theinfiniteofthought:

absolutely-mendokusai:

fromthemindofatwentyorotherlycan:

kelpforestdwellers:

sophist-sophia:

kelpforestdwellers:

kelpforestdwellers:

myfootyrthroat:

kelpforestdwellers:

healthy people, do you understand that many US state governments are officially gearing up to murder disabled people on your behalf?

i wish i were exaggerating.

New York state, for example, has implemented a policy that they will take ventilators away from people who needed them BEFORE COVID if they come to the hospital.

please read that again. if you needed a ventilator to breathe before this pandemic, they will take it away from you if you seek medical care.

a committee who never meets the patient will then decide who gets the ventilators based on ‘likelihood of survival’ and this will be reassessed every 48 hours. if you don’t meet their standards, they extubate you and you die.

there’s a word for deliberately leaving people without lifesaving medical care. the word is 'murder.’ no matter how bad it gets, i can’t seek medical care. do you understand how that feels? my choices are: die at home, or face 'fatal extubation.’

healthy people, are you happy to survive by murdering others? if not, you must stand up and tell your state government not to do this on your behalf.

Is there a source for this?

it comes from a very long document, the New York state ventilator allocation plan.

this twitter thread summarizes some of the relevant parts.

two weeks ago: “don’t worry, only vulnerable people will die!”

now: “… because we will do everything in our power to ensure they do.”

Sounds a bit like euthanasia by omission, except worse cause someone is actively deciding to take away lifesaving ventilators from people who needed them before COVID19.

right, you’re so close! there’s actually already a word for 'involuntary euthanasia via removing medical care from someone you know will die without it’: murder.

Actually there’s a special word for when it’s done on a large scale: genocide

I hate to break it to you tumblr, but this is basic medical procedure for overcrowded hospitals. If you have more chance of living, you’re the priority. If you have something that’s not considered a medical emergency, they kick you out. It’s the only way they can deal with overcrowded hospitals right now. It’s either that or a first come first served basis, which will exclude people who really need help against people who kind of needs help. You can argue ethics all day but this is not new stuff.

No hospital would take away someone’s existing and life sustaining medical device to give to another patient. We’re not debating the idea of triage, it’s the fact that people who already own and depend on ventilators will have their personal ventilators taken away to give to someone else.

Imagine if a diabetic patient came in for a broken arm and they took his insulin pump away to give to someone else? The thing that is his personal medical device and is part of his body?

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hieronymus-bush:

Hey, I just want everyone to know that what the world is going through is a legitimate trauma. Full on. It fits the “official” definition and everything. This is a traumatic event.

That means that it’s normal and expected to find yourself using coping mechanisms that you thought you were done with, to find yourself numbed out, to be on the verge of constant panic attacks, to be acting impulsively and compulsively, to engage in very old patterns, to have wide swings of every behaviour especially regarding sleep, food, and sex.

The research shows that people in a traumatic situation who most often develop PTSD (which I would say we are all at risk of) or have their existing PTSD/C-PTSD intensified are folks who cannot or believe they cannot do anything about it the trauma event.

So, if you are able, look for a place in all of this where you can feel that you can do something. Harass a company not doing enough for its employees, sign a petition, check in on a neighbour, set alarms to remind yourself to eat (it’s on my own to do list for today), intentionally spend time every day doing straw breathing to shift your sympathetic nervous system response. You don’t have to become some social media hero, or spend all your time improving yourself. But if you can find something that makes you feel like you can do something for yourself that decreases the trauma load on you, it will greatly benefit you going forward.

If anyone has any questions about this, my asks are open, or you can message me. (I cannot do any online therapy, I am happy to share information about trauma itself and any tools that I know)

It is okay to reblog this.

- Registered Clinical Counsellor, with 10+ years specifically working with trauma

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adobsonartworks:

batboyblog:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

We’re all going to have PTSD and agoraphobia by the end of April

Like, my grandparents lived through the Great Depression and never really managed to give up their learned habits from that experience. Now, instead of “Why are you guys sitting in the dark? You can afford to turn lights on…” it’s going to be “Why do you feel guilty about going to the grocery store? You aren’t infecting anybody.”

I’m already planning to have big bottles of hand sanitizer, and gloves for the rest of my life, also I want to buy an old school freezer, you know those ones that look like a coffin? I want one, and I want to fill it with frozen meat so I never EVER have to feel this fucking terror of what I’ll do if I run out of food. 

This is an actual phenomenon called collective trauma, and yeah it can do just that.

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katbelleinthedark:

cricketcat9:

emphasisonthehomo:

emphasisonthehomo:

emphasisonthehomo:

Imagine all of the insufferable oscar bait quarantine movies that are gonna come out in a few years, about a husband and wife forced to stay home together, and slowly learn to actually love and appreciate their spouse.

One of the Important Scenes will be where Husband watches Wife idk fucking eat an entire can of olives and goes “I- I didn’t know you liked olives” and she’s like “Yeh I love them” *insert obnoxious slurping eating noises to prove she is a Relatable Female Character.*

And then cue dramatic melancholy music while he sits and thinks about how his job is actually meaningless in the face of the fact that it’s prevented him from learning more about the woman he married all those years ago.

There’s a bunch of scenes where they look pensively at each other from the doorway. They start off quarantine sitting on chairs on opposite sides of the living room. As the days progress they move closer and closer. By the end of the movie they’re next to each other on a love seat.

It’s about two upper middle class white heterosexuals. He works at a bank and she runs an etsy shop making tiny idly jewelry. Their neighbor is an Eldery Likable Black Man who offers them sage advice talking over the fence of their backyards. He of course eventually dies of the virus, leaving his two neighbors to learn and grow from the experience- and to treasure what really matters in life.

It makes 10 Bazillion dollars and several high brow movie critics talk breathlessly about how it accurately and beautifully handled the emotional and social struggle of life during the pandemic.

Husband is played by like Leonardo DiCaprio or something. Wife is a slim blonde actress who is 20 years younger than him, even though in the move their characters somehow went to high school together. Black Neighbor Killed Off For Character Development is played by Morgan Freeman. The movie is touted as one of the most Important Films Of The Decade.

Yep. That’s The Movie. IMO there also will be Elderly Heroic Asian Woman, owner of a grocery store, speaking bad English,  suffering but Performing Heroic Acts for the community, even the asshole racist who will eventually reform, cue tears. 

The whole film just flashed in front of my eyes.

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thatswhywelovegermany:

konsens-milch:

unscharf-an-den-raendern:

In light of the current situation, let me tell you about some lighthearted news from Germany.

This guy is Christian Drosten. He’s a virologist and when German media wants an expert’s opinion on the coronavirus, they usually ask him. He also has a podcast where he gives a daily update about the pandemic.

And people absolutely love him. He has a fanpage on Instagram.

People stan him on Twitter.

Women like men who:

• listen
• can cook
• don’t have a problem with eye contact
• are called Christian
• are athletic
• have a PhD
• are well dressed
• have clean finger nails
• last name Drosten
• virologist
• Christian Drosten
• You little cutiepie

Can someone tell me Christian Drosten’s birthday, I’d like to know how comptaible our zodiac signs are.

They even started making memes

Tl;dr: Germany is collectively stanning a virologist.

If im not mistaken he also developed the Corona test that is now used globally, which is very sexy

@konsens-milch You are not mistaken. And as a molecular biologist, I can tell you that he did it right.

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