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Organizing β€’ Writing β€’ Jewish Education

Philadelphia, PA
Joined July 2009
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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I am realizing it may be time to ensure we can connect & collaborate should Twitter go offline: Here is my LinkTree:
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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I went to the dispensary & no one was wearing masks. The person who helped me talked about how now that the pandemonium is ending we can all chill & go back to normal. I told him that cancer patients go to dispensaries.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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I am seeing more & more posts on Facebook from different friends saying β€œever since I had COVID my heart rate skyrockets when I walk around” or β€œever since I had COVID I can’t run like I used to” or β€œever since I had COVID I have had brain fog.”
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Seeing so many people saying β€œI did everything right” as they say they have a breakthrough case of covid. It is dangerous to moralize contracting a deadly disease. You cannot personal responsibility your way out of a public health disaster.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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I also said that a million people in this country are dead- forever. They’re not coming back when we go β€œback to normal.” See how normal that feels.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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I lost my best friend in 2019. We were really young. I was 25. He was 24. Hanging out with a terminally ill young person taught me that instead of β€œwe’re going to die, let’s not care about anything” we can say β€œif we’re going to die, let’s care about each other until the end.”
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I put up a poll on Instagram asking people why they're watching my stories but not masking. Multiple people have said "I don't care what happens to me anymore" and multiple people have said "the world is ending and I want to have fun."
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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The government does not want anyone to be able to prove they had COVID in order to apply for disability when they develop long COVID.
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I still can't believe a PCR test is $175
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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This was a disappointing experience. On my previous visit to this dispensary they were wearing fabric masks & spoke w/ them about upgrading to KN95s.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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The signs of mass disability are starting & will only become more clear.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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I am conscious also that the responsibility & fault lies not w/ this individual worker but w/ the management.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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The White House restarting the free test deliveries tells me that they are flying by the seat of their pants.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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@ReaganGomez @Imani_Barbarin The police said they thought no children were in the room but both children & teachers called 911 from inside the room.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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He did put a mask on, though.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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& we are all responsible for each other because we come into contact with each other. Think about the number of people you might pass for a fleeting second on the street when doing something like going to a dispensary. I was near about ten people yesterday.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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@stephyj725 @aBigMess β€œYou are a lawyer & he is a hamster” β€œThis is the most stressful day of my life since I took the bar exam”
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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So many more people are chronically ill now & they will not be magically become not chronically ill when we β€œgo back to normal.” It will not feel normal.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Each of those people in turn comes into contact with other people. Families, with children, with elders. We are interconnected so we are interdependent.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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HIV/AIDS activists taught us about the danger of moralizing illness. They showed us the collective power we can have when we recognize it is governmental neglect that is placing us at risk, & our fates are intertwined.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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There are so few mandates in place anymore; what is remaining to β€œgo back to normal” ? Perhaps people are just observing that things don’t feel normal & they cannot control it.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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We also have to stop going to the trans barber we loved because the barbers stopped wearing masks.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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At the beginning of the pandemic I & so many other disabled people predicted it would be a mass disabling event. We are now seeing evidence of that on a massive scale. Give it a year or two & no one will be able to ignore it because the entire population will be affected.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Biden called it β€œpandemic of the unvaccinated” to break collective solidarity, to try to redirect our rage at individuals instead of the government. The government has a responsibility to prevent spread of the virus, & to show that public health is collective responsibility.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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I am grateful that I was able to get meds & pain relief.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
1 year
For the CDC to β€œadvise” masking & the White House to restart the free test program, things must be Bad.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
1 year
Calling people who still mask β€œhold outs” is setting the stage for everyone else to displace all their unprocessed emotions about the pandemic onto people who still mask.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Judy Heumann’s life is very much a post-Holocaust narrative. Her parents were survivors & knew what happened to disabled children in institutions during the Holocaust. Precisely for this reason they refused to place her in an institution & raised her to advocate for herself.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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People are in my mentions like β€œLib virtue signaling, sure you saved countless lives” I’m just trying to keep my disabled partner alive.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Masking is the anarchist thing to do. To me, being an anarchist means not waiting on the state to build during times of collapse. It means standing in the breach & choosing to be builders during a time of collapse, asking ourselves what can emerge during times of crisis.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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When people say no one is masking anymore, remind them that’s because all the high risk immunocompromised folks who always mask can’t leave their houses & that’s why they’re not seeing the people who do mask.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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I understand the instinct to say β€œI did everything right” when there’s been a complete lack of national guidance, & we’re being told to manage a global pandemic on a hyper local level. We focus on what is in our control. This is also how children react when they are being abused
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Telling people who are disabled &/or immunocompromised to just stay home is not that far off from institutionalizing them.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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There’s just something about losing my best friend to complications of EDS when he was only 24 & then watching folks with long COVID develop almost identical symptoms (POTS, gastroparesis, MCAS, CCI) that has made me deeply concerned about long term connective tissue damage.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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COVID is not like the flu. It destroys T cells similarly to how HIV/AIDS does. Folks who developed long COVID in the first wave are dying of opportunistic infections that are AIDS defining illnesses. Repeat infection is dangerous.
