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Author | Speaker | Consultant | Amateur Florist| #Disabled l Queer | #CPTSD | #AuDHD | #Bipolar2 | #Adoptee | Oversharing is my Spiritual Gift 💁🏼‍♀️(She/Her)

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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…
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Is it possible doctors and HCWs don’t mask and downplay the risks of C19 because they’ve been repeatedly infected (including asymptomatically), and are now making bad judgments and risk assessments because of the resulting cognitive impairment? Asking for a worldwide population.
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BA.5 is an absolute beast y’all. Even if you just had Covid 3 weeks ago? You can get reinfected again right now by BA.5. It’s THAT evasive of immunity. And because of the BIG leap in transmissibility over old Omicron even the briefest of exposures is likely to lead to infection
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To all my fellow white women saying they will boycott celebrating the 4th this year because “freedom doesn’t apply to everyone in this country,” you really need to take a moment to ask yourself why you were celebrating it before, because uh…. that’s not a new development.
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I think a lot of people are shrugging off the risks of long Covid because they don’t understand what “fatigue” actually means here in a clinical sense. Please trust me when I say that malaise (the actual clinical name for this sort of fatigue) is not what you are picturing…
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Watching the government openly embrace the “everyone’s going to get Covid” strategy is hard enough, but notice how there has been not one single policy dealing with what that means for immunocompromised people. Do you understand what that means?
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Somebody give me 1 good reason why museums, movie theaters, stores, hair salons, etc couldn’t have established one day a week where masks are still required, so that public places could still be even partially accessible to those of us who are high risk. ‘Cause I’m not seeing it.
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“At this point Covid in only a problem for people w/ preexisting conditions and/or weakened immune systems.” Even if that were true, a lot of you are missing one key point: If you’ve already had Covid before (which the majority of you have,) guess what that makes you now? 😶
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To be clear: the dangerous variant that is slamming NYC and is about to sweep the US over the next few weeks did **NOT** come from China. It is 100% home grown right here due to our lack of mitigations. They’re trying to set up the implication it came from China as a deflection
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Every time someone says “in the US ‘Monkeypox’ (MPXV) is only happening in gay men,” I need you to remember that the current testing criteria disqualifies basically anyone else from accessing a test. If you only test gay men, then you can say you’ve only found it in gay men.
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“If Covid was really as disabling as you say, don’t you think the government would be doing more to stop it?” Here’s the thing: for all the ways folks love to judge China for it’s zero-Covid strategies, have any of you stopped for one minute to ask WHY they are doing that?
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The only Covid metric that hasn’t been compromised is the wastewater data. And I guarantee that most of you would be SHOCKED by what your county shows. My county for example has seen an increase of > 5000% in the last 15 days. Most everyone here thinks cases are still down.
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So many people defending their unmasking with “I would still mask up around anyone high risk.” Uh… then you should be masked up every time you are in a public indoor place? High risk folks exist EVERYWHERE you exist. And we aren’t all labeled with signs or anything.
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Here's the cold hard truth: Every one of these people calling me out for isolating still? If I were to stop isolating, and I got Covid and died, they would say "but she had those preexisting conditions though" as if it was my own fault. Damned if I do, damned if I don't.
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I know many of us who have been sacrificing to be careful for so long worry it was all a waste if we get Covid now anyways. But here’s the thing: it wasn’t just delaying getting Covid. It means you will have reduced the total number of times you get it - which ABSOLUTELY matters!
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The two statistics you need to understand the risk right now: 1️⃣ 1 in every 5 Covid infections leads to long Covid. Every time you get reinfected, you face those same odds all over again. 2️⃣ Vaccines only offer a 15% reduction in long Covid risk - not a meaningful amount.
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Shouting "self-care" at people who actually need "community care" is how we fail people. - Nakita Valerio
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Part of the reason disabled folks seem so DESPERATE when we’re begging folks to get this pandemic under control is because we know what happens next is a more systematic extermination of the “burdens” on the overtaxed healthcare system. Don’t believe us? Take a look…
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She literally got up there and said it was “encouraging” that most people like me will be the ones who die. I was trying to keep slogging through, but the constant dehumanization gets to you. I’m not ok.
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Let put it as clearly if I can: If you drop mask mandates again, especially in schools, you will be forcing my family to decide which we think will harm my kids more - another year in isolation without socialization, or possibly losing their mom at a young age.
