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Six Weeks Behind
* I'm sectioning off epidemic specific stuff in the aggregation between the dotted lines, so people who need to skip can skip without losing the other stuff. I'm putting secondary effects things in their usual slots.
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* "LGBTQ People Not to Blame for Pandemic, Global Groups Declare:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2020/4/28/lgbtq-people-not-blame-pandemic-global-groups-declare
* "Brazil’s densely packed favelas brace for coronavirus: ‘It will kill a lot of people.’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazil-coronavirus-rio-favela/2020/03/20/2522b49e-6889-11ea-b199-3a9799c54512_story.html
* "Care home coronavirus deaths rising rapidly:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52455072
* "Why some Nigerians are gloating about coronavirus:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52372737
* "What is behind Nigeria's unexplained deaths?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52454259
* "Isolating the Sick at Home, Italy Stores Up Family Tragedies:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/world/europe/italy-coronavirus-home-isolation.html
* "Inside the Dystopian, Post-Lockdown World of Wuhan:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-23/wuhan-s-return-to-life-temperature-checks-and-constant-anxiety
* "U.S. reports 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases — nearly a third of the global total:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-cases-1-million-confirmed-united-states/
* "Coronavirus shakes the conceit of ‘American exceptionalism’:" https://apnews.com/1283d176484e133f31080227bb15c5d1
* "Mike Pence ignores Mayo Clinic's face mask rule during visit:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/28/mike-pence-face-mask-mayo-clinic-visit-coronavirus
* Did I already post this? I've lost track. "Home Alone at the White House: A Sour President, With TV His Constant Companion:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/coronavirus-trump.html
* "Cases rise to 1,637 on Navajo Nation, 59 total confirmed deaths:" https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/cases-rise-to-1637-on-navajo-nation-59-total-confirmed-deaths/5710872/
* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities
* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html
* "Trump guidance puts burden on states to reach Covid-19 testing targets:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/28/trump-guidance-states-covid-19-testing-targets
* "New York Put Recovering Virus Patients in Hotels. Soon, 4 Were Dead.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-hotel-deaths.html
* "Months into coronavirus crisis, federal response has not improved:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/months-into-coronavirus-crisis-federal-response-has-not-improved-82649669720
* "The COVID-19 Crisis Reveals an Old Divide Between the Parties:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/what-covid-19-debate-has-common-aca-fight/608797/
* "Thousands of people pack California beaches despite coronavirus concerns:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/27/california-beaches-coronavirus-orange-county
* "Trump orders meat plants to stay open as worker deaths rise:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/28/trump-to-order-meat-plants-to-stay-open-215555
* "Under Trump, formerly stalwart CDC goes soft on meat plants:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/under-trump-formerly-stalwart-cdc-goes-soft-on-meat-plants-82725957840
* The Republican argument is it's necessary to kill al these people to save meat processing plant owners the money and trouble required to keep their workers safe. "Trump admin forsakes worker safety in false choice over meat supply:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-forsakes-worker-safety-in-false-choice-over-meat-supply-82725445510
* "Trump rapidly uses wartime power for meat, hesitates to use it for ventilators:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-rapidly-uses-wartime-power-for-meat-hesitates-to-use-it-for-ventilators-82720837584
* "Coronavirus hits hundreds of U.S. police amid protective gear shortages:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-police-insight/coronavirus-hits-hundreds-of-u-s-police-amid-protective-gear-shortages-idUSKBN21H2X6
* "'A Ticking Time Bomb': Advocates Warn COVID-19 Is Spreading Rapidly Behind Bars:" https://www.npr.org/2020/04/28/846678912/a-ticking-time-bomb-advocates-warn-covid-19-is-spreading-rapidly-behind-bars
* "Ohioans protest treatment of Marion prisoners left exposed to coronavirus:" https://www.marionstar.com/story/news/local/2020/04/26/ohioans-protest-treatment-marion-prisoners-exposed-coronavirus/3027722001/
* "Women in ICE Detention, Fearing Coronavirus, Make Video to Protest Unsafe Conditions:" https://theintercept.com/2020/03/30/coronavirus-ice-detention/
* "Meet the Gay Couple Helping NYC's Homeless Population in the Pandemic:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/4/28/meet-gay-couple-helping-nycs-homeless-population-pandemic#media-gallery-media-1
* "'Coronavirus Trutherism:' Chris Hayes on Fox News' COVID-19 hypocrisy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-covid-trutherism-chris-hayes-on-fox-news-coronavirus-hypocrisy-82716741874
* 45 is now claiming he's now so impaired that he can't see any connection between him advocating people drink or inject bleach and people drinking bleach. "Trump said he takes no responsibility for any spike in people using disinfectants improperly:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/politics/donald-trump-disinfectants-coronavirus/index.html
