Adam S. Masters 🏳️🌈 🥄
@AdamSMasters
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@VTEngE PhD student, @UDelaware Alum. I research & advocate for equity & access in engineering & higher ed. LGB(TQ), they/them. #BLM #BlackTransLivesMatter
Blacksburg, VA
Joined March 2014
There’s a huge need for studies on the trans community but if you can’t demonstrate good intentions and LGBTQ competency, you shouldn’t be doing scholarship that involves the trans community. #SorryNotSorry (14/18)
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So please - be kinder to disabled people speaking up for their safety. You’re just one infection or accident away from becoming like us and you won’t be treated any better when that happens. If we protect our MOST vulnerable we will ALL benefit. /14
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It’s not because it’s fun for us - we want the pandemic to be over as much as everyone else (probably more). But we also recognize that if people who love us are turning on us because they blame us for losing their sense of “normal” - we aren’t safe anywhere. /12
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People don’t want to accept that covid might actually be dangerous because then they have to reckon with all of the harm they’ve caused themselves and others by just lallygagging about unmasked over the last few years.
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A must read! #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
Friend was traveling & wanted to visit - I declined because they don’t take Covid precautions. They get home & tell me “omg I’m so sick - it’s a good thing we didn’t visit as this would kill you.” I asked if they considered the other people like me they exposed on travels. A 🧵/1
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Lastly let’s remember that we all share the air so our success against Covid depends on how well we treat the marginalized & less fortunate. Masks, tests & anti virals should be freely available to all who need them - and hospitals need to be made accessible & safe for all. /end
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We understand HOW to reduce risk and we absolutely have the tools. But if everyone waits until they are personally affected we will see countless lives lost and destroyed before we actually DO anything to mitigate Covid. /12
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It's so illogical and dangerous that even after seeing a virus kill tens of millions and disable many more, a majority of people still haven't adapted by making the most simple adjustments to their lives like wearing a mask or staying home when they are sick.
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The pandemic has proven most people don’t care about their friends’ physical safety and wellbeing if it means feeling even a little bit awkward or being minorly inconvenienced.
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Wow — from @nytimes "Can't Think, Can’t Remember: More Americans Say They’re in a Cognitive Fog" "Adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s are driving the trend. Researchers point to #LongCovid as a major cause." https://t.co/fEFHGlEzdT
nytimes.com
Adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s are driving the trend. Researchers point to long Covid as a major cause.
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Leftists who minimize or ignore Covid are not only massively wrong, they're missing the best opportunity in our lifetime to change this country. If you're whole shtick is class warfare, but you can't or won't connect the dots to Covid, you shouldn't be listened to on anything.
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It’s a joke to pretend you have the political will to fight our oppressors when you can’t even wear a mask to protect your comrades.
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@nychange @POTUS @FightFossils ALL political actions where you DON'T #MakeMasksMandatory send a secondary message to all viewers, that the ORGANIZERS think it's acceptable to sacrifice public health & exclude Disableds to achieve their goals; participants say that's not a deal breaker for them.
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Here are 10 things professional orgs could do instead of hosting in-person conferences that are sustainable, support community, and drive networking opps for early career scholars. This is focused on history but can easily be shifted to another discipline. 1/
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"Doctors are grappling with how to help" For starters, help people not to get infected in the 1st place. Lower exposure to virus-laden aerosol particles, increase ventilation, improve filtration (including portable HEPA & CR Boxes), & N95s (including in health care settings).
The profound toll COVID-19 has had on heart health is only now starting to emerge. Doctors are grappling with how to help. “We are seeing effects on the heart and the vascular system that really outnumber, unfortunately, effects on other organ systems.”
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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
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“There is no logical argument for allowing the spread of COVID-19 in healthcare settings…There is literally no excuse for this bizarre, unscientific mistreatment of patients other than gross incompetence, institutional negligence, and systemic ableism.”
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We now know COVID is fully airborne. We also know how to control airborne disease. So why are vulnerable people still dying of hospital-acquired COVID?
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