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3 weeks ago I wrote letters to the ones I love, waited for my family to fall asleep, slipped out of my house, and then attempted to leave this world. I’m still here somehow. Things are still really tough, but I’m just trying to stay for one day at a time right now.
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“Why can’t my high risk co-worker/my kid’s high risk teacher just wear an n95 to protect THEMSELVES?” Because in order for that to work they would need to exit the building to a distanced spot outdoors, or into somewhere like their car, every time they need even a sip of water?
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I’m in a number of groups for extra-Covid cautious/high risk folks like me, and in the last two weeks there’s been a significant uptick in posts from people saying the same thing: They are Covid+ and the only place that they could have been exposed was at an OUTDOOR gathering.
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The moment Steven Crowder said “watch it” in that video, my entire body went into panic mode. I’ve been with a safe & loving partner for over 15yrs now, but the way my body INSTANTLY went back in time when he said those two words. I hope his ex is surrounded by love & healing.
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When mask mandates dropped, many of you said you just desperately needed the “break” from pandemic restrictions for your mental health. Ok, we’ve seen the pics all summer of you enjoying the “normalcy.” You did allll the things. You HAD a break. Is it disabled folks turn now?
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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.
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The "official experts" are downplaying and minimizing what is happening with pneumoniae around the world. They say "it's just a bacterium". But... it's precisely that a common bacterium is causing such a surge of pneumoniae worldwide that is concerning.
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Another acquaintance in their 30s just had a stroke. No known risk factors… other than having had Covid 3 times so far. (And for all the antivaxxers who show up to twist these, this person was actually unvaccinated - as in zero shots at all.) I’m losing count at this point.
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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.
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For the love of God please stop repeating the lie that “so far the US hasn’t had a big surge from Omicron subvariants like we saw abroad.” It’s not that we aren’t having a surge, it’s that we aren’t SEEING the surge, due to manipulated metrics & a shift to unreported home tests.
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The cruel irony of being disabled/high risk during this pandemic, is that the public continues to move the goalposts so that they are always just one setting out of reach for you. What do I mean?
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China is playing the long game y’all. Shutdowns weren’t JUST about preventing deaths. China has seen the same data on what Covid does to people long term, and they’ve done a much better job recognizing what that means for the workforce, the economy, healthcare systems, etc.
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“OMG she’s advocating for China style lockdowns here in the US!” A, I didn’t actually say that. And B, the amount of space between China style lockdowns and our current “let it rip”strategy is… pretty damn vast. There are PLENTY of options in between them. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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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.
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It means being so hungry you’re dizzy and getting headaches, but being so physically exhausted you can’t bring yourself to walk across the room to get a box of crackers from the shelf - let alone prepare an actual meal.
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If ppl understood what we REALLY mean when we say chronic fatigue - and that every mild to asymptomatic Covid case has a 15-30% chance of long Covid - I’m not convinced they’d be ok with this whole “stop worrying about cases, only hospitalizations/deaths matter now” approach.
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Is it time to talk about off-ramps for hand washing? I mean, things like norovirus are endemic, we need to learn to live with them and stop revolving our lives around trying to prevent sicknesses with such high survival rates. We cant expect people to wash their hands FOREVER!
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You may not care about healthcare settings becoming more dangerous for high risk folks, but you’re missing that dropping masks in hospitals also means more Covid for the *doctors & nurses.* When staffing shortages mean you can’t access the care you need, that affects YOU too.
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I am now up to NINE people I know personally* who are under 50 and had a stroke in the last year. Every single one had Covid at least once in the year before. (*this is not including the many people I hear about/read about thanks to the internet, just people I actually know.)
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I am so sad for the way the death of Twitter is going to very much *harm* disabled people in disproportionate ways. It’s really hard to communicate just how damaging this is for us - especially during an ongoing pandemic. I’m truly heartbroken right now.
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There’s a reason that the White House still requires testing and upgraded ventilation to get anywhere near the President. There’s a reason economic/financial outlets like Bloomberg are seemingly the only ones still truly reporting on Covid. There is a reason #DavosSafe is a thing
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This is a screenshot from the CDC website of the current Covid *transmission* map - as in the one we used for the majority of the pandemic that measured how bad the cases are in your area. (The new map is based almost entirely off hospital capacity, NOT cases.) (A thread 🧵)
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China isn’t dumb, y’all. And too many of you are blinded by your own racism to see it.
