I agree with this 1000%. Proactively managing something isn't the same as "living in fear" or being "addicted to the pandemic." Failure to plan/manage something like this is a plan to fail.
How I am planning:
-anticipating that our entire household will likely get COVID in the near future, and thinking of how to deal with that disruption on a household level.
- expecting that stores may be closed or extremely low on things.
-Cincinnati is already in a state of emergency due to a COVID-driven shortage in our fire departments. For now we'll hold off on riskier activities (think ice skating, anything that we're not super great at and the chance of injury is high)
-The cases in Hamilton County are almost twice what they were in the previous highest peak of the pandemic. With the number of unvaccinated and undervaccinated people here, combined with lack of ventilation and testing mitigations in schools,
I'm expecting schools to have to close at some point, simply due to the sheer number of people who are ill.
I'm not afraid, because I've planned and because all of us are as vaccinated as we can be. I think it will be chaotic and messy for a few weeks, but I'm ready. I hope those in positions of managing our infrastructure are ready too.

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21 Dec 21
IMO, it's because vaccinated people have taken this seriously all along, including the long COVID that can come regardless of severity of initial illness. Also: don't know anyone who wants to spend the holidays sick, even if it's mild, even if you don't have much planned.
I'll get it. I've accepted that. Doesn't mean I *want* to get it. So I do things like wear a mask here in the code purple sea where I live, to avoid guzzling it while picking up groceries or mailing a package. And put off things that involve large crowds of people, for now.
Up until my kids were vaccinated, I was worried about getting it and then giving it to them. I will continue to be worried about friends/family who have immune issues whose worlds are once again more dangerous.
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17 Dec 21
Interested to know what preparations she has in mind. I personally am preparing for major disruption of goods and services, just by how bad things already are where I live, the sheer number of under/un-vaccinated, and how many people are actively ignoring it.
Many things constantly out of stock, and items I ordered 6 weeks ago not due to arrive until the end of January. Customer service email: “we’re short staffed b/c of COVID and can’t answer you.” That’s all pre-Omicron.
So I’m expecting this 👆🏻but much worse.
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16 Dec 21
For those who enjoy comparing COVID to car crashes or whatever, be sure you account for all said car crashes happening at once in your calculations.
Ask yourself if a large percentage of your staff or the city were all in a car crash at the same time, if that might affect health care or society at large.
Imagine also that all you have to do is get stuck with a needle a couple of times to prevent car crash except a whole bunch of people are like "nah, I'll take my chances and I guess the rest of you should look out!!"
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27 Oct 21
Hey, know how Facebook understands that negativity gets the most traction and thus built themselves to leverage that fact? Do you suppose politicians who wear/say/do absolutely outrageous/dumb/offensive things understand this and leverage it too?? 🧐
Reminder: there’s always the option NOT to help them get top rankings.
“How can I get the conversation steered away from my shady behavior?”

“I know!”
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20 Oct 21
“All those lawsuits and evil-doings are some other company! We’re Visage Tome and have no idea what you’re talking about. Yeah, that other company has no business being in control of the meta verse, but Visage Tome does!!”
“Update: Visage Tome is already in trouble for giving all your data to criminals and cataloguing everything you say and think without your consent. We are now called Countenance Volume until further notice.”
“Crap; you’re all catching on quickly. We’re now called um…Mug Binder. Yeah, Mug Binder. Until further notice.”
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28 Sep 21
Can’t say I’m surprised, but this is terrible.
To the people inserting the "well if it was anonymized..." nugget into the narrative 1. like Trump and co give a flying f*ck about preserving anyone's privacy 2. having a list of email addresses + mental/physical conditions w/out names still enables evil-doers to target (contd)
people at their most personal and significant pain points and 3. there's a lot of stolen data out there that people with no scruples can match up to VA data.
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