News related, mainly highlights how Finland is sliding more and more to the side of US imperialism and how history gets rewritten in real time.
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/09/01/the-lenin-museum-in-finland-will-be-closed-down-in-2024/
White people/the West would care if they had not heard it mostly impacts the poor, POC and marginalized people. Once they heard that, everyone went back to brunch.
At the same time covid is a virus that is spread around the world by tourists, in my country an entire wave was seeded by upper class/wealthy people doing tourism. But it doesn’t affect them enough so they don’t care.
I don’t think making it about being an STD would cause anything more than more othering towards the same marginalized groups.
Same in Finland, but it has been floated in the natohawk discourse for some time, enough that my natohawk lib dad got his knickers in a twist about it being a putler troll app months ago the first time.
Book tip for Train People: Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
Oh cool. From someone who is currently in the thick of it, this thing is kicking my ass so hard. Again.
Mild, hell no. Less dangerous, absolutely not.
My entire face hurts…
The absolute kicker from the pandemic is over people today:
I sent them a pic of the positive test. They go “Holy shit, it really is covid! Hope I DON’T GET IT. Wonder who at the bday had it?”
Bruh, it was you who has just had it and brought it to us… You just said that you had “a cold” a few days before the bday. You just said that two more people in your family have developed a fever after the bday.
These are supposedly highly educated people…
Thank you. 
I probably have to. Being audhd and eldest in the family I have taken a lot of abuse from these people always as it is. Then again I don’t really have people in my life outside of family and have always gone out of my way to maintain good relationships with them.
I also sympathize with the need to work and have kids in school, but not with the yelling and lib tears over ruined vibes when their right to come to these gatherings sick literally threatenes the lives of others and they genuinely seem to have decided to ignore this reality. They are all a bit younger than us, their covid aftermaths have never been that hard, but they have had issues, they just choose to think that their sudden high blood pressures and debilitating gerds aren’t related to covid.
Oh I am sorry. 
And yeah, we have to do what we must now. I personally work in so called frontline work where everyone is always sick, but I never brought it home because I do mitigations.
I have an air purifier in my office, do the nasal sprays, remote days, masking where I can socially get away with it (public transport), not eating together with others etc. It feels like such a slap in the face when it then gets brought to you by people who have fully adopted a sort of fash “immunity is a muscle” wordview. These people haven’t been ok for some time tbh. And their kids look like little ghosts now, dark circles under their eyes always.
Yeah we are out now. This can’t continue.
We will ask about this, but in our country of “let the frail fall” I have heard it isn’t prescribed to nearly anyone. Being in two risk groups isn’t enough here. He would have to be a cancer patient, a transplant patient or severely immunodeficient. It’s ridiculous.
This is wild to watch. I have seen this several times now in covid cautious circles. The same people who expected Biden to be better than Trump now say that Harris will be better, like it’s magic. The ones that have been extremely vocal on how shit Biden has been on covid and say how that has radicalized them…
Afaik Harris has taken no clear stances on the issue. These people honestly have been beaten down once already and now expect different results from the same establishment. Harris is not bringing back masking or protections.
Something not being the worse option doesn’t make the option good.
Well same! I remember after first reading Marx as a teen I was like “well all this makes complete sense and this is what I want the world to be” only to be told from left and right that “sure sure sure, but all that is just UtOpiaN!” That you can sure be this utopian idealist, but none of it will work “in the real world” and nobody will take you seriously. This weird invalidation of my utopian idealist wordview just got to me for a long time, very long, but I still moved left consistently. I should have examined what this was a lot sooner tbh. But I had not read any real theory or heard real history, not really.
What I don’t understand about people like this is the wasting of all your younger years for some hypothetical future of leisure when you could die in your sleep today. Like, what’s the point?
It feels like a complicated exercise in some sort of meaning seeking in a hollow world, like some bastardization of seeking enlightenment or freedom from purely selfish and individualistic goals that don’t even benefit you.
And no better example of how the system we live in is not built for the proles, all this saving and then suddenly the value can just be gone. And still they keep going.
Is this economic frugality as a religion or something, not sure. But it sure is weird.
Oh my god Musk is so dumb. It’s kind of incredible how this guy was able to market himself as a genius at some point.
That a whole lot of covid spread is asymptomatic, which doesn’t mean the virus isn’t harming you now or down the line.
It really is. It is one of the more angering and sad bits of the bourge rewritinh of our history. Especially how succesful it has been.
I remember growing up people like my grandpa were proud Lenin guys, not many decades later it is a taboo. It alignes a lot with the CIA deployed “finlandization” propaganda, the fall of the Soviet and the shock therapy lite they implemented here in the 90s.