Neurodivergent Book Nerd. Protecting his disabled wife from a largely ignored existential crisis with a sword, a bit of wit, and a smile that makes you wonder.
Do folks really not understand what being poor is like?
No, you can't stay home from work.
No, you can't get Paxlovid.
No, no one will give a shit if you disappear.
No, you can't just not send your kids to school.
If privileged folks don't get a sniff of reality, we're dead.
I and my entire family have never gotten Covid. I changed jobs, pulled my kids from school, mask everywhere, and burn every relationship to the ground that might get me sick. I say this without boasting, it was terrible, and I wish I didn't have to, world didn't give me a choice.
If you've never had Covid, I really recommend talking about it as much as possible. When I show up for a presentation & I'm masked, people give me looks. But when I tell them that I'm obviously doing something right because I've never caught Covid, their whole perception changes.
You ought to be able to fly with your child – and sit next to them – without paying an additional fee.
It's time all airlines offered fee free family seating.
My wife is disabled. Getting sick with Covid would likely end her. We sacrificed everything to keep her safe, career, school, everything, have to do life differently, and it's been hard, but we're all at zero infections and happy in our pocket reality.
I have never had brunch.
Hey. I want you to know, if you mask despite all the opposition coming against you, you are a god damn super hero. Doing the right thing is hard sometimes, but you're doing the right thing, you ARE the smartest person in the room, and I am proud of you. Keep it up!
#MaskUp
"You can't stop your wife from getting Covid."
F*** you, watch me. *lights a match*
Changed careers, learned to homeschool, grew a garden, reduced expenditures, started an online store, jumped into art, burned unsafe relationships to the ground.
No Covid yet. :)
The trick?
When someone is “cautioning” you that you can’t do something, or that you’ll fail at it if you try: what that person is often really telling you is that they wish they had the courage to try what you’re trying or that THEY failed when they tried. Not the same.
#MotivationalMonday
In case anyone was wondering if I was kidding or not. I am serious. I will vote and do activism, but other than that, there’s no place for folks like us anymore, so I am moving forward. If everyone is unmasked, that’s not society and I am not participating. I will wait.
This is completely backward. CDC says more people will stay home now that they were told they don’t have to?
What kind of gaslighting bullshit is this? How stupid do they think people are? (Don’t answer that.)
Brain damage is the only thing I can think of here. Wow.
Hey look! Serious people who I would trust with my care! Crazy that this isn't the norm.
@CDCgov
You really messed up man, really, really, really, really messed up, and you're still messing up.
My wife has survived 8 brain surgeries. Every person in my life who has said they loved us, they would protect us, and would be there for us is gone.
Now, I have to fight people to keep my wife safe and get ridiculed for loving her.
This world sucks.
Literally half the comments to my post calling for better masks - FOR THOSE WHO WANT/ CHOOSE THEM- are from people saying, “you’re an idiot- no one is vulnerable!” and “it’s fine for me to shame you for YOUR choice.” It’s like it was never really about caring for others…🤷🏽♂️
My wife has been disabled for 10 years, she's had 8 brain surgeries, she has maybe 4 good hours a day. Maybe. One infection could ruin what she has left.
So, every day when I leave my house, I must be vigilant to avoid infection. This is my life now.
After 2 covid infections 2 years apart & the aftermath that followed both, including cancer, I am 💯 sure that another infection will be devastating. So every day when I leave my house I must be vigilant to avoid infection with every interaction that follows. This is my life now.
I am a marketing guy. This is what I read from the headline alone.
In an emergency, America could not provide adequate vaccination coverage immediately, leaving almost 80% of its citizens without vaccination for a certain period of time.
Please prepare accordingly.
Corporate executives at big snack companies thought we wouldn’t notice if they put fewer chips in bags while charging the same amount (or more!).
Newsflash: we noticed. We’re calling out their shrinkflation. And we know it’s time to crack down on this case of corporate greed.
I had to take my son to a Workmans Comp urgent care, he got electrocuted. He's fine. The first question they asked was "have you been exposed to Covid in the last 14 days?" I laughed and said before I could think "What a stupid question, everyone has." They looked at me weird.
