Thread by @VABVOX

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I just did the breathing treatment I must do every night before bed so my lungs can stay clear enough for me to sleep for 3hrs--how long the medications last. When I wake up gasping, I will do another treatment and hope to sleep another couple hours before work.
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In the next room you can hear the pumping noise of the oxygen generator. I am on 4 liters of oxygen 24/7. These two machines keep me breathing and alive. There is nothing I fear more than the threat of losing electricity. Without electricity, I could die. Like people in Texas.
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We lost power for several days after Hurricane Sandy due to downed power lines. No heat. No oxygen generator. No breathing equipment. I had to use emergency tanks of oxygen. And try to ration it. It was expensive and scary. Oxygen--AIR--is costly. And you can't always get it.
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Whenever there is a natural disaster, I fear for all the people like me who require machines--and electricity--to live. There are millios of #disabled, elderly and chronically ill people who are under grave threat right now in Texas. As there were in the summer in California.
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If you're making snide comments about how red states "deserve" this weather crisis because their electeds are GOP [redacted], think again. Put your pillow against your face tight enough that you are trying to breathe through it. That is how it feels for me & others to breathe.
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The most vulnerable people are harmed by #ClimateCrisis. The people least able to survive extremes of weather. Like those who couldn't afford to flee New Orleans before Katrina hit. Or those who died from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. It's 6° at the Texas border, with snow.
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There are millions of kids--a disproportionate number of them BIPOC--with asthma. It is one of the most common chronic illnesses in the US. And kids die from it every year. Asthma is a largely environmental illness. Also exacerbated by cold. How many kids in Texas are at risk?
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#Disabled people and others who need electricity to live are being ignored by Texas electeds: Abbott, Patrick, Cornyn, Cruz. They all have their own agendas--which do not include these vulnerable and often marginalized communities. We have to fix this.
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