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“Covid is here to stay, so are we just supposed to keep masking some places FOREVER?” I mean, if the choice is between that or mass death and disability… yes? Has humanity really lost all ability to adapt? Because that doesn’t bode well for the climate crisis… 😕
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Google “dynamic disability” and educate yourself. I’m not going to do your work for you, and I will absolutely employ the block button if you try it.
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It means having an event you’ve been looking forward to for months and have invested a bunch of money in finally arrive, but getting dressed to go left you so exhausted you lay down for a couple of hours and end up missing it.
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The takeaway is this: if you’ve had Covid anytime in the last year, you should consider yourself a high-risk person with a weakened immune system, and follow whatever precautions you think are only recommend for “those” people now. Because you ARE “those” people.
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I really wish folks were understanding the relationship between the sudden slew of underage labor bills in various states, and economist’s reports on what Covid has done/is doing/is projected to do to the labor force. Covid is a labor issue.
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BREAKING: An Indiana Republican has filed a bill that would allow kids as young as 14 to drop out and work on corporate farms during school hours. Kids would only need to complete 8th grade in order to work 40 hours a week as a farm laborer.
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So while all the other global powers have seemingly given up and are letting their populations get repeatedly infected with Covid again and again on loop (ESPECIALLY the children & school aged teens,) China is doing everything in their power to avoid a mass disabling event.
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When people like me say we have severe chronic fatigue (mine is not from LC to be clear, different diagnosis,) people tend to hear “I get worn out more easily than most folks” or “I usually feel rundown.” The kind of thing that sucks but you CAN push through it if you need to.
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It means a full shower, with actual washed hair, can’t happen on the same day as anything else. You have to plan “shower days,” meaning that’s basically all that happens that day and you are in bed recovering afterwards.
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Sometimes it means being locked up in pain from laying in your current position so long, but being too exhausted to shift your body to another one.
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If asymptomatic people who are still Covid positive are allowed to return to work, where are the policies guaranteeing either work from home options or paid unemployment benefits for immunocompromised people who can’t risk that sort of exposure?
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If you aren’t wearing a mask in public, you are likely going to get BA.5. If you are wearing a surgical (or heaven forbid cloth) mask in public? You are likely going to get BA.5. If you are wearing a non-fit tested n95? Your risk is reduced, but still significant.
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That’s because you can’t “adequately process” a trauma that is *STILL ONGOING.* That’s literally trauma 101. We aren’t in the processing place yet, we are still in the SURVIVING place. That’s the disconnect you feel: you’re trying to past tense something that’s still happening.
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My hot take is that most of us have not adequately processed the trauma of the pandemic. And our sprawling, unprocessed trauma chews away at our brains in myriad ways that make us anxious about why we can’t seem to live our lives as instinctively or as joyously as we did in 2019.
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So not only did our schools announce the end of masks, now they paired it with the end of all contact tracing, exposure notifications, AND quarantine/isolation rules. You can’t know how badly it’s going if we take all the info away right? 🤦🏼‍♀️
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They think it’s like when they wake up with a bad cold or after a night of insomnia and feel like “I’m on the struggle bus today.” But that’s NOT what it means - and it never has been.
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So here's something I don't think I've really talked about much publicly (& CERTAINLY didn't plan to today) but I think it's time to put my own embarrassment aside & have a real chat about adult diapers. You know who wears them? I do. (Thread. Yes really! Stick w/ me please.)
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When I saw Pull Up trending 😂
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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.
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It means being so fatigued your brain literally cannot retain information, so you can’t figure out what on earth is happening in this tv show because you can’t remember anything that happened 10 min ago or how they got here - so you restart the episode 3 times before giving up.
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I’ve been exhausted, despondent, and utterly burned out. After Biden’s comments today, I feel like there is no hope left for high risk people like me. We’ve been left to either die or remain trapped in isolation for any foreseeable future. I don’t know how to keep going.😔
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It means having to remain seated to shower, or you risk ending up on the show floor shivering because the hot water has long since run out while you’ve been laying there unable to get up and get a towel.
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It’s a total cop-out to say CDC/Biden “can’t” push for mask mandates because people will push back against being forced. They won’t even *recommend* masks in a *voluntary* way anymore. Masks are INTENTIONALLY left out in every piece of their messaging.
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It means being so exhausted your eyes physically can’t focus correctly, so even if you try to watch TV a lot of it looks blurry or makes you feel dizzy so you just give up and lay there staring at the wall, bored and miserable.
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To be clear, I’m not disagreeing with boycotting. (I haven’t celebrated the 4th in years.) The issue is treating the fall of Roe like it’s the first time a group of people were second class citizens in this country. It’s just the first time YOU were part of the out group.