Medical apt phone call
Me : I was wondering if you have kept Covid protections in your clinic
Her: Yes, absolutely
Me : Oh!! That’s great, you still require masks and have purifiers ?
Her : No, that ended, but we have a questionnaire and hand sanitizing station
🫠 5 yrs…
Wish my wife and I luck, we're off to an unmasked doctors office for a neurology appointment where I am likely to be categorized as "difficult" and receive pushback for insisting my wife be safe while receiving healthcare.
*puts on battle armor for what should be accessible*
Humans, oh humans. It's going to be so much worse than just the leading cause of death. Quality of life will be worse, the world will be more dangerous, tired, aggressive. It's a paradigm shift in our evolution. :(
This is happening everywhere, only some folks are hiding it, and their businesses are hiding it. Really let the horror of that sink in. Nuclear techs, pilots, chemists, lab techs, train workers.
Everywhere. We're all humans man, this is bad. :(
No matter what the CDC says, there's not a single disabled person that was put in a better position by what happened yesterday. Not a single one, now we are going to have side-eye people even harder, this made it harder. People are going to argue with us harder, it's all harder.
High risk people haven’t been safe for years. We’ve been screamed at & attacked for masking and told to “just stay home.” In many cases we can’t even access safe healthcare which is the ONE place we absolutely can’t avoid. This decision was NOT made to help us. /11
Had a family member go off on a tangent about how natural immunity is better than a vaccine, three breaths later, she says she's had Covid 3x. I asked her when the "immunity" kicks in? At some point, you just have to avoid Covid itself, natural vs vaccine is the wrong convo...
@1goodtern
My last boss fired me over "anxiety" over protecting my disabled wife. I simply asked for reasonable accommodations. I was handled a pink slip. Cost me my career of 10 years, thought I was going to retire there. Still Covid free, wife is still safe, he went to the ER for Covid.
Covid Conscious Community:
You feel yourself becoming meaner? Less patient with minimizers and anti-maskers? Feel yourself becoming a more intense version of yourself?
You are a veteran of the Covid Wars. You are a soldier. You are under attack. You have been for years.
Folks that are just so "shocked" that people are still mitigating Covid. You have to understand how shockingly stupid we view you. The person who has literally being sucking down a BSL3 pathogen blissfully unaware of the mountain of data that says you shouldn't....
President Biden does not have a plan to address Covid-19.
He's quit on us, our family, and on America. He just wants us to grow numb to the horrors of the death toll and the pain.
Under Biden, we have nearly 2,000,000 cases a day. Again. More horror, more death, no help.
President Trump still has no plan to address COVID-19.
He quit on you, on your family, on America. He just wants us to grow numb to the horrors of the death toll and the pain.
We cannot afford another four years of his failed leadership.
The CDC is eliminating the 5 day COVID isolation period already reduced from 10 days at the request of Delta Airlines
The ruling class views the pandemic as an economic, not a healthcare crisis. All post-April 2020 policy has been aimed at productivity & consumption, not health.
The 26th. The day after the largest seeding event in 2023. The countdown has begun. Stay safe out there, this is the time to stay focused, stay the course, assume everyone everywhere is sick. The next month is going to be gnarly.
Friends. It’s just going to get worse. Teachers that understand what’s happening, help your other teachers get it. Mask, raise hell.
At least the top comment was “It’s Covid.” Thats a nice change. :)
Want to see what legendary parenting looks like today?
I bet you those f'n kids know they're loved. These parents are legends! Keep it up! Stay the course! See it through, win for them! :)
Lots of people messed with a lot of introverts because of Covid.
Lots of introverts are tired of lots of peoples shit, and a lot of us introverts aren’t coming back to play.
A lot of us, not all of us, a lot of us have moved on from “normal” folks.
Introverts don't ghost people, but if they get tired of your shit, they disappear like they were never there. No arguments. No explanation. No nothing. Just long cold silence. You were priority, but you treated them like an option. Go home & cry.
Folks. In in any relationship, where one of you puts the other in constant danger against the wishes of the other as some do with Covid. The person risking the other is an abusive person. This is abuse. I know they don't think they are, but they are, in fact, abusive. Sorry.
