More than Two Weeks Behind
Mar. 31st, 2020 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* I'm going to section off coronavirus stuff in the aggregation between the dotted lines, so people who need to skip can skip without losing the other stuff.
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* "We’re not going back to normal:" https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615370/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing-18-months/
* "That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief:" https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief
* "I’m Treating Too Many Young People for the Coronavirus:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/young-people-are-not-immune-coronavirus/608794/
* "Hay fever or virus? For allergy sufferers, a season of worry:" https://apnews.com/484aebf9c88a1615c6ced8ba66c90dee
* "Simple DIY masks could help flatten the curve. We should all wear them in public.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/28/masks-all-coronavirus/
* "Brazil gangs impose strict curfews to slow coronavirus spread:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/brazil-rio-gangs-coronavirus
* "Trump antagonism of China could hurt coronavirus cooperation:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-antagonism-of-china-could-hurt-coronavirus-cooperation-81407045593
* "Trump administration sent protective medical gear to China while he minimized the virus threat to US:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/opinions/coronavirus-personal-protective-equipment-obeidallah/
* "U.S. Prepares for Prolonged Shutdowns as Coronavirus Strains Hospitals:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-gets-back-to-work-while-u-s-extends-coronavirus-shutdowns-11585561393?mod=hp_lead_pos1
* "Fauci Estimates That 100,000 To 200,000 Americans Could Die From The Coronavirus:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/29/823517467/fauci-estimates-that-100-000-to-200-000-americans-could-die-from-the-coronavirus
* "The Coronavirus Is the Worst Intelligence Failure in U.S. History:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/25/coronavirus-worst-intelligence-failure-us-history-covid-19/
* This despite no real evidence they work and some people with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis need them. "FDA issues emergency authorization of anti-malaria drug for coronavirus care:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/29/fda-emergency-authorization-anti-malaria-drug-155095
* "Trump falsely denies saying two things he said last week:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/politics/fact-check-coronavirus-briefing/index.html
* "Trump: I’m Doing a Great Job Fighting the Coronavirus, and 100,000 of You Will Die:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-im-doing-a-great-job-fighting-the-coronavirus-and-100000-of-you-will-die
* "Senator says White House turned down emergency coronavirus funding in early February:" https://news.yahoo.com/senator-says-white-house-turned-down-emergency-coronavirus-funding-in-early-february-003319950.html
* "The Lost Month: How a Failure to Test Blinded the U.S. to Covid-19:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/testing-coronavirus-pandemic.html
* "‘Ukraine all over again’ Sen. Murphy on Trump’s uneven federal response to COVID-19:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ukraine-all-over-again-sen-murphy-on-trump-s-uneven-federal-response-to-covid-19-81401413879
* "The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/28/trump-coronavirus-politics-us-health-disaster
“The US response will be studied for generations as a textbook example of a disastrous, failed effort,” Ron Klain, who spearheaded the fight against Ebola in 2014, told a Georgetown university panel recently. “What’s happened in Washington has been a fiasco of incredible proportions.”
* "As Trump invokes presidential powers to fight the coronavirus, he sows confusion along the way:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-quarantine-defense-production-act-confusion/2020/03/28/2c7d9214-7125-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html
* "President Trump extends social distancing guidance until end of April:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/president-trump-extends-social-distancing-guidance-until-end-of-april/2020/03/29/5799f262-71e8-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html
* "Federal officials repeatedly warned that US hospitals lacked enough ventilators:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/cnn10/ventilators-supply-government-warnings-coronavirus-invs/index.html
* 45 keeps insisting he doesn't understand why we suddenly need masks and ventilators. The only way that makes sense is if he's so impaired he keeps forgetting from minute to minute that there is literally a pandemic happening right now. "Trump blames hospitals for mask and ventilator shortages:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/29/trump-bizarrely-blames-hospitals-mask-ventilator-shortages/
* "National COVID-19 response useless for coordinating medical supplies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/national-covid-response-useless-for-coordinating-medical-supplies-81405509922
* "Pentagon may be best option to coordinate medical equipment supply chain:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pentagon-may-be-best-option-to-coordinate-medical-equipment-supply-chain-81406021965
* "High School Robotics Team Makes Personal Protective Equipment:" https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/30/High-School-Robotics-Team-Makes-Personal-Protective-Equipment/
* "DoD isolating critical troops and commanders to be ready in a crisis amid pandemic:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/politics/us-military-special-protection-measures-coronavirus/index.html