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* "Consumer confidence plunges to six-year low:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/consumer-confidence-six-year-low/
* Oh look! No guard rails to stop them doing stock buybacks or requirements to not fire most of their work force. "The U.S. plans to lend $500 billion to large companies. It won’t require them to preserve jobs or limit executive pay.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/28/federal-reserve-bond-corporations/
* "As Trump puts partisan spin on federal aid for states, Republicans and Democrats warn of coming financial calamity:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-puts-partisan-spin-on-federal-aid-for-states-republicans-and-democrats-warn-of-coming-financial-calamity/2020/04/27/a542f19e-889a-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html
* "McConnell dangles aid to states — with a catch:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/27/mcconnell-aid-states-coronavirus-212424
* "House drops plan to return after lawmaker backlash:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/28/house-drops-plan-to-return-to-washington-next-week-214714
* "McConnell tells GOP senators to "keep the White House in the box" on infrastructure:" https://www.axios.com/mcconnell-gop-senators-trump-coronavirus-ce94c044-0d2d-42d5-8c30-924196da1a42.html
* "Tammy Duckworth - Sustaining Vulnerable Businesses and Communities in Illinois During the Pandemic:"
* "Trump tells governors to 'seriously consider and maybe get going' on opening schools:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/trump-governors-call/index.html
* "Justin Amash announces exploratory committee for president:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/28/amash-announces-exploratory-committee-for-president-219357
* "A refugee tribunal said two men couldn’t possibly be gay because they couldn’t recall what they did after sex:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/29/refugee-status-h-i-australia-pakistan-tribunal-appeal-buzzfeed-news/
* "South African LGBTQ Group Says Homophobe Is Cruising Grindr for Sex:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2020/4/27/south-african-lgbtq-group-says-homophobe-cruising-grindr-sex
* "Man left with fractured face after vicious ‘transphobic and homophobic’ London tube attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/29/homophobic-transphobic-attack-hate-crime-london-underground-british-transport-police/
* "Alan Cumming has a succinct message for people who don’t like sharing pronouns: ‘F**k you’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/29/alan-cumming-pronouns-trans-ally-gender-coming-out-circumcision-genital-mutilation/
* "Trans Woman Murdered in Puerto Rico, Third This Month:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/4/28/trans-woman-murdered-puerto-rico-third-month
* "North Carolina Police Looking for Missing Same-Sex Couple:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2020/4/28/north-carolina-police-looking-missing-same-sex-couple
* "Public rallies behind trans doctor leading the fight against coronavirus in the face of ‘blatant transphobic bullying’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/28/dr-rachel-levine-pennsylvania-trans-transphobia-bigotry-support-coronavirus-respect4rachel/
* "Woman at centre of bitter same-sex custody battle victim of ‘hoax’ accusing her of selling coronavirus food rations:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/28/custody-case-lesbian-kidnapping-coronavirus-hoax-emergency-food-janet-jenkins-lisa-miller/
* "Blood donation in Northern Ireland is being dragged kicking and screaming in line with the UK – but it’s not enough:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/29/northern-ireland-blood-donation-gay-bisexual-rules-deferral-period-stormont-dup/
* ""I just can't do this." Harried parents forgo home school:" https://apnews.com/a3e86445d1387ecd8d1df8f9f7743e1f
* "You’ll Probably Forget What It Was Like to Live Through a Pandemic:" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmxvn/what-will-we-remember-from-the-coronavirus-covid19-pandemic
* "Why your pet is acting like a weirdo during quarantine, explained by animal behaviorists:" https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/4/24/21231806/coronavirus-pets-covid-19-cats-dogs
* "A Ray of Sunshine - Potential Vaccine Breakthrough, Pantsless Reporter & The Pentagon's UFO Videos:"
* "Sweden's "Herd Immunity" Goal, Trump's COVID-19 Intel Failure & Mike Pence's Maskless Hospital Visit:"
* "How Big Companies and Banks Exploited the Paycheck Protection Program:"
* "A Soundtrack For The Summer Of Social Distancing:"
* "Burger Enthusiast Donald Trump Orders America's Meat Plants To Stay Open:"
* "The Good Fight Short: Roy Cohn:"
* "The Good Fight Short: Russian Troll Farm:"
* "The Good Fight Short: The Legend of John Barron:"
* I keep watching all the stuff with the ableds quietly loosing their minds with confinement and it really strikes me how different this experience is for me, a person who is medically fragile and disabled. I have had to surrender a big chuck of my remaining independence and periodic friend visits, but it’s not all that different from how I lived before. Like Monday errands are gone and I hate having to depend on other people or fresh food, but I physically couldn’t go out that much before and it was exhausting and painful. I can’t just pop over to ACE if I, say, run out of lightbulbs, but how often does that happen?