Folks, anything or anyone or any policy that has even a hint of "you do you" risk assessment, I remind you that one of the leading Covid researcher folks "assessed his own risk" got into an elevator unmasked and in 27 seconds contracted a disease that affected him for months.
@catladyactivist
Although we no longer require donors, drive hosts or vaccinated employees & volunteers to wear masks, donors can still opt to wear masks, which are available at blood drives/donation centers. We'll also graciously accommodate mask requests from donors where close interaction
Do you ever wake up and go, wow, we have 99% of the country ignoring a BSL 3 pathogen, and 40ish% of the country who is happy about a criminal being their frontrunner? I certainly do sometimes. Just... Wow.
Folks. I voted for Biden. Biden is failing on Covid. Biden should do better at Covid. Yes, he's been successful at other things. He needs to do better on Covid. These thoughts can exist at the same time.
Hey friends. Thank you for existing. Thank you for being Covid Aware, and thank you for the being the best part of Twitter. If it wasn't for the folks I have met, seen, talked to, and learned from on this platform I would have gone insane long ago. You're my family now. :)
A helpful reminder to my Covid Conscious Community, as we continue to navigate the Mass Infection holiday...
You owe minimizers nothing.
You can just say no. You don't have to give an explanation, and you don't have to care about their opinion.
It's also about respect.
Doctors, you do realize that your unmasked face IS communicating, yes? You're telling us you don't give a shit at all. You walk in that room, before you've ever said a word, you're already behind the 8 ball in your stated goal of communication, you've already failed.
Joe finally had a chance to be POTUS by running against DT on promises of defeating Covid. But he lied. He made life WORSE for millions of Americans. Not to let
#COVID
stand in the way of his dream he declared it over as it raged. See? It's over. No masks! EVEN IN CANCER CENTERS.
Folks, at this point, if someone tells you that "forcing" them to mask and vax was "bad", tell them "Enjoy Long Covid, we're not going to try and protect you anymore." And walk the f*** away. Focus on survival now, there's no helping the general population. Save yourselves first.
Folks. I am no longer trying to convince you that the Long Haul is a real thing. I'm not overly concerned whether or not you think I'm crazy. Your opinion means nothing. You're walking around unmasked inhaling a BSL3 Pathogen, I do not respect what you have going on in your head.
A lot of family members are realizing that while they had the freedom to get Covid repeatedly and they did, I used my freedom to not get Covid multiple times. Same freedom, different outcome. Use freedom wisely friends.
If anyone out there tells you to stop advocating mask wearing because people won't care, you have my permission to ignore that person because that person is getting people killed. Masking HAS to be part of advocacy or we kill the ones we're advocating for.
My God, read the comments...
It's just folks listing out Long Covid symptoms again and again and again...
Folks, really, really don't know. :(
When it's everyone, it's the leadership.
Folks still on Facebook, here is the direct link for that AWESOME TikTok floating around with the spot on messaging, I encourage you to drop this link on Facebook EVERYWHERE.
The reason we call it Spanish Flu is because 100 years ago WW1 was happening and no country wanted to report what was happening. Except for Spain. Spain wasn't in the war. It reported on it, it became the Spanish Flu.
Más de 100.000 menores españoles sufren COVID19 persistente o long COVID. Difícil de diagnosticar, presenta múltiples síntomas y provoca desesperación y angustia. Es necesario más investigación y atención.
Anti-maskers accuse me of cowardice and being a sheep when I wear mask to protect my wife who has had 8 brain surgeries and is bedbound. I am her sole caretaker.
Anti-maskers aren't human beings man. They're just not. They're sad caricatures of what could have been.
Anti-maskers also accused me of child abuse for having my son wear a mask when he was going through cancer treatment.
They don’t want the truly vulnerable to mask, they want them dead.
I hate to be heartless, but someone like Taylor needs to get Long Covid for people to care. I hope she's ok, I hope everyone is ok, I know folks are not ok. She really could have used her platform to do so much more than what she's done, bigger than Elvis, could have helped. :(
Guys, I have to be honest, I am just gonna disappear into my nerd heaven. We lose no matter what in 2024. Either Trump wins and we have fascism, or Joe wins and we get more gaslighting and disability. Can’t have a conversation about any of it, can’t see a way we move the dial.