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So in case you don’t have anyone in your life to say it to you, I want you to hear it from me: You’ve done so well. Every sacrifice you’ve made, every gathering you chose to miss out on, every step you took to keep you/your family safe? You were right, and it WAS worth it. 💜
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It means waking up feeling like you’re having a “good day,” and actually being able to catch up on a few things around the house - which results in you waking up the next morning feeling like the worst hangover of your life (even though you didn’t drink) and it lasts for 2 weeks.
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Yes, even for people who just recently got boosted. Yes, even for people who just had Covid recently. BA.5 is just terrifyingly adept at evading various forms of immunity, and at transmitting quickly and effectively.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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This report says EXACTLY what so many of us were criticized for saying: that not only do kids cause the overwhelming majority of transmission, but specifically that *SCHOOLS* cause the majority of transmission. The proof is when they chart the timeline…
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More than 70% of US household COVID spread started with a child, study suggests
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
The folks that confuse me most right now are the ppl that agree mask mandates should probably come back, but aren’t actually masking up NOW because of the lack of mandates. (I’m seeing more & more of this.) Can somebody please explain this to me? Im honestly trying to understand.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
You’re so impatient and so greedy for “normalcy,” that you can’t see just how much normalcy you’ve ALREADY enjoyed compared to high risk folks - and that your insistence that it’s never good enough is the reason some of us are still stuck back in March 2020.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
In Canada, legalized euthanasia (MAID) has become the sixth leading cause of death - and as many disabled activists have reported, a number of the disabled Canadians lost to MAID were *not* terminal, but were approved for MAID due to a lack of access to housing, support, etc
@Methadone_Cat
Apurrcalypse Meow
@Methadone_Cat
2 years
When MAID has become the sixth leading cause of death in Canada we are well beyond "extraordinary circumstances" and "untreatable suffering". We've reached the "anyone who is somewhat inconvenient to treat" and are headed rapidly to "everyone who fails cost-benefit analysis".
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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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.
@luckytran
Dr. Lucky Tran
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11 months
This is what the sunrise over New York looked like today due to wildfire smoke coming over from Canada. Air quality levels are at unhealthy, at over 10 times the guidelines recommended by the WHO. This is the reality of living through the climate crisis.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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In other words, Canada is allowing non-terminal disabled ppl to be euthanized for no other reason than agreement the system is failing them in regards to housing, support, etc Rather than FIXING those gaps in support, they’re coaching patients that perhaps life isn’t for them.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
Last yr when the CDC said it was safe to unmask, they also made a quiet policy change to stop reporting breakthrough cases, only breakthrough hospitalizations/deaths. Some of us sounded the alarm - and were called conspiracy theorists & crackpots. But it was only the start…
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
Reduce your risk by cutting back on whatever non-essential interactions you can. If you can switch to curbside/delivery? Do it. Even if you have access to quality respirators rated n95 or higher, if you CAN avoid it, then right now that’s highly advisable.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
PS. Before anyone starts it in my mentions let me cut this one off preemptively: “Aha! Here’s a link where you posted about doing big gardening projects or participating in a huge multi-day conference, so that proves you’re exaggerating/faking it for attention.” To that I say…
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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One way I’d love to see us address the climate crisis AND push back against capitalism is bringing back repair shops. There are so few options left to REPAIR broken items, which just perpetuates the cycle of creating cheap things that are meant to break and be replaced.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
If Covid positive healthcare workers are being allowed to return to work as long as they are masked, where are the policies outlining requirements for separate services with only Covid negative healthcare workers so immunocompromised people can still get necessary health care?
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
And in case you heard the lie the surviving past Covid infections gives you better immunity against new ones? Not only is that not true, turns out the OPPOSITE is true - past infections leave you weakened against the next one.
@RajeevJayadevan
Rajeev Jayadevan
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2 years
Past infection by certain variants appears to dampen (rather than strengthen) immune protection. Among 3-Vaxed who had 1st wave infection, the T cells couldn’t recognise Omicron. Omicron is poorly immunogenic against itself, leading to frequent reinfections at short intervals
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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1 year
This is me coming out. I’m bisexual.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
@StephTaitWrites
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Finally got the bill for our portion of the ambulance after insurance. $700. If the advice nurse hadn’t said so emphatically that I needed to hang up immediately & dial 911 because it sounded like I was likely having a heart attack, I honestly would have tried to drive myself.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
Please know your disabled/high risk friends are not ok. You can’t collectively banish us from society and bombard us daily with messages that our lives don’t matter/society doesn’t need us/everyone’s better off without us wrecking their normal, & expect that to have no effect.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
@StephTaitWrites
2 years
If schools aren’t all requiring masking & aren’t requiring vaccination & aren’t doing even short“circuit breaker” shutdowns during this January surge, where are the policies requiring every school to have a virtual option in place for students with immunocompromised household?
