nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx nostr:npub15vkwhpzvcv4q952vcxs7qf6a4qddlxnknd0l5sna6p63nv0mdewqjtpz7c nostr:npub16r2m3es675q6w3rh6a8lavkygy0c958gqftdgjese76725gcg3usxhel76 Also the Asian and Latin groceries consistently had toilet paper and pasta, because Those People didn't do their harebrained panic buying there 😆
nostr:npub1ej68dzernetvgqh3gpk006eh509jnmyzptwqcsr7y772vtf3j2dqpxpvaa Congrats to your Granny! That's quite the milestone. She's sure seen a lot of things change. I'm not sure it's a mask connection. Culturally, manners are important and "speaking" or saying hello to people, acknowledging their existence, is something we do as a matter or course.
nostr:npub1enax4z53pedtnqw2lffelkfecpnl5q4h82yhwrekd7c3cljk4eysvxyyv4 Honestly, that's all we can do. 🤷🏾♀️ nostr:npub1ah7zvfm47e84tx0gwnzu7dlwucgtq68c6nj8s82f0wdaqzt98sfsdnxkn7
nostr:npub1r3yzxm0a2g3zse048reywfnvw3ez3u3cxp89a4jvsdgtacuqx2vq5kep08 I don't mean us. I mean the people that stood in the way of us doing something to stop it.
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During lockdown I shopped at a Latin grocery that typically had under ten people in a 10 thousand sq ft store. Down the street where everybody else shopped there were over 100 in a slightly larger store. Tactics!
nostr:npub15vkwhpzvcv4q952vcxs7qf6a4qddlxnknd0l5sna6p63nv0mdewqjtpz7c Yep! You have to use your noggin! 😂 nostr:npub16r2m3es675q6w3rh6a8lavkygy0c958gqftdgjese76725gcg3usxhel76
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx nostr:npub1ah7zvfm47e84tx0gwnzu7dlwucgtq68c6nj8s82f0wdaqzt98sfsdnxkn7 I have turned down 2 free holiday trips (one to Mexico & other to Jamaica) because both offers involved being on planes. I'm not going to take unnecessary risks. I value my life & other peoples' lives much more than I value free trips to faraway places.
nostr:npub1enax4z53pedtnqw2lffelkfecpnl5q4h82yhwrekd7c3cljk4eysvxyyv4 I flew to Spain. I wiped down my seat area and I never took off my mask. I didn't eat or drink anything. We only ate outside. I wore a mask to the bathroom, if I had to go inside a place. nostr:npub1ah7zvfm47e84tx0gwnzu7dlwucgtq68c6nj8s82f0wdaqzt98sfsdnxkn7
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx nostr:npub1ah7zvfm47e84tx0gwnzu7dlwucgtq68c6nj8s82f0wdaqzt98sfsdnxkn7 It's pretty surreal. Some former antimasking friends seemed stunned to learn despite my disabled, immunocompromised state & being marked as medicallly ineligible to get any covid vaccines - I've not suffered any bad flu & managed to not get covid for over 3 yrs. It's because I mask up everywhere indoors & outdoors in crowded areas, wash/clean hands & living spaces often & refuse to put myself around unsafe ppl & environments. I don't care about 'missing out' on many things.
nostr:npub1enax4z53pedtnqw2lffelkfecpnl5q4h82yhwrekd7c3cljk4eysvxyyv4 Good on you for the vigilance. My husband and I laugh all the time about how quarantine was made for us and we finally didn't have to make up excuses. Thus far, (knock on wood), none of us have gotten it. My MIL went to visit her daughter and got it there. nostr:npub1ah7zvfm47e84tx0gwnzu7dlwucgtq68c6nj8s82f0wdaqzt98sfsdnxkn7
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx Calm? LOL. And the kicker is that I'm three hours inland. (What we don't get in direct hurricane damage, we make up for in ice-storm damage during the winters.) I don't know how people live at the N.C. coast, even though I've often thought I'd like to. But you're very right about the discombobulation. That part REALLY sucks.
nostr:npub1drcfyzwlfku08h973sehg27trygtdsxxkhdg5ay9crly34slxjksr9s7v5 3 hours inland?! We're all in a lot of trouble with this weather. So much can happen.
I can't watch something that's going to tell me "The dirty truth about your food."
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx yes, absolutely. And it goes so very deep and wide throughout every facet of medicine.
I challenge white folks to open a dermatology book and count how many darker skin tones they see. How can doctors treat people with darker skin with a condition if they don't see it in their studies? How many medical drawings show a pregnant Black woman? Not many.
We really need more equatable medical texts, more Black doctors, etc before we ever get some level of balance.
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx nostr:npub1ah7zvfm47e84tx0gwnzu7dlwucgtq68c6nj8s82f0wdaqzt98sfsdnxkn7 I live in a very bourgeois colonial white majority city - it's named after Queen Victoria - and took extra precautions for similar reasons.
My Mom, my brothers & myself have been covid free & flu free since covid came to Canada. We're trying to stay that way but it's difficult when surrounded by majority of antimasking public. We don't really socialize with others much anymore because it's too unsafe in indoor spaces. We do safer outdoor things instead.
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I started shopping at the Asian grocery store during Covid and still do. They are way better at mask wearing
nostr:npub16r2m3es675q6w3rh6a8lavkygy0c958gqftdgjese76725gcg3usxhel76 What a brilliant idea.
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx there are still idiots who think they’re gaining immunity when it’s the exact opposite, every wheel of Covid is playing roulette
nostr:npub1zhmyvn4lfahrem827l84ujcwc0hf9ykgjxpxmcfgnpqp9j270ngqkq2dea I know. It's sad to watch them apply logic that doesn't apply in any way over and over again.🙄
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx At least you can repaint it if it's really awful.
Like a year later, after you've had a rest.
nostr:npub1pe7uqxtn8k429hpq7ftcdsawtkgwc9gf2r7zpk82ynvr3al8vh6sjtxpvn It's a cream color, so it will be fine. 🤷🏾♀️
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx another example of inequality. And PoCs disproportionately affected by pandemics.
You know I got receipts!
nostr:npub1ah7zvfm47e84tx0gwnzu7dlwucgtq68c6nj8s82f0wdaqzt98sfsdnxkn7 It's very interesting. I live in a very white place and I knew at the beginning when people were dying at an intense rate that I'd never get the care I should get if I got infected, so I made sure to take every precaution available because I didn't want to be in the position.
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx Yes and has been the case since Covid happened, in my experience rand I am white. In the height of some of the waves it was other whites I lost my …. on and had to say something. The complete clueless and/or disregard.
nostr:npub1zhmyvn4lfahrem827l84ujcwc0hf9ykgjxpxmcfgnpqp9j270ngqkq2dea Yep. I think the difference is that we know bad things can happen to us. We don't assume we're immune to anything.
I don't think we should let any of the people who brought this climate catastrophe upon us off the hook. If you can't be held accountable for destroying the planet, wtf can you be held accountable for.
Every politician who said climate change isn't real has responsibility for the fires, floods and weather that's killed, maimed and destroyed the financial futures of many.