riddhi patel is innocent 🇵🇸🍉❤️
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evacuating hakeem is more urgent than ever after the al shifa massacre. $63,000 needed! 🚨‼️
before, i accidentally reported the # people killed in healthcare attacks on gaza rather than the number of healthcare workers killed in total. updated stats: ✅
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Someone at my mom’s workplace who has COVID and was on a ventilator for more than a week up until earlier today joined a Zoom meeting from the ICU because her boss told her she needed to start working remotely as soon as she was off the ventilator?? Capitalism is a death cult!
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the caption on this photo is not a joke. they were so hungry that people started to eat dead bodies. same thing happened in ireland and in china. the british empire was and is pure evil, as is every colonial power.
A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 at the time of British Raj, India.
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every time i see healthcare providers making jokes about “patients who have too much medical knowledge and diagnose themselves with rare diseases,” i think of two different patients in a clinic where i used to work. each of them were convinced they had rare autoimmune diseases.
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there is a 94 year old who makes tik toks about dating as a widow in her 90s, and she goes, "last year this guy ghosted me (guy became a ghost)" ...
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thankfully the doctor i worked with was a good one, and she used them as examples to say, “always listen to your patients because they know their bodies best.”
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bisan's recent video on her instagram where she shows the street full of biohazard medical waste and raw sewage has not left my mind all day. they are not only destroying infrastructure, but also systematically killing sanitation and water treatment workers and volunteers
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my nurse is literally wearing a shirt that says, “assaulting a healthcare worker is a felony. try me, and i will have you prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” i’m a HCW who has been assaulted too but it makes me nervous to see a nurse in a “try me, i’ll arrest you” shirt
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each of them finally found doctors who would prescribe them immune suppressants. both turned out to be right about their diagnoses and went into remission after finding the right immune suppressants.
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i follow her. she was a dance teacher who had two strokes and her immune system attacked her eye to the point that she needed brain surgery and now gets chemo & radiation to keep the inflammation from spreading to her brain. she was sent home with “anxiety” after her first stroke
In case you are confused about what
#LongCovid
can do - This woman deserves an award for warning you.
It’s an emergency.
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very embarrassing, but my neighbor heard me outside crying on the phone with a crisis hotline yesterday. he said, “hold on, let me go bake you something. i just need to ask my wife for the recipe.” and then he & his wife made me brownies and brought them over. 🥹😭
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okay now i’m looking for a new therapist because this woman literally said her biggest therapeutic goal for me is to get me to take off my mask. she asked what that would take and i said it would take covid not being a risk anymore. i am barely surviving i cannot risk long covid!
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dr. abu hein was an expert on complex trauma and its impact on palestinian children’s mental health. he was also the director of a children’s mental health clinic. he has been a target for years. israel tortured him, killed his family members, and destroyed his home 20+ years ago
BREAKING | Israeli snipers targeted and killed Professor Fadel Abu Hein, an esteemed faculty member and psychology researcher at Al-Aqsa University.
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can't believe i didn't hear until today that a woman in atlanta wrapped herself in a palestinian flag and set herself on fire almost three months ago. and she survived. wow.
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CW: transphobia, hate crime, black trans murder
chevy hill was killed by a family member. this is so egregious. he was a father. he owned a barber shop that he intentionally created to be a safe and affirming space for black LGBTQ+ kids. rest in power and in peace, chevy
Nobody really talking about Chevy Hill like they were about Nex and I can't help but notice that.
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they are doing this to send a message to anyone who voices any dissent over the palestinian genocide. this is a threat. they know for a fact that she wasn’t actually going to murder anyone. i pray she is acquitted for every single count.
Riddhi Patel crying in court after being charged with 16 felony counts over threatening to murder city councillors in Bakersfield unless they voted to endorse a ceasefire in Gaza.
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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this palestinian, disabled little girl named gufran needs to get out and get medical treatment! people with icthyosis NEED huge amounts of vaseline, eye drops, and water. without eye drops, she will go blind
this is an emergency 🚨
she is at $3,903/$50k
Many of you guys saw the video of this little girl. Ghufran has a disease called ichthyosis & she is not receiving any kind of treatment.. There is now a Gofundme to help her & her family leave the Gaza strip so she can get properly treated.
