Covid is real, whether you’re capable of understanding or not. Mask up, avoid it, stave off disability & death, be a
#CovidSmart
genius & my new friend! 🥳😷⭐️
We could, & should, have saved health care workers from this horrifying fate.
We let Facebook & FOX be places where other countries & Machiavellian billionaires could influence & warp the way Americans think about protecting their own lives, their children, & their communities.
An ICU nurses’ response to this h.scum piece.
I bring you:
The 77 things I hated about what COVID did to the human body.
📷 Heather Paterson Photography
@dr_tey
@Columbia
Here’s what’s unAmerican at
@UCLA
in the last 24 hrs—non-violent students being relentlessly assaulted and taunted by Israel’s terrorizing “supporters”. This looks like IDF trying to turn Westwood, California into Gaza.
Shame. This is not self defense.
UCLA 🚨: FIGHTS continue through the night. Dozens injured , multiple bleeding, still ZERO law enforcement present. Both sides drag their wounded and fresh protestors replace them on the front. Total Anarchy.
I used to think prepping for an apocalypse was silly because I’ve no desire to live in a post-apocalyptic 🌎.
But I realized there’ll be a time between empty grocery shelves & my actual ability to remove myself. So, for that in between time, I now have some rice & beans. You?
For parents struggling to give kids good lives in bad times, I want you to know my childhood didn’t have a LOT of what you’re worried about not giving your kid, but those voids did not damage me.
Chronic illness *did* damage me.
Avoid illness, FTW.
Your kids will thank you.
I've written so many tweets and deleted them. Suffice to say that raising a kid during a pandemic is fucking hard and there are no right answers and it kind of sucks sometimes.
@CdnPercy
@KaysenHarlow
@SocialBeeHQ
hey, is this you?? I’m a 52yo white lady & I’m SO EMBARRASSED FOR YOU! Wtf is wrong with you? Not 1 of you looked ‘round the room & said “Something is NOT RIGHT here!” FFS, white ppl, get uncomfortable w/groups of you! Mix it TF up, already—y’all scary in this pic.
@Nicole_Lee_Sch
I told them I’m immune compromised & they were unmasked so I needed them to back up & give me space to unload my groceries. They rolled their eyes & looked at the other, masked, clerk & made a comment about not needing a mask out here, all the while acting as if I’m a loon. 2/2
@TheTiniestMeep
You made the right decision. The Christmas gift you gave yourself is not being bedbound in some future months and repeatedly lamenting “If only I hadn’t insisted on going to that dumb Christmas party! The white elephant gift was soooo NOT WORTH IT.”
Merry Christmas! 🥳🎄🎁
@GeauxGabrielle
I’m 54, this has long sat at the back of my mind. I’ve visited people I loved in their nursing homes. They could technically afford that, it wasn’t a thing to be grateful for. They were physically assaulted, emotionally tortured, forced to eat foul food, left to rot. I fear that.
@inquiringally
@e_urq
I agree with this! Gen Z is about to blow everyone’s minds. And boomers and Gen X who fought for civil rights, for women’s rights, for black + brown pride, for equal marriage, & the end of wars…we’re still here, still pissed, & ready to fight for a better tomorrow once more. ✊
@janessa_allison
He would’ve learned that ages ago for work. WWE could teach a lot about consent.
As a lady who used to do entertainment wrestling, it requires clear communication & up-front agreement on how the trick/wrestling move is performed. It’s essential or folks get seriously hurt.
@amethystarlight
I cannot get over the audacity of them using the word mysteriously. What the actual hell?
Norovirus on a cruise ship is far from mysterious.
Covid in an ongoing global pandemic, also, not at all mysterious.
@Nicole_Lee_Sch
@ curbside pickup today, I was approached by a young, unmasked grocery clerk. I said, while they were still @ distance, that I’d unload it myself so they could just leave the cart there & I’d take it. They resisted & said they needed the cart back—as they got closer & closer. 1/2
@pmagn
@SpiralCow
Disability advocates have eviscerated this design as well as the use of it in any kind of coursework or presos about Accesibilty design. It’s horrendous for actually disabled folks and didn’t consult or consider them at all. Just, FYI.
