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Feb 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🧵I have been so sick the past 36hrs I was really afraid I was going to have to go to the ER. Fortunately the NP is coming tomorrow, so hopefully it will ameliorate and she will tell me this is just more episodic CHF. I have no idea why folks are so eager to get COVID.
🧵There is no such thing as "mild" COVID. A full 10% of people (like me) get long-term disabling illness from the virus: heart, lung and kidney disease.
Also, people who don't go to hospital can develop long-COVID later.
🧵Kids are more and more susceptible to #LongCovid yet are the least vaccinated at less than a third.
nature.com/articles/d4158…
Just clarifying that I got COVID back in spring 2020, but in June 2020 developed congestive heart failure (CHF) as a result. An apparently common side-effect for women. Please do all you can to avoid getting COVID. You never know how it will impact you.

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Feb 9
All those Black children traumatized today by that bomb threat at Dunbar High School should matter to you and it is literally not even part of the story.
So I see this tweet is literally buried on here and I have to wonder why this, my latest tweet, appears algorithmically after all yesterday's tweets about non-racial bias issues. Not a conspiracy theorist here, but.... it's more than a little odd.
I deliberately didn't put Doug Emhoff in the tweet, which would've altered the algorithm. Not because 2nd Gentleman doesn't matter--obviously he does. But because I wanted to center those Black kids whose emotional and physical well-being were under threat who the ⬜media forgot.
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Jan 29
Today is day 2,000 since I was paralyzed. I cannot begin to tell you how much those 2,000 days have changed and restricted, challenged and harmed me. The way disabled people are treated in America is absolutely criminal, yet we are THE largest minority at 81M people. ♿🧵
The crushing lack of services and access makes every day a struggle--most of it unnecessary. Disabled people are victimized: More than half of all police shootings are of disabled people. Disabled women are 70% more likely to be raped.Most disabled people live in poverty. ♿🧵
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literally,as we're the most food insecure of any group. The ADA was signed into law in 1990 yet about 75% of businesses remain inaccessible and access to other accomodations is also limited. Discrimination is rampant. 🧵
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Jan 25
He is only 31, with two kids and a 3rd on the way. He refuses because "it's his body, his choice" and he "doesn't believe in [the vaccine]."
What an incalculably selfish man.

Hospital refusing heart transplant for man who won't get vaccinated cbsnews.com/news/brigham-a…
But as medical ethicists explain, transplants shut down the immune system, so vaccines are required. "We can't waste a precious organ on someone who won't follow the criteria."
cbsnews.com/news/brigham-a…
"Like many other transplant programs in the US, the COVID-19 vaccine is one of several vaccines and lifestyle behaviors required for transplant candidates in the in order to create the best chance for a successful operation and also the patient's survival after transplantation."
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Jan 21
Devastating personal news: The Wife was informed late today, 3wks into the semester that she MUST begin in-person teaching next week or resign her classes. HR said her request to continue the remote teaching the entire uni has been doing since classes began Jan3 was "not valid."
The Wife has been teaching at this uni for 15yrs and teaching college for 35. The ADA apparently has no application for COVID concerns. So at the end of her class tonight she had to inform her students of the ruling. They were stunned & upset "But you're our favorite professor!"
Now these kids have to get used to a different professor who is jumping in next week--week four in a design class, yikes. The Wife has to meet with him tomorrow to bring him up to speed. AND she still has to attend three faculty meetings (remote, natch, cuz COVID). I AM SO ANGRY.
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#BREAKING:
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@malcolmkenyatta announced his campaign has been endorsed by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), AFT PA, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT), Teamsters Local 623, Teamsters BMWED, One Pennsylvania, AFSCME DC33, AFSCME 1199C and....>
LGBTQ Victory Fund,Democracy for America, (DFA), Working Families Party (WFP),Brand New Congress, and local officials throughout Pennsylvania. If elected, Kenyatta would be the Senate's youngest member, and the first openly LGBTQ+ person of color to ever serve in the U.S. Senate.
There are numerous other people running for the open PA Senate seat, including Dr. Oz, but no one with the track record of Democratic progressivism that Kenyatta has shown throughout his years in the state legislature. He was among the keynote speakers at the 2020 DNC.
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There's a lot hanging on that word "eventually." The road to recovery is long, very hard and brutally expensive as anyone who has begun recovery or been involved with addicted people knows. Sobriety is not an easy path--don't minimize the journey with glib statements.
The story itself cited 95k deaths per year from alcohol, 100k from drug overdoses,but says it's a fraction of the number of alcoholics and drug addicts. Yet that's like saying the folks dead from COVID are a fraction of the cases. It's true, but doesn't address the complexities.
The cost of becoming sober is monumental, which is why so many people in prison are in there for drug-related offenses. This is particularly true for women, as my recent 3-part series on women in prison explicated. The system for recovery is more available to people with money.
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