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i watched something once where a palestinian-ukrainian girl from gaza, living in the US said it broke something in her to experience the way western politicians and institutions treated her family’s suffering in ukraine vs how they treated her family’s suffering in palestine.
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the “let the intrusive thoughts win” meme doesn’t even make sense. intrusive thoughts from OCD or PTSD are not, “hehe what if i did something random and impulsive like cut my hair?” those are called impulsive thoughts!
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every day, another person tells disabled and immune compromised people our lives don’t matter. i told her i am so sick i am barely surviving and she told me i have health OCD. she said “i hear you that long covid is no joke but i think you’re using your mask as a shield.”
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A girl who got an almost perfect score on the mcat told me about the prep class she swears by, and it’s $10,000. They put you in an exercise group and make you work out together, live in dorms, eat prescribed meals, and have an enforced bedtime. Rich pre-meds are not okay.....
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the IDF soldier who murdered this jewish palestinian man used “jew” as an insult, just like a world war II nazi, multiple times before he killed the man
A video shows the final moments before David Ben Avraham, a Palestinian man who had converted to Judaism, was shot dead by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank.
The sixty-three-year-old who was born Sameh Zeitoun was instructed to raise his hands before being fatally shot
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as much as masks are uncomfortable and i get allergic reactions from them, i was so happy i had an n95 on last night. i went to buy cat food and i asked the cashier how she was doing. she said, “not good. i have covid but i didn’t want to call into work.” 😩
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yeah totally. shielding myself and my loved ones from eugenicists like her lmao
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saw a horrifying statistic that said LESS THAN FIVE PERCENT of people in sudan are able to afford ONE meal per day. i had to read it multiple times to make sure i read it right. does anyone have trusted donation links to feed people in sudan?
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oh she also said “why do you keep bringing up palestine? what is this really about? does your palestine shirt give you a sense of identity? does it make you feel less weak?”
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i told her i’m immune suppressed and she asked how many times per day i test my WBCs. i said that’s not a thing you can do without going to a lab with a physician’s order. said i’m on high dose prednisone & she asked how i talked a doctor into giving me that … no words lol! 😭
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i know people have already shared this poem many times, as they should! but i can’t stop thinking about noor hindi’s poem, “f*ck your lecture on craft, my people are dying.”
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yes i know i’m over sharing again! but the last therapist i went to was racist and said, “don’t go visit your family in india. don’t do it. have you ever seen the movie, ‘not without my daughter?’ what if they kidnap and honor kill you or force you to eat with your hands?”
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re: exercise and covid, a few years ago i watched a video made by a pro figure skater on a cruise ship because i was interested in what happens if they get covid. she had never gone a day in her life w/o exercising, so she worked out in her quarantine room with a 106 degree fever
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oh wait brianna wu is WHITE? she definitely uses that chinese last name as a cover
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unrelated but i noticed a few of my neighbors have huge 🇵🇸 flags on their homes today, too. i saw a few people wearing kuffiyehs when i went on a walk last night. long after the protest in a random suburb, too. in case you wanted proof that there are many good people out there ❤️
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i thought she would be better than this and was so hopeful because she said she is totally anti-mandatory reporting and said i can give her a list of trusted contacts she can call if she thinks i’m ever a danger to myself.
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people need to be able to REST when they have covid to prevent long covid and worsening symptoms. the CDC’s new one-day isolation policy is nothing short of genocidal
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there are people in gaza and sudan who have food allergies, diabetes, celiac disease, feeding tubes, gastroparesis, EoE, special diets because of IBD or a stoma, autism/sensory issues, diseases that cause mouth sores, and other disabilities that make finding safe foods difficult.
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@moorehn
she has that option, but the fact that she thinks that me wearing a mask is a symptom of mental illness (and she has said that many times in the past,) and she says “the first step is easy- just taking the mask off in my office” i think it’s time to move on
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if anyone saw the video of rafiq lifting weights in the gym in early october, getting ready to try out for his school’s soccer team? he and his sister both still had all their limbs and were healthy. that versus this should have been more than enough to put an end to the genocide
The injured child Rafiq who was besieged in the Shefa hospital without food or any medical treatment for two weeks.
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can’t sleep because i’m thinking of the way people on here piled onto someone with food allergies, saying they’re a choice and famine in gaza is what is important. how do people not realize it’s all one issue? the first children to die of starvation had dietary restrictions!
