Plant-fueled π± religion-free π healthcare for all βοΈ leave it better than you found it π equity in all things βοΈ
#CovidIsAIRBORNE
π·
Don't let the
#Zionists
agenda make you forget what has been revealed. No matter how many journalists they silence, how many media outlets they pay off or shut down, how many social media platforms they take over or pay off. You know the truth.
#Macklemore
Fear God?
Nah.
I fear a world where religious people strip the majority of their basic human rights, bodily autonomy, freedom, and privacy in an attempt to force the rules of one (of thousands) religion into secular spaces.
We should ALL fear that.
I don't know who needs to hear this but being afraid of an airborne pathogen that can take away your health, your future, and your ability to do most of the things you enjoy is an appropriate feeling. Caution is the appropriate response.
#CovidIsNotOver
#LongCovid
"jUsT sTaY iN yOuR hOuSe FoReVeR iF yOu'Re ScArEd Of
#CoViD
!"
I have. For almost 3 YEARS. And the funny part is the folks saying this are the same ones still complaining about not being able to drink in a bar for a few weeks 2 YEARS AGO. I just want groceries & healthcare, bro.
Had some dude in a truck shout loudly at me "TAKE OFF THE STUPID MASK!" to which I shouted just as loudly "CANCER SAYS I CAN'T."
Truck guy proceeded to get stuck right there for a lengthy traffic delay (about 7 mins) where he stared ahead looking like he wanted to disappear. π
"yOu HaVe CoViD aNxiEtY!"
As a degreed mental health professional, allow me to explain. Anxiety is not always a disorder. Sometimes it is an adaptive response which protects us.
#Covid19
has seriously harmed millions including me, my husband, my son. Fear is appropriate. 1/2
"I can't get a doctor appt!"
"I had a 30-hr wait in the ER!"
"There's a shortage of my meds!"
"Every concert I try to see gets canceled!"
"There aren't enough teachers or bus drivers!"
"Everyone is always sick!"
Welcome to just a few of the consequences of ignoring
#Covid
On March 9th, Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act into law. This will end telehealth under Medicare. Private insurance will surely follow.
This is a final lifeline for many of us. This is an act of willful harm against vulnerable people.
Can you imagine asking a healthcare provider to glove up before tending to your wound and having them refuse and talk about their right not to wear gloves?
Because it's absolutely just as absurd with mask refusal in
#healthcare
.
#Masks
should be a basic standard of care.
Biden brags about forcing people out of their homes and into unsafe workplaces "even in the face of wave after wave of COVID". He accomplished this by removing all precautions, burying data, leading a mass disinformation campaign, downplaying the risk, and ignoring
#LongCovid
So at this point I don't even like that Boeing 737 Max planes are in the sky. I think they all need to be grounded and there should be a massive retraining on assembly and maintenance, as well as higher standards in what passes as flight-worthy.
Biden didn't just abandon us to Covid. It's far worse than that. He removed all of the tools we need to assess our actual risk and reduce spreading illness. Data reporting, testing sites, free tests, expanded health coverage, isolation time.
This was calculated. Deliberate.
Are some of us too anxious about COVID?
Dr. Semmelweis was institutionalized & beaten to death after discovering hand washing between autopsy & delivery room prevented sepsis.
He wasn't mentally ill; people just didn't want to wash their hands, so they ruined a man instead.
Son's genetic testing and all the rest of his testing is now in. He does not have any disease, gene, or other condition which accounts for his heart condition.
#Covid
did this. My 17 year-old boy has an enlarged aorta and coronary artery. Previously a healthy, very active kid.
Son has
#LongCovid
heart &lung damage from a
#Covid
infection he got AT SCHOOL.
After I pleaded for mitigations.
And they have the β¨absolute testicular fortitudeβ¨ to send a note about my son's "chronic absenteeism".
Sorry, he was seeing one of his 7 specialists.
Sit down.
The current generations of kids are going to be so pissed when they realize their chronic illnesses, shortened lifespans, debilitating fatigue, failing immune systems, and several dead friends by high school graduation could have been easily prevented by filtering the air.
LOL the same folks losing their minds over a book about a kid being a drag queen are the first to throw their little girls in creepy beauty pageants where they dress, dance, and pose like adult women while their sons wear onesies that say LADIES MAN.
#GoWokeGoBroke
#Republicans
Red Cross continues to refuse doing the one thing that donors say would bring them in large numbers:
MAKE DONATION SITES COVID-SAFE WITH UNIVERSAL MASKING AND AIR PURIFIERS.
