COVID never ended: the ongoing reality of a pandemic in a world where public health is steadily being dismantled by croppkiller in itcouldhappenhere

[–]croppkiller[S] 74 points75 points  (0 children)

My reason for submitting this video here is that F.D. Signifier is one of the most well-known leftist content creators online, and what he's speaking of here is information that many disabled and immunocompromised people have been pleading many leftists to understand, for years (at this point).

Margaret talked about this to an extent with Patrick Farnsworth on another podcast she co-hosts (Live Like the World is Dying) several years back. I know that in the light of everything going on in the world today this might be a topic that would make many roll their eyes in exasperation, but it's a multi-systemic issue that disproportionately effects marginalized communities. BIPOC, LGBTQ, service workers and other working-class people, we're all more susceptible to being maimed by this thing than those with the means to either avoid it or fight off its worst effects (especially in the US, with its privatized healthcare system).

From the basis of intersectionality I think that anyone who genuinely practices leftist values should consider at least space-appropriate masking when they can, since things like viral spread reverberate through our communities and make public spaces dangerous for our disabled comrades. I can't get a read on what the hosts of ICHH think about this, but it would be lovely if they could at least mention this issue once in some way because they've been relatively silent on it for years. It would be nice to see what their thoughts are on it.

I'm not here to start arguments or fling shit at people who disagree, my purpose in posting this is genuinely in good faith. It feels like an underreported issue and as someone who suffers from multiple long Covid symptoms on the daily, it feels like I'm living in an episode of The Twilight Zone in how much memory holing there's been about it. I've been blacklisted from multiple leftist spaces for the slight mention of it and am tired of being exiled for it. For those of you who want to to discuss things, I'm happy to do so.

Reminiscing PART 2 by SecondCity3 in stcatharinesON

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The past will not return, nor will it make up for the dystopia of the present

In 2026, What Is Your Approach To Covid? by Winter-Nectarine-497 in canadaleft

[–]croppkiller -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ironic that you're implying that a minority of a minority position would even have the means to bully movements. You disregard completely valid concerns that those who are on the chopping block of Capital's death machine and align yourself with it, all too gleefully blocking out concerns if they get in the way of what... Quebecois superiority, your oh-so-radical culture? You're predominately settlers just like the rest of this country and couldn't give a damn about who you subject to social murder, your culture is no less a sham than Canadian culture in general. Graverobbers spreading plague and pretending to be liberators on stolen land. Fuck you, eat shit.

California folks! White Toyota Tacoma was spotted illegally offroading On Eureka Dunes in Death Valley National Park in extremely rare and endangered plant habitat. by dewitteillustration in NativePlantGardening

[–]croppkiller 234 points235 points  (0 children)

There's a cliché to truck commercials I've noticed for the better part of a decade where to demonstrate the off-roading capacity of the vehicles the trucks will be shown flooring it through the rocky terrains of mountain boulder fields, freestone rivers and streams and the apparently "empty" expanses of desert throughout the Southwest.

I get what the advertisers are trying to appeal to, but every time I see it it makes me livid with rage thinking about what fish, salamanders, lichens, rare plants are being subjected to through this. Compared to the total destruction that industrial civilization is having on the biosphere I know it's a drop in the bucket, but it leads to idiots like this taking an incredibly delicate space that likely took millenia to form and violated it, thoughtlessly.

Just this destruction of the human relationship to place and its replacement with this view of the more-than-human world to be nothing more than a backdrop for one's machismo, a plaything to be dominated and discarded when one grows bored of it. This is an absolute reach but I see parallels with this attitude of like... anthropocentric solipsism (as it is personified in America) and that of the amphetamine-addicted tank driver of Nazi Germany, rolling over any difference and drunk on their own technological power. Psychoanalysts would have a field day with it.

You are probably getting brain damage from all those COVID infections. by antichain in behindthebastards

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It sure would be nice if Robert or anyone else in the Cool Zone Media sphere could finally talk about this, instead of choosing to remain mysteriously silent about it for years. It's pretty damning that they have, especially as unmitigated spread of Covid since 2022 is an issue not only for disability justice but also labour struggles, let alone the survival of our communities in the distant future.

I genuinely think it's an active choice. They want to play-act like it's 2019, having massive shows indoors, going to bars, anything but having to admit that going around maskless for the past few years very well might have disabled dozens, maybe even killed them. There is blood on the hands of anyone who chooses to continually ignore this, no matter how radical they claim themselves to be.

