FYI: If you test negative for #Covid, you are only negative until you encounter & catch Covid... which could happen the nanosecond AFTER you test negative.
If you tested negative and think that means you can’t CATCH or PASS on #TheRona over the holiday (with nana) you are WRONG.
I heard a dude — who’s now positive — say that he thought he was good after his negative test 2 WEEKS AGO because “the negative lasts for 14 days.”
No.
Tests are not vaccines or cures. They are screening/diagnostic devices that tell you if you’ve got #Covid in👏🏾that👏🏾moment👏🏾.
If you leave a testing site and go have a “safe 🥴 socially-distanced-brunch” w/ a friend who has asymptomatic, undiagnosed #Covid & you both take off your masks to eat & talk & laugh, guess what?
🗣+🦠💦 = YOU 🦠positive & on a plane home, CONFIDENT that you’re negative.
You get home and hug your mom and nana and the little cousins, mask-less, telling each of them that it’s cool because you tested negative 🥴 — not knowing that in 2 or 3 days the COVID infection you NOW HAVE will be spreading among them just as you board your plane back home.
The FALSE sense of security that ONE negative test three days ago brought you will have you reckless at home and at the airport. You may feel so secure that you will be SHOCKED when you get sick once you’re back home. You may even blame your family on your infection.
But nope.
None of this is a dig on tests.
PLEASE get tested.
It’s important to know your status.
But knowing your #Covid status isn’t an inoculation against the virus. It isn’t a vaccine. It’s just a snapshot of a moment in time.
One that can change the NEXT moment.
If you get a negative & then seal yourself inside your house until this is all over, that negative will hold. Lol!
But it is NOT a free pass to travel & brunch & gather. I’ve seen too many people using that as their “get out of pandemic jail” card.
We all miss our family & friends.
And I know it’s Christmas and you may always be with them on Christmas.
But this Christmas is different.
If we all wear masks, wash our hands & stay home this Christmas more of us will live to see NEXT Christmas.
Just saying.
Love y’all!❤️
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I am not coming for @FrankFigliuzzi1. He’s a good dude. I like him.
But this skewed narrative that white supremacy and the mayhem, chaos and sadly death it causes being something just a few misguided lone wolves live by is not true or fair to their MANY victims.
Taxpayers pay for his trips, by the way. YOUR tax dollars are NOT being used to provide #COVID relief, but they ARE paying for @realDonaldTrump’s golf trips (to HIS clubs) AND for @jaredKushner to sell state secrets &/or launder money in foreign countries. MAGA👌🏻
This will be a thread of tribute to #DavidProwse, who was the physical form of #DarthVader. We all have celebrated the brilliance of @jamesearljones’ vocal performance as Vader—& rightfully so ❤️—but we must never forget the physical swag Mr. Prowse brought to the role. #Respect!
That corrupt racist’s #CovidTheater stunt this weekend was meant to make you forget that he:
1) paid $750 in federal taxes 2) refuses to denounce Nazis 3) torpedoed a debate because he’s accomplished NOTHING in 4 years & he fears @JoeBiden
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4) held a super-spreader event that has infected 20+ people last count just so he could fill the Supreme Court seat of a GREAT woman who was a lifelong civil servant with a chick who wants to take away YOUR healthcare and every woman’s right to body autonomy. 5) is inept.
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6) has a wife who said she doesn’t give a F*CK about christmas OR the kids in cages at the border who the press wouldn’t talk to her about leading to her wearing a jacket that DECLARED she really didn’t give a F*CK about the kids either. 7) went to a debate with symptoms.
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You all know that I believe in a righteous fight. Well, I also believe in giving credit where credit is due after the battle.
Today #Local706, specifically #RandySayer & #PollyLucke moved mountains to ensure that a talented hairstylist is on his way to union membership.
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I mentioned them by name because it was NOT a small thing that they did for me, the stylist and the black actresses in particular that will soon have another amazing union artisan to craft their glorious natural curls, coils & blessed kinks WITHOUT heat!
It’s a huge thing!
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I also want to thank the amazing union hairstylist #CarlaFarmer for standing in the gap & helping to facilitate the conversation that helped us all work everything out.
I worked w/Carla on my first series regular role EVER — #TheBigHouse in 2003. She remains a real one.❤️✊🏾
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