The Great Barrington Declaration will go down in history books as one of the dumbest things humanity ever got behind. Shockingly shortsighted, unbelievably stupid, if society shatters, we will point to this as one of the catalysts.
Heneghan is asked whether the existence of
#LongCovid
suggests the approach of the Great Barrington Declaration re 'letting young people live their lives" is flawed
He claims evidence for
#LongCovid
is not conclusive and cites 'recent research'
Hallett is not impressed
As the husband of a disabled wife, not only are we invisible, we're resented. We're a damaged member of the herd better not to waste resources on. It's miserable, lonely, and this comment doesn't do the horror justice.
Wear a mask, or don't and find out what hell is really like.
The thing about the people pressuring you to play disability roulette with them is that if you lose the game, they absolutely will not be there to take care of you. Illness is very lonely. We think our people will rally around us but that’s not what happens. Most just disappear.
My wife after a brain surgery in a wig. She's had 8 total. She came with me on a shoot just to bask in the sun. I turned my camera and got a few shots.
This is my mission, her.
I never thought my own "Democrat"
@POTUS
and
@CDCgov
would be the ones I have to stand against.
This is what I mean when I say the social contract is over. It really, really is. You just don't realize it until you go to get what you think shouldn't be a problem, and then you realize that they never had your back in the first place and don't are if you die.
#jarring
This is propaganda. She's manufacturing consent by normalizing being unmasked around the vulnerable. This is not an accident. This is why when I go to the hospital I have to deal with the nurse rolling her eyes and being huffy with me. This has real world consequences.
Great visit to Stovall Terrace senior living with
@lapublichealth
for their vaccine clinic! It’s so important to make sure our seniors are protected against Covid, flu, & RSV. Stovall and
@986pharmacy
showed how it’s done—by meeting people where they are!
Biden will never convince any person who is paying attention that he did better than Trump on Covid. Sorry Dems. It’s just not the truth. As bad as you think Trump was on Cvd, Biden is worse, just in a different way. You can listen and understand or you can stomp your feet.
To all of those folks dealing with all of those people who think you're "crazy" because you refuse to participate in forward transmission, which is what, to me, being a
#NoVid
is.
Stay the course. Everyone looks crazy until the zeitgeist shifts. And it's shifting.
I want Mandy on National Television warning people about Long Covid and outlining a plan, I want ads on TV, announcements everywhere, I want campaigns, I want lives to matter again. I want folks to have ZERO excuse to choose poorly. I want them overwhelmed with information.
Liz is f'n terrified. Rational people would simply do a risk assessment and act accordingly. Folks who have to project this level of bravado, in the deepest parts of their soul, are literally terrified, never, ever follow a person like this into battle, they will get you killed.
You owe no one anything. You don't owe your school, your government, your parents, your leaders anything. No one has the right to ask you to harm yourself, and getting Covid is harmful.
No one has the right to ask you to get yourself sick. Period.
80% of folks ignoring Covid while the other 20% live in reality is what destroyed communication.
So many of us "left" society because there was no society left. The ones that left were the cool ones.
Sucks for society, not for us. You'll catch up.
'Since the pandemic, something has gone wrong'
Rishi Sunak says 850,000 more people are now economically inactive in the UK since Covid - and not calling out this 'worrying trend' for 'fear of causing offence' would be unjust
Tuesday I thanked nurses, doctors & pharmacists at
@MedStarGUH
who serve with splendid kindness—and saved my life over 5 months. I finished 6 rounds of 5-day chemo sessions—which they organized so I didn’t have to miss votes or hearings—and I rang the bell! A new chapter begins.
Several FB friends in the last couple of weeks report testing positive, then post photos of themselves socialising in restaurants,with their young children, elderly parents, and talking about the trips they're about to take. All people with PhDs.
If you have to be forced to do the right thing through mandates, I have no respect for you. Having said that, we need mandates back because humans won't make the right choice on their own and people are dying over the "choice".
Had an echocardiogram this morning. I was masked, as was the echo tech. She had the sniffles/ was clearing her throat throat.