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if you have a library card, you may be able to learn languages for free on a website called mango languages! if your library partners with them (mine does!) you can sign up and enter your library card number for free lessons. i’m working on my telugu and learning levantine arabic
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finally watched an interview with tal mitnick, the 18 y/o israeli who’s been called a radical for refusing to enlist. even this “radical” condemns hamas, talks about brave IDF soldiers & a 2-state solution. palestinians are not wrong when they say there are no “israeli civilians”
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remember the “you only need to isolate for 5 days with covid” thing is political, not medical or scientific!!!
if you have the option, isolate until you test negative even if you’re asymptomatic. definitely lie to your employer and say you still have symptoms if you have to.
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@vvictorman_uel
Her boss told the other workers she was fully vaccinated and not immunocompromised, so she’s probably okay to work. Sir, she is in the ICU 😭
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yesterday a family member told me they would never outright kill me, but they wish, hope, and pray that i will kill myself because being related to someone with “so many illnesses” who is also mentally ill is so embarrassing to them.
yesterday was disability day of mourning.
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@purplemamabear
it’s horrible! so many doctors use “anxiety” as code for “female hysteria.” it’s the easiest way to dismiss patients that are usually women.
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etsy shops who are selling pro-palestine merchandise are full of reviews people write with their full names and full body, face, & outfit pics saying, “i can’t wait to wear this to the next action.” remember, a woman went to federal prison in 2020 and an etsy review was evidence!
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she was “just doing some burpees,” but anyways, she promptly started coughing up blood. it happened every time she tried to exercise if i remember correctly.
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i’m actually not at all surprised by the public’s response to covid. as a healthcare worker i was called crazy and hysterical for wearing PPE when it wasn’t required. i’d gotten sick from patients way too many times, so i wore a mask and a face shield around any vomiting patients
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@kaekaecurtis
yeah i used to watch their youtube videos and i remembered some of this from instagram! i can’t either! anjali’s family was like sufi’s family and it seemed like they considered her and her sister like their own children.
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@diorpostergirI
Was it JUST a chemical peel, though? With all the laser skin resurfacing, regular facials, and other skin treatments that celebrities have access to... Not to mention the time, money, etc. to have access to excellent healthcare and nutrition... Of course her skin is flawless lol.
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why can i not sleep and i looked at my friend’s instagram and it’s her and her entire med school class at a party and not ONE of them is wearing a mask. i decided to be mean and my old coworker (who is in their med school class) replied right away w/ “we’re young & healthy.” 🫣🫠
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there’s a certain type of white person on here whose first exposure to injustice (or first time they paid attention) was covid, so they make being shocked at people, the government, etc. letting them down their entire personality. acting like toddlers who just learned a new word
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CW: cancer
there is a 30 y/o woman on tik tok who is in hospice and is dying of metastatic ovarian cancer right now. she started to notice severe fatigue, bloating, & a palpable mass in her abdomen when she was fifteen. it took seven years before anyone even ordered imaging. 💔
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people are mad at jenna ortega for smoking but they haven’t worn a mask in over 2 years. oh, you care about other people’s lung health? since WHEN, exactly?
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the exercise and diet plan part took me out. all of this is rooted in ableism. none of it is necessary, either. it’s literally just a test. standardized testing shouldn’t even exist. capitalism is so disgusting.
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i will never judge anyone who’s addicted to drugs because every time i have surgery and briefly experience no fight or flight symptoms as a result of general anesthesia or opioids i think, “people’s nervous systems just do that for them naturally? like all the time?”
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my friend just told me last time she checked, israel killed 120 of her family members in gaza since october 7th. that was in december and she hasn’t asked since then because she can’t handle knowing how many more were killed since then. there aren’t words you can say to that.
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people are so horrible for saying to a palestinian mom of a kid who is dehydrated and starving to death, “you must not be starving because your weight is normal.” her child has cystic fibrosis and cannot digest food without enzyme supplements which they don’t have anymore in gaza
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factory farms are so violent it’s hard to wrap your mind around it. the way they treat their workers is downright abuse. & the way they treat the animals? they’re feeding them a mix of “bird excrement, feathers, and waste scraped from the floors.” the farm lobby is downright EVIL
"Experts fear that H5N1, [...] may have been transmitted through a type of cattle feed called “poultry litter” – a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants."
