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Victoria Brownworth 🎃💀

@VABVOX

9 Oct

#BREAKING
Big fight in South Philly over the Columbus statue which Mayor Kenney boxed up last year. Friday a judge said the box must come off. Kenney said no. He is appealing the ruling. But folks have jumped the fence to take the box down. Police have stopped that.

The head of the Italian-American community says Kenney is in violation of the court order and thus in contempt of court. He tells media that the box will come down tonight in advance of Sunday's Columbus Day parade. Police are now lining the fence in front of the boxed statue.

Meanwhile, there are numerous celebrations of #IndigenousPeoplesDay throughout Philadelphia.

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Victoria Brownworth 🎃💀

@VABVOX

28 Sep

Watching #Hoarders and I understand not being able to let go of family heirlooms or books, but this hoarding garbage thing is so hard to comprehend. I mean how do people live with the stench?

This grandma had 60,000 pounds of stuff removed from her house. And her granddaughter CiCi who she raised had to grow up in this hellhole. She's now in high school and just "wants a real home." Hoarding really hurts these kids. This girl slept on boxes. It's so sad.

This other family, the mom is the hoarder and the dad is a fireman.There are five kids and nowhere for them to sleep because of all the stuff. How could you put your kids through this? The trauma is so much.
#Hoarders

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Victoria Brownworth 🎃💀

@VABVOX

22 Sep

I've been writing about this for a few weeks--and, as an immuno-compromised person--living it throughout the pandemic. This piece has open access. Read it.

Hospitals overwhelmed by covid are turning to ‘crisis standards of care.’ What does that mean? washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09…

"Physician Kristen Solana Walkinshaw told The Washington Post last week that her team had four patients who needed continuous kidney dialysis and only two machines available."
washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09…

"The resource crunch could also force healthcare workers to give beds or ventilators to those most likely to recover. If resources become tight, they can consider universal DNR orders for hospitalized adult patients who go into cardiac arrest."
washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09…

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Victoria Brownworth 🎃💀

@VABVOX

21 Sep

THREAD

So Monday I was informed that a PT would be coming today. I ceased being able to get in-home PT at the end of March 2020 when the country locked down. I was not allowed to change the day (Tuesday is a deadline day for me).I asked for late afternoon and was told no.
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I was told the latest visit would be 2pm and that the PT would be here then. I organized my work day around that time, which was very difficult, and rescheduled some work for Wednesday morning. It has been stressful and energy-depleting.
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It is now nearly 4pm. The PT has not arrived nor called. I have been in stasis for two hours, unable to do work that involved interviewing because what if the PT shows up? Also, their day ends at 5pm, so the "two hour intake and session"won't be happening, either.
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Victoria Brownworth 🎃💀

@VABVOX

19 Sep

https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1439341949857697794

THREAD:
If 1 in 500 people have died of COVID, close friends and family members *of someone* *have* died of it. This is a shockingly off-key comment from Ross Douthat, who had COVID himself. Yet the quote in the piece is much worse than this as he says no one*he*knows died.
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https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1439341949857697794

This is a badly--even bizarrely--argued piece that contends that the number of dead is a Goldilocks number: just right. Not as many as some predicted, but enough to be a big number. Douthat--who is much smarter than this piece--says that mostly people in nursing homes died.
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And while Douthat says it's not good that so many people (he forgets about disabled people) died in nursing homes, but...well...shrug. Douthat seems not to know any POC. POC--young folks--have died disproportionately. And even though he had it,he also shrugs off #LongCovid.
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