I knew back in late February I’d likely be mostly confined for the next year or two, assuming a safe and effective vaccine can be made in that time. I was expecting to have to do furtive off hour shopping in a mask, but the Millennials stepped up there. The things I’m bummed about are the visit I turned down in early March from I friend i hardly ever see for safety reasons. i am bummed out I won’t be taking the Millenials swimming come summer, that I likely won’t be able to manage doing the Gothmas display alone and we’ll miss decorating and wrapping the presents in late September/early October, that I’ll be missing secret pumpkins and my Birthday/Gothmas party next Autumn. It’s things like that I’m losing and I hate it, but again, this was obvious by the beginning of March. The timeline on this is out of my hands, so there’s nothing for it, but to keep on keeping on.
I’ve had twelve years to adapt to making my own schedule in the absence of work and structuring my own life around confinement and illness. I’ve had fifteenish or so to get used to being to ill to socialize sometimes and to learn to live with infection precautions. A big chunk of my social life has been online for a decade and a halfish.
It is so weird watching the able bodied people having to en masse and all at once adapt to a life style familiar to a whole lot of us who have these kinds of disabilities. Discovering the survival skills we use to stay sane during long confinements.
I have spent decades wishing people who are sick would stay home or at least where a mask if that had to be out at places like the doctor’s office because things that are a nuisance to them can land people like me in the hospital or worse. I am often the only person I see in smoke season or allergy season or when I can’t work out if I’m sick again, but have to go out. I hate handshaking, I hated it even before I became sick for sensory reasons. assuming I don’t die of covid and they find a good vaccine, I’ll be lot safer in a world where makes were normalized and assholes with obvious lung infection don’t refuse masks and sit filling the air in the Doctor’s office with infectious coughing, where I’m required to touch strangers or me considered impolite.
I’m not heartless. Trust me, the adjustment was hard for me too. Every day I mourn the dead in the pandemic. I don’t know how long this will really be and a lot of people and important things that made up community are going to be lost.
So much depends on what we build from this. We need basic income, universal free health care, a system that automatically pays rents for people and small business in emergencies, and salaries for furloughed workers. We need environmental protection and green technologies, not the rolling back of regulations that protect people and the planet. We need a progressive tax system, not the regressive one republican have spent my life time building over my objections. We need election reform and an end to gerrymandering.
Things are going to change regardless. What happens after this horrific passage depends so much on what we build now. Together. Remember, this time it’s essential we don’t leave anyone behind.
* Monday they shut off the water for a while. We knew this was happening and it was when we are generally asleep anyway.
The water pressure has always been bad in my sink particularly, and last week i noticed it was going bad on the tub. Kitchen was still fine, and I have always assumed this is some problem with my bathroom pipes. I’ve been kicking myself for not putting it on the fix list for the city. It never occurred to me to complain because again, I thought it was a i’m responsible forit situation and also because getting management to fix anything is a nightmare game of telephones that usually involves months of them ignoring whatever and a half ass fix it job at best.
Last night I took a bath during an internet outage and there was so much hot water pouring out of the spout. I checked the sink and there was a tun of hot water coming out there too. O.o I have no idea what they did, but thumbs up.
* Something I've learned over the years is, if one is having trouble starting a task, it generally helps if one breaks the task down to smaller steps and gives oneself permission to just do one for now. At minimum one is a step closer to finishing. sometimes one keeps doing steps after that first one. If the step is too big, get smaller steps.
I stalled out on the fish equipment stuff and the boxes were making it hard to do other getting the house in order stuff. Today I did a smaller step and there is now one reasonable sized box of equipment in the bathroom waiting for a water test. I'm calling it progress.
* A hummingbird buzzed
The Winter lettuce flowers at dusk
Life continues still.
