got immense respect for ppl who've been able to resist years of unrelenting propaganda, gaslighting, minimizing, shaming, refusal, dismissal, social-political-cultural & economic isolation, criminalization etc only to become more rooted in the knowing that the pandemic is ongoing

If you’ve ignored your disabled friends advice to protect your health & try to avoid covid - only to end up with Long Covid - please don’t come to us for help by saying “promise me I won’t be as bad as you.” I can’t provide that reassurance AND it’s a hurtful question 🧵/1

This is 100% the correct advice for people working in customer service and sales. Unless you have personally been *documented* with doing something wrong, just acknowledge the problems and move to solving it. The apology phase also puts you in liability territory.

2-2 ...because we are here.

let’s be so for real- so many doctors do not keep up with research, and some patients genuinely do know more than their doctors do about their conditions

some people are very upset at the statement that some doctors might not know what they need to know you know how there are people who are bad at their jobs and don’t know shit about shit? doctors like that exist too. see also: all of the responses from chronically ill people

Literally, if you bring them research and even offer to summarize it, they make fun of you and ignore it. Like doctors do not read like people think they read. Granted, many don't have time & that's a larger issue, but it's still an issue.

I have only ralsed about 50 on this so far 😭 I literally have until the end of this week to make this go@l. Pls if you can in anyway help, I don’t want to be homeIess for my birthday lmao linktr.ee/hiimjakekthx

I'm not going to put any effort into refuting this point by point, because... Brandolini But, really?! I remain baffled by the vehement objection to cleaner air generally, and in schools in particular. Can anyone come up with a coherent explanation?

5 years in. Where are the improved vaccines, nasal or otherwise? Where are better rapid tests? Where are the breathalyzers? Did everyone stop working on these or funding these because Biden said it was over? Certainly seems that way.

In early 2020 I sat down in a park in Belfast to read an email on my phone; it detailed that anosmia was a common symptom of Covid-19, and in that moment my risk calculus changed significantly. I knew the conditions anosmia was a prodromal marker for. psypost.org/scientists-dis…

Of all the places to wear a mask - hospital & airplanes should be easy sells. Hospital - where the sickest people & strongest germs are. Airplane - you’re literally in a tin can in the sky within inches of ppl from ALL over the world. Why risk getting sick before destination?

I have to pre-mourn the loss of another person. A friend confided in me early on that he had severe cognitive impairment from Covid. He recently posted “I have been sick for about three years, with what is essentially Long Covid… I am learning to accept I may never been the

Just to show how MASSIVE of a move removing 747K voters is: Obama won NC in 2008 by ~14K votes & Biden lost in 2020 by ~75K…

After every disaster comes disease: one week after a 2017 hurricane in Florida mosquitoes multiplied eight fold. news.miami.edu/stories/2024/0…

This whole concept of dying 'with', versus dying 'from', is new and relates only to COVID, a far more serious common virus than any other. We never used to say people died 'with' flu or 'with' pneumonia. We still don't. It's very, very strange.

in 2022, i asked my internship placement team to please ATTEMPT to find a virtual or mask-required internship site for me since i’m so immunocompromised. this was not an unreasonable request- majority of the students in my program mainly did telehealth. i am on 3

It's amazing, isn't it, that we expect the air on aircraft to be HEPA-filtered, but tolerate filthy, unfiltered air in kindergartens and schools.

"we're spending $1 million in taxpayer money so professors can mail each other little notes?? we have a post office—these toys for academics are emblems of waste" —DOGE, 1969, killing arpanet