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@babs_zone
artist📸 + activist / have lupus, studying the spectacularization of hydroxychloroquine / just trying to have a nice time On The Internet™️ / she/they😷🌹🏳️‍🌈
Feb 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Confirming a case of measles in LA County the same week they're removing masks from health care. Make it make sense. “What??? But didn’t @lapublichealth only jUst reinstate masking after it was clear we were already in a surge???”

Yep. And as of midnight tonight, they’re gone again.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES DPT OF PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER NO. 2023-04-03 Highlights: 2/1/2024: • Since the new C-19 Hospital Admission Level in LA County has receded & is likely to remain below Medium as defined by the CDC, the requirement that all healthcare personnel (HCP), regardless of C19 & flu vax status, working in & visitors to Licensed Healthcare Facilities that provide Inpatient Care wear a Respiratory Mask while in contact with patients or working in Patient-Care Areas is hereby rescinded as of Feb 2, 2024. Accordingly, Paragraph 5 of this Health Officer Order is not currently in effect, ...
Jan 8 • 20 tweets • 14 min read
🚨NEW: How @elonmusk Sold MAGA on HCQ — and Opened the Covid-19 Disinformation Floodgates

Ever the catalyst, Elon helped take mere embers & started a forrest fire. Let’s explore this excellent, thorough article by @karamballes in @whowhatwhy 1/?👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

whowhatwhy.org/culture/journa… 2/ First: If you didn’t know, I am one of at least 825000 lupus patients who could not access my essential, daily hydroxychloroquine come March of 2020, as detailed if you click “lupus patients” in paragraph 3, actually. I personally understand the harm this piece outlines👇🏻