@qewperp
@islandofcovid
Sitting here w/Stage 3 liver disease from by 2 rare AIs, I just want to remind, we are also the people society decided to sacrifice…but we’re not kids so we don’t warrant the tweets and outrage. But, just for the record, we’ve been feeling sacrificed for 2+ years.
#ThisSucks
How common was it, in the pre-Covid times, for a kid to get chicken pox in preschool and then again at 15?
For the 2nd bout, is there any chance stress could have reactivated the CPox?
@betsyladyzhets
I’m anxious reading this as someone whose also avoided it this long, wears N95s everywhere & does not dine out. Do you have any inkling of how you may have gotten exposed? I’m really beginning to think glasses need to be a new addition to my PPE Arsenal. Sigh.
Recover quickly!
@Jerseyvillian2
@MollyJongFast
@laurenboebert
@elonmusk
Ah, but she’s
@elonmusk
’s idiot now! He is definitely NOT choosing the side of kindness, or goodness and light, or tolerance, or hell, even mediocre intelligence. He’s chosen the Neanderthals that literally hate his baby Teslas. Has anyone checked to see if he’s lost his mind?
Has Covid left folks with a bunch of new food allergies?
I was watching a woman on tiktok discuss having a reaction to chicken. The comments were full, chock full, of folks saying “Oh yeah, I can’t eat _____ now.” The “now” being an indication this is a new reality for them.
@AuspiciousTimes
@SocialPiranha3
@ferdimagellan2
Claire, you are correct, it was wrong. It was inappropriate. It was unprofessional & it never should have happened.
I am grateful your daughter was able to tell you. When I was assaulted at 14, I did not tell my mother & the fallout was significant. Tell her I’m proud of her.❤️
I woke up with a sore throat, extremely nauseous, chills, extreme fatigue and mucusy. 2 days after going to my appointment at the long Covid clinic where basically everyone was unmasked. If I got Covid from the LONG COVID CLINIC I am going to be beyond livid
@GarfieldTony
@mantra_ephemera
@soschop
@lizcubed
@gelizabeths
@JannekeParrish
I agree it’s not too late. And I think it’s important we all advocate for the power of, and need for, redemption via growth and willful self-evolution, but I also think part of truly being sorry is understanding why many who were harmed will feel your apology isn’t enough. 1/
@redshiftsinger
@mjmarrom
Yes, please!
Given I’ve been forced to stay home for three years, because others couldn’t manage two months, I’m ready! Just let me know when we’re starting the everybody’s-finally-doing-this clock.
I’m gonna start sharing my
#birdfluvegan
tips for you all. Let me know if you need specific questions answered & I’ll see what I can do.
Let’s start with
#VeganBagels
two ways!
Below are my tips for cream cheese, coffee milk, and a breakfast sandwich.
@CovidintheChart
@HaroldJ_NEPA
@CovidintheChart
we need an update about this pt. The community has been traumatized by this post & we need to know if we need to activate & advocate for this woman held hostage by this healthcare facility.
We can’t just share folk’s trauma w/no regard for the outcome. Update?
@wyonaf
Pro-Choice states should start advertising in Idaho.
Couples no longer need just consider whether to have a child, but also, perhaps even more importantly, where to have that child.
@GarfieldTony
@mantra_ephemera
@soschop
@lizcubed
@gelizabeths
@JannekeParrish
Tony, your apology & older/wiser self-examining help you enjoy the end of your life w/ a clearer conscience. Meanwhile, people harmed by your acquiescence to the disenfranchising status quo continue having to live w/& fighting to overcome, effects of things you did/didn’t do.
My partner and I are child-free by choice. So, not a parent, but I look at this and all I can think is, I know my partner loves me, but surely he doesn’t love me as much as a parent loves their child, right? And, yet, he would never consider going maskless and risking my health.
Hey Violet, what’s your name on here? I deeply respect your commitment to masking, especially given that your foolish parents don’t. Pls follow me, I am a big fan 🥹
Love,
Neigh
@TheChefsGardens
Horrific. My heart goes out to your friend. Those are two really significant and heartbreaking losses. My condolences to all who are grieving your friend’s daughter today. 🫂❤️
@hold_vintage
@mjmarrom
Also, they should realize the folks questioning their need to fly everywhere in a pandemic, maskless & careless, are now forced to endure year 3 as hostages to both this virus & them, our fellow humans who give no 💩about others—those *they are forcing* to “never have any fun”.
