Tag: humour

The mishandling of Covid 19 and the Coronavirus

by N.A.Z., posted in coronavirus

Now I am aware that people have died from this virus that is very tragic and sad.. I do have a very warped and morbid sense of humour. But nothing I’m about to say is intended to minimize the loss of thousands of lives. I think it’s 4,000 worldwide. It’s a big number because the overall number of cases is somewhere around 238,000. That means that all the people who die, 20% die. Most of the people who have died have been elderly or had other underlying physical health conditions. I’m not saying that to imply that those people don’t matter (my grandma is in a nursing home and I was so relived when they called today to say they’re not accepting any visitors. Talk about a high risk population. Even my doctor said if she gets the flu, it could be her last flu. Damn. He didn’t have to say it like that,

I think the media and politicians did a piss poor job of handling it. I understand it’s a pandemic but that doesn’t mean you need to say it 137 times every single day and twice as many times on Sunday. Not every single article should contain the word pandemic. A lot of fear mongering which is completely counterproductive and unnecessary.

For the majority of people, 80% in fact, they will just recover from it like the flu. The masks I thought were ridiculous because it increased people’s anxiety and they’re basically useless. The virus can enter your body by any mucus membrane. Your eyes are a mucsus membrane and they’re usually open! It’s like you trying to secure your house and lock the front door and have state of the art locks and deadbolts, but you leave the back and side doors wide open. What the hell was the point of that?! Ridiculous. I laugh not because it’s funny but because it’s absolutely ridiculous. They could have put more effort in clearing an area where someone is know to have had it. The virus stays in the air for 3 hours! But no one’s really doing that.

And then people hoarding toilet paper and whatnot?!?! What about food and water? Hate to break it to you but if you have no food or water you will have no need for toilet paper! smdh. Do you really need 5 L/G of hand sanitizer?? How much sanitizing are you planning on doing? You basically have enough to last until 2050! Did you ever think that maybe, I don’t know, people other than you exist and they might need some tool

I think I missed something because there was reference to a 30 day period and having enough for that amount of time. But what happens after the 30 days?! The virus still exists is still spreading and there still is no vaccine or cure.. So what is the point of that? I must have missed something because that makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever,

When I went to the hospital the other day for an appointment, they didn’t even want to touch my health card.. They were like “just put it right there” like it was contaminated with the plague. Calm down people.. Just use gloves or something. It’s not that serious.. Well at least not as serious as everyone is making it. I do get that the fact that there’s no vaccine or cure it will continue to spread and the death toll will rise. That’s quite concerning, I get that. But the politicians and media I feel should do a better job at keeping us calm.

I called a 24 hour national distress line at 3am (for other issues that have no relation to covid 19.. I know you didn’t think there were any other issues in the world but that, but really there are) I was on hold a painfully long amount of time. If I hadn’t been ready to drink the cool aid at the beginning of the call the hold music surely would have done it! Humour is my coping mechanism.. I thought that was funny. Some probably don’t. I feel like when I’m depressed there’s nothing like some good ol suicide humour to lighten things up. My point was, I’m sure that they had an increase in the volume of callers because everyone is panicking about the covid 19.

So 4,000 deaths world wide for cover 19. 45,000 deaths to suicide per year in the US. 80,000 deaths due to diabetes. I really feel like we don’t have our priorities straight. There are illnesses that you are far more likely of dying of but no one is flocking to therapy or improving their eating habits and exercise. But this new thing that most healthy people will survive,, people are buying up the stores get 12 packages of toilet paper and tons of hand sanitizer, Where is that enthusiasm in taking care of your mental or physical health in general. Ridiculous fricken joke in my opinion. Again it’s not a joke that people are dying. But just in the way people are responding to it.. so a pandemic is a big deal, but the many epidemics that exist.. Not so much?

I feel sorry for people with allergies. They’ll sneeze and people will give them the side like “is sneezing a symptom?! I gotta google that so I can know if I should be hysterical right now” It might get you a seat on the train though (too soon?). That would suck if you got quarantined for having allergies.. like “aint this some bullshit! I swear my Benadryl just hasn’t kicked in yet.”

