Cara was bullied for masking at school and eventually stopped… only to infect her high risk mom with covid. Her mom died.
Governments & public health should be blamed for this - not Cara. But I’m sure she will feel guilt the rest of her life. This is where “you do you” leads.
It shouldn’t be up to kids to protect their high risk family members. They aren’t prepared for the amount of bullying and peer pressure they will face to de-mask. We need to be dealing with this at the institution level. Clean air in classrooms. Paid time off for sick teachers and staff. No more attendance awareness and punishing sick kids for staying home. No more “diarrhea scales” to indicate whether your child can come to school with Covid diarrhea (your kid should be home if they have diarrhea). Negative tests should be required to return to the classroom.
I lost my mom to cancer when I was 19… and it fundamentally altered my entire life. Losing your Mom at a young age is a dreadful experience - and I can’t even imagine the grief and guilt this young girl is facing.
Her life is going to be forever altered. I hope she’s wrapped up in a cocoon of support and love and that it’s made clear to her every day that she was failed by systems and institutions. We must do better. The grown ups and those in charge NEED to protect the kids so no child is ever in this position.
Lastly - don’t bully a kid who’s masking. It’s hard enough for them and you don’t know who they’re trying to protect. Leave them be or better yet - put on a mask yourself and show them some support and solidarity.
#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #keepmasksinhealthcare #MaskBans #NoMaskBans #CleanAirClassrooms #CleanTheAir #Bullying
“It’s not your fault,” I told 16-year-old Cara, whose mother died of a SARS-CoV-2 infection she gave her.Tess Finch-Lees (Irish Independent)
Well, @Keab42 showed me these and now you have to see them too.
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safetynet, google play integrity, apple app attest are drm and should be resisted
it's not a security feature, the place you would do the actual security checks are in the bootloader (with the possibility of disabling it or using your own keys). these attestation features only verify that you have not exercised your freedom to do whatever you want with your own device
reminder that consent-o-matic is amazing and to install it on your browser, and everyone else's
do it now
Art and Biro, the adventurous raccoon and fox duo, are setting sail once again! They’re aboard their ship, ready to explore uncharted islands and embark on new adventures.
I'm about to start the chapter 2!
If you haven’t read the first chapter of their comic, now is the perfect time to dive in! Head over to www.artbirocomic.com to join the journey.
You can also support the project by purchasing the physical book from my Ko-Fi shop: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco/shop
Or by supporting me monthly on Ko-Fi or Patreon, helping to ensure the continuation of Art and Biro's adventures! You can also receive updates, WIPs, full time-lapse process videos and premieres of drawings and comic pages.
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Digital. Procreate.
Wandering forest critter #fursuit
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:grhpbjqiiyh33zibsjhbz522/post/3l3d5y47jqy2d
This doesn't look like a safe environment for foxes, but the industrial backdrop does have its charm. Also I think it highlights my fur nicely... #FursuitFriday
You wanna solve some of these weird cubes with us?
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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses.
‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/
1. Acknowledge that COVID is airborne
2. Mandate airborne infection control in all healthcare settings
3. Consequences for healthcare acquired infections
4. Consequences for infections acquired in congregate settings, prisons, workplaces and schools
5. Comprehensive indoor clean air laws with specifications
6. Work from home encouraged, conferences virtual, flights tested
7. Free masks, free tests, free vaccines, free Paxlovid
8. Education
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-would-an-adequate-covid-response
Ok, COVID is a problem. What can we do about it anyway?Julia Doubleday (The Gauntlet)
YES
EXACTLY
Computers would work FINE if programmers weren't rushed, underpaid, overworked, and forced to accommodate advertising!
I've been running mail servers and writing email software since the dialup days of 1995. I guess by today's trends, that could brand me a holdout.
But we're still hosting mail for hundreds of company domains across dozens of mail servers, all in a nicely packaged system that's always just an "apt install" away.
The landscape has changed over time, and, yes, it is annoying dealing with the imbalance that the behemoth mail providers represent these days.
But there's a lot to be said for not bargaining away your digital autonomy.
I saw @mwl selling his "Run Your Own Mail Server" book and jumped to pick up a copy. Not so much because I had a need for it (though it'll be interesting to compare notes!), but because I strongly support the idea that email is still a shared ecosystem and love that Michael is sharing the knowledge to encourage folks to continue to participate.
Long live the open Internet.
Story idea: a poltergeist tries screwing around with an ADHD'er who lives alone. Moving objects around, opening the cabinets, the usual.
After months of this, the poltergeist realizes the ADHD'er has been blaming themselves for all the occurrences
It's only when the poltergeist starts helping the ADHD'er that the real fright begins
(but then that settles down and they become weird friends)
#Discord is again spying on you and telling everyone by default, so here is today's obnoxious new checkbox to toggle off.
(Server admins can also turn off the cards under "Overview", "Activity feed settings".)
Merp !
I found a green beer from the old place at Berlin !
Or is it a Christmas beer ? 🤔
Anyway, I will put it at the artshow of #EF28 !
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This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.
The authors propose
pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read
This is a draft.
“We created a self-opening fridge with an AI camera that tracks what you put in and take out.”
Please for the love of any and all deities I am PROSTRATE on the floor begging you for fair energy prices and accessible public transport I do not need a fridge incorrectly guessing what is in my 17 Tupperware containers and refusing to open because I haven’t paid my monthly £24.99 subscription of “Fridge Door Lock Plus”
Rare and raw footage of two coyotes encountering each other in the wilds of a hotel lobby.
w/Levi @burnsybeanx3@x.com
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