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[selenak]

This weekend I had two antivaxxers trying to enlist/convert me, one of whom was also a Putin defender going on abouto how the "mainstream media" was reporting it all wrong. But at least I'm related to neither of them; a friend of mine has to put up with his own daughter insisting that covid does not exist. Meanwhile, I, alas, had it (with symptoms) last month, despite having been vaccinated because of the new Ommicron variant, and I can tell you, fun this was not. Have some Ukraine related links:

Ukrainian demonstrations in Russia-occupied Kherson

Article about Natalya Sindeya, the founder of Dozhd, one of the last independent Russian media which was just shut down.

Profile of Volodymyr Zelensky, one of several to be published in the last ten days; this one in the New Yorker

Comments

[cahn]

Oh ugh, I'm sorry to hear that, both about the antivaxxers (which sounds rather distressing) and the covid, which sounds just vastly unpleasant. :( <3 (I remember you were ill but hadn't realized it was covid.) It sounds like a lot of people have lingering effects for a while -- take care of yourself <3

Re your third link: ngl, one of the reasons I wanted to read the Zweig was that Zelensky made me want to read about people who got thrust into impossible situations and were heroic in response, which I remembered you'd said about Marie Antoinette. (I mean, obviously very different situations and responses, of course!)

[selenak]

No, I know what you mean. As different as they are, they're both showing tremendous courage in truly desperate situations which few people (perhaps outside of their immediate circle) would have anticipated them to do.