Several points:
1) She ideally should’ve stayed home from work - but in the real world, that’s not always a choice for people. This further underscores
Folks. Making fun of me for taking Covid seriously isn't the win you think it is. Especially if you're on your third or more infection. Also, don't tell me you had just a "physical" and that makes you ok. You have no idea if you're ok or not. Jesus Christ folks, get it together.
Here's the bottom line, and I'm fired up about this. If you, Doctor, are not wearing a mask EVERY single time you see a patient, you would have been the doctors that didn't wash their hands and killed Semmelweis.
That's who you are. Are you proud of yourself Doctor?
"We can't just stop life."
You guys ever hear this? It's a bad faith argument. Give it zero weight. Here's an easy answer to keep in your back pocket.
"You're right, we can't stop life, but we can stop doing life like this."
This is what masking does to folks. This is what we’re asking people to do. This person is absolutely correct. I have never felt more hopeless that are society can correct itself.
As a Novid who has sacrificed almost everything to be so…
I 100% agree. The goal is to help and save. The only time I use my hard won status is to show it can be done.
People need to stop *bragging* about being "Novid". So much comes down to privilege and luck.
No one has total control alone - it's why we need COLLECTIVE protection.
COVID is a community issue. I can't stand to watch anyone imply that it's an individual moral failing.
Let Covid continue to rampage and devastate our community.
Do you folks notice that the largest event in our history, the biggest plague in a 100 years, and there's no mention of any accomplishments in regards to it?
It's Covid folks, this is Long Covid. We've been telling you folks and telling you folks and telling you folks and telling you folks. *slams head against the wall* *slams head against the wall* *slams head against the wall* But vote Democrat! Your leaders will keep you informed!
@AngryBlackLady
My wife cannot access healthcare because they aren't masking for immunocompromised people and there's no one coming to help her, not Left, nor right. It might be "better", but let's not confuse better with "good" or even "ok."
@drseanmullen
A doctor insisted that us seeing her smile was more important than her mask. My wife was in the hospital for a possible stroke. I lost it. "I don't give a F what your face looks like, I came for what's between your ears, and now I'm questioning that. Doc, get it together."
I guess the "snowflakes" screaming at us about masks were and are, in fact, the snowflakes.
It takes courage to do the right thing friends. It takes courage to stand against the flow and do what you know it's right.
Do not falter, do not bend. Stay safe.
Everyday is awesome. Looks nothing like what pre-2020 did, NOTHING like it. However, let's be honest, how great was that really? Behind the veneer? I love this new life, I love my life, and we're still at 0 infections. And it's sustainable for the long haul.
#Winning
#NewNormal
Serious question to the doctors. I see lots of folks trying to get folks to donate blood, but I have to ask, with everyone having gotten Covid multiple times? And the virus persists? Does it live also in the blood? Or does it just set up shop in the organs?
@ann_mcnitt
It's terrible, but that person gets filed in the "keep at a distance, they cannot be trusted" file in my brain, and they will be hard pressed to find a way out of there.
If you feel this way folks, you did not alienate yourself, the world alienated you. The world needs more heroes to stand on their principles. It is THEIR lack, not yours. You, my friend, are an oak, and I am proud to be serving alongside you in the Covid Wars. We're family now.
being covid cautious has destroyed my old life. i have alienated myself from almost everyone i’ve ever loved, rudely pushed people away, made life lonelier all in the name of upholding principles. still, i imagine they’re all better off without me, which is honestly comforting.
If anyone in your family is wondering why all the "Covid" folk are angry, this is why we're angry.
These folks were not informed of the risks they were taking. You cannot give consent if you are not informed.
Our leaders are responsible.
"It's wartime medicine"
Emergency departments are collapsing across all Italy from Turin to Lombardy to Rome. Days of wait just to get an hospital bed. Ambulances stuck in a queue. Covid, influenza and even lack of staff due to the festive season
If you are healthy, wear a mask, flip the script on your employers who are struggling with sick time.
Ask for more money.
Point out you are always there, point out other folks keep missing.
I would like to also note, that the nurse let slip that someone in their office was currently out because of Covid, and her own family had Covid before Christmas, and her kid "just can't seem to get healthy..."
This world is nuts man. Just not living in the same reality. :(