick. I can't even afford to risk getting sick. I have no major health issues at the moment, and the situation still feels dangerous. How could I possibly ignore that a dangerous, disabling disease is currently spreading around the world and mutating faster than it can be researched?
I'm personally ok with 'missing out' on a lot of experiences until we have public consensus that COVID is worth protecting against.
bot
DON'T GET YOUR MASK WET!
When he says "clean" - it's not with water!
(All I've seen recommended is having one for each day of the week and storing them in a paper bag between uses, or to put them in sunlight for passive UV treatment, but once they're visibly soiled it's time to toss.)
Thank you for making this video. I'm one of the few COVID conscious people still left at my college and feel extremely socially isolated from my peers. I have been in a deep pit of depression since the winter started about how complicit with eugenics the vast majority of people in today's world are, and my heart has been taking a beating over it with how so much of my friends and family have drifted apart with me over this stance. It shouldn't remain a controversial thing to care about the vulnerable, even if you're lucky enough not to be (currently) among them. How a society treats its most marginalized members says everything you need to know about it, and as a society we've fucking failed tens of millions of people over the past four years.
I've had the exact same experience. I can't believe how much people fuss over something as simple as a mask. Agree 100%
thank you. VERY few people, including on the left, are talking about this. the disabled (and more) continue to be left to die. ive been in lockdown for 4 years.
same. leftists don't want to face the reality that their actions don't quite match up with their beliefs and it's frustrating to watch.
Me too. Stay strong. ✊
I got COVID twice in a row recently, plus tested postive for a long while. I'm back with the mask and won't stop
Masking, hand washing thoroughly, and get a personal air quality monitoring device. I have an Aranet 4, and make sure to monitor certain spaces.
Same here, I got COVID twice already.
I just tested positive last night so I'm sitting confined in my bedroom with the window cracked and a space heater on trying to keep my roommate from getting it.
Never stopped masking or washing, and I stay on the air filtration.
Glad to know that other people aren't trying to play with their, and others, lives either! 🖖🏾✨
thank you for masking!!
Its so frustrating trying to exist currently with how people are acting, i struggle with long covid daily and most people in my life don't care at all, wearing a mask is seen as extreme, even my own Dr doesnt wear a mask and laughed at me telling me to take mine off when i went to see him about my ongoing long covid issues. His office didn't even have a window open, no air ventilation, no hepa filter, and he said "take your mask off" like 🙄 ofc i didn't, but it genuinely shows how little care there is here (Aotearoa)
Bryony! I love your videos and you!
I am AFAB and Black, I had covid right before vaccines and it was the WORST illness of my entire life!
Getting access to care was awful as well because I didn't get married until last year and my spouse had insurance but I could not get on it because we were not married yet.
It is ABSOLUTELY not like the flu people are talking about.
I was so sick and voiding from every orifice everyday, every hour, and ended up so weak that I had to be wheeled into a hospital ER. Luckily, I never lost my sense of taste or smell and never had to be intubated.
I lost nearly 30 pounds in two weeks from Covid and it was awful.
I do notice, I have had a chronic cough and consistantly choke on my own saliva since then. I also seem to have lost a teeny tiny bit of lung capacity and run out of breath a little quicker than I used to.
I want so badly for people to mask up and isolate again.
I'm in the USA. My state, Texas, is extremely opposed to masking and vaccines that people literally get harassed and assaulted for wearing one.
I got two doses of the vaccine plus two boosters. I'm gonna keep it up.
I recommend everyone get Moderna!
Johnson and Johnson is well known for having toxic products and is constantly being sued for it.
Pfizer has had super sketchy practices too.
