Covid links

[conuly]

This Woman Wins For Accidentally Getting The Most Hilariously Unfortunate Pandemic-Era Tattoo

The disease-resistant patients exposing Covid-19's weak spots

The COVID Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language

Countries call on drug companies to share vaccine know-how

Why We Can’t Make Vaccine Doses Any Faster

New coronavirus variant in NYC has vaccine-evading mutation

We’re Just Rediscovering a 19th-Century Pandemic Strategy (I haven't been able to track it down again, but just a few years ago I remember reading an article talking about how the decline of the fresh air movement was a great boon for hospitals, because it meant that patients could have private rooms and hot food again, since the buildings didn't need to be designed for maximum airflow.)

Comments

[pwcorgigirl]

I saw a man in the grocery store one day recently with his hand up finger-spelling in ASL. I looked past him, wondering who he was spelling to, and saw no one. Looked again, and he was holding up his phone, spelling to the screen. I discreetly pointed this out to my husband, who said, "Video on phones must be the best thing ever for the deaf."

[conuly]

Though not as good as teaching all children ASL starting in kindy would be, and teaching all children (or at the very least Deaf children) how to read and write in ASL.

(There are multiple writing systems for signed languages. TBH, at first glance I'm not too thrilled with any of them, as most of them are made for researchers rather than everyday users and prioritize total reading accuracy over speed and fluency in writing... but I think we all know the reason that they aren't taught is that even when people acknowledge the need for signed languages, they're still influenced by oralism and the emphasis is on getting Deaf kids to read and write the spoken language rather than their own language. This has been your daily rant on the disabling attitudes of society.)