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J. Offir, Ph.D. Profile picture
@dontwantadothis
Jul 15 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Pins I ordered to check quality have arrived! Colors are true; slight scratch on the green one. Note: I didn't order any w/ the NC anti-mask ban law/NY bill text, b/c I don't live in either state. I'd rec. the bigger pins, for those.

Remember that

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redbubble.com/people/Jtoffir…
Photo of "masking for medical reasons" large and small pins in various colors that I designed and purchased, with image of surgical mask or N95.
these are for folks trying to avoid harassment/unwanted convo. re: their mask wearing, esp. in places w/ mask bans. If that's not you, just scroll away. I'm not taking a royalty; just trying to help.

I'll make the "ban text" t-shirts avail. soon. Still checking image res.

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(@LindaRNielsen One of the "mask ban text" pins has black text on a light background, which you wanted. I can try to do a few "masking for medical reasons" ones w/ black text, soon. Remember that clicking takes you to stickers; one needs to scroll down to "also available on.") Pin that says "Masking 'for the purpose of preventing the spread of contagious disease' Gen. Statute 14-12.11", which references the North Carolina mask ban text. Black letters on light lavender background with image of N95.

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Jul 2
I've been debating about whether to post this, b/c I know people's feelings about sex offenders naturally run very deep.

But I really think Louisiana is on a theocratic, authoritarian-adjacent spree of terrible decisions this summer. Hear me out...

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npr.org/2024/07/01/nx-…
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Jun 17
🧵 Conspiracy theories & health beliefs:

Today in a fb group about alpha-gal syndrome (a tick borne allergy to meat), a post about cooking/eating worms led to "conspiracy theory" comments that AGS is intentionally spread by Fauci & Gates (who apparently want us to eat worms). AGS group members discuss their belief that the allergy was "weaponized" by Gates and Fauci, who, the commenters say, "want complete control."
2/ It led me to ponder that age-old question: "why on Earth would people think that?"

I never studied conspiracy theories (or theorists) professionally, but we did deal with a fair amount of conspiratorial thinking in the early years of HIV intervention.
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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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Jun 6
Very interesting article. The last paragraph really spoke to me, as a social psychologist:

Bonnie & Bob Krall have had 3 types of cancer between them in 14 months.

“'Maybe if we didn’t get covid …' she started before trailing off. Bob shrugged and finished for her. ...

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...Maybe we would have been better? Maybe we would have been worse.'"

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🧵 Since 2020, I've been cutting my partner's hair. I don't know how to cut hair, & the last four years have not made me more knowledgeable or skilled. (Yes, I watched YouTube videos; I'm hopeless.)

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"more than half of older adults still spend more time at home and less time socializing in public spaces than they did pre-pandemic, according to new...research. Participants cited fear of infection and 'more uncomfortable and hostile' social dynamics..."

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