* He is turning federal aid into an extortion racket. "Trump boosts virus aid, warns governors to be 'appreciative':" https://apnews.com/744ea7fa48991a906bd4e7daa36db7b2
* "Trump to Issue Travel Advisory for N.Y. Region, Backing Off Quarantine Threat:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/politics/trump-virginia-comfort-coronavirus.html
* "Hospital Ship USNS Comfort Arrives In New York To Ease Coronavirus Pressure:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/30/823826987/hospital-ship-usns-comfort-arrives-in-new-york-to-ease-coronavirus-pressure
* "'We are the laughingstock of the country,' Mississippi mayor laments after governor's deadly order:" https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/27/1931761/--We-are-the-laughingstock-of-the-country-Mississippi-mayor-laments-after-governor-s-deadly-order
* "‘It’s no different from New York’: Urban centers nationwide gird for catastrophic virus outbreak:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/its-no-different-from-new-york-urban-centers-nationwide-gird-for-catastrophic-virus-outbreak/2020/03/28/4943e4ca-7067-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html
* "FEMA sends refrigerated trucks to New York City to hold bodies:" https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/03/30/fema-sends-refrigerated-trucks-to-new-york-city-to-hold-bodies-1269600
* "L.A. County got 170 broken ventilators from feds; Silicon Valley is fixing them, Newsom says:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-29/california-broken-ventilators-silicon-valley-newsom
* "Where coronavirus outbreak started in Washington state, officials see hope as cases appear to be leveling off:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-washington-state-leveling-off/2020/03/26/682790e6-6f6b-11ea-a3ec-70d7479d83f0_story.html
I keep saying my state and local government are doing their damnedest to try to keep as many people as possible alive.
This is why voting matters. This is why I keep saying vote in every primary and election and in every race.
* "‘We acted quickly and we acted together:’ How Seattle slowed coronavirus curve:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-acted-quickly-and-we-acted-together-how-seattle-slowed-coronavirus-curve-81401413644
* "Missouri nurses join plea for governor to issue stay-at-home order:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/missouri-nurses-join-plea-for-governor-to-issue-stay-at-home-order-81404997952
* "Governor Gavin Newsom - How California Is Combating the Coronavirus:"
* "LGBTQ Elders Face Special Challenges in Health Crisis:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2020/3/30/lgbtq-elders-face-special-challenges-health-crisis
* "Meet the Transgender Doctor Leading Pennsylvania's COVID-19 Response:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2020/3/30/meet-transgender-doctor-leading-pennsylvanias-covid-19-response
* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/
* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/
* "People With Disabilities Say Rationing Care Policies Violate Civil Rights:" https://www.npr.org/2020/03/23/820398531/people-with-disabilities-say-rationing-care-policies-violate-civil-rights
* "The Staggering, Heartless Cruelty Toward the Elderly:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/respect-old/607864/
* "Federal law enforcement document reveals white supremacists discussed using coronavirus as a bioweapon:" https://news.yahoo.com/federal-law-enforcement-document-reveals-white-supremacists-discussed-using-coronavirus-as-a-bioweapon-212031308.html
* "The deep leadership flaw revealed by Trump touting his coronavirus press conference ratings:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-daily-briefing-white-house/index.html
* "Evangelical pastor reopens university, 12 students display COVID-19 symptoms:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/evangelical-pastor-reopens-university-12-students-display-covid-19-symptoms-81401413985
* "The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-contrarian-coronavirus-theory-that-informed-the-trump-administration
* "Homophobic evangelicals take a break from lying about gay people to spread coronavirus misinformation:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/26/coronavirus-misinformation-homophobic-evangelicals-american-family-association-bryan-fischer/
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* "Pentagon Order to Plan for Escalation in Iraq Meets Warning From Top Commander:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/world/middleeast/pentagon-iran-iraq-militias-coronavirus.html
* Meanwhiile in Autocracy News: The war on Oversight continues. "Trump Suggests He Can Gag Inspector General for Stimulus Bailout Program:"
* "Justice Department reviews stock trades by lawmakers after coronavirus briefings:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/politics/justice-stock-trades-lawmakers-coronavirus/index.html
* "Joe Biden coronavirus ad praises Ronald Reagan, seemingly forgetting his handling of the AIDS crisis killed thousands:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/26/joe-biden-ronald-reagan-donalf-trump-coronavirus-campaign-ad-aids-crisis/
* "You have a right to be angry, Gov. DeSantis. But not petty and petulant.:" https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/03/29/you-have-a-right-to-be-angry-gov-desantis-but-not-petty-and-petulant/
"You better believe it. Playing fast and loose with journalistic access is meant to have a chilling effect on reporters. There’s an unspoken threat that if you ask tough questions or your media outlet reports unfavorable news, then you’re not going to get close to the governor.
