Sweetest thing I’ve seen in a while 😍😘 

After setting up a rudimentary website for CARP, the satirical, but still real company was offered a $15 million package of medical debt for $60,000.

Oliver explained that the debt was out of statute, which means it is the kind of debt that a collector can only continue to collect, but not sue the debtor for.

RIP Medical Debt is a charity (and therefore takes donations). They buy the rights to medical debt and then forgive them. So far they’ve forgiven over 1B in medical debt.

…what?

Thursday night I got sick. Friday I got swabbed. Got my positive result yesterday. Guess I’m out for a few weeks.

Since I *did* get the vaccine, my symptoms so far emulate a severe head cold. My most uncomfortable symptom right now is a v bad headache that won’t go away.

The data is now also starting to show that the vaccine helps limit the severity of any breakthrough infections you might catch, including that of the more contagious delta variant (X) as well as shortening your infectious period if you do catch the more virulent delta strain (x). And no, the irony of me linking to the CDC is not lost on me, but in this instance, they are walking back their mistakes and giving sound advice regarding the necessity of proper mask use and the utmost importance of vaccines.

Scientists guess based off evidence then they test their guess a few times then make more guesses.

It isnt “bad science” or bad information it is literally how science WORKS!

Evidence suggested people vaccinated wouldnt get COVID so CDC suggested those vaccinated wouldnt need masks.

Then NEW evidence was introduced. (Also the virus mutated)

It isnt thr CDC backing out because they realise it is a clusterfuck they are changing their answer based on new evidence.

This is the first time the public has been introduced to the scientific process in real time so it has caused confusion. Scientists cant magically know things without first making a guess based off current understanding.

Yes, I agree that is how science works.

And perhaps in a few more months, this reasoning and proclamation would have been sound. But when they KNEW they were dealing with a large population of unvaccinated people in a climate of anti-mask, anti-vaccine sentiment, and they had the data to show that the US vaccine rate was slowing and we didn’t have the herd immunity for it to make sense, that’s when they threw the baby out with the bathwater. Also, asking people to “trust” each other about going mask-less during a pandemic caused by aerosol transmission is just plain reckless. So no, this isn’t just people not understanding how science works, though I will also agree there is an alarming amount of that too. 

My inbox is currently filled with people begging me not to get the vaccine with a level of reasoning that might a well hinge of planetary alignment and star sign ascendency for how much sense it makes.

And maybe I’m just too tired and worn down by all of this, but I fully believe they did what they did with lifting the mask mandate early to appease the Biden administration—just like how they bowed to pressure under the Trump administration. (link) Biden’s whole “we’re not going back!” regarding masks and lockdowns and “this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated!” is equally reckless in my eyes. By referring to it as a pandemic of the unvaccinated, they are shifting the blame from “we need to be doing more” to “look at these Bad People not getting vaccinated look how Bad they are.” And like, yeah, anti-vaxxers feel free to f*ck off into the sun. I’ll help you. But not everyone who is unvaccinated is a bad or even misinformed person.

Some are immunocompromised or have weird conditions like mine that make the vaccine potentially life threatening. (Still doing it! Just load me up with benadryl and prednisone!) 

Devastatingly, most are children.

like i’m calling myself out here but i just uttered the words “you did the stretch and now the rare and powerful double pets” (two hands at once!!) to my cat without a trace of irony

like i do not believe my cat understands a word of what i am saying but he absolutely knows my voice and i think also my tone? but also all day i’m just randomly looking over at him like “good boy!” or “are you fluffy?” or singing little songs about his current fluff levels. to an animal. a wonderful animal but a creature who absolutely does not speak english and probably only vaguely is like “this creature is communicating with me” when the strange noises come from the person’s mouth

like i just think about this sometimes

i never wanted to baby talk this cat, i dislike the whole “i am a cat mom and this is my baby” thing, he is a cat, i am a person, and yet i just spend all day talking at him. while typing this he rolled over to show off his tummy and i had to restrain myself from saying “you got a tummy?” aloud. and then i did it anyway

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It's a free electronic library and they have numerous articles, textbooks and ebooks 😭

1) Transphobes aren't very original: they keep using the same stock phrases so it's very easy to filter them out