It’s a lot of logistical pressure on what’s often a pretty short trip, and depending on circumstances some people have to do this twice within a short time to make sure one faction of the family doesn’t feel neglected. It’s not bad for everyone but you can probably see how it’s stressful for some

Even if someone is cool with immediate family, odds are strong they have a cousin or something they just can’t get along with. And since lots of folks in the US don’t get much time off work, this and xmas are the main opportunities to go see extended family…

Hard to blame them—if you haven’t had that experience it’s hard to fully understand.

At the same time, especially on the internet, someone who honestly does not know something can come off identical to someone who is being deliberately obtuse. It can be hard to know how best to respond

I’ve had multiple conversations along these lines with people. For example, many feel like trains and buses would be bad because they’d have to conform to a schedule. They don’t know what it’s like to be somewhere with frequent enough service that the schedule often isn’t worth worrying about

The racist/classist history of opposition to transit should be acknowledged, but tbh it’s more common for folks to have no idea what it’s like when other forms of transit actually work well. If they haven’t seen it work elsewhere, they’ll naturally assume it’s always useless like where they live

The wording was not misleading—some people had made an incorrect assumption about the author’s evaluation of creator B’s content and could not accept that the author views B as spreading misinformation.

I have seen people online convince themselves that someone meant the opposite of what they wrote down and then comment to warn the author about their “misleading” wording.

I’m sure that the research you’re dealing with has ways of accounting for the increased reporting aspect of the prevalence in immune issues, but I’d love to hear more about it.

Like, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease last year. This condition has been known for at least a couple thousand years, but if I lived a few decades earlier I would never have been diagnosed. The tools needed to identify cases that didn’t look one more obvious way just didn’t exist yet.

I don’t have research to share but if you make something about this, I would be interested in some discussion of how we separate things that have always happened that we just didn’t understand well enough to write down before from things that weren’t happening before nearly as much as now.

You can do it! As trite as it may sound, it’s about competing with yourself, not comparison to somebody else. Each little milestone and personal best can be worthy of celebration.

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A lot of folks out here unhappily gave up/reduced masking because they were the last in their circles to care. There was little to justify taking shit for it every day.

Do you want to ally with them? Or just talk trash about them online since the people with actual power failed you?

We know from history that it’s genuinely just poor strategy to label people as murderers for potential disease spread. Like even if you think it’s justified, even if you’re angry at society for letting this happen (fair) we know that this individualistic, moralistic approach just doesn’t work.

Hey can you drop a recent source for that claim about transmissibility? Because my understanding was that by 2023 we found that viral load peaked a few days after symptom onset (doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad582). I trust that if what you said truly is just ~reality~ then you’ll have support for that.