What if your life IS a crime though, soldier boy?

He died after a brief illness

Roadrunning: Joshua Clover in Conversation with Alex Abramovich November 10, 2021 – Emails about rock ’n’ roll freedom, American capitalism, and automobiles.

Ah god dammit. Joshua Clover wrote about both people and music as if he loved them so much he couldn’t bear it, & indeed he really did love them like this, to the joy of those he knew & shaped, & to the consternation of those who loved either less. What a loss. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11...

At this rate they'll be disappearing wine moms by September.

The Ernster

Someone gave me a sign to carry at the protest, & as soon as I brought it home my cat claimed it

Sorry I'm just in a really bad place right now (United States)

hi everyone i need help finding all my beautiful friends from the transphobia app if you wouldn’t mind RTing. you might remember me from my gay and annoying tweets and nothing else. tysm! 🩵

the way that my cat confidently throws himself into the same screen door on a daily basis trying to catch unobtainable lizards gives me hope that i can also remain upbeat and mildly delusional about what’s possible

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It’s a patsy that won’t pan out. Our hero wouldn’t bring a gun to lunch.

Because they were sent to unsafe schools to get brain damage —for their “mental health.”

…what we—collectively, as a generation— did to them, collectively as a generation.

…and that enabled a lot of rationalization about the safety of “open the schools!” I just wonder how much damage has to manifest to kids before parents demand change. I also predict generational agon worse than between millennials & boomers: those kids are going to HATE us when they realize…

As far as ppl not caring about their own children…it’s pretty obvious that almost everyone had kids expecting them to be able to go to school/not expecting to care for them at home full-time & def not after age 5…

I feel completely confident in stating that the US does not care about children. The public policies of this country reflect outright malice towards them in fact. Kids are a “luxury good,” and if one can pay for theirs that’s ok, but Uncle Sam has clearly told the rest of them to go get fuc*ed.

With cumulative risk and perpetual forced infection, every child/young adult will eventually have long covid. How severely? Will it resolve? Who knows. The symptoms most reported are fatigue and memory loss/brain fog: brain damage.

Well, there are two separate issues: 1) caring about children as public policy 2) caring about one’s own children. The risk of long covid not only increases w/ each infection, but is cumulative. (15% for first infection; 37% for third) www.unmc.edu/healthsecuri....

The “nothing bad is happening to me yet/right now” attitude towards viruses is incredible to me, esp where children are concerned. We know a virus causes MS, eg. And we’re exposing children to a virus multiple times a year, in perpetuity.

FYI, I had a mild covid infection (just once, 2022, when everyone stopped masking—thanks guys). I completely recovered, no long covid. I do everything possible to avoid reinfection. The risk of LC goes up with every infection. I don’t want an early stroke or cancer or dementia…

Now the consensus is “they have to stay all-in on their denial, because they cannot admit they did this to children, including their own children, and face themselves.”

For a couple years, covid-cautious ppl thought “they will see the error of pretending covid is over, after their loved one dies, they have a stroke at 35, their kid gets pediatric diabetes” etc. instead we have watched in horror while that happens & y’all pretend it’s not related to covid…

Lies by the government & CDC (and the huge “back to normal!” propaganda campaign) share blame. Those of us who were reading the studies coming out knew the gov was lying…

What disabled ppl say is that the policy of forced mass infection means they are not only totally excluded from participation in ANYTHING, they can’t even safely get medical care

I care a lot about ppl who have to use hospitals—masking isn’t even requited in pediatric oncology wards. I care a lot about my daughter’s friends unmasked in school. I care a lot about my two friends with bad long covid. I care a lot about my brilliant friend with one lung..

Yes but that was still in the blue/red split era. After the vaccine, the blues went red. If a majority of Dems had said wait a minute, I’m not going back to the office or sending my kids back to school without clean air, testing, adequate funding for 10 days quarantine etc—

Yes. But I feel like you’re still evading the point that we *had leverage* to get indoor air quality standards enacted. And the mass of liberals/Dems didn’t use that leverage.

I don’t care if other ppl gather in crowds, as long as I can avoid them. What I do care about is public places like schools and hospitals—that I can’t avoid—not having reasonable covid prevention.

The leverage that was there was: liberals might not get the economy cranking again if covid safety measures weren’t taken. And they just flushed that leverage.

Ableist; sorry for typo. But srsly, you want to live in a society with the ethic “well I don’t think it’s going to affect me, so I don’t care about whom a forced infection forever policy will affect?” That’s pretty bleak.