I always think about this. If I wasn't on social media, I truly don't think I would be masking the way I am rn.
I wouldn't know about n95s and air purifiers.
I actually used to wear surgicals well into late 2022 before I became more active on twt and someone talked about n95s.
and when it does, itβs twitter individuals directly contradicting advice from peopleβs doctors, employers, and governments. so if i can encourage harm reduction (while modeling a much more cautious lifestyle), iβll give out fucking cookies. not saying everyone should, but i am
Hereβs the thing:
Even if the pandemic was over, as in, the chances of catching covid at a school, bus, concert, library were practically zero, and we had a cure for covid, self proclaimed leftists shouldnβt have acted as if it never happened.
mask blocs are for poor and disabled people first!!!
especially Black and non white people!!
anything else is not a mask bloc, so label it accordingly!!
If you're able bodied and/or white, and you're covid conscious, I don't want to hear you talking about the "maskless hoards". Ya'll will get on here with $90 masks and complain about the people around you who are maskless. A majority of whom are poor, disabled,
as a white person what business do you have getting a phd in Africology or Africana studies
all that funding you're receiving deserves to go to black applicants instead
To those who still do not mask though they can, I must ask, how much more must die to radicalize you??
How many more deaths must happen before you can slip on a mask before you head out?
@ModelAyshaMirza
What the hell is this???? I was just predicting that fatphobia would soon be apart of COVID conscious rhetoric the moment able bodied voices were louder than disabled ones. I don't want your crappy 'solidarity'. You're a horrible person and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Children, etc.
Give people masks!! Support your local mask bloc!!
This weird, gross superiority complex so many of y'all have needs to stop.
I don't want to hear anything unless you're making an actual change.
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Food is resistance! Every January 1st, Haitians eat soup joumou. Prior to our
independence, Haitians were not allowed to eat it, as it was reserved for the French enslavers and occupiers. When Haiti finally won its liberation in 1804, Haitians were finally able to eat joumou.
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I think that "please wear a mask as they are required to access this space" is better
I also love when people say "masks are required to access this space" but yes, proper language is SOOO important
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Please pray for me and my family. Tomorrow we're going to court (again) against my dad. Pray that something actually gets resolved this time :/ ππΎ
At the end of the day, millions of people have already DIED because of covid. Millions have become disabled of it. Millions of people have lost jobs, businesses, family members, etc. The pandemic destroyed* so much. And yet people want to act as if it never happened.
They be on the TRAIN sitting next to poor, black, etc people complaining about the lack of masks. GIVE SOME TO THEM.
It's white supremacy repackaged again and again and I'm tired of it.
Ya'll wouldn't care less if poor black people died of covid. As long as you're safe.
Even if the pandemic was over, communities shouldβve continually supported those who have lost family members or who became disabled due to Covid. Even if the pandemic was over, the push for mask mandates in hospitals and airports shouldβve been on everyoneβs mind.
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Also, unless you take some fancy blood test, or test every single week, there's no way for you to know for sure if you didn't have COVID. It can be completely asymptomatic.
People shouldβve been fighting for better labor laws, and for free insurance and healthcare. People shouldβve fought to create better realities for disabled and poor people.
That wouldβve required people addressing and looking into their internalized anti-blackness, ableism, classism and fatphobia. People would have to address the ways they (unintentionally or not) contributed to the survival of these systems. But y'all are not willing to do that.
THIS
And Jewish people when creating Bucky, Wanda, Moon Knight etc,
And queer people when writing characters like Loki and America.
Just hire marginalized artists and writers to create marginalized characters!!!
AND PAY THEM
this information is actually not accessible to most people.
There are people who SHOULD (and do) know better, like doctors and caregivers, but the average working class person literally does not know.
I don't think that harm reduction means being selective about where you mask.
i do mask mutual aid and my focus will always be on other poor/ black disabled people.
they are the ones getting killed and disabled by covid the most.
as a mask bloc, your masks should be going to community fridges and other mutual aid projects FIRST
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@Thecoolersyry
Like what is this π it's actually like bad???!! You cannot be reading this at a college open mic ππ I would've booed π
i don't think that there is anything wrong with an org/group sharing masks and air purifiers for events things like concerts, cons, shows, etc. That is important and needed!
BUT it is NOT what a mask bloc should be focused on AT ALL
co opting language is extremely harmful!!!
c+p from my amazing mutal:
yβall shit on herbalism because thereβs not enough scientific research and then when there is scientific research, you still shit on the herbs. we know tea alone wonβt stop covid :/ & the original thread even says itβs another LAYER of protection.
We have to be careful when we're talking about period pain. The idea that periods are supposed to be super painful is false but extremely rampant.
Extreme pain is NOT normal.
Pain that doesn't go away after an Advil or heating pack is NOT normal.
Endometriosis is very common.
I've seen the nexus of this conversation and I totally agree, it's a very tough situation, but you gotta start adjusting. Like one big meal in the beginning of the day or something. Especially for women who can't walk out to their cars in the middle of the night at a hospital.
I've noticed that most people are protesting in support of Palestine are masking. From my experience, people who are still masking have liberatory, anti colonist, anti racist, etc politics.
Liberals, who tend to be "neutral" on many topics,
@lingerie_addict
As a Certified Poor Person, there are other places to find cheap clothes than Shein. Other fast fashion stores that aren't nearly as bad as Shein, and the thrift store!!! If only rich people would stop shopping there!
@ModelAyshaMirza
There was NO reason for you to use a problematic term that the fat community has been urging people to stop using for ages. You also have NO WAY of knowing someone's BMI unless you have their weight and height. You're using a term that is rooted in racism and is unscientific.
you're not anti-zionist unless you're pro Palestinian.
and you're not pro-Palestinian unless you are pro Palestinian resistance of any kind.
oppressed people have the right to resist their oppressors by any means necessary.