You try hard to go easy on yourself
Rabbit, rabbit! A Warren canvasser just rang our doorbell and startled the cats. Fortunately I could tell him that he did not need to evangelize to me and that he should stay warm on his rounds. The cats were warily prowling when I returned upstairs and were rewarded with treats for being so brave and honest.
1. The Brattle is running a series of religious horror. It's mostly Christian, but I haven't seen any of the movies except for the double feature of The Witch (2015) and The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015), which I should very much like to be healthy enough to attend. Some of the rest look fascinating.
2. I am delighted by Yoon Ha Lee's The Phoenix Recursive: A Combinatorial Experience (2020). Technically it's a classically black-and-white photocopied minizine, but it's also a beautiful little lo-fi semi-poetry chapbook and it could win a Rhysling any day, I'm just saying. Huzzah for Deuce of Gears Press.
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handful_ofdust: some cute role-reversal leap year cards.
I think I am actually furious about the coronavirus. About the dismantling of protections and preparations. About the denial of reality-responsibility until it is too late to do anything but wring hands and blame scapegoats. It is one thing to die for reasons beyond anyone's control; it's another to die for the insecurity, stupidity, and malice of those in power who laid the groundwork for what will be worse. I don't want to lose my family. I don't, for that matter, want to join the mortality rate myself. In terms of what can and can't be tested for, the situation feels medieval to the point that I am disappointed in the absence of traditionally masked plague doctors. I would like to be able to look back on these thoughts as overreaction. I spend so much time working to stay alive.
1. The Brattle is running a series of religious horror. It's mostly Christian, but I haven't seen any of the movies except for the double feature of The Witch (2015) and The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015), which I should very much like to be healthy enough to attend. Some of the rest look fascinating.
2. I am delighted by Yoon Ha Lee's The Phoenix Recursive: A Combinatorial Experience (2020). Technically it's a classically black-and-white photocopied minizine, but it's also a beautiful little lo-fi semi-poetry chapbook and it could win a Rhysling any day, I'm just saying. Huzzah for Deuce of Gears Press.
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handful_ofdust: some cute role-reversal leap year cards.I think I am actually furious about the coronavirus. About the dismantling of protections and preparations. About the denial of reality-responsibility until it is too late to do anything but wring hands and blame scapegoats. It is one thing to die for reasons beyond anyone's control; it's another to die for the insecurity, stupidity, and malice of those in power who laid the groundwork for what will be worse. I don't want to lose my family. I don't, for that matter, want to join the mortality rate myself. In terms of what can and can't be tested for, the situation feels medieval to the point that I am disappointed in the absence of traditionally masked plague doctors. I would like to be able to look back on these thoughts as overreaction. I spend so much time working to stay alive.
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Yeah. Exactly.
(And, what with threatened disability cuts and food stamp cuts, it's hard not to feel that those in power would be just as happy if a large part of the not-rich population died anyway.)
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I'm confident they'd love to see the various demographics of us culled. But since my understanding of COVID-19 is that it cannot be mitigated by antivirals like influenza with Tamiflu, it's a stupid reaper for a bunch of high-risk septuagenarians to rely on. I'm immunocompromised, but Mitch McConnell's nearly eighty. If it comes to the pitch-black, I'll consider that a silver lining.
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TRUE! (I hear all the old white male politicians have great healthcare, tho. :-/) Now I'm picturing a cartoon of a Pratchett-esque Death turning around and going after the would-be cullers instead....
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Great healthcare can only do so much for you when your organs fail. I realize this is Kelvin-cold comfort, but—especially if it's in the state department population—their skins are also on the line.
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That's SUCH an awesome phrase, though. It cheered me up!
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Good!
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Nine
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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387
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That's good overall. I'm still in favor of some very destructive people being in a very unlucky bracket.
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