Links: COVID-19
Jul. 20th, 2020 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soniaI haven't posted COVID-19 links in a while because it seems like we weren't learning any major new things, and/or I felt like stepping aside from being the bearer of that news. But here are a few links I've had open for a while.
It’s Time to Tell a New Story About Coronavirus—Our Lives Depend on It by Sonia Shah.
Wearing a mask doesn't just protect others from COVID, it protects you from infection, perhaps serious illness, too by Elizabeth Weise.
Related to non-mask wearing, a full quote from reddit by TheWindCriedDeath.
Of course someone or somebot responds "Not all Americans," and yeah, I gotcha, but overall, I'm not arguing. I've been disappointed in my fellow citizens since Reagan got re-elected, and the last four years have been abysmal.
The 'Anticipatory Fear' of Life With (and Without) a Disability During COVID-19 by Miriam Rocke.
It’s Time to Tell a New Story About Coronavirus—Our Lives Depend on It by Sonia Shah.
All of which is to say that, contrary to the central plotline of the paradigm of invasion, today’s pathogens don’t arrive in untouched territory as invaders do. Rather, if there is any invasion underway at all, it is spearheaded by us. The majority of pathogens that have emerged since 1940 originated in the bodies of animals and entered human populations not because they invaded us but because we invaded their habitats.
Wearing a mask doesn't just protect others from COVID, it protects you from infection, perhaps serious illness, too by Elizabeth Weise.
While cloth face coverings aren't 100% effective, "wearing them means you're exposed to less virus. Less is coming in from other people and you're inhaling less. It's a win-win," said Dr. John Brooks, a medical epidemiologist and the CDC's chief medical officer for the agency’s COVID-19 response.
Related to non-mask wearing, a full quote from reddit by TheWindCriedDeath.
If there's one thing this year has taught us, it's that Americans are staggeringly selfish. Not just like your meat-and-potatoes "don't want to share" selfish. Total apocalyptic "I will let you die rather than inconvenience myself" selfish.
Of course someone or somebot responds "Not all Americans," and yeah, I gotcha, but overall, I'm not arguing. I've been disappointed in my fellow citizens since Reagan got re-elected, and the last four years have been abysmal.
The 'Anticipatory Fear' of Life With (and Without) a Disability During COVID-19 by Miriam Rocke.
Our brains aren’t really built for extended periods of upheaval and uncertainty. I’ve seen people mention “COVID brain” — the dip in higher-level thinking because the brain is focusing on staying alive, the brain fog that comes with prolonged stress, the shattered feeling of having too many worries — basically, the effect of a worldwide pandemic on everyone’s mental health.
And all I can think is “welcome to my life.” Because for me as a disabled person, this is nothing new.
