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Feb 27 24 tweets 7 min read
I'm sorry, but the current government would throw every single bit of red tape they can at this to keep it from hitting the market. They've invested too much effort in altering & even hiding the data specifically to keep ppl from choosing to avoid restaurants, stores, etc. While they said "ppl have the tools to make their own risk assessments now, that's why we can drop mandates", they deliberately altered & hid the data b/c it was still causing too many people to continue precautions. They literally deceived you into making the choice they wanted.
Feb 24 4 tweets 1 min read
Man randomly attacks an elderly woman on the subway platform and then tries to drag her onto the tracks because of her mask.

We told y’all “you do you” wasn’t actually gonna be enough and THIS is where it would inevitably end, but y’all wouldn’t listen.
cbsnews.com/boston/news/bo… Having to see a visual reminder that there is still a pandemic destroys the fragile illusion of “normal” so many of your psyche’s literally depend on to survive right now.

Which makes those of us who still mask targets for all sorts of anger and abuse.
Feb 22 20 tweets 4 min read
I really wish the CDC and state health departments were doing their job, b/c you shouldn’t have to hear this from me, but if you have cold like symptoms and keep testing negative for Covid it’s important to know that the first symptoms of Measles are exactly the same as a cold. “But you’d know it’s measles because of the rash.”

The rash doesn’t develop until later - it can take up to a week after the initial symptoms.

And some people never show the tell tale rash at all.
Feb 20 19 tweets 4 min read
This has been my own experience of autism. Part of the reason certain ppl in my life guffawed at my diagnosis is because they believed the stereotypes that autistic ppl are detached, unemotional, & lacking empathy. In fact many of us feel SO much empathy it causes overload. I cannot turn that part of my brain off and “compartmentalize” the way so many of neurotypical peers can. Like I cannot just enjoy things without considering the connections to the bigger realities of our world, which often taints what others find fun.

That’s DEEP empathy.
Feb 1 24 tweets 5 min read
There are times since getting on Lamictal where I experience something “normal” for the first time and realize I had no clue just how abnormal what was happening in my brain really was.

One major example: I remember the 1st morning I woke up & realized that for the 1st time in as far back as I could remember, my 1st waking thought was NOT an expression of passive suicidality. It wasn’t some version of disappointment I was still here or exhaustion at the idea of living another day.
Jan 18 9 tweets 2 min read
Adult adoptees & foster care survivors have been begging y’all to listen to us about this for so long. But folks are so attached to their “adoption is beautiful” & “foster parents are saints” narratives they REFUSE to acknowledge this system is inherently broken and irredeemable. Y’all want so desperately to believe most of kids who are adopted or in foster care are “orphans,” “unwanted,” or “saved” from irredeemable forms of abuse.

Statistically those cases are the outliers, not the norm.

MOST kids come from families that want them but need support.
Dec 11, 2023 20 tweets 5 min read
A room full of people who were all vaccinated AND all tested beforehand, and yet 17 out of 18 got Covid.

This is why masks are essential at ALL times around folks who are vulnerable (which includes in all public places, b/c vulnerable people need to grocery shop too.) A screenshot of a people magazine article that reads,: The Oscar winner suspects an intimate group dinner with key cast members was the culprit, even though he explains that “we've all tested, we've all been vaccinated.”  “We all landed in London. We're going to shoot the next day. And so we have a tiny dinner for the crew. Meaning the rowers, our kids, and [costars] Hadley [Robinson] and Courtney [Henggeler] and [Edgerton] and me,” he continues. “That's it. A tiny room. And out of that tiny room, let's say there were 18 people there, 17 people got Covid.” “I tested first so I’m sure I’m healthy/don’t need to mask” is exactly how I was infected by someone despite my own masking.

It’s also how folks end up infecting grandma in a nursing home - and cause an outbreak among the most vulnerable population, resulting in fatalities.
Dec 7, 2023 13 tweets 3 min read
So apparently if I take the Lamictal in the morning, it makes me so drowsy I have to take a multi-hour nap & can barely function.

But if I take it at night, it aggregates my insomnia and makes me either stay up all night or wake up over and over again.

Make it make sense. Both drowsiness AND insomnia are listed as common known side effects of this medication.

I just assumed you would logically get one or the other.

Apparently I’m just extra special.

I definitely didn’t sign up for this subscription and I’d REALLY like to cancel, thanks.
Nov 27, 2023 19 tweets 4 min read
I REALLY need folks with long Covid to stop doing advocacy that outright validates systems of ableism by seeking to explain only why THEY aren’t deserving of the stigma, lack of care, etc. “We’re different/we’re not like THEM though” strengthens the very system you’re fighting, Framing like this is 100% rooted in ableism. It seeks to justify where LC should fall on the hierarchal spectrum of validity/worthiness of care in relation to other illnesses, rather than affirming that the entire framework is ableist and false. Image
Nov 24, 2023 19 tweets 5 min read
When the first researchers started to propose that Covid would cause AIDS like immune dysfunction, one of the main pushbacks was that since Covid had infected most of the population, we should be seeing surges of opportunistic infections & bacterial pneumoniae if that was true. If I had the energy I would post a whole thread of tweets from big name minimizers that all repeatedly said,“Where’s the surges of previously well controlled illnesses? Where’s the fungal infections? Where’s the bacterial pneumoniae?”

