Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis: 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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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…

THE HALLOWEEN CANDY BOWLS WERE BARF BOWLS??

This is the issue Brooke. It's not having a barf bowl it's having a multi purpose barf bowl

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??

Apparently! Not my house though! Food stuff doesn't mix with non food uses. I have measuring spoons just for cleaning supplies!

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

Must be the same white people who don’t use wash cloths when they bathe/shower.

That discourse is burned in my soul. I learned so much about people that week

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

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"

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

This is the fight I keep having with my parents who don't think family can give them COVID

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

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

I mean I'm not the one making this argument.

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.

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.

I'm sorry

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.

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.

I think this is it. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

Effects of six‐month creatine supplementation on patient‐ and clinician‐reported outcomes, and tissue creatine levels in patients with post‐COVID‐19 fatigue syndromewww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Dietary creatine has been recently put forward as a possible intervention strategy to reduce post‐COVID‐19 fatigue syndrome yet no clinical study so far evaluated its efficacy and safety for this perp...

I saw something recently that supplementing creatine can help with long covid and it’s a great supplement regardless. Have you tried that?

Related..?

I have no compassion left for people who *expect* me (Black, woman, immigrant) to mask to protect them but have no consideration of protecting us from themselves.

Yes. People are basically endorsing a 'cooties' theory of disease over a germ theory of disease.

So gross. I hope non-hand washing people are more outspoken so I can avoid them, because that's just rancid.

Gah!!!!!!

If I find out the kids have been DRINKING all those hand soap refills...

Royal family on TikTok?

My firm stance has always been that I don’t care what bathroom someone chooses to use, as long as they wash their god damn hands.

Right around then, I saw someone come out of the restroom at work carrying an open-topped standard coffee mug full of coffee that he was still drinking. I think my brain melted.

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