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@socialistdogmom @blakeflayton Women can’t even get divorced without the consent of their husband
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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We need to be handing out masks the way lgbtq centers hand out safer sex supplies. If we want people to engage in pro-social public health behavior, we have to give them the tools to do so.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Take a moment & think about how truly evil it is for Biden to protect himself from COVID while telling everyone else they don’t need mitigation.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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The Torah portion this week, Kedoshim, includes the words β€œyou shall not place a stumbling block before the blind, or insult the Deaf” along with the words β€œyou shall leave the corners of your fields for the poor.” It is laying out the actual physical construction of equity.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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It took Ronald Reagan 4 years to publicly say the word AIDS. Joe Biden has never uttered the words Long COVID.
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I’ve been thinking about this @EricTopol line: β€œOur president has never uttered the words β€œLong Covid.” And that, to me, is really bad. I don’t understand the reason why he hasn’t..it’s just unexplainable that…[The government’s response] starts from there.” Why is this..? /1
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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@entmom420 @fluoroquinolo13 Exactly. No bones. Just vibes
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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also if you’re going to troll me, at least get your terms correct. I’m a leftist.
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In case anyone is wondering why I do this. It’s because I don’t want to watch anymore 24 year olds die of connective tissue disorders.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Send. The. Masks. To. People’s. Homes.
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πŸ‘€ States are trashing tons of masks & pandemic gear "at least 15 states, from Alaska to Vermont, have tossed some of their PPE because of expiration, surpluses & a lack of willing takers" 18 million masks trashed πŸ˜·πŸ—‘οΈ
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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I’m at urgent care with my partner & the health care provider is refusing to mask. She told us to have a good day. I told her to have the day she deserves.
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I also teach small children & at some point I’d like to be able to visit my 91 year old grandmother who I was unable to even spend Christmas with. My mom works with small children, & my older sister is a doctor who works w/ Covid patients. At some point I’d like to see them too.
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@GothestSloth @LCRWnews It’s not that people don’t want to work- literally the people who did those jobs are no longer alive.
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@YoungerPope @FanSince09 He knows it hits different to have a doctor make fun of stroke survivors in a mass disabling pandemic which causes blood clots & strokes
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I’m going to reiterate that the primary responsibility for such poor public health messaging lies with the government, which has intentionally obfuscated.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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How is burning man a national emergency but COVID is not
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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One of the worst things about being the only person masking in spaces is not feeling safe to even take a sip of water. When we all cooperatively mask, we can make it safe for one person to take a sip of water.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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I told the person at the dispensary the mask protects him too & that a new variant is coming. I talk like this because I can back it up.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Children under 5 are not vaccinated. It is cruel to call it a pandemic of the unvaccinated before everyone is even eligible for vaccination.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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FYI on my previous visit I gave one of the workers contact info for an organizer w/ UFCW who is organizing & unionizing dispensaries.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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because it feels safer to focus on what they can control than leave relationship with those harming them, who have power over them.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Their thinking emphasized the idea that everyone’s rights are inherently limited by the rights of others, meaning during global pandemics, it is the government’s responsibility to place public health above individualism. The government is still responsible for unvaccinated folks.
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Especially with repeated reinfection
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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With each wave of the pandemic more people are infected with COVID, more people develop Long COVID & potentially become immunocompromised. My little brother-by-life is a sophomore in college, & has now gotten COVID each year in college. Is this the kind of long term risk we want?