Got a virtual visit with a doctor for preventive heart care. Seemed to go okay. He was understanding. But I just looked over my MyChart notes. He put something in there that is misrepresented, was not discussed, and will forever cloud how any other doctors view me.
I. AM. DONE.
It's pandemic year four.
The vaccines don't stop the virus, the therapeutics are subpar and not for all, most masking has ended, and nothing has been done to upgrade air filtration even in the most critically-important places like hospitals & schools.
Why aren't people angrier?
My husband has CANCER.
My son has developed asthma and a dilated aorta from Covid.
I have autoimmune disease.
Any of us could be wiped out by our next infection and have to DIY our safety in healthcare.
TRYING NOT TO DIE is not virtue signaling, you vapid oxygen waster.
Today our school had the β¨testicular fortitudeβ¨ to ask for a medical letter explaining why a child w/enlarged aorta & coronary arteries & resp issues can't attend school with unfettered airborne Covid.
I wrote back requesting to know what they did with their Covid funding. π€·
To those who think you escaped
#COVID
without any consequences:
My husband has an aortic aneurysm caused by vascular inflammation from Covid. It was found incidentally during other testing. HE WOULD NOT OTHERWISE HAVE KNOWN. And without treatment, he might not be here anymore.
2020: This is scary but with everyone taking precautions the risk is low.
2021: At least there's isolation guidance and reqs for sick folks to mask up.
2022: At least there's still masks in healthcare.
2023: Oh god.
2024: Can you at least not assault me for or outlaw my PPE?
My 17 y/o had
#Covid
in November.
Know what he has now?
A gastroenterologist, a rheumatologist, an endocrinologist, and a thyroid problem with no family history at all of thyroid problems.
#KeepMasksInHealthCare
"Just stay home, then!"
Okay. I've accepted that I will never again dine in a restaurant, attend a concert, join family gatherings, fly on a plane, or meet a friend for coffee.
But the DMV? Jury duty? Doctor? Hospital? Dentist? School? Work? Most people can't quit these.
#COVID
It will NEVER stop being weird that parents need permission *from a school* to keep their child home or face legal consequences. Like, sorry my kid didn't show up at the Covid plague pit for mandated indoctrination and whitewashed history and missed the active shΓΈΓΈter drill.
No, your patient does not have an anxiety disorder because they are wearing a N95 to avoid being reinfected with
#COVID
after it completely altered their life and killed loved ones. Charting records in this way is punitive, abusive, and stigmatizing; and THAT is pathological.
Constantly sick?
Anything but Covid.
Can't keep workers?
Anything but Covid.
All-time high school absences?
Anything but Covid.
Sharp rise in disability?
Anything but Covid.
Severe healthcare worker shortage?
Anything but Covid.
Rise in medical errors?
Anything but Covid.
My son, who has heart and lung damage from his Nov 2022 Covid infection & was finally just becoming able to return to his previous activities...tested positive this morning.
I'm a complete WRECK. I am scared out of my mind about his heart & lungs. Covid is an endless nightmare!
"It only affects broken people & old folks" -
#COVID19
is the new
"It only affects gay men & addicts"
#HIV
It only affects somebody else, until it shows up on your doorstep.
And it will.
No one is safe until everyone is safe.
You'll wish you had listened to us.
If you're wondering why they downplay
#COVID
risks, it isn't because risk is low.
It's because dining out is by FAR where the bulk of non-essential spending is done.
Wake up from the
#capitalism
consumerist brainwash. Expensive food in crowded spaces is not what defines living.
There are roughly 20k car accidents in the US each day.
Approx. 115 of those are fatal.
So car accidents have a 99.5% survival rate.
But we have seat belts, air bags, car seats, lights & signs, safety laws, and no one cites "survival rates" as a reason to forgo these.
#COVID
"JuSt StAy HoMe ThEn!"
For 4 years some of us HAVE.
I've given up holidays, restaurants, time with family, healthcare, shopping, and activities that increase my risk of needing medical care (biking, skating, using ladders).
WE DESERVE A PLACE IN SOCIETY.
#CovidIsntOver
WOW, y'all! Cleveland Clinic blocked me for asking why they refuse to protect cancer patients and other extremely vulnerable patients during the second largest surge of the entire Covid pandemic.
Maybe y'all should ask them, too...
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would experience devastating, life-altering effects from an illness...and then be mocked and ridiculed for trying to protect myself from getting it again. Holy sht.
