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an obgyn told me i had a “pulled muscle” when i actually had a softball-sized tumor destroying my fallopian tube.
Period-pain proof required for school sick days
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it’s just very weird seeing how people have been propagandized to believe the government should exist for any other purpose than to care for the people.
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when i was 15 i was in downtown chicago around christmas with all the lights and two women walked up to me and one gave me her phone and said “hey can you take a picture of us?” and then really quiet “i’m gonna propose” and i think about that a lot. it was really sweet and pretty.
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something that just absolutely fills me with RAGE is the assumption that all young people are healthy and able-bodied and not in any pain.
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she voted against roe, what the fuck are people talking about.
I didn't expect this, but I'm increasingly feeling that Amy Coney Barrett is going to save the Union.
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this is eugenics. “chronically ill people are not worth the money to keep them alive”.
Oz: 70% of the money we spend is on chronic illness and we are not getting our money's worth. For folks listening right now, it's your patriotic duty to be as healthy as can you…
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it should not be radical to think everyone deserves safety, shelter, food, clean water, and healthcare.
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. no, it hasn’t, y’all have trouble smelling shit because of COVID.
TikTok discourse of the week: everyone is convinced gasoline has lost its smell.
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i wish there wasn’t such a huge societal expectation for relationships. like people get weirded out when they find out i don’t sleep in the same bed as my partner and that we have our own rooms. like. why does it matter what *i* do in *our* house with *my* partner?.
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me:.my immune system: i don’t like it.me: what don’t you like?.my immune system: it’s bad.me: WHAT is bad?.my immune system: it.
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my mentions are filled with people saying “um so eugenics is when we don’t support keeping unproductives alive?”.yep, exactly! that is literally eugenics! you got it, alright!.
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oh my god, it should not need to be said, but IT IS A HIPAA VIOLATION FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS TO USE CHAT GPT TO WRITE THEIR NOTES. DO NOT ENTER PHI IN CHAT GPT.
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remember how we said fascism is already here? this is an example.
The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that voting is not a fundamental right. What's next for voters?
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doctors who are not curious piss me off.why do you not care what is causing your patients’ symptoms??.
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lol remember when vanessa hudgens said "it’s a virus, I get it, i respect it, but at the same time, like, even if everybody gets it. lqike, yeah, people are gonna die. which is terrible, but like, inevitable" in 2020 and everyone was like wtf and now they say the same thing.
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this tweet is so annoying because do you think bad things cannot happen to you?.
"what do you think about LASIK?" is a great litmus test for evaluating someone's statistical literacy.
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so, since some people genuinely don’t understand why immunocompromised and high risk people are freaked out and upset, i’ll explain! 🧵.
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literally, “dylan mulvaney will never drive to a gas station and wonder if it’s safe to get out of the car”.like what the actual fuck are you talking about? she is a trans woman- and she is an ongoing target of conservative harassment.
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the way people are reacting so strongly to being told glasses are a disability aid… lmaoooo.
Glasses are literally a disability aid, just like canes, wheelchairs, crutches, hearing aids….
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i’m so sick of the “this person was chronically ill but stayed positive!” inspiration porn shit. what about those of us that are fucking pissed? we exist and we aren’t any less deserving of accessibility.
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they are trying to make it illegal to wear a mask in public AT ALL, not even with an exemption for medical reasons.
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at my last job (in a healthcare setting) i had to use my rollator one day, which had no effect on my ability to do my job, one of my coworkers accidentally sent me a text meant for her husband “OMG (my name) came in using a walker. todays gonna be a long day”.
What's the wildest situation that happened at your place of employment?.
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hey- PSA: i work in psychiatry and a lot of people who’ve had COVID are experiencing worsening psych symptoms after having COVID. it’s happening to a lot of people. people who’ve been stable for years on their current meds are coming in for emergent appointments.
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before 2020, healthcare workers knew that when a patient is coughing up blood, you put a respirator on.
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…workplaces absolutely do not affirm any sort of disability based on self diagnosis. workplaces require medical documentation and sometimes people provide it and still do not get accommodations.
@WorkPsychol Young adults are self diagnosing based on TikTok videos. Workplaces affirm it without a medical diagnosis and they get special treatment such as laptops and altered working hours. It’s fashionable to have a neurodivergent label, which harms those who genuinely have autism/ADHD.
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i was told to lose weight for pain that turned out to be a tumor lmao.
