College Fresher Rants

I still can't understand the "magic of the morning". Even if I don't go to bed so late, in order to get enough sleep. Many people tell me that the morning is the peak of working capacity. For some reason, it is difficult for others to accept different rhythms of life. As long as I can remember, getting up in the morning is quite a difficult task for me. And in order for me to start doing something, I need to disperse myself. That is, if I have some task for 9 am, then I need to get up somewhere in an hour and a half to drink coffee and tea and just hang until the body wakes up.

A little advice: do not put pressure on those people for whom the morning is not the epicenter of energy, for whom the night is much more comfortable and better for work. Keep your productive mornings to yourself.

I tried.

Again.

Misinformation is also a virus and our country is just as infected with it as it is with COVID-19.

Bunk thinks he is perfectly innocent publicly posting his bad information. That he is not harming anyone. But he has influence over his loved ones and his friends and maybe even strangers that see his nonsense.

He is a potential superspreader of misinformation.

And that is dangerous.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-vaccine/art-20484859

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2035389

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6950e2.htm

Vaccination is important for herd immunity. If you can be vaccinated, and chose not to be, you can infect someone who cannot be vaccinated due to health problems. These people are sick enough to be easily infected and made seriously ill, all because a few healthy people around them chose not to be vaccinated. It isn’t about the individual. It’s about the freaking safety and survival of the human race.

Fight me.

India: COVID claims lives of hundreds of journalists

For journalists covering the coronavirus health crisis in India, the past year has been a horrific time, with over 230 of them succumbing to the disease, which they contracted while  documenting what’s happening across the country.  

During the ongoing devastating second wave of the virus, on average three journalists died every day due to COVID in April. That figure climbed to four per day in May.

The second wave has claimed the lives of several senior journalists and local reporters working in districts, towns and villages across different Indian states.

A recent report by the Delhi-based Institute of Perception Studies revealed that during India’s first wave of the pandemic between April and December 2020, 56 journalists died of COVID-19.

In comparison, during India’s second wave of pandemic between April 1 and May 16 this year, 171 journalists died of COVID-19. The remaining journalists died between January and April, according to the report.

The institute has included all those journalists who died after getting infected while covering news in the field or working in offices. These range from reporters at media organizations, stringers, freelancers, photojournalists and journalists.

The states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi and Telangana account for most of the deaths.

Journalists are particularly at risk of contracting the virus as many are required to visit hospitals, crematoriums and other high-risk locations to highlight the problems faced by the public during the pandemic.

“i couldn’t help it, i was having a bad episode” is a justification, not an apology.

“i’m so fucking sorry, i fucked up, i don’t deserve to live, i should stop talking to anyone ever, i should die” is a second breakdown and a guilt trip. it is not an apology.

when you apologize, the focus should be on the person you hurt. “i’m sorry. i did something that was hurtful to you. even if i was having a rough time, you didn’t deserve to hear that,” is a better apology. if it was a small thing, you can leave it at that.

if you caused significant distress to the other person, this is a good time to talk about how you can minimize damage in the future. and again, even if it is tempting to say you should self-isolate and/or die, that is not a helpful suggestion. it will result in the person you’re talking to trying to talk you out of doing that, which makes your guilt the focus of the conversation instead of their hurt.

1. A single subreddit made of trolls can break the US economy

Last June, in the wake up of yet another uprising in hate crimes committed by white supremacists, we released the following statement:

White supremacists, Nazis, and other purveyors of hate can fully fuck off. They are not welcome here.

These words are as true today as they were then. We stand with the Asian American community. If you see hate speech on Tumblr, please report it. That shit is not tolerated here. 

To help the survivors and families of yesterday’s hate crimes, please consider donating to a nonprofit like the Atlanta branch of Asian Americans Advancing Justice if you can. If you can’t, consider spreading the word. We’ll list more resources and reblogs over on @action as we find them.