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Tweet media one
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Doctors: EDS is rare Me: just within my friend group there is at minimum an entire minyan of people with EDS
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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I’d like to thank Biden for not giving any helpful COVID guidance for the holidays, forcing me to try to coordinate COVID safety protocols for my entire extended family that will not listen to me. I will be missing yet another holiday.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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A few days ago 1 in every 34 people in the US was infected with COVID. Now it’s 1 in 29. Mask up.
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@TrulyTafakari It’s truly fascinating & horrifying how women & girls can be experiencing severe trauma & all anyone will notice is if they’ve gained weight
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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It’s wild that disabled people are begging people to mask & the people they’re begging to mask are waiting for health officials to tell them to mask instead of just doing as their disabled loved ones ask. Just do what your loved one asks.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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We are interdependent. We live among unvaccinated people. We live among immunocompromised people who will not produce antibodies even with 3 shots. I’m thinking about the minyan of my friends with EDS who have not produced robust immune responses.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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@WalkerBragman β€œNot everyone has access to tests” why don’t they have access? β€œPeople who have less resources” why don’t they have resources & why aren’t you providing them?
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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I am a human rights masters student. In my class on the universal declaration of human rights, I read that the committee drafting the declaration was thinking about precisely these situations, in which each governments are responsible for collective public health.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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My partner has a trach which can’t be covered with a mask. She has been effectively shut out of public space. She started a tiktok account during the pandemic to combat her isolation & grew her account to 163k followers. Now Congress is banning tiktok.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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We ignore the lessons of HIV/AIDS activists, of folks with ME/CFS, EDS, & other chronic illnesses at our own peril.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Masks aren’t a replacement for clean air & clean air isn’t a replacement for masks. We need layers of protection. In my classroom, I have 2 portable air purifiers, a corsi rosenthal box, & I wear a high quality mask. If one layer should be flawed, others will be back up.
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Lately I've heard people say it's politically unappetizing to talk about masks -- shift focus to clean air. Masks shouldn't be political the same way seatbelts shouldn't be. We need clean air, but that might not be enough if someone coughs on you We need it all 😷🌬️
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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The way some people want to just go on with their lives while disabled folks are excluded from society because of COVID is showing me exactly how it was possible that straight people went on with their lives while gay people died of AIDS.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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Lots of people with crypto in their bios in my mentions saying β€œexpecting people to wear masks will disappoint you” So will crypto.
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@corietjohnson Me: loves to be involved Me: lives in fear of receiving an email
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@_RobertSchultz @WrittenByHanna My father to a random waitress as he is trying to order a milkshake: what is malt Waitress: I don’t know I just work here
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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I just wonder aren’t they tired yet of this stop & start short term response? A long term coordinated federal response is necessary & would be more efficient. COVID causes long term damage.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
1 year
My 4th graders carried the Corsi-Rosenthal Box they built & decorated together up from their classroom to the auditorium & plugged it in during graduation so it could help everyone. Several parents came up to look at it & took pictures of it.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
1 year
I worry the pandemic will be memory holed & Biden will get a legacy of white liberals being like β€œit’s complicated, he was a good president & lots of people died of COVID while he was president.” His handling of the pandemic makes him a terrible president, period, full stop.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
2 years
My family spent Christmas together. I could not take the risk. My older sister & her boyfriend both tested positive a few days after Christmas. My sister is a doctor & has worked w/ COVID patients for 2 years & had not been infected until then. Variants are more infectious.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
11 months
Wearing masks is a long term shift in behavior that we need to make as climate emergency escalates & the air becomes less safe to breathe & pandemics continue unmitigated. One way we normalize masking in our house was to install hooks by the front door to store masks.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
2 years
Even funnier when people with β€œReagan administration alum” in their bios are in my mentions telling me the pandemic is over. Famously good advice from an administration that famously handled another pandemic super well 🀣
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
2 years
The fact that there is so little communal memory of the lessons of HIV/AIDS activists really emphasizes that we lost an entire generation of gay men. The memory is gone because they aren’t here to transmit it.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
2 years
I had a community meeting about masks today w/ the school where I teach. One person mentioned he still cannot smell or taste since he got COVID. Another person mentioned their whole family had it this summer & one of them has long COVID now & cannot walk up stairs.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
3 months
I bring in two portable air purifiers for my students & I built a corsi rosenthal box with them. A day will come when the kids will ask what we did to protect them during a pandemic & I want them to know I did every thing I could in my power to keep them safe.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
5 months
They won’t even wear masks to make the polls accessible for the disabled voters whose votes they demand & insist they are entitled to.