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holy shit. imagine saying condoms shouldnt be part of HIV/AIDS advocacy because “people don’t like condoms”.
Bringing masks into long covid advocacy is a huge mistake I think. People don't like covid restrictions and making them a condition of caring about long covid they'll prefer not to care.
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one of my managers decided to start masking again because she keeps getting really sick and today they were interviewing some new nurses and she said they just kept staring at her like she was crazy for wearing a mask and asked why she had it on.
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my little 15 year old gay heart was so happy and full .i hope they’re doing well today.
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isn’t it so great that doctors can just ruin your body with their negligence and they usually face little to no repercussions for it? while you suffer with lifelong disability?.
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the CDC is hiding replies about wearing respirators and masks to prevent COVID and about long COVID. why is a national public health agency hiding replies about wearing respirators to prevent infection from an airborne virus?.
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the guy at the polls laughed at my mask- i am on chemotherapeutic medication and trying to avoid getting sick. he then tried to not let me vote because i have an out of state ID even though i am registered here and have my voter ID card and everything.
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“reported to have underlying conditions and is over the age of 65”.they’re already doing it.
UPDATE: Louisiana's human bird flu case is in critical condition with severe respiratory illness
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dude… the live action ariel’s hair is more red than yours. if ariel was played by a white lady, her hair would still be that color- which is RED. you are just mad that the actress isn’t a white lady.
@MrAndyNgo As a redhead I loved Ariel growing up. She was always my favorite. I am sad they changed my childhood favorite princess because of the new woke religion. In the grand scheme of things that Disney is doing that is morally wrong, this doesn’t even hit the list. I am still sad about.
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this one is too real, reductress.
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the other day i said “i miss fresh fruit” because i can’t justify spending that much money on it because its so expensive and it goes bad too quickly .i work over 40 hours per week and i have a masters degree.
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while everyone is at pride right now, likely not wearing masks, please remember the people with AIDS who are sitting at home because you made pride inaccessible for them. pretty fucked up.
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i don’t know if everyone who’s reading this has seen downtown chicago in the winter but it’s so pretty
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i saw a tiktok with hundreds of thousands of likes saying “i have a problem, i used to love food and i just don’t like it anymore, it all tastes more and more disgusting and not at all like it used to” and there are thousands of comments agreeing.guess what’s not mentioned?.
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today, in a healthcare office.coworker 1: i’m sick.coworker 2: me too.coworker 3: i’m starting to get sick, i’m gonna test myself later and then go home.coworker 1 and 2: we arent testing. healthcare workers, knowing that they may have COVID, not testing.partially because they do.
my manager showed up maskless sick at work, took a rapid test, it was positive, and got sent home.
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i am taking a psychopathology course at the graduate level at a tier one university and every single class, we say “the DSM is bullshit”.
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when i had to go off my immunosuppressants for a surgery, my autoimmune disease flared up so badly i could barely even press the button to lock my phone screen. y’all are way too comfortable talking about the lives and experiences of disabled people when you’ve clearly never.
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a lot of “leftists” do not consider disabled people in their ideal version of the future and it is very clear when they say shit like this.
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the biden admin: public health isn’t something we get involved in, however, we DO actively fund genocide.
🇺🇸 2nd biggest wave of Covid Pandemic Jan 2024.“Make your own decisions, that’s not something we get involved in”
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norovirus is bad enough right now that my manager told the entire clinic, but people were like “oh shit i gotta use more hand sanitizer” and i had to break the bad news….
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y’all who pride yourself on having politics based in compassion, if you aren’t wearing a high quality mask in public, now is the time to start.
U.S. reports more than 2,000 new COVID deaths for the 4th week in a row.
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“i TRUST my immune system” .you shouldn’t lol.
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i feel like it’s time people realize that they think they would “would never bully an autistic person” and they NEVER did that in school.but they definitely DID make fun of the kids with “weird”interests, kids who don’t like social situations, kids who show autistic traits.
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i did not realize until last night that the reason that i don’t like doing the things i don’t like doing is not because i’m lazy- it’s because it hurts to do those things. apparently those tasks don’t make “normal” people hurt, they’re just boring, annoying, or uncomfortable.
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oh it must be REALLY bad for the CDC director to recommend wearing a mask.
