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when you read articles from mainstream press about covid surges, they almost always do this fun little rhetorical trick where covid is simultaneously a thing of the past and also never went away. Just read one where an Emory professor was quoted saying "ah yes we are grateful that covid is behind us, yet we're now in the middle of a new wave-" uh! excuse me! it can't be both. It's either gone or it isn't. Which one is it? A more honest phrasing might be describing the difference between public perception of covid and actual wastewater or ER visit data, but that's not always the angle taken. They do this with so many diseases and health risks, it's utterly bizarre how people are supposed to simultaneously believe that "X" is gone but also "X" is something to still worry about. It's that fun trick where you absolve institutions for abandoning you ("covid/flu/insert-other-diseases-here are nothiiiiiiingggggg don't even worry") in the same breath as reminding people their health and safety is their sole individual responsibility ("xyz totallyyyyy won't kill you, but if it did it's your own fault btw")

Ok... but what if the tumblr icon chain was a caterpillar...

I’m sorry to all the transmascs/men who were discouraged from exploring or expressing their identities.

it does say something about the state of the queer community that no one really talks about or cares that since 1991 T has been a class III controlled substance in the united states. for decades now trans men and mascs have had our names tracked and traced if we were legally prescribed T. since before some of you were even born, the american govt has had a list of us.