Raise your hand up if you grew up with a complex about your looks because you were treated like shit by people in school and now have a never ending doubt that all your friends and lovers secretly hate you and just are around you for the laugh
I want to clarify that portable air purifers do not create a 'bubble' of clean air around you. That is NOT how HEPA filtration works. The filter is gonna try to filter ALL the air around you & push cleaner air to you but it doesn't make a bubble of safe air.
there was a festival aimed at disabled ppl called 'Ablefest'...........with no mask requirements or clean air or scent free spaces........with goodie bags for carers.......fuck off
I hate medical shows, specially emergency room shows, because they create this false sense that doctors and medical staff actually give a shit about their patients when most of what they do is gatekeep care and label people based on their own biases
Anyways Traumatic Brain Injuries and brain damage have always been a part of the neurodivergence umbrella bc it just means a person whose brain differs from what is considered "normal". They're acquired neurodivergences and will continue to be part of the umbrella.
In work today I had a patron come up and ask me "why are you working sick?" And I was like excuse me?? And she pointed at the mask and then I was like "oh no I wear this cause I don't want to get sick" and she was not happy with my answer lol
I think what ppl who aren't masking often are missing is that for me, a person who is already ill & with no working immune system, wearing a mask shows me that you care about me as a human being and others like me, that you see us as worthy to keep fighting for.
Equating wearing a mask in indoor settings so that vulnerable people and disabled people can live our lives like everyone else to totalitarianism or a "police state" is straight up far right rhetoric used over the last three years. C'mon lads we gotta do better than this
Hey covid safer ppl can we collectively boycott Enovid? Its an isn'real product and there are other xylotil and astrodimer sodium options that don't contribute to the economy of a genocide state
Aramark is the biggest provider of food and catering to Direct Provision in Ireland and most of the prisons in the USA as well as ICE detention camps. Their whole business is making profit off encarcerated people. Fuck them
Truth is I'm not starting any new romance with someone who doesn't already wear a respirator as part of their praxis and centers the most marginalised in their politics
Phrases like "this isn't us" and "This isn't Ireland" are just separating yourselves from the problem when Ireland has a systemic racism issue. This IS Ireland, it has been Ireland since it became a state. You are absolving yourself from your role in white supremacy.
Being one of the few masked ppl in the hospital feels wild, what you mean you don't want to prevent yourself from getting sick when you're at the place where sick people have to go to???
This rhetoric of "people dont wear respirators bc you people are meanies" falls flat for me bc no matter how nicely or polietly we phrase things eugenecists will continue to do eugenics. Its not the job of every disabled person online to curate ourselves for them.
Every day I see "leftists" call themselves antifascist and they can not comprehend that illness is a weapon of colonialism & white supremacy!! That as an antifascist you have a role to disrupt the chain of transmission of viral illnesses that can be prevented!!!!!!!!!!!
FULLY SCREAMING My mom just told me that her work hired a a white cishet Irish man to give a diversity talk for Internationals women's day..... AND he was paid 2k !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please use a portable filter as an extra layer of safety rather than a safety dome/bubble. It can lessen the amount of polluted air you can breathe through your respirator mask - bc even masks have % of particles they can't filter. It is not safe enough to unmask only w that.
What I need people to understand is that the world pre-2019 is gone. Trying to live 'normal' lives is just trying to push the inevitable. We are in the collapse of climate change and the collapse of the labor of capitalism as millions of workers died and continue to die.
Anti-mask rhetoric & covid denialist language is the norm now. Hate to see these headlines refering to protective measurements as 'restrictions'. Requiring respirators is a protective measure full stop.
Im so fucking done eith this behaviour. Prisons are not a day trip for white liberals when a majority of black and brown bodies exist in prisons across the world
im so fucking angry seeing a 'disability at pride' thing mention SARS-COV-2 only in the context of misinformation of the vaccines and nothing about how the far right position of being anti-mask is the norm now. No mention of how there is no accessible pride without respirators
A young man was hospitalized this week in Dublin after being viscously beaten in his workplace by men who he said called him a "black monkey" and told him immigrants were taking jobs and food. Ireland must address increasing racist and xenophobic attacks.