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities
* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html
* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html
* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home
* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals
* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/
* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/
* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give
* "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
* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser
* 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:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047
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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* "LGBTQ People Not to Blame for Pandemic, Global Groups Declare:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2020/4/28/lgbtq-people-not-blame-pandemic-global-groups-declare
* "Brazil’s densely packed favelas brace for coronavirus: ‘It will kill a lot of people.’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazil-coronavirus-rio-favela/2020/03/20/2522b49e-6889-11ea-b199-3a9799c54512_story.html
* "Care home coronavirus deaths rising rapidly:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52455072
* "Why some Nigerians are gloating about coronavirus:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52372737
* "What is behind Nigeria's unexplained deaths?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52454259
* "Isolating the Sick at Home, Italy Stores Up Family Tragedies:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/world/europe/italy-coronavirus-home-isolation.html
* "Inside the Dystopian, Post-Lockdown World of Wuhan:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-23/wuhan-s-return-to-life-temperature-checks-and-constant-anxiety
* "U.S. reports 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases — nearly a third of the global total:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-cases-1-million-confirmed-united-states/
* "Coronavirus shakes the conceit of ‘American exceptionalism’:" https://apnews.com/1283d176484e133f31080227bb15c5d1
* "Mike Pence ignores Mayo Clinic's face mask rule during visit:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/28/mike-pence-face-mask-mayo-clinic-visit-coronavirus
* Did I already post this? I've lost track. "Home Alone at the White House: A Sour President, With TV His Constant Companion:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/coronavirus-trump.html
* "Cases rise to 1,637 on Navajo Nation, 59 total confirmed deaths:" https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/cases-rise-to-1637-on-navajo-nation-59-total-confirmed-deaths/5710872/
* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities
* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html
* "Trump guidance puts burden on states to reach Covid-19 testing targets:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/28/trump-guidance-states-covid-19-testing-targets
* "New York Put Recovering Virus Patients in Hotels. Soon, 4 Were Dead.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-hotel-deaths.html
* "Months into coronavirus crisis, federal response has not improved:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/months-into-coronavirus-crisis-federal-response-has-not-improved-82649669720
* "The COVID-19 Crisis Reveals an Old Divide Between the Parties:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/what-covid-19-debate-has-common-aca-fight/608797/
* "Thousands of people pack California beaches despite coronavirus concerns:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/27/california-beaches-coronavirus-orange-county
* "Trump orders meat plants to stay open as worker deaths rise:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/28/trump-to-order-meat-plants-to-stay-open-215555
* "Under Trump, formerly stalwart CDC goes soft on meat plants:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/under-trump-formerly-stalwart-cdc-goes-soft-on-meat-plants-82725957840
* The Republican argument is it's necessary to kill al these people to save meat processing plant owners the money and trouble required to keep their workers safe. "Trump admin forsakes worker safety in false choice over meat supply:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-forsakes-worker-safety-in-false-choice-over-meat-supply-82725445510
* "Trump rapidly uses wartime power for meat, hesitates to use it for ventilators:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-rapidly-uses-wartime-power-for-meat-hesitates-to-use-it-for-ventilators-82720837584
* "Coronavirus hits hundreds of U.S. police amid protective gear shortages:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-police-insight/coronavirus-hits-hundreds-of-u-s-police-amid-protective-gear-shortages-idUSKBN21H2X6
* "'A Ticking Time Bomb': Advocates Warn COVID-19 Is Spreading Rapidly Behind Bars:" https://www.npr.org/2020/04/28/846678912/a-ticking-time-bomb-advocates-warn-covid-19-is-spreading-rapidly-behind-bars
* "Ohioans protest treatment of Marion prisoners left exposed to coronavirus:" https://www.marionstar.com/story/news/local/2020/04/26/ohioans-protest-treatment-marion-prisoners-exposed-coronavirus/3027722001/
* "Women in ICE Detention, Fearing Coronavirus, Make Video to Protest Unsafe Conditions:" https://theintercept.com/2020/03/30/coronavirus-ice-detention/
* "Meet the Gay Couple Helping NYC's Homeless Population in the Pandemic:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/4/28/meet-gay-couple-helping-nycs-homeless-population-pandemic#media-gallery-media-1
* "'Coronavirus Trutherism:' Chris Hayes on Fox News' COVID-19 hypocrisy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-covid-trutherism-chris-hayes-on-fox-news-coronavirus-hypocrisy-82716741874