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last week i cut off contact with another member of my extended family after they messaged me saying “this one is hard to swallow” when i posted about abortion rights and said that it’s a trigger topic for them, “like masks are” for me, and said that i couldn’t POSSIBLY 1/.
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y’all cough and laugh at people on chemo + their family members for wearing masks at the grocery store and then you go do your relay for life, breast cancer walks, MS walks, dance marathon, etc. thinking that means you give a fuck about people who are affected by these illnesses.
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this is the same lady who said she cannot wear a mask (in a healthcare setting during a pandemic) because she doesnt like the smell of her own breath.
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i’ll never shut up about this, it was funny as hell. i told my other coworker and she told her “that was really fucked up of you to say, she can’t walk because she had to go off her immunosuppressant for surgery”.and that lady ran into my office CRYINGGGG and apologizing.
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a friend asked me to hang out and said “i’m down to wear a mask and test beforehand! we can hang out wherever too, outside or inside, whichever you’re comfortable with”.and i’m so grateful to have a friend willing to do that for me.
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by the way, doctors don’t document every symptom and complaint for a reason. if they document it and they don’t pursue it, they can get sued if there’s evidence that they knew about it and neglected to follow up. no documentation means it’s a patient’s word against theirs.
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this reply was hidden by the CDC.
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when i told my family i was diagnosed with EDS, both of my sisters were like “um that’s normal, you’re not special” and showing me their hyperextended limbs and i was like “it’s genetic you absolute walnuts”.
“have you considered that your heart rate jumping 40+ BPM after very minimal activity is normal because it happens to me too??” okay, first of all, you sound like my mother. secondly, please look into POTS.
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do you guys ever think about how antibiotic resistance is rapidly becoming more and more of a problem and researching new antibiotics isn’t as profitable as other drugs are and the golden age of antibiotic discovery was over 60 years ago
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the postal worker attacked her and was beating her and calling her slurs, she warned him to stop, and then she defended herself against the man who was physically and verbally attacking her. that is self defense.
‘Pure evil’ transgender woman who viciously stabbed postal worker to death in NYC deli sentenced to 15 years
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yeah, i worked in a bakery in 2020 where it was a city requirement to wear a mask, it usually wasn’t worth calling people on it because y’all would get belligerent and yell at us, and we did not get paid enough to get screamed at by unmasked customers about masks every day.
@broadwaybabyto I lived through it. I wore masks made out of gauze. No one ever called me on it. So I knew it was virtue signaling and compliance, not public health.
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omg people are literally like “um thats food poisoning, everyone gets that” about norovirus in my mentions right now.why do you wanna get the vomit and diarrhea virus and spread the vomit and diarrhea virus to others??.god y’all are WEIRD.
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unironically, yes, COVID is absolutely in the room with us right now.
Is the COVID in the room with us right now?.
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thinking about how COVID has the same biosafety level classification as tuberculosis and anthrax.
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my in-law with backyard chickens have upper respiratory symptoms just told us they also have pink eye and so does another household member. oh!.
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this is vile. no one WANTS to rely on premade food and takeout lmao.
if you’re in your twenties and rely entirely on premade food and takeout your life is over i’m sorry.
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she was so hostile in the work environment that it would drive my coworker’s blood pressure to 170s/90-100s. on the days the coworker was out of office her blood pressure was 120s/70s .anyway, deborah, i hope you have the day you deserve.
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i just hate this a lot. as a person with a psychology degree. the resilience and post-traumatic growth can’t really happen when people are literally still in crisis. the pandemic is not over. the crisis is not over.
Mental health has become its own pandemic during Covid, with soaring rates of anxiety, depression and burnout. Psychologists say both resilience and the ability to grow from adversity can be cultivated. Here are four ways to get started.
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this is eugenicist rhetoric.
Dr. Oz: It's your patriotic duty to take care of yourself. Healthy people don't consume healthcare resources. The best way to reduce drug spending is to use less drugs.
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…do you think men only harass pretty women?.
you cannot convince me "pretty privelege" is real when this happens everyday. sometimes you really wish you were mid because of the safety boost it provides.
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it could’ve caused my fallopian tube to rupture because it was so big that it was stretching my fallopian tube, and a doctor told me it was a pulled muscle without doing any imaging.do you really think they give a fuck about period pain? they should, but they sure don’t!.