Now we’ve seen ALL THREE
in the last year.
Nov 21, 2023 26 tweets 5 min read
So remember how I spent almost a year on a waitlist after being referred to a neuropsych? After the long wait & literally months of assessments, she confirmed my C-PTSD, anxiety, & ADHD, but also added 2 new pieces of the puzzle. I’ve had some time to process & am ready to share. Turns out there is a very likely culprit for why treatments for my other diagnoses have been so ineffective, as well as playing a possible role in some of my neurological problems (the seizures, the tremors, the balance issues) and severely worsening my chronic fatigue.
Nov 21, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
@aliciatcrosby Folks are truly underestimating just how much the pandemic was used to desensitize us to genocide and preventible mass death.

We saw the same thing play out historically with the 1918 pandemic and how it led directly to the normalization of eugenics and then Nazi genocide. @aliciatcrosby When you’re told over & over to not only ignore the mass deaths, but to frame them as the acceptable trade off for maintaining a certain status quo - to the point where complicity in those deaths/refusal to work against them is considered the only “normal” way to behave?
Nov 5, 2023 18 tweets 4 min read
The person who infected me with Covid had a *negative* home Covid test when they infected me.

They justified not wearing a mask around me and other highly vulnerable folks, despite having a very sick Covid + spouse at home, because they had that negative test + no symptoms. Over a month later and my resting heart rate is still between 120-130.

I still have air hunger and recurring off/on GI symptoms.

I still have crippling vertigo that has resulted in my husband repeatedly having to peel me off the floor after finding me passed out.
Sep 9, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
When “progressive” orgs say “we’re just following CDC/public health” as an excuse for why they won’t take Covid precautions, yet loudly preach the need to fight against laws/societal norms for OTHER forms of marginalization?

They’re stating their values on who is expendable. When organizations that loudly preach the importance of centering marginalized voices and working against the violence of the systems we are a part of say “be reasonable” to people asking for Covid precautions?

They say w/ their whole chest, “YOUR existence asks too much of us”
Sep 2, 2023 20 tweets 4 min read
You don’t need cognitive impairment to explain this, b/c we are wired neurobiologically to try to protect our minds from trauma - often to the point of cognitive dissonance. Drs were/are exposed so much that it makes sense they’d subconsciously NEED to downplay the seriousness… …of Covid to reassure their psyche against the scary info coming out more and more about what those repeat infections really mean. It’s a way (not saying it’s a HEALTHY way) to cope with having to continue to be exposed at a high risk job again and again without feeling…
Jul 24, 2023 29 tweets 6 min read
I keep trying to tell y’all that there are many hidden layers to creating the ILLUSION that our leaders “moved on” from Covid, in order to convince people it’s over. They still protect themselves, they just hide it so YOU won’t know you need to as well.

c-span.org/video/?c507829… After repeatedly criticizing Trump for abandoning ppl & refusing to deal with the crisis, they knew they couldn’t be seen doing the same thing.

But they were even MORE concerned about getting ppl “back to normal” before the pandemic had a chance to become a catalyst for change.
Jul 23, 2023 16 tweets 3 min read
It’s been a rough time, so wanted to update y’all.

So not only did I get doxxed by an Oathkeeper (can’t discuss more right now due to ongoing investigation,) but soon after there was a 911 call and ambulance ride with what looked to be a heart attack. The good news? It wasn’t a heart attack.

The bad news? I had an unknown infection causing serious inflammation in my lungs (which in turn was causing the strain on my heart.)

Negative for Covid, Flu, and RSV.

Unfortunately things got worse though…
Jul 12, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
Imagine being fully grown adult women and making loud mocking comments of CHILDREN at a park because they’re wearing masks - and egging your own young kids to get in on it with you.

I’m used to people mocking ME, but this is just unreal to me.

Nothing about this is ok. When we were staying fully isolated, people were mad & said we should just put on a mask & go do things again.

And when we do exactly that? It’s still not good enough for y’all.
Jun 21, 2023 28 tweets 6 min read
I honestly wonder if health officials never created guidance to correct this problem because it helps lower the numbers by creating yet another layer of incentive to choose an unreported rapid test over an official PCR. (I personally avoided a PCR twice for of this exact reason.) We have @aboutKP, & our location even set things up so that people coming for a PCR test shared the same waiting area as the folks there for a Covid VACCINE. We had clearly symptomatic folks there when we went for our boosters, and most everyone else there for shots was over 70.
Jun 8, 2023 17 tweets 7 min read
Just a reminder amid all this unbreathable air that when most states had large amounts of unspent Covid relief funds, the Biden admin told them that instead of investing in upgraded air filtration or n95s to pass out to citizens, to give it to police departments instead. Folks out here trying to rewrite history telling you it's simply not feasible to have safe air in schools or shared buildings because "where would that much money even come from?"

We literally gave states the money, and Biden told them to spend it on the police instead.
Jun 6, 2023 19 tweets 5 min read
Those of us who learned to actually ADAPT to life with Covid are already so much better prepared for the next decade of the climate crisis. The folks who said “how long can you reasonably expect us to keep masking” have set themselves up for a MUCH harder time adapting now. So many of y’all have spent the last year or two reinforcing this idea over and over in your brain that masks are really hard to live with and that they severely limit your quality of life. You’ve equated mask wearing with “lockdowns.”