Trying to stand up to the #UCP conservative government who make disabled Albertans suffer more everyday. (No UCP ministers on our driveways, please.) #AISH
Mar 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
At my pharmacy tonight, a man wearing an 'END THE MANDATES' hat was asking the pharmacist for dukoral (I had to look it up) for his wife & him (wasn't eavedropping-he was loud).
Pharmacist asks if he's taken it before-he angrily says 'YES! For over 20 years..just give it me'⏬⏬
Please do what I did & look up Dukoral for yourself & see the irony in a man whose world is apparently turned upside down because he won't get the Covid vaccine, but who has NO problem getting a regular vaccine & boosters so he can travel to the tropics annually.
Jan 20, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Not sure if we will lose any followers over this 🧵. We will see.
There are millions of fantastic, able-bodied people but what has become clearly evident due to the pandemic though is how strong & adaptable the majority of the disabled are compared to the majority of the typical or able-bodied. (A majority just has to be 50% plus 1.) 1/
Aug 13, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Thread by C.
"My brother is typing this as I speak. I'm a triple amputee, lifelong Albertan in my 40s. Yesterday I had a med appointment on floor 3. Waiting for my elevator turn a man and his son came around the corner. The man said 'God - a f@cking cripple - turn away'.
"The finger pointing and name calling towards me and others like me has blownup over the past few years. Did Trump make people think its okay? Is Jason #KenneyMustGo and his MLAs continuing to make people think it is okay? I think so.
