pandemic

August 12, 2023

The traumatic Reality

People are suffering from several massively terrifying things all at once: Why do you think so many went along with Nazism in the 30s? Why do you think people turned a blind eye to the horrors done to the Black community again and again? Why do you think people refused to acknowledge AIDS? Acknowledging reality Continue reading

Writing

collective grief, collective solidarity, covid, ego death, empathy, gaslighting, individualism, lack of ego death, mutual aid, pandemic, pandemic mitigations, solidarity, trauma, truth-telling
January 11, 2023

What we Know about XBB 1.5 and Long Covid

I’ve heard folks talking about XBB 1.5 “Kraken” variant, especially with some confusion as to what its symptoms are since they differ a bit from the more common symptoms seen with Delta and earlier variants. (As a side note, the name “Kraken” was actually coined by T. Gregory, a epidemologist/immunologist that’s on Twitter. He’s been Continue reading

activism, Biology, disability, Science

Airborne Virus, COVID VARIANTS, COVID19, pandemic, pandemic mitigations, PeoplesCDC, SARS-CoV-2, Viral Mutations, XBB 1.5
December 27, 2021

Omicron and Pandemic Mitigations

Ok. Y’all, Listen Up. Time to do a breakdown of what we know of the new variant – Omicron. First off, let’s look at this Pretty-But-Terrifying-Image of the genetic sequencing of all the known variants of COVID19. Why is it alarming? Look at that red line that shoots out on the right hand side. That’s Continue reading

activism, Biology, disability, nature, Science

abelism, Biology, breakdown of the science, coronovirus, covid, covid-19, disability, disability justice, Filitration, FVAM, genetic sequencing, masks, omicron, pandemic, pandemic mitigations, unlearning ableism, variant, ventilation
January 6, 2021

My First Teacher: Iowa’s Land (Short Essay)

Reminded of my first teacher: Iowa’s Land. My first political foray: fighting to save wetland. Where I went to recover: the forest. The land teaches of justice, of hope, of ways of knowing beyond the confined narrow focus of our modern world. I miss nature: small patches of forest, paths along the lakes, the wetlands, Continue reading

Author, disability, nature

ableism, accountability, America, genocide, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, justice, nature, pandemic, police brutality, racism, reciprocity, relationship, responsibility, social justice
May 24, 2020

Quarantine Poetry

Living alone by Aidan Zingler Living in a pandemic while living alone splinters my mind, breaks me down pain ignites and drenches my soul an endless kaleidoscope nightmare again and again my body crushed against the shoals of silence. A slice of the sun burns my eyes Buzz of machine howls in my ears Cold Continue reading

Author, Poetry, Writing

collective compassion, collective grief, collective solidarity, covid-19, death, grief, pandemic, poetry, quarantine, truth
March 10, 2020

Concerning Covid-19 and Mutual Aid

Updated 3/14/2020 Things to think critically about concerning Covid-19 (Coronovirus). YES, I’m Looking At You America. We Are Failing Preparations For This. I am going to ask you to bear with me as I’ve been reading way too much about this (as a form of distraction from flashbacks mostly, but it’s helping me collate thoughts Continue reading

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cdc, coronovirus, corvid-19, covid-19, health, hygiene, mutual aid, pandemic

pandemic

The traumatic Reality

What we Know about XBB 1.5 and Long Covid

Omicron and Pandemic Mitigations

My First Teacher: Iowa’s Land (Short Essay)

Quarantine Poetry

Concerning Covid-19 and Mutual Aid