I have looked into options for water should our local system fail. Atmospheric water generators are neat. So are small portable solar powered desalination setups in something like a rolling piece of luggage.
@theBrianaMills
Started the Morning Show 2 wks ago. I was pleasantly surprised to see them handle the start & progression through Covid really well, especially tension between talent & producer around when to first start reporting it. It fades away, but I was glad they did what they did.
Wooo!! I’ve been waiting my WHOLE VEGAN LIFE for this day.
@KraftHeinzCo
, fingers crossed this stuff is amazing & transports me back to my packaged food childhood.
@Lindt
, I was once fully smitten by your truffles. Thanks for making me truffles again.❤️
#birdfluvegan
BEHOLD!
@PaigePang1
We just read this at our house. Now we’re texting it to all our friends and family (the ones that are left) who we know won’t read it. Maybe you want to do the same?
@now_its_nora
@joanhaigbooks
@MichelleGillive
@michaelsheen
Thank you so so much for sharing this utterly beautiful clip. I am in tears from his kindness & sweetness & the absolute pride & joy I know that young man felt when he heard “Tis a great question.” And then, the way he followed on with the rest of his answer, gah…perfection.❤️
@Sheep_in_fog
For folks who don’t realize, this is especially handy for dentist visits.
Before & after the appt + your nose covered with an Avery Dennison adhesive ReadiMask + goggles + nasal spray before & after.
Of course, if you feel sick, do it daily + your saline nasal rinse. 🥳😷
@Beats_Basha
@FemiYahtzee
I wanna know how a person is so rude in the face of tragic news like this? Is this what you say when someone you’re speaking with, face to face, shares someone they knew has passed?
@drburton23
@NukitToBeSure
This comment isn’t helping women who relate to what Nukit is going through & don’t need to see other women piling on & blaming a woman for repeatedly having to defend herself & her business against crappy men who haven’t done a 1/4 of what Nukit has for the CovidSmart community.
@ExpatRepeat
@waltz_tales
a good thread for you to read/use to illustrate the losses we are all risking with the spectacular, impressive, creative minds we all appreciate having in our societies but which so many folks are needlessly trashing.
@pen_is_mighty
This is lovely. I didn’t have a dad to look out for me in these ways. It’s really special to think about what that must feel like for your son to know he’s got you in his corner. 🤙
@makeupartist524
I wish folks, especially HCWs, knew what percentage of kids who suffer CSA grow up to have “shitty immune systems”.
That’s where mine came from. It’s wild to think the folks who should care the most are so cavalier about my 💩 immune system I got because I was exploited at 14.
@MulhollandL0ver
@annieschulte
@Egyptwilliams4
@MulhollandLover
, you should opt out here, you’re making an ass of yourself. This isn’t about 1 person’s “political opponent”. This is about bodily autonomy rights for fully 52% of America. Sit down, sir. This isn’t your issue—you don’t care women are made hostages of the state.
@flocculentspire
@e_urq
Yeah, or you could read the comments above yours to see that it’s already happening and then confirm for us all that you’re just a willfully ignorant tool. 🤷♀️
@christykarras
@eilishp
@JoGemelli
@Boghuma
Which is a problem for humanity when she allows herself to become infected with a zoonotic illness. She shouldn’t have been allowed to do this. It’s nonsense and puts us all at risk. Do we not have enough pandemics already?
@LadyChuan
Folks are 💩! Covid+politics = worse. But it was def this way pre-2020. I’ve been a helper my whole life & always so sad to see mass indifference .
Stopped once on a 6-lane St to help a lost blind person cross. All the cars sped through the crosswalk & angrily honked & yelled.
CC peeps! Have any of you got non-CC fam/friends w/new/adult-onset sleepwalking? My bf, who did mask but has had Covid multi times, is in the hospital after falling down stairs while sleepwalking (a totally new thing)—> 6 broken ribs, concussion, double vision, 11 head stitches.
@fongafriend
@sasswashere
I’m so sorry we humans didn’t do a better job of protecting our health care systems and the incredible people that make them function. You deserve so much more.
@fitterhappierAJ
I was just thinking about her today. I want to start a website gallery of folks like her, the worst Covid minimizers, so we can track how well their prognostications and assertions and mockery of others ages. Their names should be saved on a Shame List for all time.