Take what you can get in your area! but Moderna has been best for me.
thank you so much for talking about this. i feel like i'm going crazy. i need to find a way to communicate "we can make things better with minimum effort (masking)" in a way that gets through people's heads
on your points about misanthropy: almost every post i've seen either from friends or mask bloc accounts about covid safer precautions includes something about how "even if you stopped masking, it's never too late to start protecting your health and the health of those around you again". people who are doing the work of creating covid safer environments don't have the luxury of pushing away those who aren't already masking etc, this includes all of us
Finally this is talked about in more mainstream circles! Thank you. I have not stopped wearing masks and avoiding crowds. The findings on long covid are so frightening but I can’t believe people are so reluctant to protect themselves and others.
I haven’t caught the disease yet and it amazes me how people accept memory loss and worsening health as if it’s “natural”. It isn’t. The people around me have aged 20 years in 5 after one infection per year.
Before I got Covid in 2022 I had what could be considered to be “Hyperphantasia” which means normally my mental imagery is extremely vivid and immersive. To the point I also have “Prophantasia” where I can project whatever I wanted into my actual field of vision.
But the damage from Covid made it so that my mental imagery is bordering on Aphantasia.
Very diminished. Like it’s there, but it’s “translucent” and my brain sadly wants to focus more on what’s in front of me.
I hope I can regain my mental imagery in time.
But some of us with Long Covid/Post Covid Syndrome sometimes selfishly wish that the majority who like to pretend that post infectious illnesses don’t exist, also succumb to it and join our ranks so they can see that it is in fact VERY REAL.
Even debilitating illnesses such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (which viruses like Covid can cause) or horrific iatrogenic conditions like Empty Nose Syndrome (which is written off as “rare” despite the delayed reaction from weeks to years nerve damage and mucosal damage can take to manifest) are ignored and forgotten about.
In the UK, healthcare is mostly free. But it’s a cardboard cutout and in order to get some semblance of quality treatment you have to pay.
That’s so wild, I caught covid for the first time this year and I noticed a significant shift in my mental imagery ability. I couldn’t project but I was a “imagines vividly whole movies” kind of person. “Translucent” is a really good way to put what it is now. I also NEED a nap like clockwork every day at 3pm also despite 9-10 hours of sleep a night, no change in lifestyle, no coffee, no booze, no drugs. Thanks for saying something about it - as an artist, it’s a really violating ability to lose and it’s really scary, especially when it was coupled with my loss of smell. I genuinely hope you recover over time. :/
@@lewpzlikewise, friend. We’ve been dealt a cruel hand. For some of us, our imagination is all we’ve got in the world.
I have hyperphantasia. It's really handy for the kind of work I do - fabrication/problem solving. I'm not sure how many time I'v caught COVID. I was a train cleaner during the lockdowns and myself and my crew all got hit with a terrible flew the Christmas before the lockdown announced. We all had COVID since then (multiple times) due to the exposure. Looking back we think that flew was covid also. I was dealing with fatigue as I was affected with pulmonary sarcoidosis during the pandemic and couldn't get medical treatment until it was over and when it cleared up I was hit with cancer.
I don't say this as a "my life is worse than yours so keep trucking" but rather for context. My father was a tree surgeon in Cornwall and caught long COVID after boris started to let people go on holidays before the pandemic was over. It killed me to see him walk with a kane. He was in the navy for 40 years and was as fit as an ox before COVID.
The cancer is gone and so is the fatigue and sarcoid but my life is missing it's spark. It's hard to be positive, optimistic or just plain outgoing. Everything in the uk is being pushed behind an ever growing paywall.
I don't think it's necessarily the disease that has affected our imagination but I think we're traumatized by the lockdown and our individual experiences that happened during. It's why we feel so lost and uninspired. We're stuck in survival mode waiting for the next foot to drop and this is further exacerbated by the way the uk is being ran into the ground for profit.
Everyone I knew came out of lockdown and became obsessed with work. I don't hear from any of my former friends.
This is the theory I'v cooked up from my experience and would be interested to see if you concur.
@@jjskn93
What happens with Viruses like Covid is that they travel through nerves.
This can dysregulate the Central Nervous System and cause dysfunction in the brain as a result.