Encouraged by dubious sources, MAGA jumped all-in on the early promise of HCQ, which would quickly prove ineffective against the virus. In so doing, they would cause a devastating shortage of the medication for those, such as lupus patients, who actually needed it; a scramble for data and shoddy studies to back up a big and empty promise; a lucrative telehealth grift for physicians who took a free ride on the hype; and a chaotic and deadly political war on science and vaccines.
BuzzFeed Vews This TikToker Who Takes Hydroxychloroquine Is Using The Platform To Debunk False Info For Abby Mahler, debunking misinformation surrounding hydroxychloroquine is about disability justice. By Lauren Strapagiel Posted on January 25, 2021, at 4:32 p.m. ET
Feb 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
🧵: In Feb 2022, Jeremy Parker, 52, felt ill. Afraid he had covid, he stayed at a friends home & took the hydroxychloroquine he was prescribed by America’s Frontline Doctors for just such an infection. That’s where he died.
Read the article on @ThisIsReno: thisisreno.com/2023/02/vegas-… 2: Shoutout to folks who care about this like I do, who made these court documents accessible. As I said in the tiktok above, it was just a matter of time until we saw a case like this. I would put money on Mr. Parker not being the first nor the last in such a situation. Screenshot of COMPLAINT in the second judicial district cour
Feb 7, 2023 • 39 tweets • 25 min read
🧵1: Ok think I’m finally ready to update on the America’s Frontline Doctors schism. It’s been a few months since the lawsuit mishigas began (qt 🧵), so I’ll try to summarize my observations— ALL MY OPINION— including Simone Gold’s apparent firing from AFLDS at the end of Jan👇🏻 twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2: The original Florida suit against Dr. Simone Gold was dismissed December 6, 2022 for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. But before that case had run its course, Gold had already filed suit again the Board (Gilbert, Mack, Matthesius) on November 23, 2022 in Arizona. Free Speech Foundation, Inc...Because Plaintiffs have not...civil court case informatio...superior court of the state...
Nov 5, 2022 • 35 tweets • 18 min read
1/ Oh this is rich, & explains what Dr. Simone Gold was trying to get out in front of via public statements this week. Joey Gilbert is suing & America’s Frontline Doctors for misuse of funds for a $3.6 million home in Naples, 3 cars, other misuse of funds, defamation, & more👇🏻 Case 2:22-cv-00714 Document...fraudulently holding hersel...ALT TEXT ROLLOVER: 2. Spec... 2/ Gold apparently signed as buyer for the Naples home (where she lived rent free w John Strand) using AFLDS funds w/o authorization/approval by the Board. Originally manager, she gave that over to AFLDS employee AJ Andrzejewski Jan 22, who now lives there w/ his wife rent free. Gold’s Misuse of Charitable...
Jul 27, 2022 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
2yrs ago today, extremist group America’s Frontline Doctors stood on the steps of the Supreme Court. The propaganda vid went viral, introducing the public to the now imprisoned insurrectionist Dr Simone Gold, & fueling another wave of covid disinformation.
tiktok.com/t/ZTRD57Hvg/?k… In following days, America’s Frontline Doctors met with Pence asking for access to hydroxychloroquine—a med already in shortage needed by millions of autoimmune ppl. Meanwhile, the rightwing media sphere not only repeated the same AFLDS disinformation, but framed them as martyrs.
Jan 21, 2022 • 34 tweets • 10 min read
It’s difficult to imagine how this anti-science anti-vax rally could have come to be if hydroxychloroquine disinformation hadn’t kicked off some these #DisinformationDoctors careers — at the expense of chronically ill people. #DisabledPeopleToldYou #MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy Important thread anticipating the Jan 23 Super Not Anti-Vax Rally:
Jan 21, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
How many times do I have to scream “they always were”? Hydroxychloroquine disinfo has incredible staying power, to the extent that I *continue* to hear abt HCQ supply issues from fellow rheumatic patients. #DisabledPeopleToldYou this was never in the past. #MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy It is painful to me how accounts with major followings (not necessarily OP, am speaking generally) repeatedly write-off or joke about hydroxychloroquine when the next shiny covid boondoggle makes headlines, & then become shocked when its ongoing usage inevitably resurfaces.
Dec 18, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I need to be clear that the #DisinformationDoctors I am talking about use thing language. They wear white coats and say “medical apartheid” with a straight face to white people who have no clue how vile their subversion of the term is. Are you tired of this? Me too. Report them. Anyone can report #DisinformationDoctors in any state, you don’t have to have been a patient. Complaint processes are complex but many states cannot discipline w/o a complaint first, so all the resources are together for you at #NoLicenseForDisinformation:
Aug 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Making comparisons between hydroxychloroquine & ivermectin is warranted in some situations, but overwhelmingly it seems to be done without nuance. This perpetuates the invisibile harm autoimmune people continue to bear as our essential medication— HCQ— is once again in shortage. I don’t say all of this for some woe is me oppression olympics bs or whatever you care to project— I say it because the difference matters. The severity of the harm done to chronically ill and disabled people is more than worth mentioning, it should be centered. #HighRiskCovid19
Aug 23, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
i wear a thick n99 mask whenever i’m out bc i have lupus. totally fine, sometimes it’s uncomfy or humid, whatever. keeps me safe. it is RARE that i wear just a surgical mask but i popped one on today bc it was the closest thing& OH MY GOD. IT’S SO LIGHT. YALL COMPLAIN ABT THIS??? this paper mask— very effective at keeping us safe— is what y’all complain about. REALLY. i love thicc mask, wouldn’t trade it. truly. but jfc it’s so much more THERE than this paper mask i’m like shook. and yet i still remind people **daily** at my retail job?? gfd 😒
Aug 3, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
PLEASE take a few minutes— share our posts, make a report, make a call, debunk disinformation in your personal lives— just push back against the propaganda hurting our communities. #NoLicenseForDisinformation #NoLicenseForDisinformation
Aug 3, 2021 • 15 tweets • 11 min read
🗣 #ADoctorADay 1/? — Who better to report for spreading dangerous information than Dr. Simone Gold? We need everyone to go to mbc.ca.gov/Consumers/file… to report her harmful disinformation— not to mention that little insurrection snafu— & share this! #NoLicenseForDisinformation 1/ Dr. Simone Gold, founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, is one of the most infamous new voices of the #COVID19 pandemic. With help from the Tea Party Patriots, Gold&crew became disinfo superspreaders overnight,& it has not stopped since. Report her. 2/#NoLicenseForDisinformation A black graphic with red and white font that reads: Report Dmedical board of california www.mbc.ca.gov contact William JMEDICAL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA LICENSING DETAILS FOR: G 70224
Aug 2, 2021 • 11 tweets • 10 min read
ACTION ALERT🚨 We have dealt with the consequences of disinformation spread by doctors abusing their expertise & enough is enough. It’s time to report them to the medical boards that legitimize their behavior—we want YOU to help discredit #ADoctorADay. #NoLicenseForDisinformation The Federation of States Medical Boards, which represents medical boards, released this statement on misinformation, highlighting how public trust can be eroded by professionals trafficking in dangerous information— and how it puts us all at risk. #NoLicenseForDisinformation