And that chill extends beyond the newspapers that were banned. Other reporters then have to weigh the costs of asking tough questions versus the prospect of being excluded.
And do you know who suffers?
You do. At a time when residents are fearful of the virus and worried about their job security, it’s a little disconcerting that the governor’s office appears hellbent on avoiding questions from a reporter with more than 30 years of experience in the Capitol."
* "Amazon, Instacart Grocery Delivery Workers Demand Coronavirus Protection And Pay:" https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/823767492/amazon-instacart-grocery-delivery-workers-strike-for-coronavirus-protection-and-
* "A day after closing Oklahoma stores, Hobby Lobby begins worker layoffs:" https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/a-day-after-closing-oklahoma-stores-hobby-lobby-begins-worker-layoffs/
* ""Cruel:" Trump Admin. Moves to Take Land of Mashpee Tribe—Whose Casino Plans Irked President's "Special Interest Friends"—Out of Trust:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/29/cruel-trump-admin-moves-take-land-mashpee-tribe-whose-casino-plans-irked-presidents
* "Mashpee Wampanoag Lose Massachusetts Reservation after Order:" https://www.casino.org/news/mashpee-wampanoag-to-lose-massachusetts-reservation-after-order-from-trump-administration/
* "DOJ Wants to Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/doj-suspend-constitutional-rights-coronavirus-970935/
"But the Constitution grants citizens habeas corpus, which gives arrestees the right to appear in front of a judge and ask to be released before trial. Enacting legislation like the DOJ wants would essentially suspend habeas corpus indefinitely until the emergency ended. Further, DOJ asked Congress to suspend the statute of limitations on criminal investigations and civil proceedings during the emergency until a year after it ended."
* TW: Rape. "Lesbian sexually assaulted by man who told her he would ‘fix the gay’, police say:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/26/lesbian-sexual-assault-fix-gay-police-arrest-salt-lake-city-utah-corrective-rape/
* "Teenage boy rushed to hospital after sickening ‘homophobic’ gang attack outside a McDonald’s:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/18/boy-battered-mcdonalds-homophobic-hate-crime-liverpool/
* "Gay dancer trapped at home with homophobic Christian parents who think he has an ‘evil disease’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/26/homophobia-christian-parents-gay-dancer-evil-disease-birmingham-coronavirus-lockdown/
* "Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups Continue to Rise:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/3/30/anti-lgbtq-hate-groups-continue-rise
* "Lesbian mums say son was forced to attend anti-gay sermons if he wanted to play basketball:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/26/anti-gay-sermons-lesbian-gym-chuck-comer-basketball-west-valley-middle-school-tennessee/
* "Trans Woman Stabbed to Death in NYC Park, Allegedly Over a Wig:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/3/30/trans-woman-stabbed-death-nyc-park-allegedly-over-wig
* "The Pandemic Has Led to a Huge, Global Drop in Air Pollution:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-pandemic-has-led-to-a-huge-global-drop-in-air-pollution/
* "Pathogen Resistance:" https://xkcd-rss.livejournal.com/584191.html
* "For Drive-In Theaters, an Unexpected Revival:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/style/drive-in-theaters-coronavirus.html
* "Moscow Goes Into Lockdown & Boris Johnson Comes Down with the Coronavirus:"
* "Trump Claims Hospitals Are Hoarding Medical Supplies:"
* "Stephen Colbert Returns With A Message: America, You Got This.:"
* "John Oliver On Trump's Handling Of The Pandemic Response:"
* When I think of myself as a medical detective, with my body presenting a mystery of the weelk for me to solve? This is what I mean.
I am on day two of sporadic low grade fever. The problem here is put my body under any physical stress at all and I run a sporadic low grade fever. One of the many things my body bad at is temperature regulation. I can vary as much as a degree of either side of normal without it meaning much of anything. It does it a lot more the worse my disability situation gets, but this has always been the case, since it's a common feature of my sort of brain design.
Thing is this sporadic fever coincides with the extreme pain incident I am experiencing. Yesterday, it felt like my arm was half severed with an axe, with the pain radiating out from my joint in predictable ways. It was nigh unbearable on the second strongest pain management package I can marshal with might be described as an impressive legal pharmacopeia and a host of pain management techniques I've learned over literally decades of dealing with this. The only thing I couldn't do that works was acupuncture, because, you know pandemic. Also money.