Also these Viruses can cause microscopic clots to form. In the brain, these microscopic clots can cause cognitive disturbances (Psychosis, Aphantasia, etc)
@@jjskn93 Dude, Covid gives you micro bloodclots and has given rise to disturbingly many young stroke patients (below 50 years). Random brain injuries (like from micro clots) absolutely will alter your brain function.
As someone struggling with long covid, THANK YOU SO MUCH for making a video on this 😭😭😭 I feel like I’m screaming endlessly into the void
I’ve never stopped masking. I’m fully confident that my immune system is strong enough to deal with COVID if I ever get it (I’m one of the only people I’ve met who’s never had it, because I’ve been very careful) but there’s a lot of people who don’t have bodies as resilient as mine. I have a 91 year old grandmother and two friends who suffer from chronic pain, and quite simply I want them and everyone like them to be safe. That’s it. It’s not complicated.
It’s so easy to feel like I’m the “crazy” one for still caring among my friends. At least they’re pro-vaxx. But none of them wear a mask etc. I’ve been focusing on imperfect protection for myself: rapid testing 1x a week no matter what (I get 8 tests / month covered by Medicaid), masking indoors and in crowded spaces outside, masking at childcare gigs, air filter on when I have guests over, prioritizing being with friends that are more Covid conscious
Thank you for this video ❤️
I admit that my resolve toward masking and keeping distance faltered for a long time. You can only have people completely disregard safety around you for so long until you feel like you're being paranoid. We didn't get infected for the first 2 years of the pandemic, it's only after restrictions loosened significantly that I got sick twice. I was never physically fit due to my mental health but after my second infection I now start panting after walking up the stairs.
How is masking not a thing we do _aside from_ covid, anyway? Shouldn't it be, like, a common behavior that you put on a mask when you feel sick? But no, it's weird and paranoid.
They rescended mandatory masking requirements in pharmacies in my country at the start of the year. _Pharmacies,_ the places you go to get _covid tests._
oh, and you can't get drugs delivered here, even with an electronic ID, so immunocompromised people _have_ to go to the pharmacy for their medication if they don't have helpful friends/family
It's hard to be the odd one out. It may be naive or self-aggrandizing, but I like to think that my wearing one may give others the confidence to start masking again.
What really stinks is we use to get paid to take off for covid. Now you're pressured to come back or no pay. It's hard because you have to be able to survive financially but of course your boss in most cases doesn't care. :(
Capitalism being exploited more like
EXACTLY ! Like i'm curently sick right now and like i do struggle with this right now. Plus i don't know if i have covid right now because i don't even have tests at home right now ! It now cost 40 $ to have home tests when it was FREE before mind you !!!! I don't have the money for that ! Plus i don't have time to go to the doctor . Also i hate how they shove the Qtip right deep in your nose ( I don't know if they still use that method which they shouln't because you don't need to go that far up to be able to make your test positive from my personal expierience. If they even try to go that far up i'm legit going to have a panick attack !) FOURTY FUCKIN DOLLARS !!!!🤬 Also don't getting get me started on the social aspect of getting a sick leave for work ! Most people would think that you are lazy or not strong enough for doing that !
Oh thank goodness so bigger channels are talking about this. Doing the right thing feels so lonely at times.
Long covid ruined my life and foreseeable future until medical science can find some kind of treatment. I cant work or care for myself anymore. Im not even 30. This shit sucks
bot
@@leonardofabbri7930 oh damn im a bot? Didnt know abt that ! Thanks for informing me… i gotta go to have an existential crisis now i definitely thought i was a human.
@@socialjusticeworm3820yeah doesn’t even make sense for bots to post things like what you did. Sorry you’re going through that. Our institutions failed us. Bots are all over minimizing covid so we will go out and spend money, that’s all the oligarchs funding the bots care about.