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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1 year
That SNL bit has sent me into a spiral today. It’s not just feeling like I can’t see a light at the end of the tunnel to hold on “until” anymore, it’s also the crushing weight of the FAILURE I feel. I tried so hard to effectively warn and educate, and it’s amounted to NOTHING
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
Something important about the increased transmissibility of the new strains of Covid that most ppl are missing: More transmissible strains mean that your perception of what behaviors have been “safe” for you so far is no longer accurate. Things you’ve done many times in the…
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
(You don’t get to point out the ways isolating is harming my mental health if you’re simultaneously contributing to the conditions that cause that isolation to be necessary for my physical health/safety. I have no bandwidth anymore to engage with that sort of gaslighting.)
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
@StephTaitWrites
2 years
Move any gatherings you can outdoors, and even then you should still use masks. If you need to eat/drink then distance each household away from each other outdoors and resume masking once you have finished. Yes, even outdoors the risk with BA.5 really is that significant.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
When your school justifies not requiring masks as "following the new CDC guidelines," you should know that the current guidelines *still* recommend masks for all when "community level" is on high. Not making the community level a trigger for masking is NOT following the CDC.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
Bingo. Perfectly said.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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10 months
White “progressives” responding to the climate crisis with conversations about where to move & buy land to own your own clean water and live out your “homesteader” fantasies is literally more of the same white colonizer bullshit that got us into this mess in the first place.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
If we don’t have the testing capacity to even CATCH all the positive cases, and there is no real contact tracing left, how are immunocompromised people supposed to get groceries or pick up prescriptions or go literally ANYWHERE without mask mandates?
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
Every time you ask me "but where does it end? are we expected to mask up forever?" What you're saying is that you believe there is a point on a calendar where hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths a year becomes acceptable, and we're merely debating where to draw it.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
And even if you are one of the lucky ones and your case is relatively “mild?” Your risk of long Covid is approximately 20% each and every time you get infected. (Newer info actually suggest the risks INCREASE with each and every subsequent infection.) Death isn’t the only issue.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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Our school district sent out a letter stating that ppl who test + for Covid are no longer asked to isolate for ANY length of time, and should continue to show up to school unless they have a fever. And there is NO policy or even suggestion that you mask if you’re + either. 🤯
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
“We all need to learn how to live with Covid, and accept that Omicron is going to infect most everyone,” when not paired with a single policy explaining how to “shield” immunocompromised people safely during this time, is genocide.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
@StephTaitWrites
2 years
But for what it’s worth, I’m begging you to REALLY up your precaution level for the next few weeks. Even if you’ve managed to dodge Covid so far, PLEASE don’t assume whatever you’re doing will still be safe. This isn’t the same Covid as before.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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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.
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says COVID-19 testing protocols remain in place for anyone meeting with the president. Her comments come after members of the Israeli delegatio…

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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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The news that the Biden Administration rejected a plan in October to ramp up free testing in time for the holidays doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere NEAR the outrage or attention that Trump rejecting the free masks story did. And that’s unacceptable.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
Eating indoors in restaurants right now is all but a guarantee you’ll get infected in this wave. Eating outdoors at most restaurants is unfortunately still a decent risk with BA.5, because there just isn’t enough distance from others to fully mitigate the danger.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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All of the sudden “concern” about Covid in China is a strategic tactic to create a racist scapegoat for what is about to unfold. Because they know what’s coming. And they aren’t willing to take the steps to actually try to stop it/slow it down. So they need a fall guy.
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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1 year
Knowing Twitter may not be around much longer has me thinking about how I always imagined the day when I’d truly feel *ready* to make this post - and while I DON’T feel ready, I also don’t want to lose whatever chance is left and feel stuck holding this forever. So here it goes…
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Stephanie Tait ♿️
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2 years
To everyone who is being told there is something wrong with you because you aren’t able to go on acting normally through all of this? Please hear me: YOU are not the problem here. Don’t let them gaslight you. It’s HEALTHY to recognize that everything around us is on fire.
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