#Covid19
If you're Gen X or older like me, did you ever think you'd live to see the day when the response to protecting a cancer patient by wearing a mask during a pandemic would elicit rage-filled attacks and declarations that "they're gonna die anyway"?
Because I sure didn't.
#COVID19
What do you miss most of all?
2020: The gym & skating, but I've improvised at home.
2021: Mask mandates. I was finally feeling less anxious doing necessary things with
#masks
.
2022: Hope. And the basic belief that people are good or care about each other.
#COVID
#Covid_19
Critical blood shortages but
@RedCross
won't require masks on donors and staff.
Many of the people who donate blood are health-conscious folks who are aware of the risks of
#COVID
The choice not to require masks is literally π people who need blood.
Do you understand this is not just Covid?
This is your dad dying in a waiting room because three other people are dying in ER beds and there simply isn't anyone to help him.
Do you understand we are needlessly destroying healthcare by embracing constant illness as normal?
Canadian ER doctor says wait times are the 'worst it's ever been'
« Weβve got people dying in waiting rooms because we donβt have a place to put themΒ Β»
I am home.
The support, kindness, and encouragement from y'all means more to me than I could ever explain. It kept me focused on something positive instead of stressing out. Your success stories eased my mind.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
My kid got
#Covid
at work and may have to quit because of it.
As in the workforce, completely. He's 20.
This is going to continue happening. People better get deprogrammed from the
#capitalism
brainwash and start fighting while enough of us still can.
"Wear a mask if it makes you feel better."
Don't patronize me and act like my
#N95
is a security blanket or comfort object. It's a respirator that I wear because I am not in denial about the risks of
#COVID19
in a society that has determined lives like mine are disposable.
Of course people believe the pandemic is over when you hide the data, keep it off the news, stop the testing/make no investments in new or updated tests, remove all precautions even from hospitals where Covid kills 1 in 10 infected, and never mention Long Covid.
#Covid
never became mild, it only became insidious. It causes the same long-term damage but now arrives in a milder package so you think you're safe. You could actually say it is more dangerous now because most folks focus on acute symptoms and no longer see the need to avoid it.
They told us we have the tools.
They cut access to them.
They told us to assess our own risk.
They removed the data.
Those of us who are aware have been relying on wastewater data, which has revealed a serious threat.
Now they want to take that.
Do you get it yet?
#COVID
Cleveland Clinic has med students cuddling NICU babies...in GLOVES but no respirator. This is the most deliberately negligent thing I have ever witnessed. If these babies catch
#COVID
I hope the lawsuits ruin everyone responsible for this brazen malpractice.
#MASKSINHEALTHCARE
I do not want C19 vaccine mandates or lockdowns.
I DO want universal masking in healthcare. Without it, people are needlessly dying of hospital-acquired
#COVID19
infections & we're facing the worst blood shortage in 20 years.
REASONABLE POSITION.
Still enrages minimizers. π
Responses can be adaptive (helping us) or maladaptive (unhelpful or potentially harmful). If the response to Covid is to enjoy life while adding N95 protection, this is adaptive. If it's ignoring the risk because you can't cope with mild inconvenience, it's maladaptive. 2/2
Based on interactions I've had personally, what others have shared and reactions from a lot of people working in healthcare, I think a return of required
#masks
in
#healthcare
settings would ease many minds. A lot of people want to wear them but it's hard to be "the lone masker".
Multiple people at a Kansas City high school test positive for tuberculosis
Oh, come on, Timmy! It's just a MILD amount of blood when you cough, there's no reason to accrue absences over it! /s
#tuberculosis
I'm not "living in fear" when I...
* Use oven mitts
* Wear a seat belt
* Purchase insurance
* Lock my doors
* Wear a good mask during an ongoing disabling pandemic event, as a person who is already immunocompromised due to autoimmune disease
Politics makes people π€‘
#COVID19
"We have the tools."
βοΈTrackers removed
βοΈEmergency declaration ended
βοΈTest sites closed
βοΈMasks in healthcare gone
βοΈWastewater data removed
βοΈNo major improvements in indoor air quality
π¨ Pfizer spikes Paxlovid cost to nearly $1,400
I get it. You're scared of Trump. I don't want four more years of him, either. But Biden has personally made my life the exact living hell I voted against Trump to avoid, then he threw genocide on top of it. NOTHING will make me vote for him, so push the DNC, not me.