I hope this doesn't sound like toxic positivity but new science discoveries are rapid these days, better days are coming. I'm sorry about your health tho stay safe❤️
@@cat-mf1sk nah I appreciate it. Hope things will work out for us :)
Thank you so much for speaking on the subject. i have so many people in my life approaching this subject with blind ignorance. YOLO is not medical advice
I still wear masks when I go out, and so glad that in my country masks is a standard practice in healthcare.
It's really depressing that trying to protect people's health is too divisive to get our government to act but they can push legislation through ban tiktok for being critical of them
That has an economic incentive though. The Tik Tok ban can only be circumvented by selling it to an American billionaire. This is another case of an issue not concerning or benefitting the rich not getting attention.
TikTok is surely more harmful to public health than Covid at this stage. Though of course thats not why they want to ban it.
The most harmful things when it comes to health is stress and loneliness. Working to create a more social and stress-free society is much more important than preventing the spread of viruses, except for in special situations.
You mean like how they were successful in banning and stopping pirate bay?
Tik Tok is owned and run by the CCP
The CCP make the US government seem like saints.
I felt more free during the lockdown and with mask mandates in place than now. When almost everyone wore masks and numbers were lower I could just go out, which is now waaay more risky sadly. On the other hand I feel like having a lucky superpower not having been sick in over 4 years.
i went to a concert last night, & not including my sister & i, there was maybe 3 other people wearing masks. it was the shrine auditorium in los angeles, which is a large indoor location.
one of the people i saw masking also had mobility aids & was talking with two friends who... didn't wear masks.
people really don't give a fuck about disabled people, not even ones they would call friends.
Same.
me too. i havent been genuinely sick in so long. its kinda gotten to the point where im actually scared of getting sick lol
i have never stopped masking!! masking is community care!!!
I was a cashier through most of the pandemic. I knew the government wasn’t taking it seriously when they didn’t even suspend the state lottery. Our store was packed with mostly older people who would come in to buy one beer or a single bag of chips. It seemed like they were just coming in because the CDC asked them not to.
My mom being anti vax has caused me to get covid several times. I have long covid now.
😑
I'm sorry your mother loves Nurgle more than her own blood.
this is the biggest betrayal imo
I'm sorry. All I can do is share this air hug.
Getting vaccinated only helps to stop transmission by an almost immeasurable amount
It’s not over. I got covid last year for the first time and I am still living with long covid. Living with constant pain and brain fog isn’t fun.
There are so many complexities to what this is doing to us, not only physically, but mentally. The division, the isolation, the massive traumas, and the toll they're taking on our lives that I don't see talked about or tracked nearly enough. And don't get me started on the state of the US mental healthcare system! But I know a guy who isn't anti-vax, but won't get vax'd himself, has had Covid several times, goes back to work when he feels better, doesn't bother testing, works at a mall, of all places, doesn't mask, and complains that people don't care about his feelings when people are mean to him about not getting vax'd. It'll probably be several years before I'm in a place where I can have another conversation with him because I mentally just cannot right now. More isolation. Yay!
Everyone I know is basically exactly like this
Watching this video again, and I just wanna say: huge props to the person who voiced the comments underneath that tiktok video
You know you're doing your job right when I literally cannot watch that part of the video without wanting to implode/needing to pause the video for a few seconds/skipping that part of the video entirely 😭
Thank you, it's such a relief when anyone talks about this.
one of the video’s strengths for me is how you talk about the gov’s/CDC’s/health institutions’ capitalist motivations for not enforcing better precautions and their poor public health messaging. i’ve noticed that part of why many so easily believe the lies is bc they can’t think of what anyone would gain from lying in the first place -- i think there’s this sense that we’re all affected by covid the same way, including the elites, so “why would politicians risk their *own* health by weakening precautions?” the idea that they would lie to us about while knowing full well they have the means to protect themselves against better than us would not be something most people would consider (nor that this could be a deliberate effort to get rid of the homeless, black and indigenous people). so i can see this being really helpful in bridging that gap in understanding!
and thank you guys for this video. man it’s been so bleak since fully coming to the realization that things are as bad as they are, and the only thing keeping me and sanity going is that there are people online who still talk about covid seriously (mainly disabled/immunocompromised folks on twitter like imani). thank you for being part of that.