@AuspiciousTimes
@SocialPiranha3
@ferdimagellan2
If you have any compunction to go back and ask that pharmacist, with your cell camera rolling, what on earth possessed him to put his hands on your daughter in expectation of returned affection from a child, I would support that effort, 💯‼️
@BigSquishyDM
@NurseJeniQ
After reading this, my husband and I just had a whole moment over our shared childhood live of Candyland. I bet you the way I gushed about my love for that game just now will make him buy it for me as a surprise, lol, for our 23rd anniversary in a few weeks. 😂❤️
@udarnik
@dougthomps
@alixabeth
I love the people. It’s the plutocrats and their ability to spend endless amounts of money to manipulate the people into fearing and despising one another. We aren’t naturally this stupid and combative. Folks spent big money to make us this way & buy this misery for us peasants.
I told my husband the other day that when Covid & Climate have wiped us all out, Twitter will still be here full of bots all telling each other over & over:
“That never happened.”
“I’ll take Things That Never Happened for $100.”
“Pics or it didn’t happen.”
Good job, Elon!
@jayelledubyoo
@MulhollandL0ver
@annieschulte
@Egyptwilliams4
Must be nice to be a dude at a time like this. Even a lefty one. Simply put, this leftist man makes it clear women should not have their rights dictated to them by men. Equal representation and equal protection for women must be too priorities—for all leftists, even you, dudes.
@pot8um
I towed a car because dude parked it in our small lot & went across to the big mall for hours. We had signs posted. I was 16 & alone. He threatened my life, brandished a gun, said I needed to look over my shoulder when I left at night. My company sent him an apology & coupons.
@SammieLloyd81
@ItsEmilyKaty
I’m 52 & love eating from this very special “plate” my mom gave me before she passed a few years back. She knew how much I love a separated plate, we called them a California platter when I was a kid—before we knew what a mezze plate was—anyway, she even got one for my husband.❤️
@DcrInYYC
@Squijibo
I saw a long post about 🧠 effects w/LC. I asked if sepsis could’ve caused the same symptoms (of FTD). He said yes. I asked because my mom had sepsis (pre-‘20). After, she had many FTD symps he listed.
But your post reminds me, after sepsis, she fell asleep at her desk everyday.
@a_lil_bow
Truth.
So many people have been betrayed by their loved ones, in addition to suffering the threats of a deadly, disabling global pandemic so many are intent on denying the existence of.
In 5 decades, I never imagined this the world looking like this in 2023.
It’s so sad.
I need a web designer. Like a real web designer w/a real portfolio of custom websites they’ve made—not squarespace/wix templates (only because I can do those myself).
Are you a web designer? Do you know a web designer? If so, please share your/their site so I can get in touch.🙏
We live in a place that imports most of its food. Covid was not a disaster here, thankfully. But we were aghast when a documentary revealed it was down to 1 private citizen who-on his own-kept food coming, not the government.
We bought 4 aeroponic towers to grow our own food.
@TheAndyMarkShow
@TheAcademy
NOPE. Words may assault your sensibilities, but hurtful words are never deemed a criminal offense. Laying your hands on a person’s face, striking them in anger is PHYSICAL ASSAULT. Hurt feelings = NOT a crime. Physical assault = an actual CRIME. These injuries are NOT equal.
@vabaddie97
@The8BitIdiot
No, he said he wasn’t into her but his friend was. He was doing his friend a favor. He clearly didn’t think about her at all. He also thought it was funny enough to recount in an interview, so he’s too dumb to know it was rape.
@caplan_g
@kaveri59872487
OMG!! This is utter insanity! It’s no longer safe to teach nursing students the value, benefit, and history of vaccines?? MADNESS!
@kanibalgrumpy
@DrRHoneyman
NYC theaters are introducing masked days for patrons who feel more comfortable in that kind of environment. I’m hoping other businesses follow. Masked hours @ grocery stores & pharmacies. Masked flights. We need the ability to choose a masked environment so we can safely join.
@MedusaSurvior
@sorenxp
@peachlybeloved
I’m sorry your life’s experience has left you this narrow and dull.