I made a lot of progress with it and it's still bad today, but I no longer want to scream, vomit, and/or pass out if I do something like try to lift my arm to shoulder level. This is what I call "manageable." It constitutes stress on my body, which could account for a low grade sporadic fever. A lot of my body hurts, but in ways predictable for AS plus a pain incident of this magnitude. I have inventoried the pain pretty thoroughly and I'm pretty sure it's not viral type "body aches," though I am on enough pain meds to mask mild symptoms.
I have a headache, which could be connected to the pain radiating up my neck or could be a pathogen. It's indeterminate, with no clear indicators one way or the other. It's not an allergy or sinus infection headache. That's the only definite statement I can make.
I am coughing now and then for no reason, but I cough now ad then for no reason every fucking day. The pattern fits normal "I'm a lung patient coughing," but also, the extra pain meds suppress cough. Odds are in favour of this being allergy season plus lung scarring, plus lung patient stuff. Shortness of breath is the same issue basically. My lungs aren't as good as they were last week, but still fairly high end for my function range. Odds are allergies plus the usual lung drama.
And then there's the break through nausea. I'm on what amounts to a cancer patient dose of anti-nausea meds, because it's the only way I can function at all/keep food down. There was a ton of nausea today. Problem is, This pain incident is well above the level required to make nausea all by itself, especially when a headache is happening.
My eyes are normal and I definitely still have a sense of taste and smell, though dulled a tad, again normal for allergy season.
I can't not interact with Squirrel especially now, as he's the one who can read the old analog thermometer. I literally can't see the tiny dark line that tells the temperature.
So idk. Probably, this is all my chronic stuff ganging up on me, but I can't really be sure, can I?
There is no point in worrying, so I'm just monitoring it.
In related news, I still feel like crap. I've stepped a level down on the pain medication, because I fucking hate opioids and my arm is functional today. (Long term readers will know my family has a genetic anomaly that makes opiods and a number of other drugs do really unpleasant things. I appear to have a lesser version of that, but instead of high I get a collection of nasty side effects. I will takes this lesser version over full spectrum hallucinations, paranoia, and extreme agitation and aggression any day. Seriously, at least three of my relatives looked like they were having a violent psychotic break if you put them on opiods or antipsychotics, so... yeah. This is much better and means I'm a really safe person to give control over a small supply of prescription narcotics for situations like yesterday. I tend to save them for things like: I move like a half crushed spider because the pain is so extreme my limbs aren't working right or barely at all and it takes an hour to get my body and limbs in position to take a pain med because the pain is such that I physically can't move more than n inch at a time or that thing where my legs keep collapsing and I need to make dinner, or my eardrum id perforating again, or... you get the idea. The pain needs to be worse than the opioid side effects and I have a pretty high pain tolerance. I will endure a fuck of a lot before taking even the weakest of pills on top of my nonnarcotic arthritis stuff.)
Anyway, I am mildly impaired and also in a lot of pain, so post quality may vary and I may accidentally double post some article.
* "Tennyson's "Ulysses": I Hate My Living, Useful Son:" https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/tennysons-ulysses-i-hate-my-living?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDEyMDksIl8iOiJINmxnVyIsImlhdCI6MTU4NTYzOTYzNCwiZXhwIjoxNTg1NjQzMjM0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.t0fSyj-o0uj7euCEx5WH9rgqumindSOYdO1GuQYp0ms
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/
* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/
* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/
* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers
* "100 Million Mask Challenge:" https://www.providence.org/lp/100m-masks
* "Coronavirus: Deaconess asks public to sew CDC-compliant face masks for staff:" https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2020/03/18/coronavirus-deaconess-ask-public-provide-medical-face-masks/2865273001/
* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* The Indivisble guide exists to help you organize effective resistance: https://indivisible.org/
* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:
Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa
Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:
Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan
* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav
* Want to get rid of Lindsey Graham? Help Jaime Harrison: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_q12019_jaime-a?refcode=MS_AD_D-DD_2019.03.08_X_GG_KW__X__eyJjcmVhdGl2ZSI6IkFkZCBEb25hdGlvbiBOb3ciLCJhdWRpZW5jZSI6IkphaW1lSGFycmlzb24ifQ&recurring=TRUE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4a_583I5gIVC8RkCh0MowFeEAAYASAAEgIXZfD_BwE
* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE
* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25
* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion
* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
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The dry food I was going to try is this one: https://www.chewy.com/blue-buffalo-wilderness-flatland/dp/176663
* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
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* "We’re not going back to normal:" https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615370/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing-18-months/
* "That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief:" https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief
* "I’m Treating Too Many Young People for the Coronavirus:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/young-people-are-not-immune-coronavirus/608794/
* "Hay fever or virus? For allergy sufferers, a season of worry:" https://apnews.com/484aebf9c88a1615c6ced8ba66c90dee
* "Simple DIY masks could help flatten the curve. We should all wear them in public.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/28/masks-all-coronavirus/
* "Brazil gangs impose strict curfews to slow coronavirus spread:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/brazil-rio-gangs-coronavirus
* "Trump antagonism of China could hurt coronavirus cooperation:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-antagonism-of-china-could-hurt-coronavirus-cooperation-81407045593
* "Trump administration sent protective medical gear to China while he minimized the virus threat to US:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/opinions/coronavirus-personal-protective-equipment-obeidallah/
* "U.S. Prepares for Prolonged Shutdowns as Coronavirus Strains Hospitals:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-gets-back-to-work-while-u-s-extends-coronavirus-shutdowns-11585561393?mod=hp_lead_pos1
* "Fauci Estimates That 100,000 To 200,000 Americans Could Die From The Coronavirus:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/29/823517467/fauci-estimates-that-100-000-to-200-000-americans-could-die-from-the-coronavirus
* "The Coronavirus Is the Worst Intelligence Failure in U.S. History:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/25/coronavirus-worst-intelligence-failure-us-history-covid-19/
* This despite no real evidence they work and some people with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis need them. "FDA issues emergency authorization of anti-malaria drug for coronavirus care:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/29/fda-emergency-authorization-anti-malaria-drug-155095
* "Trump falsely denies saying two things he said last week:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/politics/fact-check-coronavirus-briefing/index.html
* "Trump: I’m Doing a Great Job Fighting the Coronavirus, and 100,000 of You Will Die:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-im-doing-a-great-job-fighting-the-coronavirus-and-100000-of-you-will-die
* "Senator says White House turned down emergency coronavirus funding in early February:" https://news.yahoo.com/senator-says-white-house-turned-down-emergency-coronavirus-funding-in-early-february-003319950.html
* "The Lost Month: How a Failure to Test Blinded the U.S. to Covid-19:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/testing-coronavirus-pandemic.html
* "‘Ukraine all over again’ Sen. Murphy on Trump’s uneven federal response to COVID-19:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ukraine-all-over-again-sen-murphy-on-trump-s-uneven-federal-response-to-covid-19-81401413879
* "The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/28/trump-coronavirus-politics-us-health-disaster
“The US response will be studied for generations as a textbook example of a disastrous, failed effort,” Ron Klain, who spearheaded the fight against Ebola in 2014, told a Georgetown university panel recently. “What’s happened in Washington has been a fiasco of incredible proportions.”
* "As Trump invokes presidential powers to fight the coronavirus, he sows confusion along the way:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-quarantine-defense-production-act-confusion/2020/03/28/2c7d9214-7125-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html
* "President Trump extends social distancing guidance until end of April:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/president-trump-extends-social-distancing-guidance-until-end-of-april/2020/03/29/5799f262-71e8-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html
* "Federal officials repeatedly warned that US hospitals lacked enough ventilators:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/cnn10/ventilators-supply-government-warnings-coronavirus-invs/index.html
* 45 keeps insisting he doesn't understand why we suddenly need masks and ventilators. The only way that makes sense is if he's so impaired he keeps forgetting from minute to minute that there is literally a pandemic happening right now. "Trump blames hospitals for mask and ventilator shortages:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/29/trump-bizarrely-blames-hospitals-mask-ventilator-shortages/
* "National COVID-19 response useless for coordinating medical supplies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/national-covid-response-useless-for-coordinating-medical-supplies-81405509922
* "Pentagon may be best option to coordinate medical equipment supply chain:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pentagon-may-be-best-option-to-coordinate-medical-equipment-supply-chain-81406021965
* "High School Robotics Team Makes Personal Protective Equipment:" https://www.neatorama.com/2020/03/30/High-School-Robotics-Team-Makes-Personal-Protective-Equipment/
* "DoD isolating critical troops and commanders to be ready in a crisis amid pandemic:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/politics/us-military-special-protection-measures-coronavirus/index.html