So much more has come out too! The quarantine period reduced due to an airline exec asking for it. The company who makes paxlovid wanting to make more money. Pharmaceutical companies complaining that cold medication sales went down during masking. There is so much that shows this is about making sure companies are not liable for spreading contagions.
Ive never gave up masking. We went 2 years without covid and my dad refused to mask up as soon as covid restrictions dropped it and he caught it and gave it to our whole family. And i have asthma and living with long covid. And i hate him for that he always and to this day acts like its just another cold and shows no remorse to giving it to us and me who has long covid
I'm so sorry that you and your family had to go through that. As someone who has gone through a similar situation with my family, I absolutely feel you; it's such a fucking frustrating and heartbreaking experience, especially if this sort of apathy is coming from a family member/loved one... You are not alone 🫂
@@jelle_o2708 thank you! You are also not alone.
Can anyone by any chance get covid again?
@@gracefulcubix4730Yes, it is possible to get SARS-2 (Covid) many times. You can get the same variant or new variants. There are currently more than a dozen variants circulating, although one is dominant, and you can get two different variants within weeks of each other. Each infection causes cumulative damage. Maybe the first one is ok, you recover 99%. But the next one might knock you down to 95%. Some people get knocked down to being bedridden and never recover. Impossible to predict. The best thing you can do is follow the advice in the video… reduce exposures from indoors and shared air, wear a well-sealing N95, and keep up to date on covid vaccines.
@@gracefulcubix4730yes you can
I’ve had many conversations about still wearing a mask on public transport, doctors offices and crowded spaces, none of them bad, mostly just curious. But I’ve also seen people see me wearing a mask and seeming relieved to sit next to me or put on their own, now not being the only one. I still get tested when I feel sick or before going to large gatherings. Thankfully, my friend group is also very COVID conscious (often due to being disabled/immune compromised themselves), so it makes me feel less alone and also taken care of.
I’m also currently fighting an administrative penalty given for being masked at a protest (based on Austrian versammlungsgesetz, which provides exceptions for medical reasons, the first being infection risk). I’m glad I have the resources, time and counsel to not worry about it, but I’ve had friends cite the random application of that law as reasons why they don’t go to protests, which is a shame though understandable. Idk where I’m going with this, but thank you for the video. It made me feel seen.
Thank you so much for posting this! The only other people I've seen acknowledge covid are mostly small creators or people in my own life, only like a handful of big creators have said anything about it. I miss being able to safely go out and make friends!
THANK YOU for talking about this, I've been working on a big covid essay because it has been so frustrating to me how many people are just pretending this isn't the case and how much that's hurting us as a whole
I appreciate this video so much. My parents retired a few years early(RN & airport security) because of how bad the surges were. We all have some issues with respiratory issues. Of course now we’re like guess we’ll stay inside , mask forever, and just be forgotten I guess. It’s scary but we just can’t give up and actively kill each other.
I will also say people who want you to just get over it, how is that even a life?
The newer drugs are the lemonade I’m holding to tight. I hope everyone has something they can hold onto as well ❤❤.
Thank you form making this, my partner has long Covid after getting Covid 1 time last year and they were perfectly healthy before. This will happen to more of us if we don’t take care of each other.
Fun fact: "Let them eat cake." in it's historical context means basically "Let them eat the lining of their ovens." It's nowhere near the sweet treat that cake has evolved to mean in modern times.
It doesn't help when so many people buy into it being over before government do.
1) While I think this is due to the considerably low mortality rate (by pandemic standards) of 10%. What we picture as pandemics is that it has a high mortality rate of at least 30%.