I see so much more in this artwork that what you’ve singularly noted is not even a speck my eye can recognize as a truthful retelling of this art’s teaching.
What a shame for you to be missing out on so much.
@dowellml
We won’t have a choice. It’s not down to individual choices. It’ll be put in place, institutionally, before folks even realize or have time to understand why they wouldn’t want it.
Same as TSA & end of civil rights post 9-11. Same as Big Bro cams everywhere no one voted for.
@realdocv
Beautifully stated. You’re a great mom. I’m so sorry to learn of all Gabe is struggling with right now. I’m glad he has a mom as loving and strong as you.
Sending ❤️&🫂 as well as kudos for doing what was right for your son in this situation. He needs better support than her.
@EfCovid19
@pwhickey
Same. I feel actually entitled to some resentment since I’m holed up in my house in year 3 of what could have been a far better-managed pandemic.
Friend told me she doesn’t share Covid updates ‘cause people don’t want them & are getting mad over them. I’m mad! I say fug ‘em.🤬
I don’t recall a single episode of
@PodSaveAmerica
on disability policy or disabled guests
Why don’t we, disabled, immunocompromised, chronically ill, and people with long COVID demand & tweet at the podcast to do an episode on long COVID policy?
#PodSaveJon
@Zoey_1976
@alexmeshkin
And/or they don’t need to get rid of them as much as ours? 🤷♀️ I’ve seen comments suggesting that “at least we no longer have to worry about Social Security solvency in the US.” 😳 I guess it’s time we seriously consider leaders may not have had the same needs/goals as citizens.
@emilyesfraser
They don’t.
But they do know how debilitating & exhausting chronic illness is. They know precisely how much energy folks won’t have to fight them.
Maybe we’ll be a smart community that’ll use good tech to share resources & tools & elevate our voices to improve our sitch(es).
@NukitToBeSure
@JRDsays
This is amazing. You are so damn impressive. I sit in awe. I hope other foolish men learn from the mistaken hubris of the men who have come for you and how they have been swiftly put in their place for it. They’re all outclassed, they should humble themselves.
@braverboy
@mildanalyst
You know what I’d LOVE to stop? Staying in my house year after year because America’s
#1
Public Health advisor decided to abdicate responsibility for keeping Americans safe from SARS, aka
#AirborneHIV
.
I’ve become a prisoner to the most selfish Americans thanks to
@CDCDirector
.
@AlixBurack
Recently caught a few mins of Jeopardy, after not seeing it for years. One question after another, NONE of the 3 contestants could answer.
Jeopardy would never have made it as a show if this had been the standard all along.
The host was visibly pained by the blank stares.
@walker_erik_a
@gregggonsalves
@itshullabalulu
I’ts me…told to go home & do my best not to die while everyone takes off masks @ grocery stores, pharmacies, classrooms, doc’s offices, on public transpo, & makes it impossible to safely visit these spots. Now minimizer trolls say I’m broken & insane for trying not to get it. 🤬
@hutchleah
I’m sure you’ll be a great therapist.
I’m 16 min from starting a therapy sesh. This therapist’s admission & being made newly aware of this group where they made their confession, I’m finding myself growing anxious w/worry that my therapist probably also finds me boring.
😭😓
@choo_ek
@JessicaSmithMD
@EMSwami
Docs, nurses, we love & appreciate you & are heartbroken by how the last 2 years have worn you out & demoralized, but…your immune-compromised pts are watching your actions & wondering if they’ll ever feel safe in your presence again. I haven’t seen any of my docs in 2+ years. 😔
@TheTiniestMeep
I’m sorry you have to feel alone in order to preserve your existing level of health, but trust me, there will be a day in the future (soon) when you will have no regrets and only intense gratitude for your sensible self that was brave and smart enough to make the best choices. ❤️
@parapklir
@primnimproper_
You sound like a man. Like a man who would beat a woman and then blame her for making you do it. GTFO with this trash.
Men who beat women don’t do it all the time. But when they do it, a woman might be inclined to try to get away from his violence and his abuse.
#WeChooseBears
@bezukhova
Guarantee Grandma did not buy all those ducks herself. She said something about liking a duck, once & she never saw another birthday without a couple of ducks given as the lazy guest’s half-hearted attempt to convey they really knew your grandmother “Oh, she just looooves ducks!”