* He is turning federal aid into an extortion racket. "Trump boosts virus aid, warns governors to be 'appreciative':" https://apnews.com/744ea7fa48991a906bd4e7daa36db7b2
* "Trump to Issue Travel Advisory for N.Y. Region, Backing Off Quarantine Threat:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/politics/trump-virginia-comfort-coronavirus.html
* "Hospital Ship USNS Comfort Arrives In New York To Ease Coronavirus Pressure:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/30/823826987/hospital-ship-usns-comfort-arrives-in-new-york-to-ease-coronavirus-pressure
* "'We are the laughingstock of the country,' Mississippi mayor laments after governor's deadly order:" https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/27/1931761/--We-are-the-laughingstock-of-the-country-Mississippi-mayor-laments-after-governor-s-deadly-order
* "‘It’s no different from New York’: Urban centers nationwide gird for catastrophic virus outbreak:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/its-no-different-from-new-york-urban-centers-nationwide-gird-for-catastrophic-virus-outbreak/2020/03/28/4943e4ca-7067-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html
* "FEMA sends refrigerated trucks to New York City to hold bodies:" https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/03/30/fema-sends-refrigerated-trucks-to-new-york-city-to-hold-bodies-1269600
* "L.A. County got 170 broken ventilators from feds; Silicon Valley is fixing them, Newsom says:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-29/california-broken-ventilators-silicon-valley-newsom
* "Where coronavirus outbreak started in Washington state, officials see hope as cases appear to be leveling off:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-washington-state-leveling-off/2020/03/26/682790e6-6f6b-11ea-a3ec-70d7479d83f0_story.html
I keep saying my state and local government are doing their damnedest to try to keep as many people as possible alive.
This is why voting matters. This is why I keep saying vote in every primary and election and in every race.
* "‘We acted quickly and we acted together:’ How Seattle slowed coronavirus curve:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-acted-quickly-and-we-acted-together-how-seattle-slowed-coronavirus-curve-81401413644
* "Missouri nurses join plea for governor to issue stay-at-home order:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/missouri-nurses-join-plea-for-governor-to-issue-stay-at-home-order-81404997952
* "Governor Gavin Newsom - How California Is Combating the Coronavirus:"
* "LGBTQ Elders Face Special Challenges in Health Crisis:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2020/3/30/lgbtq-elders-face-special-challenges-health-crisis
* "Meet the Transgender Doctor Leading Pennsylvania's COVID-19 Response:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2020/3/30/meet-transgender-doctor-leading-pennsylvanias-covid-19-response
* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/
* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/
* "People With Disabilities Say Rationing Care Policies Violate Civil Rights:" https://www.npr.org/2020/03/23/820398531/people-with-disabilities-say-rationing-care-policies-violate-civil-rights
* "The Staggering, Heartless Cruelty Toward the Elderly:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/respect-old/607864/
* "Federal law enforcement document reveals white supremacists discussed using coronavirus as a bioweapon:" https://news.yahoo.com/federal-law-enforcement-document-reveals-white-supremacists-discussed-using-coronavirus-as-a-bioweapon-212031308.html
* "The deep leadership flaw revealed by Trump touting his coronavirus press conference ratings:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-daily-briefing-white-house/index.html
* "Evangelical pastor reopens university, 12 students display COVID-19 symptoms:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/evangelical-pastor-reopens-university-12-students-display-covid-19-symptoms-81401413985
* "The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-contrarian-coronavirus-theory-that-informed-the-trump-administration
* "Homophobic evangelicals take a break from lying about gay people to spread coronavirus misinformation:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/26/coronavirus-misinformation-homophobic-evangelicals-american-family-association-bryan-fischer/
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* "Pentagon Order to Plan for Escalation in Iraq Meets Warning From Top Commander:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/world/middleeast/pentagon-iran-iraq-militias-coronavirus.html
* Meanwhiile in Autocracy News: The war on Oversight continues. "Trump Suggests He Can Gag Inspector General for Stimulus Bailout Program:"
* "Justice Department reviews stock trades by lawmakers after coronavirus briefings:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/politics/justice-stock-trades-lawmakers-coronavirus/index.html
* "Joe Biden coronavirus ad praises Ronald Reagan, seemingly forgetting his handling of the AIDS crisis killed thousands:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/26/joe-biden-ronald-reagan-donalf-trump-coronavirus-campaign-ad-aids-crisis/
* "You have a right to be angry, Gov. DeSantis. But not petty and petulant.:" https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/03/29/you-have-a-right-to-be-angry-gov-desantis-but-not-petty-and-petulant/
"You better believe it. Playing fast and loose with journalistic access is meant to have a chilling effect on reporters. There’s an unspoken threat that if you ask tough questions or your media outlet reports unfavorable news, then you’re not going to get close to the governor.