* 45 is now claiming he's now so impaired that he can't see any connection between him advocating people drink or inject bleach and people drinking bleach. "Trump said he takes no responsibility for any spike in people using disinfectants improperly:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/politics/donald-trump-disinfectants-coronavirus/index.html
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* "Consumer confidence plunges to six-year low:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/consumer-confidence-six-year-low/
* Oh look! No guard rails to stop them doing stock buybacks or requirements to not fire most of their work force. "The U.S. plans to lend $500 billion to large companies. It won’t require them to preserve jobs or limit executive pay.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/28/federal-reserve-bond-corporations/
* "As Trump puts partisan spin on federal aid for states, Republicans and Democrats warn of coming financial calamity:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-puts-partisan-spin-on-federal-aid-for-states-republicans-and-democrats-warn-of-coming-financial-calamity/2020/04/27/a542f19e-889a-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html
* "McConnell dangles aid to states — with a catch:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/27/mcconnell-aid-states-coronavirus-212424
* "House drops plan to return after lawmaker backlash:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/28/house-drops-plan-to-return-to-washington-next-week-214714
* "McConnell tells GOP senators to "keep the White House in the box" on infrastructure:" https://www.axios.com/mcconnell-gop-senators-trump-coronavirus-ce94c044-0d2d-42d5-8c30-924196da1a42.html
* "Tammy Duckworth - Sustaining Vulnerable Businesses and Communities in Illinois During the Pandemic:"
* "Trump tells governors to 'seriously consider and maybe get going' on opening schools:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/trump-governors-call/index.html
* "Justin Amash announces exploratory committee for president:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/28/amash-announces-exploratory-committee-for-president-219357
* "A refugee tribunal said two men couldn’t possibly be gay because they couldn’t recall what they did after sex:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/29/refugee-status-h-i-australia-pakistan-tribunal-appeal-buzzfeed-news/
* "South African LGBTQ Group Says Homophobe Is Cruising Grindr for Sex:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2020/4/27/south-african-lgbtq-group-says-homophobe-cruising-grindr-sex
* "Man left with fractured face after vicious ‘transphobic and homophobic’ London tube attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/29/homophobic-transphobic-attack-hate-crime-london-underground-british-transport-police/
* "Alan Cumming has a succinct message for people who don’t like sharing pronouns: ‘F**k you’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/29/alan-cumming-pronouns-trans-ally-gender-coming-out-circumcision-genital-mutilation/
* "Trans Woman Murdered in Puerto Rico, Third This Month:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/4/28/trans-woman-murdered-puerto-rico-third-month
* "North Carolina Police Looking for Missing Same-Sex Couple:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2020/4/28/north-carolina-police-looking-missing-same-sex-couple
* "Public rallies behind trans doctor leading the fight against coronavirus in the face of ‘blatant transphobic bullying’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/28/dr-rachel-levine-pennsylvania-trans-transphobia-bigotry-support-coronavirus-respect4rachel/
* "Woman at centre of bitter same-sex custody battle victim of ‘hoax’ accusing her of selling coronavirus food rations:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/28/custody-case-lesbian-kidnapping-coronavirus-hoax-emergency-food-janet-jenkins-lisa-miller/
* "Blood donation in Northern Ireland is being dragged kicking and screaming in line with the UK – but it’s not enough:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/29/northern-ireland-blood-donation-gay-bisexual-rules-deferral-period-stormont-dup/
* ""I just can't do this." Harried parents forgo home school:" https://apnews.com/a3e86445d1387ecd8d1df8f9f7743e1f
* "You’ll Probably Forget What It Was Like to Live Through a Pandemic:" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmxvn/what-will-we-remember-from-the-coronavirus-covid19-pandemic
* "Why your pet is acting like a weirdo during quarantine, explained by animal behaviorists:" https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/4/24/21231806/coronavirus-pets-covid-19-cats-dogs
* "A Ray of Sunshine - Potential Vaccine Breakthrough, Pantsless Reporter & The Pentagon's UFO Videos:"
* "Sweden's "Herd Immunity" Goal, Trump's COVID-19 Intel Failure & Mike Pence's Maskless Hospital Visit:"
* "How Big Companies and Banks Exploited the Paycheck Protection Program:"
* "A Soundtrack For The Summer Of Social Distancing:"
* "Burger Enthusiast Donald Trump Orders America's Meat Plants To Stay Open:"
* "The Good Fight Short: Roy Cohn:"
* "The Good Fight Short: Russian Troll Farm:"
* "The Good Fight Short: The Legend of John Barron:"
* I keep watching all the stuff with the ableds quietly loosing their minds with confinement and it really strikes me how different this experience is for me, a person who is medically fragile and disabled. I have had to surrender a big chuck of my remaining independence and periodic friend visits, but it’s not all that different from how I lived before. Like Monday errands are gone and I hate having to depend on other people or fresh food, but I physically couldn’t go out that much before and it was exhausting and painful. I can’t just pop over to ACE if I, say, run out of lightbulbs, but how often does that happen?
