On the 7th of january in 1919, the "Semana Trágica" began in Argentina when police attacked striking metalworkers in Buenos Aires, killing five, after workers set the police chief's car on fire. The city was quickly placed under martial law.
The "Semana Trágica" (Tragic Week in English, not to be confused with the Spanish Tragic Week) was the violent supression of a general workers' uprising, beginning with the attack on January 7th. In addition to the actions of the police and military, right-wing vigilantes launched pogroms against the city's Jews, many of whom were not involved, in order to suppress the rebellion.
The conflict began as a strike at the Vasena metal works, an English Argentine-owned plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. On January 7th, workers overturned and set fire to the car of the police chief Elpidio González. Militant workers also shot and killed the commander of the Army detachment protecting González. Following this, police attacked, killing five workers and wounding twenty more.
On the same day, maritime workers of the port of Buenos Aires voted in favor of a general strike for better hours and wages. After the police attack at Vasena, a waterfront strike began: all ship movements, and all loading and unloading, came to a halt.
Rioting soon spread throughout Buenos Aires, and workers battled with both state and right-wing paramilitary forces. Police utilized members of the far-right Argentine "Patriotic League", who targeted the city's working class Russian Jewish population, which they associated with the rebellion, beating and murdering many uninvolved civilians.
On the 11th, the city was placed under martial law, and the military restored control over the city over the next several days. Estimates of the death toll range from between 141 to over 700. The United States embassy reported that 1,500 people were killed in total, "mostly Russians and generally Jews"
La Semana Trágica - el historiador
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Well, I got Covid for the first time. Life always has its cherries on top of its ice cream I suppose (sarcastically said). Hopefully the booster I got last month helps.
It should. When I had COVID two summers ago I had gotten a booster 1-2 months before and I had pretty mild symptoms throughout. By comparison my dad, who was just about at the end of the effective time range of his booster, and my brother, who didn't want the booster, both had worse symptoms. It's still a good idea to have paxlovid on hand though as emizeko said.
Yep. Just a bad time to get it. Taking public transit to get to and fro this month while my dad is helping a sick relative.
If you absolutely cannot quarantine, if you wear an N95 mask, and the people you're interacting with wear an N95 mask, the chance of transmitting your active infection is very very low. But this should be a last resort - There are still a lot of things that can go wrong, like if the mask isn't a good fit. If you do, be sure to open all the windows for a few hours and turn on fans to vent anything that my have slipped through. I think the general wisdom is that covid particles will settle within 5 hours and be a very low risk after that, and it's much faster with good ventilation.
Again; This should only be done if you must!
get paxlovid however you can. if your provider balks find an online pharmacy that will do an internet consultation
Gonna go to a minute clinic right now. Mostly sore throat, phlegm, and aches. I hate things being closed on weekends.
I never realized how faulty those rapid tests were. It took three days of testing after onset of symptoms to get a positive result.
I went to online walmart pharmacy and got it prescribed in literally 2 hours. It knocked out my symptoms in a day or two and only made me feel kinda shitty for the rest of it.
What's that like w/o insurance? My insurance is acting funny right now.
It was free but I got it the week it went back on the market and may not apply anymore.
The general wisdom among the "Covid is Real" crowd is that home tests have about a 30% false negative rate and you should take three tests on three consecutive days to have a very high chance of a true negative result. There's also constant contention over whether the tests have suffered from age, if they're still accurate for detecting modern strains, the most effective way to gather samples (I was recently told to avoid getting mucus on the swab as much as possible for a valid sample). It's a mess, there's very little up to date research on it come out.
I will make sacrifices to Mercury, patron of Medicine, that he may shield you from the arrows of Nergal, Ba'al of Plagues.
There's some new research that updated vaccines significantly reduce your chances of long Covid.
Second fighting like hell for Paxlovid. Don't let the Dr. tell you it's "Only for severe cases", that shit can help reduce the chance of Long Covid and for most people that is the most serious immediate threat from Covid.
I appreciate that. I got to sort out what's going on insurance-wise. I hate everything being closed on weekends.
It's awful. The US still pretends that nuclear families of a husband, wife, and 2.37 children exists and that wives can just run around all day doing stimulants and errands. It's awful.
Yep. We're all atomized consumers now.