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the NPR psyop woman’s husband’s likes make it seem like he’s thinking about leaving her. and honestly, good for him. that article was published on his birthday. 🫠
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ma’am, you have a masters in PUBLIC HEALTH. maybe i’m being bitter but 90% of of the public health people i know love posting pics of themselves at superspreader events and then posting about how they have covid a couple of days later 😭
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her dad is a doctor working in gaza, and her mom is a doctor working somewhere in ukraine. having one parent working through a genocide and one working through a war and being thousands of miles away from both, only getting very grim updates once in a while sounds just unbearable
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so, yk the virus a family member gave me that they kept saying wasn’t covid? turns out they never actually tested. i just tested based on a tik tok about how this new variant presents with conjunctivitis. and guess what? it’s covid LMAOOOO. based on all my symptoms it makes sense
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so cool and witty and funny and cute of my therapist to ask if my mask-wearing is part of my OCD. i’m literally immunocompromised and have also had an infection since august, which is five months! bur thanks for making it clear you’re a therapist who doesn’t know what OCD is
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wendy williams’ diagnosis breaks my heart! and she’s only 59. people 65 & under with dementia used to be called “early onset” dementia patients, but now i’m seeing all kinds of reports of “dementia in people under 60.” they’re normalizing dementia in younger people. that’s scary
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on “mystery illness” tik tok, people are advising each other to eat jumbo sized marshmallows (??) for the “mystery cough” that goes on for months. and yet if you say “it’s probably covid,” YOU get called a conspiracy theorist. public health failure of cataclysmic proportions
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intrusive thoughts are basically your worst fears on repeat. you constantly need reassurance from others that they’re just thoughts and not reality. i have never experienced psychosis before, but intrusive thoughts feel pretty close sometimes.
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what about blue on blue crime? seriously, what about it?!
checking out the 'fallen heroes' on bluelivesmatter dot blue
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ortho surgeon that operated on my sister’s bf’s ankle told my sister’s bf that in the past couple of years he’s suddenly seeing all kinds of non-diabetic young people with foot ulcers that turn necrotic and require foot amputations. he and his colleagues can’t figure out why 😭
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does anyone know if the man in the democratic republic of congo who set himself on fire to protest his people's genocide survived or not?
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disabled people were really onto something when they/we said that the main goal of western medicine is to rehabilitate people enough to be able to work. obviously there are exceptions. completely soulless “industry” though, overall
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the cost of both of these products (the far-UVC lights + the respirator + the PAPR that fits onto the back of the respirator) is almost $1700. i hate that covid safety costs more than almost anyone can manage, and that things like personal far-UVC lights aren't evidence based 😭
Took my flight armed with the halo and Nukit torches today. Hoping they’ll keep me safe. The halo was treated as a medical device so I didn’t need to remove it anywhere. Very comfy on a five hr flight!
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my sister’s bf somehow took antibiotics for the first time in his life at age 29?! he was so afraid to take them, but everyone said “you’ll be fine.” anyway, the antibiotic was ciprofloxacin and it ruptured his achilles tendons bilaterally and disabled him overnight. 😭
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Stop using “jobless” as an insult, as if we’re not in the middle of a situation where record numbers of the population are unemployed, and many people are newly unable to work because of long covid, caretaking responsibilities, or being high risk lol. Just embarrassing
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people calling her an incel because she is sad that everyone around her is in relationships and she wants one too??? that’s not what an incel is. an incel is a fascist compelled by misogyny to commit mass murder. you guys just hate fat women and want them to suffer
I wonder if any of you will empathize with the mirror of your situation
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@byNymphade
oh i know anxiety disorders are very much disabilities. but when doctors use “anxiety” as a quick diagnosis to write off physical symptoms, they’re not taking anxiety disorders seriously. anxiety is real but it’s also used to mea “nothing is wrong with you.” i agree, it’s wrong!
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sorry i was in a lot of pain when i tweeted that and forgot to include that the shirt actually said, “assaulting a healthcare worker IN THE LINE OF DUTY is a FELONY. TRY ME, and i will have you prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” with the all caps. cop language.
