Look, it's not just that vaccines are our way out of this. It's that vaccines are our ONLY way out of this. If you want to have a chance to travel and have normal lives again, EVER, get your damn shot.
There's no conspiracy here. There's no chip. You think Bill Gates gives a shit that you spent your weekend binging Netflix on your couch? Come on. Oh, and now we think it's magnetic because someone on TikTok said it was? You can't possibly be that gullible.
"Oh, but it contains a bunch of scary ingredients I can't pronounce." So does Captain Crunch, but I don't see that stopping people from hitting a box like there's a Fabergé egg at the bottom.
WE HAVE TO TRUST EXPERTS. Every day, we drive over overpasses and trust they won't collapse. We plug in our devices and trust we won't get electrocuted. We eat foods that have been prepared in factories and trust they won't poison us. That's how the world works.
We treat vaccines like they're this weird magical thing that's somehow so much more dangerous than every other drug we take on a daily basis. They're not. They're a medical treatment like any other. They work, and they're safe. We've proven that. But only if everyone buys in.
People, just get your shot. There have been over two BILLION doses given out globally. If they were dangerous, we'd know. Please. Do the right thing, and do it now. We owe this to each other.
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Look, I get it. Conservative governments don't like spending money. They like "making investments". Fine. But for the love of God, how can you not see what happens when you invest in people?
Do you not realize how much money in our health system is spent treating people that are unhoused, and how much could be saved by investing in supportive housing?
Do you know how much an ambulance ride and ER visit costs to treat someone who's had an overdose, when we could instead invest in supervised consumption sites and prevent those overdoses from happening in the first place?
🧵 I went for a walk tonight.
Nothing happened to me.
Because nothing ever happens to me.
A woman in a hijab approaches. Does she see me as a threat? I smile and nod as we pass. She smiles back. Does she know about yesterday? Of course she does. But still, deep down, I hope somehow she doesn’t.
A young Black girl rides her bike past me. It’s so easy to look at the world and think that we all coexist peacefully. Such a seductive fantasy. “I don’t see colour”. Because people that look like you and I don’t have to.
In honour of Pride Month, my sister just told me a great story about pronouns that I have to share. 🧵
My sister works with a woman (we’ll call her Jane). Jane is a manager and has a woman on her team (we’ll call her Susan).
Susan lives and works in a small rural town. If there was a progressive centre of the universe, this town is the furthest thing from it.
One day, Jane is visiting Susan’s office and Susan brings up a mutual colleague of theirs. She’s talking as though she’s learned the CIA’s deepest, darkest secrets and says “I figured something out about Debbie. She’s a LESBIAN.”
🧵 I've been thinking a lot lately about how we approach domestic labour in straight relationships, specifically around how we assume women’s responsibility by default.
I think a lot well-intentioned guys look at the our relationships and see tasks where no one person is responsible. We both do the laundry. We both cook. We're doing great! But it's easy to overlook the fact that every job usually has a default owner.
Sure, sometimes I cook and sometimes she cooks. But if no one says anything or I don't volunteer? It's assumed that she cooks. She is the one who does that by default.
Every time I read a story about police breaking up an encampment of people experiencing homelessness, I think about when I got laid off 12 years ago. 🧵
I’d moved out to Ontario after getting a job there, and nine months later they laid a bunch of us off. When they did so, they gave us full salary and benefits continuance for three months. They didn’t have to. I was lucky.
Once that ran out and I still couldn’t find work, my partner and I moved into her parents’ rural cabin nearby. We lived there for four months, for free. What if her family hadn’t lived out there? I was lucky.
I don't normally tweet angry. Today is an exception.
I’m done being nice to antivaxxers. If you don’t want to get vaccinated, I can’t force you, but stop spreading your ignorant bullshit around social media as though you have even the faintest idea of how this stuff works.
You're not a virologist. You're not an immunologist. You read a Facebook status once from someone using big words and and decided that you know more about this topic than people that have dedicated their entire lives to its study. Stop. You’re embarrassing yourself.
Vaccinations eliminated smallpox from the globe. Most people no longer have to worry about polio, measles, rubella, mumps, diphtheria and TB, all because of vaccines. They are a public health miracle.