Someone told me today that we should ban Charlotte’s Web because kids need happy endings. And that sums it up. We live in a time where we ignore or banish the things we can’t face. It will be our undoing.
Coco
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Coco
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Avoiding Sars2, making art, growing/preserving food. Trying to teach our littles how to live in this mess.
Living with EDS and its sack of toothy terrors
Ontario, Canada
Joined January 2022
- Booked a small cabin while I’m working this weekend. At check-in, proprietor gestures rudely and says, “What’s with the mask?” I was tired and waved at him, saying, “private”. He then raises his voice and says, “This brings back BAD MEMORIES! VERY BAD!”
- Omg, here’s a new one: at the grocery store and a woman sees my mask, stops her cart, covers both her eyes with her hands and begins humming VERY loudly until I pass by. Next time I encounter her she speeds up, eyes straight forward and tries to ram me with her cart!!
- I realized something last night about the ‘masks don’t work’ crowd; if they were serious, they would advocate for better masks… ones that ‘DO WORK’. But, really, they just don’t want to wear a mask. The end.
- A novel virus throws the entire world into chaos, killing millions, then in a matter of a few years we stop tracking it and trash the coherent collection of data? Any thoughtful human on the planet should have a chorus of alarm bells ringing. But nope. All good.
- Last year my MIL died from an aggressive pancreatic cancer. She wrote her own obituary and the last line in it was “Be kind. Wear a mask.” It was a hat-tip to our little covid-conscious family. I will think of that gesture for the rest of my life.
- I was thinking today about how people will (as a community service) bend down and pick up dogshit with a thin plastic bag wrapped around their hand but they won’t wear a mask in healthcare.
- If even a FRACTION of the studies are correct, then allowing kids get Covid 10-20 times before adulthood seems like a REALLY bad idea, no?
- In healthcare, a bare-faced practitioner asking a you, masked person, if you prefer they mask is a power-play to make you say the words. They want you to know that they don’t think it’s necessary, that it’s a favour. That you are weak and they are strong. All under the radar.
- I’m at the gas station today and some doofus asks ‘hey, whayya still wearin’ that thing?’ A new answer sprung fully formed into my mind and I said ‘because I know things you don’t’ And then I laughed way too loud. I think the laugh freaked him out cause he shut up.
- “I don’t want to live my life in fear!” I’m asking you to live your life in awareness. Hiding from reality is the opposite of fearless.
