We are thinking about doing our mini-mask bloc of two tonite for the feminist action day. But i don't think i have the courage for this, plus it would piss me off too much.
"Every month or so, the twitter wars start up again. Someone, often a disabled person, pointedly expresses their frustration that - yet again- leftists are gathering with few masks in sight, without guidance to require masking, and/or without distribution of free masks. This lack of COVID mitigation makes these spaces dangerous for immunocompromised people, people living with #LongCOVID, and everyone who is at risk of serious post-COVID health problems including long-term disability (that’s everyone!)
The backlash to these statements is usually loud, angry, mean, and often quickly degenerates into hateful rhetoric about disabled people generally. I don’t think I’ve ever posted a masked selfie without MAGA trolls mocking me, instructing me to die, informing me I’m scared, telling me I’m crazy, and absolutely fuming that I should stay in my house. Disturbingly, some of the leftist backlash to repeated requests for masks and disability justice praxis sounds remarkable similar to the MAGA folks’ go-to talking points."
Yes, it is true. When leftists behave like that it does hurt even more, because they should (and they could) know better. #Anarchists in particular are very disappointing when they fall for the state propaganda normalizing #COVID19 and as such participate in the organized abandonment of chronically ill and immunocompromised people.
Seeing how many people at #gally1 got COVID this year makes me really glad I wore my mask. I'll admit I felt some peer pressure to not mask up on the Thursday, but I'm glad I did get around to wearing it almost the whole weekend.
Nah, wearing a facemask isn't "virtue-signalling." You know what is though? Ignoring a mass disabling event that is an ongoing pandemic and then contracting Covid and suddenly "isolating" for some bullshit insufficient number of days, acting like you suddenly give a shit. That, my friends, is most certainly "virtue-signalling." Give me a break. #Covid#CovidIsNotOver#facemasks#WearAMask#MaskUp
At least no one can deny that #measles is airborne and that airborne precautions prevent it. Want to kill several birds with one stone in an age of immunodysregulation and vaccine evasion? #WearAMask (#WearARespirator)
Scolding people to "get vaccinated" is one of the most counter-productive things you can do. Its only practical purpose is to make you feel superior. Measles, Covid and other diseases aren't spreading because "people" are "being stupid". They're spreading because of your government's decision to stop doing public health, which included real community vaccination outreach. Not scolding. #measles#CovidIsNotOver#WearAMask#getvaccinated
@LeftistLawyer I am O negative & sense it was protective. But I am also routinely vaxxed & have masked diligently when I have to be indoors in public. The first time I went maskless in a large indoor gathering (new chapel, high ceilings, funeral) I contracted Covid. By then it was Sept of 2023 though, & fairly mild. Lesson learned. I quarantined & did not give it to my partner, not 0 neg. Good luck with your research. #WearAMask even if you are the only one.
March 2020 an asshole private practice dick was trying to force me to see patients in person despite a history of clots, asthma, and pulmonary infarction just years earlier.
I refused, got an ADA excuse from my doctor.
Still "did my job."
Saw patients virtually without issue.
That attending was 43yo & went in.
He didnt live to see 44.
He died after #COVID19 & probable Covid-induced myocarditis.
Is It Dangerous to Keep Getting COVID-19?
Spoiler - you bet it is
infectious-disease experts are warning that repeat infections could have cumulative, lasting effects.
... found that people who had gotten COVID-19 at least twice experienced higher rates of short- and long-term health effects, including heart, lung, and brain issues, compared to those who were only infected once.
My manager just told the team "Just fyi covid is everywhere in our organization right now, including this building. Stay safe and wash your hands."
My manager revoked my WfH agreement last August. Mine alone, not anyone else's. Literally anyone else in my team and others can WfH at their discretion. My manager is nominally on-site at all times and for the last year or so has been, in fact, on-site only 2-3 mornings per week at most.
My manager refused to let me take the office that became available which had a window that opens and independent air conditioning. My manager took that office for themself. For 2-3 mornings a fucking week. Because they didn't like the office they chose for themself last year.
While I enjoy the cubicle farm affectionately named "the plague pit".
In my N95 respirator mask. Watching everyone else wash their hands occasionally and call in sick repeatedly.
Step 1: Cut social services to a shadow of their former selves. Step 2: Don't offer people housing, nutrition or any other support besides deliberately humiliating Church charity. Give them Death as the only practical option. Save the state $$$. Austerity is Eugenics and that's why Eugenics and Austerity go hand in hand. Our government is culling people with a pincer movement strategy of poverty and Medical Assistance in Dying, just as disability activists warned. Not one political party here gives a shit, because they too will seek such "cost-saving" measures if elected. We have to change this culture. #CovidIsNotOver#WearAMask#disability#eugenicshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/25/canada-assisted-dying-laws-in-spotlight-as-expansion-paused-again
Had to buy a new dryer the other day. Yesterday the guy called to let me know when they are coming to deliver. I commented on how sick he sounded. Apparently the day after we saw him he came down with an awful cold. He complained that there’s a lot of people who walk in the store. Not one employee had a mask on and every one of them looked at us weird because we did. Unbelievable that people are still this naive when it comes to COVID. #WearAMask#CovidIsNotOver#Ignorance
Excellent article, articulates the need for people to understand their risk for developing Long COVID, and the potentially dire long-term consequences of “learning to live” with the virus.