If I ever need to go to the hospital, before I sign anything, I am getting stickers printed to place on the forms:
"Covid-19 is easily preventable if providers wear simple PPE (N95). I retain my right to sue if infected with Covid-19."
#CovidIsntOver
Blood boiling rage thread.
1/3 My kid is so sick that he can't function. Joint pain, debilitating exhaustion, severe digestive issues to the point he went to the ER in a plague to get help. NOTHING. Try to schedule at Cleveland Clinic and it's hours on hold for more NOTHING.
Just gonna say this: if y'all think YOU are tired of
#COVID19
think of how tired vulnerable
#disabled
#immunocompromised
folks are who have been NOWHERE in 2.5 years so you can go EVERYWHERE without your mask.
Why am I so afraid of flu-like symptoms that I go nowhere without N99?
I'm not.
I'm appropriately concerned about what comes *after* those symptoms.
Organ, vascular, nerve, cognitive damage. Increased risk of autoimmunity, diabetes, MI, stroke, cancer.
I prefer the N99. π€·πΌπ·
The H1N1 influenza pandemic of 1918 eventually burned out.
#COVID
won't do that, at least not foreseeably. Why? Survivors of the 1918 flu had some decent immunity. This doesn't happen with rapidly-mutating Covid, which can reinfect you again in mere WEEKS.
WE MUST ACT.
I knew it was bad.
That there were a lot of really bad people.
But I didn't think it was MOST people.
That's the hard part.
Maybe I was naive.
Maybe I just desperately needed to believe that wasn't true.
But now I know.
#COVID
laid it all bare.
It's horrific, who we are.
My 20 year-old and their partner had to call 911 last night. There was a suspicious man with a chΔinsaw outside of their home. As of TWO HOURS LATER, the police had still not arrived.
Explain to me why we pretend
#cops
exist to protect anything but elites and power...
"YoU LiVe In FeAr!"
Yes I do, and I hate it. This is unprecedented. Typically when someone has post-viral illness, there isn't an almost immediate risk of repeat infection and compounded symptoms amid a mass state-sponsored disinformation campaign.
So yeah. This is scary sh*t.
In 2006 my state instituted a smoking ban in public places. There was concern about businesses being negatively impacted. But things turned out just fine.
18 years later it's unthinkable to light up in a restaurant. There's no reason to cater to disease spreaders for capitalism.
She spent 40 days in the ICU in a coma from
#COVID
and suffers from
#LongCovid
so she went back to Cleveland Clinic MASKLESS to visit her care team who were also MASKLESS.
And CCF and bragged about it.
I'm sure no one mentioned it's
#airborne
or suggested a
#N95
What a farce.
There needs to be a class action lawsuit against the CDC and every public health official under the Biden Administration. None of this follows science. All of it is a danger to public health and it has cost hundreds of thousands of lives by deception and omission.
#CovidIsntOver
It's really messed up that life is now a choice between participating in a mass delusion that
#COVID19
is no longer a threat versus being extremely isolated and darting like a scared animal among predators through stores I NEED to go to for necessities.
#CovidIsNotOver
18 hours and the replies and reposts say over and over:
π¨LACK OF UNIVERSAL MASKINGπ¨
at donation sites is why they stopped donating.
Red Cross has the power to turn this around pretty quickly.
They're choosing not to.
Critical blood shortages but
@RedCross
won't require masks on donors and staff.
Many of the people who donate blood are health-conscious folks who are aware of the risks of
#COVID
The choice not to require masks is literally π people who need blood.
Stop crying when your favorite performers are too sick to perform.
Your impatience and urgency of "normal" during a devastating pandemic brought us here while you threw tantrums over clean air and respirators being the new normal.
Now THIS is the new normal.
Enjoy.
Anyone else view the world in an entirely different way since
#COVID
began? Friends are cruising, dining out, going to theaters. After what I've learned about human hygiene these past three years I'm repulsed at the thought of doing any of those things...
I no longer believe anything will get better.
I have lost all hope.
The best I think I can do is try to compartmentalize little moments of non-misery as the world burns.
Moments that aren't punctuated by suffering, despair, greed, fear, or loss.
And cling to them for life.
One day the kids are going to grow up and realize what was allowed to happen to them for the sake of capitalism, and they're going to burn the whole system to the ground.
I'll be there with the proverbial matches.
#COVID19
A stuent got roses today and after I smelled the bouquet and proclaimed how amazing the roses smell, 5 kiddos then smelled the bouquet and couldn't smell anything. They were amazed that I could smell the bouquet with a mask on. A whole generation who can't smell anythingπ΅βπ«
We are home.
