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COVID-19 Pandemic: Heroic Women Homage by Milo Manara *
COVID is slowly becoming a "third world" disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can't get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.
Being LGBTQIA+ (and discovering it just before COVID-19) is so funny right now.
My school is open, but we have to wear masks and there is one person I have never properly talked to, but we wave at each other because I complimented her rainbow mask one time.
Flattening The Curve
Tumblr has a feature hidden in their “Labs”, called “Reblog Graphs”. It’s a neat little thing that lets you see how influential you are, and also which blogs have large followings. It’s a great way to see why your post from three years ago is suddenly getting a thousand notes a day, too.
This is a graph of a couple hundred reblogs from a recent post somebody made.
The original post is the orange dot. I’m the purple dot one generation away. You can see how many people reblogged from me, but my following isn’t nearly as big as that large dot off to the right.
Only four people reblogged it from me, while that other person had a cluster of around a dozen. But you can see that my overall influence was greater. Their cluster died out quickly, while mine kept going and going.
You could say this post went viral.
That’s what I’m actually here to talk about today…
Let’s go back a slide and change the caption.
Now this isn’t a blog post we’re talking about, this is, say, a novel coronavirus that no one is immune to or something like that. Now we’re not talking about reblogs, we’re talking about infections.
I know this Patient Zero, they’re a friend of mine. We get together with another friend, whose sister works in a nursing home.
So now I’m infected. And so’s that other friend, whose sister works in the nursing home.
And I infect four other people.
It’s just a slight cough, and I feel silly for staying home over just a slight cough, so I go into work. Same goes for that sister who works in the nursing home.
It is week 1 of the pandemic.
It’s flu season, so none of my coworkers think twice about this fever and cough that they now have. Meanwhile, over at the nursing home, people start noticing that the flu is especially bad this year.
It is week 2 of the pandemic.
The nursing home realizes they have a huge problem. EMTs are taking several people to the hospital with trouble breathing every day. Two have died. And now Fire Station 27, the one near the nursing home, has several people who are sick.
Meanwhile, I’m feeling fine, and so are my coworkers who had the flu right after me.
And so on…
It is now week 9 of the pandemic.
Each of these circles represents another week in the spread of the virus, with more and more people infected. You can see that the nursing home and the fire station in the upper right were contained by week 3, because they quarantined and stopped it. That outbreak made the news. But what didn’t make the news were all the people in the lower left, the ones who continue to spread it to one or two, maybe three people. Once in a while, a large cluster flares up, but for the most part, it’s silent.
What you might not see is how much of this graph rolls back up to me and my actions.
Fully 2/3 of the reblogs cases are the product of my infection. If you take me out of the picture, it’s not just those four people I infected that don’t get it. It’s the 7 people they infected. And the people they infected. And the people they infected.
Without me, it is over in Week 5. My single infection in week 1 ended up causing this to run for another month. If I’d stayed home that day instead of reblogging going to the office, it would’ve made a huge difference. It doesn’t really matter who patient zero was, every person on this graph is essentially patient zero of their own outbreak.
This is why staying home when sick matters. This is why hand-washing matters. This is why social distancing matters. This is why schools are closed and why large companies are having people work from home and why March Madness is canceled.
Because just one infection matters.
Look at this... 👀 https://pin.it/2yE3Gne
Communist Chinese flag, Dutch newspapers.
Coronavirus news July 5th, 2021.
Great idea, 10-31-2021.
if you refuse to get the vaccine the government should sneak into your room after you go to sleep and take out the little chip in your neck that makes the supermarket doors open when you go near them
WHY WE MASK: It's Not "Just A Cold": A Handy Scientific Guide to Surviving COVID-19 Together
Here, have a free science zine with a ridiculously long title! Endless thanks to my partner and fellow disabled artist, Kimball Anderson aka @earnestattempts, who helped through the entire year-long process with art edits and image descriptions (located in the alt text). Additional thanks to my friends Dupe and Caitlin, who gave me thorough copy-edits, and every friend who read drafts or listened to me rant about COVID-19.
Feel free to spread it far and wide! And hit me up if you're interested in printing &/or distributing free copies :D
Read WHY WE MASK with Endnotes - includes working URLS so you can read the scientific papers I cited for yourself. Plus links for all the other resources, and a full transcript.
Download WHY WE MASK - Free PDFs to read, print, and share! Any donations go towards print copies &/or local mask blocs.
Can't get enough free printable COVID zines? Check out @newlevant's excellent What's Up With COVID & How To Protect Yourself: 2024 Ed! It was a huge inspiration in the final stretch.
Extra pages under the cut:
Rhett McLaughlin & Link Neal
"I rob and I kill to keep him with me
I'll do anything for that boy
I'd give my last dime to hold him tonight
I'll do anything for that boy
Oh-oh ooh oh, oh-oh ooh oh"
Curly haired Rhett
Salt and pepper Link
wait its that bad in india????
as of 22nd April 2021 we have about 16.3M total cases and a death toll of 187K . Only about 1.4% of the population has been fully vaccinated yet.
on top of that, we've been facing a major shortage in oxygen supply (to the point where the govt has decided to airlift oxygen from other nations), a shortage in hospital beds and services. The numbers keep rising and with the spread of the new strain, the scenario has transformed into something deadlier than ever.
our infrastructures are falling apart and we need all the help possible at this very moment so the nation can be atleast saved when there's still a chance. I've already lost two of my friends, a teacher and family to the second wave and I can only imagine how much worse it can get. so i would like to take this opportunity to link in some donation posts below–
> Here is Akshaya Patra's Covid-19 relief service— help provide meals and packed grocery to those in need
Getting the word out at this time of crisis matters.
Please reblog and help
It's times like these that make me realized how touchstarved I am :(