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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

[liriaen]

Thank you for the New Yorker link; hadn't seen this.

I hope your Covid doesn't outstay its initial visit; I have a vague feeling that my current bouts of fatigue and flash exhaustions are bit of a long tail. *shrugs* It could be worse, though, so: small mercies, in the light of general fear and insanity. Hold on tight!

[selenak]

Re: fatigue - same here, but otoh, I don‘t sleep well these days, so that‘s just as good an explanation as to where this is coming from. And yes - even if Covid is to blame, looking at reports of unvaccinated people dying in emergency rooms, it could be so much worse.