2) Unfortunately even when it's a pandemic. People think only for themselves, they want to go out. Although this is a public good, they have selfish interest they don't care if other people get infected, the important thing is that they don't get infected, their love ones don't get infected. People who respond with me me me to people complaining about standard safety procedures like DOCTORS OF ALL PEOPLE should be wearing masks on IMMUNAL COMPROMISED PATIENTS, are hypocrites. They think about me me me way before.
3) Some people got infected will just shrug it off, and think to themselves it's probably just the common cold.
4) Some even think this is fake. And when Trump says it's not to much to worry about, this solidifies their information by the person they want to be listening.
This pandemic could be over by 2021 if all countries shut down for a bit. Take some economic damages for a bit. While richer countries provide poorer countries the means to enforced this. But this is too ideal. But even if all the corruption, This can considerably would have saved more lives.
I think the US has caused the catalyst of countries relaxing their restrictions.
Covid was the biggest shift in my life but even at its worst my life felt unshaken, it has reinforced my belief that I live in a very fortunate place.
This is even more important considering mask bans
Elliot, thank you SO MUCH for making this video. It feels like practically no one on the left is talking about this! I feel like I'm constantly shouting into the void about this. THANK YOU, THANK YOU for putting this video out. (Also I love the Death Panel, they're so great, everyone please listen, they have taught me so much)
I’ve always had a great immune system but I have had COVID twice now and it was extremely brutal for me both times. I just count my blessings that I was vaccinated before I caught it because I cannot imagine what would’ve happened to me if I hadn’t been. I still mask and I rarely get sick. I would say maybe 5% of my university masks consistently (and I can’t expect them to) but I wish that people would mask when they are visibly sick. Even before COVID I think we should’ve been masking to prevent our communities and immunocompromised people from being i
This is the most important thing we could be talking about, and I really appreciate all the resources! I’ve been more afraid to go out and do anything because I can’t trust that anyone is being even as safe as they were in 2020 or 2021. I’ve been terrified because it was impossible (for me) to even find data on what’s going on. Thank you so incredibly much.
Thank you for talking about this. I've taken some risks on things that were important to me (to be in my best friend's wedding) but i never stopped masking at work. It feels like i never will but maybe air filtration will become standard like clean tap water. I take care of my dad and made sure he had paxlovid immediately the one time he's had covid. He had had a booster recently too and he came through okay. It's hard. It's really hard. I'm trying to build community with an outdoor softball league and it's great but then they want to go to bars afterwards and god this shouldn't be on us as individuals! we shouldn't have to choose between socializing and a debilitating virus!
HELL YEAH thank you for making a big video about this!!🎉
thank you so much for making this. I've been isolated for 4 years abandoned by my friends and family and I can't even have my dream job. It's so infuriating how people do not gaf and won't until it affects them. and by that point it'd be too late
cause you fell for the hysteria and the plandemical orchestra tricks
hyper individualism's so mid, collective community for the win. I'm also trying to convince my family and friends, you're not alone
@@leonardofabbri7930that's rich coming from people that stop masking just because the government said it's over. just because they stop showing the amount of people dying
@@leonardofabbri7930 yawn
@@cat-mf1sk lol, more people die for smoking than Covid
Good day, Elliot! Excellent & informative video on COVID! I wear masks in crowded environments but am often too lax otherwise. I focus more on avoiding crowds above all else, but I'll keep this video in mind as I navigate my outings.
Also, just a friendly heads-up that when I checked out your bibliography, I saw that I have editing access to the document. You'll definitely want to change this to view-only ASAP.
Take care, stay safe and keep spreading awareness!
Fixed! Thanks
thank you thank you thank you for making this video, nobody wants to talk about it but it's all around us. I got long covid this past year and it fucked my entire life up. it's really affirming to see someone with a larger following discussing this because the intentional disposal of disabled people and the complete lack of awareness by abled society is so profoundly alienating.