They got it all!
They did chemo too.
He's doing well.
Now we begin quarantine, as several providers we encountered while he had to be unmasked were obviously sick with respiratory issues. Desperately hoping it was not Covid.
More words tmrw.
Bedtime. π΄
(1/2) Both of my infections were mild. Same for my son. Omicron was all sinuses for me. O2 was normal throughout.
#LongCovid
hit at 8-12 wks w/both rounds. It took 18 mos. to even resemble normal. I'm left with permanent damage to my nervous system. Son has heart & lung damage.
If we had dealt with Covid and not politicized a pandemic then normalized being endlessly sick, we might be prepared to handle the measles outbreak.
But here we are instead.
I'm trying to catch up following back my fellow Covid-cautious folks. Please interact with this tweet so I can find you quicker. I promise my delay is not deliberate. π
When you're pushing the "Covid is over" narrative so hard that you expose yourself and your wife to the worst possible
#COVID19
exposure scenario outside of shaking hands with every sick person in an ER.
#Biden
President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden were at a Washington DC school shaking hands and meeting with both teachers and students.
Isnβt that the coolest thing for these kids?
What would you do if the Bidenβs showed up at your kidsβ school? How would you hope theyβ¦
For the first 2.5 years of the pandemic I was convinced that there would be a turning point, a collective realization that a different path was necessary and undeniable.
Now I just watch in horror as we throw away literal life, the slow-motion suicide for the sake of capitalism.
Anyone else just completely burnt out from years of survival mode and little to no joy or fulfillment and the utter absence of hope? I realized two years ago I was not okay and things are about 350% worse now. How am I functioning? Poorly. The answer is poorly.
#COVID19
There are going to be a lot of angry young adults in a few years who realize they have chronic conditions that were largely avoidable...but the adults in charge chose
#capitalism
over the quality of their lives.
#LongCovidKids
#COVID19
Biden to us:
The pandemic is over
No more free testing, PPE, or health coverage
No more reporting on
#Covid
Risk denial
No mention of LC
Biden for himself:
Strict Covid protocols
Testing for all who meet w/him
Clean air
Multi-layered risk reduction
#FJB
More Americans died of
#COVID
yesterday than died on 9/11. Telling folks they can safely gather w/ loved ones right now is like knowing 9/11 was going to happen over and over again and telling people it was safe to be in those buildings and planes. It's inexcusable, unforgivable.
I find myself becoming very hardened. I'm no longer viewing other people as beings like me, but threats to my safety and survival. I've tried to maintain my humanity and hope, but this keeps getting more disturbing and I can't fathom how we come back from it.
#CovidIsntOver
My 17 yr-old had
#COVID19
in November. He is now having symptomatic, dangerously high blood pressure spikes with stress or exercise. His BP used to run low. He is healthy, fit, active. Scheduled cardio consult. Looking for some recovery stories because I'm so stressed.
Look, I get it. You don't understand the basics on viruses or airborne transmission. You don't have personal experience w/
#LongCovid
either. But I do, which is why I take the precautions. Your ignorance doesn't mean I'm overreacting.
#COVID19
#COVIDisAirborne
#CovidIsNotOver
If you're posting about the tragic loss of lives on September 11, 2001 while taking no measures to reduce the spread & impact of
#COVID
which is taking that many lives weekly in the US, please save your performative reverence. It's not lost lives you care about.
#September11th
A moment I will never forget as long as I live.
On the way in to see the surgeon, I asked my husband, "Are you going to ask them to mask?"
He told me he didn't want the request to compromise the visit.
Cancer patients SHOULDN'T HAVE TO ASK TO BE PROTECTED FROM
#SARSCoV2
What's YOUR best guess as to why Mandy Cohen, Director of the CDC, has been silent for weeks during the second largest surge of the entire
#COVID19
pandemic?
At urologist with husband.
For possible CANCER.
Obviously sick staff.
NO MASKS.
This is APPALLING.
This is MALPRACTICE.
This is INFURIATING.
This is BULLSHIT.
#MasksInHealthcare
#CovidIsNotOver
#COVID
BRAIN
Not picking on anyone but it's getting more than a little unsettling how folks are unable to perform the most basic tasks. And driving? I used to enjoy driving but it has become terrifying. No one signals, most folks seem ANGRY, people weave and swerve. 1/4