Yall can’t leave disabled people to die for 4 years and then pretend to care about our vote. That’s what’s disingenuous. 2k people have been dying PER WEEK for the last few weeks of COVID. It doesn’t seem like their votes, let alone their lives, meant much to many of you.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
5 months
The White House won’t mention Gaza & won’t mention COVID. This White House is irrelevant to the reality people are experiencing.
@AssalRad
Assal Rad
5 months
The White House released a statement marking 100 days of bombing Gaza, where Palestinians have been killed in a daily death toll that massively exceeds any major conflict of recent years and 90% have been displaced. Oh wait, it doesn’t mention any of that.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
3 months
While we’re talking about Paul Alexander dying from COVID let’s also talk about how Judy Heumann, also a polio survivor, died of COVID.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
3 years
@thelionmachine Especially after surviving sexual abuse- to tell the world to trust your body as a survivor, & to tell us that she matters more than a medal- That’s a paradigm shift.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
4 years
@mspowahs I feel seen. My therapist is like β€œyou intellectualize instead of feeling” and I’m like β€œwell that’s very common with trauma survivors. Learning about trauma and abuse is like exposure therapy and helps create a feeling of control over chaos that we can’t understand.”
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
5 months
My partner has a tracheostomy, which is an open airway that there is no way to cover or mask. They rely on other people to mask for them & on air purifiers to clean indoor air. There is no personal choice about masking because we share the air.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
6 months
COVID can’t out evolve or evade masks.
@sfchronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
6 months
Two new immune-evasive coronavirus variants are now responsible for more than half of the COVID-19 cases in the United States, contributing to a wave of infections just ahead of the holidays.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
2 years
@crawf34 Remember at Pulse cops waited 3 hours to go in & when they did they shot some of the people in cross fire
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
5 months
1 in 29 Americans currently has COVID. Over three quarters of all hospital beds full with COVID patients. There is more transmission than 94% of the pandemic. There is a 1 in 10 chance of long COVID with every single infection. COVID destroys T cells.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
3 years
Health insurance needs to cover medical marijuana.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
3 months
If your partner is at a high risk, then you share the risk. You bear it together. We adhere to the level of caution of the highest risk person, & everyone becomes safer.
@ciapropaganda
bre🌱
3 months
kind of a nasty and intentional misinterpretation of an article about navigating different risk assessments in a relationship…
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
10 months
It’s chilling that able bodied people forced disabled folks out of public space & the only conclusion able bodied people come to is that the pandemic is over. There’s no critical thought, no questioning where their friends & neighbors have gone or why they disappeared.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
4 months
My partner can barely go anywhere because she has a trach & COVID is rampant. When she does risk going anywhere, I pray that our portable air purifiers protect her. My partner is an incredible leader & the world is missing out on her because she is locked out of society.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
2 years
My best friend loved other disabled people with a righteous fury. If he was still here, he would be leading the charge on this. But he’s not. He died a year before the pandemic. So one of us has to carry on.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
10 months
Calling immunocompromised people who ask why you’re unmasked β€œmask police” is offensive.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
10 months
It’s interesting how people claimed they unmasked because of Deaf & HOH folks when there were people wearing clear masks right next to them.,
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
5 months
I’m not saying if they develop long COVID. I’m saying when. When everyone has been infected multiple times everyone will be developing long COVID.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
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My partner has a trach & was born without a jaw. There is no mask that provides a seal & there is no way to mask a trach. We’ve just been kicked out of urgent care for requesting the medical provider mask,
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
1 year
This is a time for an administration with a innovative vision of disabled futurism. This is a time for bold action, a once in a century opportunity to change everything. If they can’t rise to that occasion they need to step out of the way.
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Noah (They/Them) πŸ€ŸπŸ»πŸ§πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ
11 months
Randy Shilts’s book about AIDS is called And The Band Played On for a reason. This isn’t the first time the CDC covered up a pandemic that destroyed T cells. We need to be learning the lessons of HIV/AIDS now.
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