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actually very sad that we’re shaming people who trusted the doctors who prescribed them this drug and were ultimately harmed. a doctor tried to get me to take ozempic, saying my covid risk would go down and my probable PCOS would go away if i lost weight. fatphobia is the problem
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I just found out burn trauma surgeons operate in 100-degree ORs so that patients who don’t have skin can maintain a normal body temperature. Shoutout to burn surgeons, because I could never.
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@RattusFlattus
oh that’s okay! it’s really her last name because her husband is chinese, but i think she somehow believes if she presents herself as a person of color her racism will be less apparent or that people will forgive her for it.
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people got SO mad at me for washing my hands instead of using hand sanitizer, which is faster. i told them hand sanitizer isn’t touching c. diff or norovirus, and doctors and nurses made jokes about me having OCD.
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i’m sure every doctor and healthcare provider in the US who ignores patients’ symptoms has also been ignored as a patient themselves, given that it’s the norm. i understand the nature of systemic oppression, but WHY don’t more HCPs listen better based on their own experience?
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my friend’s disabled artists collective is launching an air purifier lending library to make musical, art, and cultural events in NYC more covid-safe. this will help artists and entertainers to safely do their jobs help everyone to have fun more safely! please donate and share 🩷
COVID isn’t over. That’s why we’re creating an air purifier lending library to support NYC events, and we need your help! We’ll be prioritizing loans to communities disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Donate, share, and spread the word!
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i know i've done nothing but complain about covid lately, but the
#Arcturus
variant is so weird. i've been negative for almost two weeks but symptoms still aren't gone. all the symptoms come back entirely every few days, even the conjunctivitis/pink eye. yesterday was really bad.
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i’m reading a schizophrenia memoir called “the collected schizophrenias” by esmé weijun wang. the author’s description of her own paranoid delusions sound so much like intrusive thoughts. i really wonder if they aren’t just different versions of the same thing
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@katimcf
there is a doctor on here who posted about being excited to be off work because she tested positive for covid because it allowed her to run the equivalent of a marathon each day on her peloton. i feel bad because she def has an eating disorder but i wonder how she’s doing now 😭
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Imperialist feminists are so deranged. If you look up what a 777 is, you'll find that the m777 has been used in US military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, but mainly in Iraq. Just a couple of girlbosses, training to kill some people in the Middle East.
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oh and even the reporter said to the kid, “your accent sounds american. are you american?” he’s clearly american. he looked like someone caught in a lie in that moment and said, “my parents emigrated from america but i’m israeli.” okay 👍
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yesterday was literally a day that we mourn disabled people who were killed by their family members and caregivers.
it happens so often that there is a day dedicated to people who died that way.
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i changed my mask in between seeing patients with contagious illnesses (WAY before covid PPE shortage,) and they hated that. once there was a patient in the ER who had suspected TB. every other HCW seeing the patient refused to wear an N95 until the positive test result came back
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Because last month was
#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
and this month is
#PTSDAwarenessMonth
, let’s talk about classic PTSD, and another related mental illness, which is c-PTSD, or complex PTSD. A thread.
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and for the brief period where i was a CNA, people would actually change diapers without wearing gloves. or they would wear gloves, take off the gloves, and then not wash their hands. i got screamed at for not following the chain of command bc i reported it to the charge nurse 😵💫
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EXTREMELY URGENT fundraiser!! 🚨
dr. yousef is a doctor at al shifa hospital.
he has been volunteering at many different hospitals in gaza since october 7th. al shifa hospital is currently under siege! he needs to get out immediately!
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it’s so sad that most people simply have no idea that covid even still exists, or is more than a cold. i saw a video of a terminally ill woman with metastatic *lung* cancer, unmasked, at a taylor swift concert and i said if that were me, i would 100% wear a mask.
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@vvictorman_uel
I WISH!!! She said it’s not the first time someone she works with had to work remotely from the ICU. One had cancer (and was later fired for not being productive enough,) and the other had just gotten a liver transplant.
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if you cannot name a single living disability activist in the country where you live or in the world in general, read, watch and familiarize yourself with disability activism in any way you are able to. you’re living through multiple mass disabling events
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@DarleneDempsey6
omg that is basically exactly what she said!! i didn’t even think of it that way! unbelievable that that is the way most people are choosing to go about things
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