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my neighbor has now started harassing my spouse every time he sees them leave the house, “don’t forget your mask” because my spouse wore a mask in his sight once.i am on chemo meds and my spouse wears a mask so i don’t get sick so i can continue to pay rent and live.
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disabled people deserve better. disabled people deserve care and love.
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@eofallthings one time i dropped $75 worth of belgian chocolate on the ground when i worked at a gourmet cupcake shop.
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i wish there was a database for chronically ill patients to warn other chronically ill people about certain providers.
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the hostility toward masks is so fucking weird. y’all are fucking weird.
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one time i made muffins and had extra so i brought some in for the office and she just didn’t talk to me the entire day and ignored me because “she’s the office baker”.she was mad that i brought in some muffins.
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just fantastic that they just proudly advertise that they’re discriminating against people wearing masks- which is more likely if you’re disabled.
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a lot of us really don’t leave the house at all besides groceries, work, etc. some of us can’t even do that. the isolation you feel from only seeing friends every once in a while, and the few months you were on lockdown?.some of us have been doing a strict lockdown for 2 years.
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holy shit i said “viruses don’t make your immune system stronger” and someone said “um yes it does, that’s what immunity means, what do you think happened to the black plague?”.you absolute CLOWN, the black death was caused by a bacterium.
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so many non-chronically ill or able bodied people think doctors are “required” to keep up to date on literature or that they need to actually be competent, and i just… i hope they do not learn otherwise the hard way.
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just saw a tweet calling someone “manipulative” and “narcissistic” because they told someone “i’m terminally ill and have 2 months left” because they rudely asked them why they were wearing a mask lmao.it’s no one’s business why anyone is wearing a mask and if you ask somene why.
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huge emphasis on this. the amount of time it can take and number of doctors you can see before you’re diagnosed with something that is NOT difficult to diagnose is rage inducing.
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so you may be thinking “but you’re vaccinated. you won’t get that sick”.unfortunately, that’s not always true. i wish it was. some of us cannot get vaccinated because it’s dangerous with our allergies, our hyperactive immune systems, etc.
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i wish people knew the deep loneliness and insurmountable grief some of us are experiencing as chronically ill people right now.
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a lot of doctors lack curiosity about what is causing their patients’ symptoms.
Ok, what’s your unpopular opinion in medicine that will get you in this position?
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there is this really cute orange tabby on the missouri humane society website named nugget and he’s been there for a month and a half and he looks so sad i want to hug him
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COVID never went away, but since it is the 2nd largest surge so far, i wanted to share what i do as a medical assistant to help protect patients, staff, and myself from infection 🧵.
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literally why do antimaskers care if someone around them is wearing a mask.
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we know this variant is more contagious, we know that variants are becoming more vaccine resistant. we know that because of this, high efficacy masks like KN95s and N95s, etc. are much better protection.
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cw: weight gain, fatphobia. i’m really tired of being on medications that are known to cause weight gain and having multiple conditions that cause weight gain, then doctors acting like it’s soooo weird i’m gaining weight.
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i’m so sick of people with functioning immune systems and no medical degree trying to tell me i’ll be fine if i get COVID.
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the spoonie community didn’t make me “addicted to being sad and sick”. the spoonie community gave me the support i needed to finally get a diagnosis and be medicated for an aggressive autoimmune disease, destroying my joints. it’s the reason i can walk right now.
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we are told everyday that our lives are disposable and not worth protecting, through words, actions, policy, implication. sometimes by our family and friends. sometimes by the people we love most.
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do you think you are special and that you could not possibly be the 1 in 100? or that if you were high risk you would definitely know before surgery? or that all doctors are competent?.
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the way people are not connecting the rise of fascism with pandemic denial and discarding “the vulnerable” 😵💫.
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they think SITTING AT WORK is the reason?? instead of the very obvious reasons that have nothing to do with sitting at work?? .its so over.
Had dinner with a friend last night who is a scientist & does a lot of medical research. Biggest trend her team has been tracking lately?. Average age of cancer onset for various types is getting lower. Some used to be >55 and are now <40. Massive uptick in colorectal cancers.
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y’all just want disabled people dead. first you claimed it was your “freedom”, and you were being “forced” to wear a face covering, but y’all just want disabled people dead and to not exist anywhere in front of you.
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adding to that- the idea that someone’s pain isn’t valid because you have it worse is shitty. stop invalidating someone else’s pain because it isn’t that bad in your opinion.pain is pain, and pain sucks.
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