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-don’t tell ur coworkers jack shit. You might think they’re your friends but they will sell you out for a paperclip
-everything men tell you is a lie
-store brand vanilla ice cream is better than name brand
-pregnancy tests from the dollar store work just as well as $20 ones
-don’t lie to your doctor
-seriously don’t
-at some point your card will get declined for $6 and nobody but you will care. It happens to everyone at some point in their life
-you will become bffs with your mom (unless she’s a mean person, then skip this one)
-you’ll wish you took the advice adults gave you when you were younger, even though it annoyed you at the time
-people you went to high school with will become teachers, doctors, etc but they will still do drugs and it will be weird. That’s life, my dude
-never underestimate the power of new underwear
be careful about your cleaning products and dont get yourself injured or potentially killed ok
why it so dangerous to be clean
As someone who’s job is to handle chemicals like this, I need to state that this information is IMPORTANT. Plenty of people have accidentally injured or killed themselves at home because they didn’t know what kind of reaction certain substances have with one another. Play it safe and don’t mix chemicals.
Also don’t use bleach to clean up urine it’ll create chloramine bc of the ammonia in it and you can give yourself chemical pnemonia that way
Every time I see “helpful” posts telling people to mix these things while cleaning I cringe with my entire body.
One of the more interesting things to come out of the data on COVID from other countries is that those with higher testing rates, like South Korea, are showing a very different picture of infection rates by age than those, like Italy, who are only testing people with clear symptoms. (Note, these are from a medium article, but it pretty well sourced):
In Italy, which so far has a very high mortality rate (around 7%), and where they have so far only tested people with symptoms, the infection rates by age group compared to their percentage of the population looks like this:
In South Korea, which so far has a mortality rate below 1% of all confirmed cases, and where they’ve been doing far more widespread testing, including people without symptoms, the infection rates by age group compared to their percentage of the population looks like this:
The lower relative death rate reported in SK is at least partly the result of doing far more tests. So far SK has done almost 250,000 COVID tests, the highest of any country outside China, which means approximately 5% of their total population has been tested. Italy is next, at 86,000 tests, but has a population slightly higher than SK, so their testing rate works out to 1.4%. But the more significant takeaway is that by doing more tests, SK is identifying more cases that are either asymptomatic, or that are mild, and these are the ones most likely to occur in younger, healthier people. The fact that almost 30% of their cases are in people in their 20s, means that there are a lot of asymptomatic or low-symptomatic but contagious young adults there, and likely in other countries too, and that they are actually more likely to have contracted COVID than other groups. There are some other possible confounding factors (e.g. it might be that people in their 20s in SK are being tested at an unusually high rate compared to other groups, etc.) that we don’t know, but it’s still a very striking finding. Only people in their 50s have infection rates that somewhat exceed their percentage of the population, and the difference is far less pronounced.
Anyway, my point is, if you’re in your 20s and currently disregarding advice for “social distancing” based on the fact that you think you’re unlikely to have COVID, you might be doing a lot more harm than you think.
This is so great for people with hypochondriasis! This is a rough time for everyone but we don’t need people like me getting all anxious over nothing and clogging the system.
If you can’t breathe, go to the hospital. If you can, drink some tea and get cozy with Netflix. (And take appropriate hygiene procedures like staying away from public spaces and vulnerable loved ones, etc.) Much love to other people with health anxiety, try to keep it simple.
Please don’t yell at retail employees during all this. It is not their fault that the stores are out of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, etc. etc.. They’re doing their best and they’re going through the same exact thing as the rest of us. Be kind.
You can really tell who’s never experienced poverty and food insecurity when it comes to discussions around food costs and how unhealthy food is cheaper. Some fucker always comes in with the price of like… lettuce or… apples. And it’s like yeah bitch but can you work an 11 hour shift after eating some salad and an apple!?! Find me something cheaper, and more filling than the broke ass staples of boxed mac and cheese, hot dogs, noodles, bread, beans, and rice. I’ll wait.
It also ignores the mental toll that poverty takes like maybe your home made veggie filled recipe isn’t crazy expensive but it also involves prep time and cooking time and organization in terms of fresh food that a lotta poor people can’t manage.
Not to mention if you can only afford to get to the store once every couple weeks via bus or cab then you can’t keep fresh veg on deck.
But ya know.. poor people are just dumb and lazy.
Everyone buys a bunch of junk food during finals because they’re stressed and it takes less effort to prepare but they don’t understand that for some of us that is literally every day
ifesbob 