Thread by @VABVOX

#GoodMorning friends!
Thank you all for your messages, cards, flowers--you have no idea how much you have helped me these past 10 days that I have been so ill. Having you send me so much caring and healing made this awful time less so for me. You're the best 💜 I missed you.
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I got #COVID in April 2020. Like about 10% of people who get the virus, I got congestive heart failure. Others get kidney failure or have other disabling impacts. Or #LongCovid. This is NOT a"flu"--if you are lucky enough to survive, you can have long-term disabling disease.
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Initially I lost my sense of smell and taste. I lost hearing in my right ear. I had ulcers in my mouth. I had constant fevers. I was exhausted all the time. And I couldn't breathe. #COVID19 is devastating. The people claiming otherwise are lying. Don't get it, don't give it.
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We are in a war, now. A war against the virus and its mutations. A war against willful and ideologically inspired ignorance. The folks refusing to #GetVaccinated are wreaking havoc--it is brutal and inhumane and inexcusable. They are inflicting harm on the most vulnerable.
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The politicians and other leaders spreading this disease with their anti-science rhetoric and their ideological cant are despicable. There are not enough adjectives to detail the breadth of their cruelty. There are no more excuses. Every child under 12 is at risk from this.
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There are now as many new cases of #COVID every day as there were pre-vaccine. Cities all over are running out of hospital beds and ICU beds for kids. Triage tents are going up again. Drs and nurses are explaining how they are once again burnt out and helpless. It's gutting.
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I want to end this by saying that I'm in constant pain. I'm suffering and struggling. I'm saying this to remind folks that #COVID is ongoing--it's
not a one-off like the flu. AND YOU COULD DIE OR KILL SOMEONE ELSE. You have no freedom to take someone else's health--or life. 7/🧵

I am better, but not at all well. A week ago, three days ago, I was afraid I might die. It was that scary. That's the bottom line. I had no options in 2020--we had no vaccines. Now there are THREE separate vaccines to choose from. #GetVaccinated
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