Thank you for this video, Elliot! While not in the US, I've been masking the entire time and have no plans of stopping (even though a lot of people where I live seem to be now); I developed a lot of anxiety of me and my family getting sick because of the pandemic and especially now that I've been having other unrelated health issues come up for myself. Also thank you for teaching me about Masc Blocs! I'm going to look into them to try and find respirator masks for me and my family! ❤
I understand reading the comments in an exaggerated voice for comedic purposes, however it made it impossible for me to understand without looking at the screen. I would consider turning it down a bit for people who cannot read what is shown on the screen.
thank youuuu for this video holy shit. i still mask and take precautions for myself, my dad, and my friends - i get so many shitty looks and questions. i go to the DOCTOR'S OFFICE and people are maskless. it's insane lmao
Also, as someone with many family members from elementary to college, a pandemic shouldn’t mean COVID precautions should be denied. Boomers and billionaires have already gutted out third places, and coerced milennials into parroting “touch grass” to today’s youth. What common nondigital activities do you think a pandemic is less important than?
For real. Though Ill just add, I’ve heard many people use “touch grass” towards bigots who refuse to listen or go outside their hatred bubble mor than I’ve seen what you mentioned-prob because of where I spend my time on the internet-so it has some other usage as well, and thought you might find that interesting. /Gen 😊
Depending on the environment, going on walks and such is much less risk than being indoors. I'd say touching grass is plausible in a lot of cases. It's safer than going into a shop, to other houses, etc.
@@SunshineCasy Great point! And if the weather is nice it's even better.
As an immunocompromised person with long covid who has never stopped masking, I thank you for making this video. That being said, I think it’s better if I sit this one out. 😅
Thank you for making this and caring about this still
But if I act like covid-19 is over, odds are it can't get me. Amirite? *sarcasm
Covid will never be over. That doesn't mean that we should keep being afraid of it forever. People will get it. Most will experience a normal cold. Some with weak health may suffer worse. Just as if they contracted a number of other infections. It sucks but its nothing exceptional. There have always been viruses in the world. Not theres some more. Stressing and worrying about it very much is unhealthy and is in fact more likely kill you than the virus. Stress weakens your immune system and your internal organs.
Spreading stress and worries are not really any better than spreading viruses. You stay at home when you have an infection and you stay offline when you have an urge to share your fears and worries.
"But if I act like covid-19 is over, odds are it can't get me. Amirite? *sarcasm"
Why would you change your behaviour? Did something change?
Nothing has changed.. the pLandemic and provaxers did not change anything, actually.
Human rights are the same.
We have the same rights.. and n a z i provaxers abuse our rights the same way they always been..
So you dont need to act differently..
Respect and protect human rights. Say no to n a z i s m. Stand against human experiments and violence.
Stay healthy and good.
Thanks for this. I'm so tired. I hope people will listen.
I've always used a kn95 mask in public transport anyways. I'm on the spectrum (specifically, I am hypersensitive to stimuli), but it also helps with COVID 19 spreading less.
The college I want to transfer to mandates up to date Covid vaccines, (as in the most recent ones coming out), still does testing and masking as needed, and still has resources for tracking. I really hope I am able to go and finally do college as a disabled student while feeling safe.
The current college I go to, a community college, is not as up to date, they mandated vaccines before, in like 2022 and 2023, but I’m not sure what guidelines they use now. So far I’ve been safe, and masking as I need to, and seen a few others with masks at times.
I’m a long covid person where the worst of it lasted 2 years of me for I’m still dealing with some minor stuff. The amount of politicization and just outright denial of covid even existing is really bothersome. This attitude toward disease is going to have horrible consequences for world health even for diseases we already know exist and the consequences of like the flu or measles
"he amount of politicization and just outright denial of covid even existing is really bothersome. "
Is it?
Hundreds of millions of innocent, unvaccinated people were discriminated, humiliated, threatened and abused worldwide by provaxers. Is that not the thing that should be bothersome?
I wore a mask when I was ill with a high fever and sore throat during exams , it really helped my sore throat bc it was winter and the cold air made everything feel worse , the mask also kept my nose warm when I was outside , and also I just didn’t want to spread anything