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Oh my god’ it was HUGE! And its a lasting meme. White people have barf bowls we also use for large salads and halloween candy and popcorn. Washed in between but white people washing so…
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THE HALLOWEEN CANDY BOWLS WERE BARF BOWLS??
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This is the issue Brooke. It's not having a barf bowl it's having a multi purpose barf bowl
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I feel like such a babe in the woods right now. Do you mean, I would eat at other peoples houses, and there was a nonzero chance someone puked in something I was eating out of...? This whole time??
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Apparently! Not my house though! Food stuff doesn't mix with non food uses. I have measuring spoons just for cleaning supplies!
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I have a feeling this is on par with that “white people don’t wash their legs” thing. What white people - not this white people
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Must be the same white people who don’t use wash cloths when they bathe/shower.
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That discourse is burned in my soul. I learned so much about people that week
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When COVID was starting and we thought all we had to do was wash our hands I witnessed a woman use the restroom, do full makeup and never wash her hands. I knew then that people were broken
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There was also the recent viral tiktok where a woman said "we" don't wash our hands after using the restroom at home. Ma'am who is "we"
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IMO this is part of the widespread rejection of the germ theory of disease specifically the part where you think that the risks of germs is not in the germs themselves but in the ickiness of the people carrying them sort of reversing the whole 'cleanliness leads to godliness' formula
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This is the fight I keep having with my parents who don't think family can give them COVID
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This People don’t think of people they love as possible vectors of disease Similar to how restaurants and churches are somehow “safe” because they’re familiar
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the viruses in the tiny tiny water droplets flying through the air that infected people are breathing out are carrying *the viruses'* genetic material, not the family members' genetic material, so how would the other bodies know whose virus particles they were
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I know I was just wondering how anyone would think that would work. I bet if I wanted to depress myself I could search and quickly find dumba** theories of 'friendly' microbes and pseudo-evolutionary "well I reckon" reasoning of why it makes sense.
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They want me to unmask when I visit them and like I'm not giving my elderly parents COVID. Both because they're old and somewhat selfishly the first time I got COVID they managed to get it independent of me and I had to navigate their care while I was sick in foreign country
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(I know I didn't give it to them because it'd been three weeks since Id seen them and also I know who gave it to me and he gave it to me two days before e I became symptomatic ) my dad to this day swears he was never sick even though we made him get a drive through pcr and it was positive
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He says the lab made a mistake and only my mom who he lives with had COVID. He was not as sick as her but he was symptomatic and we had to get a family member to visit him from the stoop and beg him to stop going outside because he swore he wasn't sick. Denial is a helluva drug
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IME this idea goes along with the concept that COVID has a moral component. I know someone who accused people, multiple times, of "shaming" them when they got COVID last month, because we saw the surge & were urging people to mask. Heck of a "telling on yourself" moment.
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So, "I can't get COVID from family [or people I'm close to] because they care about me and are 'good' and only 'bad' people get COVID." It doesn't make any more sense, but I see the connective tissue in the argument.
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Not that it wasn't there but since COVID-19 and the combined anti-vaxxer + right wing reaction to public health in particular and medical science in general, a huge amount of people have both consciously and subconsciously reverted to a pre-modern moralizing view of illness.
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I was basically house bound prior to COVID and live with my parents. I've only been out for limited medical appointments and one or both most definitely passed it on to me, twice. I now have long covid but thanks to early messaging OCD about hand washing too.
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That sucks. Air filtration genuinely does help a great deal, even if it's as simple as a single MERV 7-8 filter taped on the back of a box fan.
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Indeed, this one is Merv 14, unfortunately I was a little to late the first time and now just getting to making smaller versions for the rest of the rooms in the house.
Made a thing, ideally you'll want to craft a Corsi-Rosenthal box before you need it.
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The problem one is building HVAC systems perform worse on air circulation in summer. As indoor CO2 levels are worse in summer than winter
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Cheers, I'll save that to read tomorrow while I wait on the new filters I ordered on Friday.
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I saw something recently that supplementing creatine can help with long covid and it’s a great supplement regardless. Have you tried that?