Anyway, that’s my 2 cents. I hope that everyone stays healthy and there is an end to this soon.

Have a lovely weekend my lovelies,

AQ

Why I started this blog

Featured by N.A.Z., posted in Health

If you knew how long it took me to set up this damn blog! Not that it’s hard because I set one up in a few hours a couple years ago. But because I’m on some medication that makes my brain foggy. It just doesn’t work sometimes. People don’t believe me when I say my brain is not working because I guess I’m too damn high functioning for someone with a visible disability AND an invisible disability (generally I like my disabilities to be invisible and my suffering to be in silence the way it was meant to be!). I know some of you were like “invisible?” what’s that? some may even have wondered if people with disabilities have super powers. I’m telling you right now that we don’t (while I’m nodding my head in a clear yes!”) Don’t tell. We have meetings on Wednesdays at 6:30.. We’re trying to take over the world…. dammit I let it slip. Well we’re all friends here so I’m sure you won’t let the cat out of the bag. Where do some of these sayings come from anyway? Why was the cat even in the damn bag to begin with? And why do people tell you to drink “fluids” when you’re sick. Like “oh I was straight up drinking sand and paper this whole time. You saved my life!”

Anyway I digress. Happens a lot when the pain is so bad you can’t think straight. As a result of the pain as I said in the about me section I’ve been lying in bed like 20 hours a day since December. I was working before that but still in pain. So Netflix is great and all but I’m bored AF and I have cabin fever. So I always have things to say and I found people were really enjoying my posts that I wrote on facebook so that is how this blog came about. Unfortunately lately I have been swearing like a sailor so if that offends anyone.. move on to someone else’s blog because I really don’t give 2 fucks! (joking). Where did that saying come from?.. Like someone decided that 1 fuck wasn’t enough?? I really wonder about things sometimes. That’s what you do when you’re in bed all day and fairly isolated. I never really used to swear. There are so many other interesting words in the English language. Like saying troglodyte instead of asshole is quite liberating. But for some reason the swearing is so freeing right now. I’ll try to tone it down. But some times an “f” bomb is the only choice. You know what I mean?

It’s so frustrating because all I like to do is help people. My clients at work, my friends and family, strangers. I love helping people and now I’m the one that needs the help. So difficult for me to receive but I’m grateful that I even have so many people that love me enough that they’re willing to help. I’m truly blessed but at the same time in pain so I’m super bitter and irritable and even more sarcastic sometimes.

Once I was at a clients house and she said “oh you forgot to zip up your boots” I was like “nope it’s not happening today I’ve reached my threshold for bending already” and that was that. Nothing is worse than having to wait as your mother zips up your boots before you go out (that’s a lie there are MANY worse things! I’ve been through a lot of them). But Im grateful she’s so glad to help. I’m 40 so I just feel so shitty that my “mommy” even has to do it but I’m glad someone is willing to do it. Some people have no one but I’m surrounded by a lot of love. Truly grateful for that.

My chiropractor said if it wasn’t for bad luck I wouldn’t have any luck at all! Specialists are frequently shocked at the fact that I’m able to function with such high degrees of pain. But I’m the type of person where you could be like “AQ, your leg just fell off” and I’ll be like “I know, pay no attention to the gaping wound, I have another leg I’ll just use that and hop. I feel like there’s someone that needs love or help somewhere.. that’s more important.. I’ll worry about my stuffering later”

And that’s the problem. Later never comes. Then things just get worse and worse. I can’t keep helping people or worrying about others needs to my own detriment.. Remember I said I’m 40.. Apparently it takes a while for things to sink in sometimes because I’m still resisting that lesson.

THat’s it for now. I’ve been sitting in an uncomfortable position for a while. Bet you’re somewhat curious about the nature of my disabilities. Or maybe you’re not and I hope you get mauled by wild racoons! Just kidding. It doesn’t matter to me. Even if no one reads this, that’s not the point. I can imagine that lots of people are reading it and it’s just as good. It’s therapeutic I find. So read, don’t read, won’t twist my knickers! Again, where do these sayings come from?!?!?! If you do read it thank you and I really appreciate that.. Truly.

Have a wonderful weekend my lovelies,

AQ