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@beadsland@beige.party @datum@zeroes.ca Her smug laughing all the way through did my head in, particularly after the COVID comment.

Because of the plague, we're home schooling. Getting through some maths work (based on the national curriculum) with my 10 year old, and there's already some equations (eg. 100 - 43 = 85 - x ) sprinkled in there. I don't remember doing these until Year 8 or 9.

Does anyone remember when they did these at school?

I left the internet for the afternoon and evening. I just got back and now there is an ebola outbreak. Ffs.

@pastelexuvia@cathode.church The hug at the end, very wholesome 😁

@thebeeguy I love having them in the garden, found this little guy asleep in the amaranth.

When we bought our land in 2017, there wasn't much here, basically an old paddock and an easement into a creek, which we discovered the neighbours had been running their grey water into. They were new to the area too, but their house was built in the 60s. So, lots of disinfectants and god knows what into the creek for 50 years.

There were a few fairy wrens around, some earth worms, but otherwise everything seemed kind of... reduced?

Since we built and started (slowly) planting a garden, and got the neighbours to sort out their grey water situation, I've been noticing all sorts of different things coming into the garden, including -

• 30 species of birds, including grey faced herons
• Many different kinds of beetles
• Frogs. You never used to be able to hear them in the evenings, but now with the window open, it sounds like a good population.
• All kinds of butterflies
• Crickets! This year is the first year I've seen/heard them here
• Snails! Taken for granted, and a pest, but I haven't seen one here for 6 years, until a couple of weeks ago.
• Lots of skinks

I guess what I mean to say is that even if the world is shit, improving small things around you can really improve things more than you imagine they will.

@brianbilston I can't like this

@mackayim2022 On a purely social level, could the increased infection rates in young children simply be because parents are more likely to take that age range to the doctor?

@StaceyCornelius 1300 was the last for me, and it was a bit of a stretch

@mediaevalfishsandwich And yet parents will grab their children and move away if they see me coming, masked, in a shop etc.

@jillL There's a very niche subgenre here: black cats on yellow quilts

@mattblaze@federate.social That he signs his whole name and honorific reminds me of Max Power getting a monogrammed shirt

@anubis2814 Not sure where you're getting the fear aspect from? All of the people who are still masking - myself included - aren't doing so out of fear: but from one or a mix of things, including community care; ensuring their chronic illness doesn't worsen; taking practical steps to avoid chronic illness; avoiding many of the still getting researched knock-on effects of covid; protecting their children; projecting an unwell loved one and also just enjoying not being sick with *anything* We've done our risk analysis and decided that wearing a mask is akin to wearing shoes and it doesn't bother us at all. Also - I'm in Australia and we have a few waves a year still, and we had a massive flu season over Christmas. It's summer here then. #covidisnotover

@BigHeadMode@social.linux.pizza The comments in the thread are gross - swimming in denial with a lot of self-congratulatory back patting 😬

@paka Why wait until the horse has bottled? Pop on a mask (not a baggy blue) to avoid getting sick in the first place

Excellent article about masking being unreasonable and more, the unreasonable burden placed on people who still do -

https://open.substack.com/pub/thegauntlet/p/beyond-all-reason?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#maskup
#CovidIsNotOver