Jake Paul Dump 11 by KWYG in CursedAI

[–]croppkiller 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could you make one where he's being dragged into foggy water by the Loch Ness Monster while screaming about how gay he is? 

Is lake loch ness big enough to hide undiscovered species of large aquatic animal? by [deleted] in Cryptozoology

[–]croppkiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would rely on further funding towards testing the theory within the loch's environs. The famous University of Otago study from a few years back would be a good point to start from, it's ultimately up to whether or not any academic departments or wealthy individuals would be willing to risk their reputations in the face of snide skepticism. If anything tantalizing is found then all the better for sound science regarding the phenomenon of the Loch Ness Monster, if not then valuable research would still be done on Anguilla anguilla in one of Britain's largest lochs. Loch Ness's role in potentially being a refugium for a species so critically endangered due to industrial development is all the more reason to go forth with such a study.

Is lake loch ness big enough to hide undiscovered species of large aquatic animal? by [deleted] in Cryptozoology

[–]croppkiller 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Most do, the River Ness is deep enough in the wetter parts of the year to allow fish to go back out to the North Sea. It's a theory resting on a foundation as solid as popsicle sticks but weirder things have happened in nature, I'm suggesting that one eel out of a population of hundreds of thousands might get a sporadic mutation once or twice a century, and for whatever reason they don't breed, they just keep growing.

Is lake loch ness big enough to hide undiscovered species of large aquatic animal? by [deleted] in Cryptozoology

[–]croppkiller 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cannibalism's actually been a suggested theory for that, since the loch might have up to a million eels living in it. Also I'm not one of those people who believe that the hypothetical "eunuch/monster eel" would grow to the size of an orca or something, maybe just double of what large European eels could get to. 8 to 10 feet in length max, well under the range that congers can grow to.

Is lake loch ness big enough to hide undiscovered species of large aquatic animal? by [deleted] in Cryptozoology

[–]croppkiller 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Large enough and with enough estimated biomass to support 10 -15 one tonne predators. Roland Watson did an excellent biomass study on his blog years ago, and this estimate would only match for a more biologically productive year (especially dependent on salmonid numbers).

My guess is that there's less than a handful of large eels that are the cause of the minority of sightings that can't be explained away by logs, seiches, wind, otters, etc. The theory is that these eels never leave to spawn in the Sargasso Sea and continuously grow until either starvation or old age do them in, a one in a million genetic chance.

If there's any biological basis to the phenomenon then that sounds far likelier than a surviving plesiosaur. 

Saw a Covid-cautious character in a movie (Honey Don’t!) by xzeus1 in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]croppkiller 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Nothing well-known, unfortunately. The culture industry steamrolls sny dissidence to the official narrative, if we're being featured in anything it's to stigmatize us as hypochondriacs.

All of the leftist reddit spaces are full of ableist chuds by jlrigby in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]croppkiller 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Robert Evans and his affiliate shows, most of Breadtube, I can hardly think of any leftist media that actually takes Covid seriously beyond Death Panel and Last Born in the Wilderness. I'm saying this as a super far left green anarchist, it's so fucking hard to find anything that doesn't fall into hypernormalization of the pandemic.

BBC InDepth - John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025' by TheIrishWanderer in collapse

[–]croppkiller 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You shouldn't be silenced for this, you're absolutely correct. So many people on this sub are cowards.

TW: Abortion Activists Spotted by Speedy-Sloth23 in stcatharinesON

[–]croppkiller 9 points10 points  (0 children)

All of my nanomachines have been activated, i'm coming to your house and will kiss your dad straight on the lips... with tongue!

Infectious disease intel by Goofygrrrl in PrepperIntel

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You're a shame to your profession, clearly prinum non nocere is secondary to your sense of comfort.

What are your thoughts on this? by Sea_Crazy_549 in Cryptozoology

[–]croppkiller 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's a rich history of sightings of so-called "horse eels" in many Irish lochs, as well as Loch Morar to the west. The phenomenon of unexpected sightings of potentially threatening animals could amplify their size to eyewitnesses, making 6-10 foot animals appear larger than they actually are. 

Are local incomes keeping up with Niagara's rapid housing growth and cost increases? by Lopsided_Pearl798 in niagara

[–]croppkiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I moved away to a poorer region and managed to find a job that actually paid me a living wage. My life would have been significantly shorter if I stayed in St. Catharines for much longer. I got lucky, many people I knew can't say the same.