I knew back in late February I’d likely be mostly confined for the next year or two, assuming a safe and effective vaccine can be made in that time. I was expecting to have to do furtive off hour shopping in a mask, but the Millennials stepped up there. The things I’m bummed about are the visit I turned down in early March from I friend i hardly ever see for safety reasons. i am bummed out I won’t be taking the Millenials swimming come summer, that I likely won’t be able to manage doing the Gothmas display alone and we’ll miss decorating and wrapping the presents in late September/early October, that I’ll be missing secret pumpkins and my Birthday/Gothmas party next Autumn. It’s things like that I’m losing and I hate it, but again, this was obvious by the beginning of March. The timeline on this is out of my hands, so there’s nothing for it, but to keep on keeping on.
I’ve had twelve years to adapt to making my own schedule in the absence of work and structuring my own life around confinement and illness. I’ve had fifteenish or so to get used to being to ill to socialize sometimes and to learn to live with infection precautions. A big chunk of my social life has been online for a decade and a halfish.
It is so weird watching the able bodied people having to en masse and all at once adapt to a life style familiar to a whole lot of us who have these kinds of disabilities. Discovering the survival skills we use to stay sane during long confinements.
I have spent decades wishing people who are sick would stay home or at least where a mask if that had to be out at places like the doctor’s office because things that are a nuisance to them can land people like me in the hospital or worse. I am often the only person I see in smoke season or allergy season or when I can’t work out if I’m sick again, but have to go out. I hate handshaking, I hated it even before I became sick for sensory reasons. assuming I don’t die of covid and they find a good vaccine, I’ll be lot safer in a world where makes were normalized and assholes with obvious lung infection don’t refuse masks and sit filling the air in the Doctor’s office with infectious coughing, where I’m required to touch strangers or me considered impolite.
I’m not heartless. Trust me, the adjustment was hard for me too. Every day I mourn the dead in the pandemic. I don’t know how long this will really be and a lot of people and important things that made up community are going to be lost.
So much depends on what we build from this. We need basic income, universal free health care, a system that automatically pays rents for people and small business in emergencies, and salaries for furloughed workers. We need environmental protection and green technologies, not the rolling back of regulations that protect people and the planet. We need a progressive tax system, not the regressive one republican have spent my life time building over my objections. We need election reform and an end to gerrymandering.
Things are going to change regardless. What happens after this horrific passage depends so much on what we build now. Together. Remember, this time it’s essential we don’t leave anyone behind.
* Monday they shut off the water for a while. We knew this was happening and it was when we are generally asleep anyway.
The water pressure has always been bad in my sink particularly, and last week i noticed it was going bad on the tub. Kitchen was still fine, and I have always assumed this is some problem with my bathroom pipes. I’ve been kicking myself for not putting it on the fix list for the city. It never occurred to me to complain because again, I thought it was a i’m responsible forit situation and also because getting management to fix anything is a nightmare game of telephones that usually involves months of them ignoring whatever and a half ass fix it job at best.
Last night I took a bath during an internet outage and there was so much hot water pouring out of the spout. I checked the sink and there was a tun of hot water coming out there too. O.o I have no idea what they did, but thumbs up.
* Something I've learned over the years is, if one is having trouble starting a task, it generally helps if one breaks the task down to smaller steps and gives oneself permission to just do one for now. At minimum one is a step closer to finishing. sometimes one keeps doing steps after that first one. If the step is too big, get smaller steps.
I stalled out on the fish equipment stuff and the boxes were making it hard to do other getting the house in order stuff. Today I did a smaller step and there is now one reasonable sized box of equipment in the bathroom waiting for a water test. I'm calling it progress.
* A hummingbird buzzed
The Winter lettuce flowers at dusk
Life continues still.
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities
* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html
* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html
* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home
* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals
* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/
* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/
* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give
* "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
* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser
* 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:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047
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