And that chill extends beyond the newspapers that were banned. Other reporters then have to weigh the costs of asking tough questions versus the prospect of being excluded.
And do you know who suffers?
You do. At a time when residents are fearful of the virus and worried about their job security, it’s a little disconcerting that the governor’s office appears hellbent on avoiding questions from a reporter with more than 30 years of experience in the Capitol."
* "Amazon, Instacart Grocery Delivery Workers Demand Coronavirus Protection And Pay:" https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/823767492/amazon-instacart-grocery-delivery-workers-strike-for-coronavirus-protection-and-
* "A day after closing Oklahoma stores, Hobby Lobby begins worker layoffs:" https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/a-day-after-closing-oklahoma-stores-hobby-lobby-begins-worker-layoffs/
* ""Cruel:" Trump Admin. Moves to Take Land of Mashpee Tribe—Whose Casino Plans Irked President's "Special Interest Friends"—Out of Trust:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/29/cruel-trump-admin-moves-take-land-mashpee-tribe-whose-casino-plans-irked-presidents
* "Mashpee Wampanoag Lose Massachusetts Reservation after Order:" https://www.casino.org/news/mashpee-wampanoag-to-lose-massachusetts-reservation-after-order-from-trump-administration/
* "DOJ Wants to Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/doj-suspend-constitutional-rights-coronavirus-970935/
"But the Constitution grants citizens habeas corpus, which gives arrestees the right to appear in front of a judge and ask to be released before trial. Enacting legislation like the DOJ wants would essentially suspend habeas corpus indefinitely until the emergency ended. Further, DOJ asked Congress to suspend the statute of limitations on criminal investigations and civil proceedings during the emergency until a year after it ended."
* TW: Rape. "Lesbian sexually assaulted by man who told her he would ‘fix the gay’, police say:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/26/lesbian-sexual-assault-fix-gay-police-arrest-salt-lake-city-utah-corrective-rape/
* "Teenage boy rushed to hospital after sickening ‘homophobic’ gang attack outside a McDonald’s:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/18/boy-battered-mcdonalds-homophobic-hate-crime-liverpool/
* "Gay dancer trapped at home with homophobic Christian parents who think he has an ‘evil disease’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/26/homophobia-christian-parents-gay-dancer-evil-disease-birmingham-coronavirus-lockdown/
* "Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups Continue to Rise:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/3/30/anti-lgbtq-hate-groups-continue-rise
* "Lesbian mums say son was forced to attend anti-gay sermons if he wanted to play basketball:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/26/anti-gay-sermons-lesbian-gym-chuck-comer-basketball-west-valley-middle-school-tennessee/
* "Trans Woman Stabbed to Death in NYC Park, Allegedly Over a Wig:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/3/30/trans-woman-stabbed-death-nyc-park-allegedly-over-wig
* "The Pandemic Has Led to a Huge, Global Drop in Air Pollution:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-pandemic-has-led-to-a-huge-global-drop-in-air-pollution/
* "Pathogen Resistance:" https://xkcd-rss.livejournal.com/584191.html
* "For Drive-In Theaters, an Unexpected Revival:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/style/drive-in-theaters-coronavirus.html
* "Moscow Goes Into Lockdown & Boris Johnson Comes Down with the Coronavirus:"
* "Trump Claims Hospitals Are Hoarding Medical Supplies:"
* "Stephen Colbert Returns With A Message: America, You Got This.:"
* "John Oliver On Trump's Handling Of The Pandemic Response:"
* When I think of myself as a medical detective, with my body presenting a mystery of the weelk for me to solve? This is what I mean.
I am on day two of sporadic low grade fever. The problem here is put my body under any physical stress at all and I run a sporadic low grade fever. One of the many things my body bad at is temperature regulation. I can vary as much as a degree of either side of normal without it meaning much of anything. It does it a lot more the worse my disability situation gets, but this has always been the case, since it's a common feature of my sort of brain design.
Thing is this sporadic fever coincides with the extreme pain incident I am experiencing. Yesterday, it felt like my arm was half severed with an axe, with the pain radiating out from my joint in predictable ways. It was nigh unbearable on the second strongest pain management package I can marshal with might be described as an impressive legal pharmacopeia and a host of pain management techniques I've learned over literally decades of dealing with this. The only thing I couldn't do that works was acupuncture, because, you know pandemic. Also money.
