You know, I am one of those people who really sometimes feels their efforts are greatly misunderstood. I spent years of my life warning people about the realities of embracing a pre-existing condition in this shithole country and what it would do to your finances, all of the things. And even still people decided to sit on their asses and do nothing in terms of cooperation, no, people decided to literally protest the mere existence of other people in their communities.
Suddenly the disabled became the easily sacrificed, the people in the way of people just trying to have a good time, the people out here reminding people of their own mortality, the people who are easy to associate with disease and otherness nobody wants to volunteer for, but ohh boy, so many of you fucking did.
There’s going to be some reckoning going on as people realize when you give your good health away, it is for FUCKING EVER. Now all the people who got COVID are tomorrow’s people with pre-existing conditions we get to reason out of existence. Be offended, you already reasoned me out so I am just pointing out you had a hand in returning the favor.
Now, once again, let’s go over my rules for avoidance, as this is not a one-and-done thing, but requires you actually think about the air you breathe and where, who is in it and what you need to do to avoid it. You may think my efforts are insane, but I have had to keep myself alive for decades avoiding medical mishaps, and this is definitely an avoidable one.
STEPS TO AVOID COVID INFECTION
*Wear a mask & eye protection in all public indoor situations. I often take mine off just as I get in the car, but if a gaggle of people were there as I walked up, I would not have taken it off. My public appearances tend to be in stores for very short periods of time meaning in stores or waiting for medical appointments.
*Wear a mask in all medical settings. These people treat the sick so have generally come in contact with a LOT of sick people. Do you really want to be another one? No, that’s why you are reading this.
*Filter ALL AIR with medical grade air filtration. I have 3 in my home & I took one in to recover from open heart surgery. I have had 2 of those in the past 19 months, guys. I never got COVID but there was not a single nurse who had not had it, and some admitted up to 3x. I also often carry a PUR in my hand to at least move the air away from my face as stagnant sick air needs to stay away.
*Do not go to dentists who do not employ medical grade air filtration. I do not think I need to explain the mechanisms here with open mouths and aerosol transmission we all see is made easily at the dentist.
*First appointments of the day, preferably Mondays for the cleanest air. Think about how many people have been in the room before you and offices being closed on weekend generally.
*Apartments on the first floor only as elevators require you share air often with strangers and though it is constantly moving, you are at risk with whomever ends up in there. You’d want to wear a mask, but I know how little discipline humanity has.
*Think again about wanting to wear eye protection, too. Remember if someone spits in your eye you can get infected so if the spit is too small to see (see breathed aerolols), you’d want a barrier.
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Now do I go to restaurants? Not very often have I–I’d be the girl eating outside in the corner if I did and I would bring a mask to visit ANY inside area and very much to the restroom, which again, could be an infection point. My husband hates this, but again, I have an vascular disease so I will definitely be dead to double up. I have started to hate how ill-equipped you all seem to be to cooperate to help other people at all so I just haven’t found you redeeming in most social situations and avoid them, so becoming a permanent hermit is fine.
We ride our bikes most weekends and don’t wear masks but if we found it too populated then we would but as things get cooler we expect to see even less and with people getting ill, even less every day.