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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 5h

Standing up to a wannabe dictator is patriotic.

Protecting health care for Americans is patriotic.

Defending workers who make our country run is patriotic.

Saying no to troops occupying our cities is patriotic.

Peacefully protesting to protect our democracy is patriotic.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 2h

After a while, I had stopped
trying to convince him
to wear a mask
the articles I had sent
the things I had said
none had made a difference,
and yet there he was
in a mask,
so I asked what
had finally convinced him
and in a tired voice he said:
“I just can’t keep catching this.”

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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 23h

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 6d

He apologized
for how he sounded
explaining that he had
“a frog” in his throat,
and as he continued talking
I kept thinking about
how a symptom
of the Stratus variant
is a hoarse voice,
and I thought to myself:
he definitely has something
in his throat,
but it isn’t a frog.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 6d

I sent my teacher friend
the article:
“Long Covid Is Real—
And It’s Changing
an Entire Generation,”
and in response
my teacher friend asked:
“you know that saying:
‘the kids are alright?’”
I said I knew it, and they replied:
“well, the kids aren’t alright,
they really aren’t.”

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 6d

It has been estimated
that most people can read
between 3 and 7
words per second,
and it has been estimated
that at the moment
around 5 people
are contracting Covid
every second in the US,
so by the time
you finish reading these words
around 60 people
will have contracted Covid.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 6d

Should someone respond
(and someone will)
to you saying that Covid
is still making people sick,
to you saying that Covid
and is still making people die,
by telling you
that they really don’t care,
look back and say:
I know you don’t,
look back and calmly say:
I know you don’t.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 5d

I have heard
by the time you’re 35
it’s normal to have
a grand failed romance
and student debt,
abandoned hobbies
as well as gray hairs,
and while I do not know
if all of that is normal
I do know
by the time you’re 35
it isn’t normal to have
had Covid six times.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 5d

According to a headline
“Long COVID Brain Fog
Isn’t ‘All in Your Head.’
Scientists Now Know the Cause,”
and while it’s important to note
that brain fog isn’t
all in your head,
it’s also important to remember
that Covid’s lasting harms
are not limited to your head.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 5d

My friend,
if you are planning
on protesting the plague
please be careful
please protect yourself
please, my friend, wear a mask,
for it would be a shame
if in the course
of protesting
the metaphorical plague
you were to catch
a more literal plague.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 5d

As we discussed
the pandemic’s early days
a friend said
he misses when people
were baking sourdough,
and another friend said
she misses when people
could work from home,
and another friend said
they miss when people
were still trying
to take care of each other.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 2d

If you are wondering
what to do, now
that the march is over,
remember:
there is more
to protecting each other
than just carrying a sign,
so if you are wondering
what to do next:
wear a mask,
yes, we must do more than that
to protect each other
but it’s still something.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 2d

My sister sent me a picture
of a good sign she saw
at the march she attended,
and as I looked
back and forth
from the placard
to the masked face
of the person carrying it,
I agreed
that the sign was good
though the even better sign
was that the person carrying it
wore a mask.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 2d

Do not worry
if you do not get
the album or film
or show or book
people are discussing,
remember:
it’s find to say
“this is not for me”
and move on,
worry less about
how you don’t get
this or that
new cultural work,
worry instead
about how you keep getting
the new Covid variants.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 2d

As we discussed
the efficacy of marches
the old punk told me
not to overlook
the importance
of setting an example:
by standing up,
by speaking out,
you are showing others
that they can do the same,
which, the old punk added,
is also a good reason
to keep wearing a mask.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 1d

A friend sent me a screenshot
of some old prediction
about how everyone
who got “the jab”
would be dead by now,
and though I am confident
(I am fairly confident)
that I am still alive,
were I actually dead
and in hell
I feel that would explain a lot
about the state of the world.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 1d

As I sit at my desk
I think of the headline
“Scientists have been studying
remote work for 4 years
and have reached
a very clear conclusion:
“Working from home
makes us thrive””
yes, as I sit here,
listening to my coworkers
coughing and sniffling
I keep thinking of that headline.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 1d

After seeing me
with a horror novel
my coworker
told me that he wants
to read something
really scary
so I sent him an article
with the title:
“Repeat COVID-19 Infections
Could Double Your Risk
of Long COVID.”

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 1d

When the cruelty
and childishness
of these times is overwhelming
I hear friends explain
that the regions of the brain
Covid damages
control empathy and compassion,
and I fear Covid
has damaged our empathy,
and I also fear Covid
revealed
how damaged our empathy
has always been.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 8h

As we waited
for the meeting to begin
the convener looked around
the mostly empty room
and asked: “where is everyone?”
so I answered: “out sick,”
and the convener nodded,
but a few minutes later
he looked at me
and asked: “why are you
wearing a mask?”
and I just stared back.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 4h

At times I think
I catastrophize too much,
my tendency to look
for proof of the bad
too often distracts me
from evidence of the good,
but then I will see
a headline like:
“Mosquitoes found
in Iceland for first time,”
and such times makes me think
I do not catastrophize enough.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 6h

I recently read an article
the headline of which noted:
“Post-pandemic
COVID-19 linked with
high numbers
of workforce absences and exits,”
and though I know
the headline begins
with “post-pandemic”
it seems to me
that the rest of the headline
shows we are still in the pandemic.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3h

Even in the movies, scenes of the White House getting blown up by invading aliens or terrorists feel emotionally unsettling.

It’s the People’s House after all.

So imagine having to witness its destruction in real life…and the culprit is the President.

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ReddTruq @reddtruq.bsky.social · 2h

If we don't do major national boycotts and strikes and keep the protests ongoing while we can- the way fascism is accelerating, how long will it be before we no longer have those options? How long before Goebbels Miller's wet dream is realised- guns come out and we're treated like the fishermen?

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ReddTruq @reddtruq.bsky.social · 2h

They're getting richer. That's all that matters.

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