I made a lot of progress with it and it's still bad today, but I no longer want to scream, vomit, and/or pass out if I do something like try to lift my arm to shoulder level. This is what I call "manageable." It constitutes stress on my body, which could account for a low grade sporadic fever. A lot of my body hurts, but in ways predictable for AS plus a pain incident of this magnitude. I have inventoried the pain pretty thoroughly and I'm pretty sure it's not viral type "body aches," though I am on enough pain meds to mask mild symptoms.
I have a headache, which could be connected to the pain radiating up my neck or could be a pathogen. It's indeterminate, with no clear indicators one way or the other. It's not an allergy or sinus infection headache. That's the only definite statement I can make.
I am coughing now and then for no reason, but I cough now ad then for no reason every fucking day. The pattern fits normal "I'm a lung patient coughing," but also, the extra pain meds suppress cough. Odds are in favour of this being allergy season plus lung scarring, plus lung patient stuff. Shortness of breath is the same issue basically. My lungs aren't as good as they were last week, but still fairly high end for my function range. Odds are allergies plus the usual lung drama.
And then there's the break through nausea. I'm on what amounts to a cancer patient dose of anti-nausea meds, because it's the only way I can function at all/keep food down. There was a ton of nausea today. Problem is, This pain incident is well above the level required to make nausea all by itself, especially when a headache is happening.
My eyes are normal and I definitely still have a sense of taste and smell, though dulled a tad, again normal for allergy season.
I can't not interact with Squirrel especially now, as he's the one who can read the old analog thermometer. I literally can't see the tiny dark line that tells the temperature.
So idk. Probably, this is all my chronic stuff ganging up on me, but I can't really be sure, can I?
There is no point in worrying, so I'm just monitoring it.
In related news, I still feel like crap. I've stepped a level down on the pain medication, because I fucking hate opioids and my arm is functional today. (Long term readers will know my family has a genetic anomaly that makes opiods and a number of other drugs do really unpleasant things. I appear to have a lesser version of that, but instead of high I get a collection of nasty side effects. I will takes this lesser version over full spectrum hallucinations, paranoia, and extreme agitation and aggression any day. Seriously, at least three of my relatives looked like they were having a violent psychotic break if you put them on opiods or antipsychotics, so... yeah. This is much better and means I'm a really safe person to give control over a small supply of prescription narcotics for situations like yesterday. I tend to save them for things like: I move like a half crushed spider because the pain is so extreme my limbs aren't working right or barely at all and it takes an hour to get my body and limbs in position to take a pain med because the pain is such that I physically can't move more than n inch at a time or that thing where my legs keep collapsing and I need to make dinner, or my eardrum id perforating again, or... you get the idea. The pain needs to be worse than the opioid side effects and I have a pretty high pain tolerance. I will endure a fuck of a lot before taking even the weakest of pills on top of my nonnarcotic arthritis stuff.)
Anyway, I am mildly impaired and also in a lot of pain, so post quality may vary and I may accidentally double post some article.
* "Tennyson's "Ulysses": I Hate My Living, Useful Son:" https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/tennysons-ulysses-i-hate-my-living?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNDEyMDksIl8iOiJINmxnVyIsImlhdCI6MTU4NTYzOTYzNCwiZXhwIjoxNTg1NjQzMjM0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.t0fSyj-o0uj7euCEx5WH9rgqumindSOYdO1GuQYp0ms
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/
* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/
* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/
* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers
* "100 Million Mask Challenge:" https://www.providence.org/lp/100m-masks
* "Coronavirus: Deaconess asks public to sew CDC-compliant face masks for staff:" https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2020/03/18/coronavirus-deaconess-ask-public-provide-medical-face-masks/2865273001/
* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* The Indivisble guide exists to help you organize effective resistance: https://indivisible.org/
* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:
Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa
Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:
Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan
* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav
* Want to get rid of Lindsey Graham? Help Jaime Harrison: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_q12019_jaime-a?refcode=MS_AD_D-DD_2019.03.08_X_GG_KW__X__eyJjcmVhdGl2ZSI6IkFkZCBEb25hdGlvbiBOb3ciLCJhdWRpZW5jZSI6IkphaW1lSGFycmlzb24ifQ&recurring=TRUE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4a_583I5gIVC8RkCh0MowFeEAAYASAAEgIXZfD_BwE
* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE
* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25
* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion
* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
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The dry food I was going to try is this one: https://www.chewy.com/blue-buffalo-wilderness-flatland/dp/176663
* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html