“you play with ITEMS???” like YES its literally the silliest game possible by design, if i wasnt supposed to play as isabelle and spend the entire time assembling a giant gun to blast bowser off the side of palutena’s temple it wouldn’t be a fucking option

Right. Except a pandemic of a new illness that no one is immune to where almost 20% of infected people need to go to hospital puts massive strain on medical infrastructure.

So no, the sky isn’t falling but be sensible. Don’t panic buy, do wash your hands. Don’t avoid all human contact, do avoid visiting your granny or your friend with a compromised immune system. Do self isolate if you think you might have symptoms.

Don’t panic, but don’t go too far the other way.

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Found this in the reblogs. It’s not the apocalypse but the issue is lack of immunity and potentially wide spread because of it can mean and overall very large amount of infected, which ticks up the overall deaths from sheer volume, especially if healthcare infrastructure is overburdened. This has killed more than SARS and MERS because it’s very infectious. 

People need to stop panicking for themselves like it’s the apocalypse and be concerned about containing the spread due to the vulnerable people. Like in WA where I live, most of the deaths are in the nursing home in Kirkland where the first cluster really started, like it just took those people out. That won’t happen to everyone but it tanks some of the vulnerable elderly and chronically ill people real hard. 

So like the above post says the thinking should be “don’t panic, don’t think you’re going to die unless you’re chronically ill or old, but worry about keep your older parents or sister who just finished chemo or gram gram safe since this could kill them.” Because the majority of healthy people still probably have someone in their life that is vulnerable due to age or illness. 

But if you’re young and healthy, or at least don’t have one of the conditions vulnerable to this, the mass panic needs to stop. You’ll just get a version of the flu and be fine in two weeks.

The press is laying down the paranoia but it’s also something the public has to take seriously because of how many people could get infected and therefore how many vulnerable people could die. 

I LOVE DATA

This data is so great because: 

1) It’s good to know smokers or people with poor lungs should be more worried than like misc chronically ill people with lets say of the GI track problems. If have high blood pressure now may be a time instead of stressing yourself out because oh no work, to budget yourself time to get behind for the sake of your health

2) I feel like the last slide is a big misleading because everyone is hyper freaked out because our world is more global than it was before meaning it hypothetically could be worse than whatever before. 

3) Never before saw it mentioned the cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or high blood pressure were included in underlying conditions. Before they just said people with lung issues. Neither of those are lung issues. 

4) As time goes on the numbers of this will get less and less correct. I’m writing as of 3/12. These graphics are from 3/9. The numbers will go up, as testing goes up. Confirmed cases are not the scary thing, check the WHO for their rates of death and hospitalization. It was everyone’s hope the rate of death will go down even as the cases go up.  

Oh! Last addition from me. The CDC does not suggest hoarding toilet paper, it’s number one suggestion 72 hours of water. We buy the plastic jugs and then refill them. But if you aren’t a family who does that a cleaned out milk carton and 75 cents will do the trick at a refill station. No store needed. 

5) As a chronically ill person I’m always terrified about needing a hospital, extra now because chronically ill people are often ignored on a good day. This is not going to be a good time for hospital workers. If you get sick, just do not say ‘oh it/s w/e it’s a flu for me I’ll go to work.’

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I heard an interview, can’t remember the psychologist, but he was explaining this idea and encouraging people to stop and take a deep breath and literally drink in small moments like you’re a dryass plant when something is ever satisfactory, positive, mildly successful, randomly joyful so your brain can code and integrate that experience because our natural lizard brain will quickly tape over it with mostly unnecessary negative survival shit. Sounds dumb and dorky but sometimes I remember this when I’m feeling good about a moment because our cave brains are still catching up with modern life without sabertooths. I like that it’s not just a pollyanna gosh just be more positive thing but more of a legit brain wiring phenomenon can be gradually hacked through small behavioral changes.

Another super important one: Take the time to tell yourself, when something you did or bought or decided works out “That was a good decision and I’m glad I made it! Go me!” 

Seriously, it can have a huge impact. suddenly you go from remembering nothing but bad decisions to adding in a series of Excellent Choices You Feel Good About, and it makes things so much better. 

#we’re all running happiness software on survival hardware and we gotta do our own firmware updates   from @galwednesday 

That time where I drew so much. For hours at a time. And I was so fucking excited to show my 10 followers what I made. When I drew whatever the fuck I wanted, didn’t care if it was good or not. I didn’t care if I failed or not. I just drew for 100% fun and myself. I didn’t stress about getting better or improving or thinking like “I have to improve every day because my entire future depends on it” I need to get back to that mind frame some how

“Where were you today? I missed u. Thought ya lil ugly ass went and joined the soul circus”

This is literally me