Thread by @kdurquiza

🧵 1/19 Oh, so you've been "touched by #Covid19?"

Did you say goodbye to a loved one via a computer screen? Did you drop them off at an ER only to see them next, in person, in a coffin?

@MarkedByCovid
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2/ Did your loved one catch Covid and die just weeks before they were able to get a vaccine because the US has failed to deliver on #VaccineEquity? @JanethNunezdelP @MarkedByCovid

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3/ Was your mother, a #HealthCareHero, forced to reuse #PPE while confronting patients who refused to mask because their governor @GregAbbott_TX said it wasn't necessary? @itsmefi @MarkedByCovid

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4/ Was your parent, who had been released from the hospital after surviving ventilation, found dead on the floor of your daughter’s room by your 9-year-old son just four days later? @karleeg @MarkedByCovid

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5/ Was your loved one told that it would take 3 hours for an ambulance to come? Were you then told that no mortuary could take them because they were all full? @atepinkrose @MarkedByCovid

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6/ Was the last communication you got from your parent "I'm going to hospice" only to find out a day later they were gone? @jritzsullivan @MarkedByCovid

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7/ Are you a teacher who lost your partner, who was a #healthcarehero, in the first surge leaving behind two children under the age of five? @readingswan @MarkedByCovid

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8/ Did you lose your 40-year-old brother, your only sibling and best friend, and established the first permanent #Covid19 memorial? @A_shot_of_Ri @MarkedByCovid

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9/ Did you bury your 13-year-old daughter? #AnnaCarter @MarkedByCovid

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10/ Did you not have a funeral? Did you attend a Zoom funeral? Did the body of your loved one wait in a refrigerator truck for weeks? @MarkedByCovid

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11/ Do you have #LonCovid? Are you being evicted because you can't pay rent because you can't work? Are your doctors gaslighting you about your condition? @loscharlos @K_Bishof @ahandvanish @AngelaMSWinCA @MarkedByCovid

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12/ Do you have prolonged grief because the country is ok with normalizing THOUSANDS of deaths and a mass disabling event? @MarkedByCovid

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13/ Did you go on the world's stage to share your story -- and call out TFG for killing your father -- knowing that it would result in death threats? @MarkedByCovid

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14/ Do you go to work in person every day without proper protection and management that is actively working to thwart your attempts to unionize? @whitphoenix @MarkedByCovid

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15/ Did you lose the one person who understood you and loved you unconditionally? @Tara_Swanigan @MarkedByCovid

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16/ Are you struggling with survivors guilt because everyone in your family died from Covid except for you (and you brought it home to them after volunteering at the polls) @LEsparzaCasarez @MarkedByCovid

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17/ Are you teaching children in person without the proper PPE, tests, N-95 masks, and being demonized for wanting to have safe classrooms? @MarkedByCovid sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Sur…

18/ Are you entering year three of being called a "hero" and yet there is no end in sight? @MarkedByCovid

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END/ Unless your life has been *fundamentally* changed by #Covid you can't minimize those of us @MarkedByCovid

You've been touched, I've been sucker-punched. We are all on the Titanic, yes, but we're locked in stowage while you got a seat in a boat. @MarkedByCovid

Addendum: We, people severely harmed by covid, are working together for a permanent #CovidMemorialDay

To properly mourn and recognize our losses. To heal. To never forget. To build bridges.

Become a sponsor and help make this happen.

👇🏽

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