This is just the social model of disability. most disabled ppl agree that a medical-social model is more accurate since people are disabled by barriers in society like cost, denial to employment & housing BUT that bodies are varied & have different needs
Disability is a social construction and the difference is that there is no stigma against using this aid and there are not huge structural barriers to getting care
@CloHiggins
Okay but parents of disabled people are not disabled people. Listen to the disabled people telling you it isn't helpful and particularly the ones who are wheelchair users. Did you even talk to any wheelchair users themselves?
Idc if you don't think anger is useful but disabled people are allowed to be fucking furious at how we have been abandoned systemically. More so the disabled folks who are multiply marginalised and affected by racial capitalism & anti-Blackness
It's not that some of us are "uncomfortable" with indoor dining it's that there is simply no "safer indoor dining". Immunocompromised & disabled ppl can't even go to the doctor safely but yay we can indoor dine! What about the servers who can't mask ?
Of course, people have different risk tolerances within the COVID-cautious community. If you're not comfortable doing indoor dining, you could combine the device with your fit-tested N95, and you should be getting an effect of universal masking with N95s (huge ERF). (16)
Off to cardiology lets see if anyone is wearing a mask when several heart orgs around the world list SARS2 as a leading cause of heart disease and heart attack
How many people do you think are telling themselves they are "burnout" when they're on their 3rd SARS2 infection and likely dealing with Long Covid fatigue and possibly ME/CFs?
I keep seeing posts re "curing" or being "in recovery" of LC and I am genuinely asking how is that possible if SARSCOV2 keeps being found in bone marrow, placentas, etc? /gen
Something more efficient than a PureAir or the SmartAir QT3 would be to make your own portable hepa filter with a bigger filter and bigger fan. It would have a significantly bigger CADR and clean much much more air near you!!
@Amal4Solutions
I made a portable, rechargeable air filter using the principles of a Corsi Rosental. Materials Used: Rechargeable fan, HEPA filter (intended as a replacement filter for a $550+ air filter), cardboard, duct tape.
Had a really traumatic night with seizures and pain and the paramedics were literally so mean and not helpful. They scoffed at the fact that we had masks and COVID tests in the house. Refused to help me & just went through my stuff and questioned why I need a rollator + meds 😩
Saying that requiring masks is authoritarian when the onus is on the most vulnerable to BEG for y'all to give a shit and do the bare minimumis just🤯 with which power & resources are disabled ppl being authoritarian with? Which spaces are we controlling? Tell me
I am not surprised that so many people faced homophobia and transphobia at Dublin pride. This is what happens when you let corporations and instituttions who do NOT CARE about LGBTQ+ folk march with all their cishet folks and no actual framework to help LGBTQ in their orgs.
@Openly
Queer people don't need a specific currency for liberation!! Liberation is not having our own currency when most LGBT+ people live in precarious situations and close to poverty across the world
Mask like its part of your praxis that disabled, sick, chronically ill, Mad & neurodivergent people's lives are valuable and deserve being protected. Mask bc ableism is insidious. Mask bc the govt was NEVER going to look after the most marginalised. Mask without ableist slurs.
Mask like your government have gone totally insane and are trying to infect you with a virus that will likely disable or kill you after enough infections.
Because they have.
"Palestinians refused the expired doses & as part of the occupation's punishment for resistance, it banned all PPE (incl masks), monoclonals, antivirals, vaccines, & bombed the only COVID testing & treatment facilities in Gaza."
@anarchotadigism
Israel let a million covid vaccines expire while millions of Palestinians under its military rule remained unvaccinated. Then, it arranged a swab where Palestinians would get the expired doses in exchange for a future fresh batch that was destined for us!!
#TrueStory
I KNOW this is how so many people feel about this and im glad some people at least will say it !!! You gotta connect the dots that eugenics and genocide are interlinked!!! You cant talk about the ongoing mass disablement from Gaza without disability justice and SARS2!!
This pride focus your energy on BIPOC LGBTQIA+ organisations so you can get a better understanding of how race and homophobia affect our community. Gonna start a thread of people you should follow / support
*BIPOC: Black Indigenous and people of colour
It is my birthday today. What I'd love for my birthday is if people who claim to be in solidarity with marginalised people to wear a respirator 💗 do it to keep each other safe.
@transguyenergy
When I changed my name in college there was no official way to do it and I said it to my cis course coordinator in passing. Later that same day she emailed the director of the college and CC'd me DEMANDING that my name be changed to Alber without questions.
Anytime I see someone eating indoors with far-uvc and a air purifier I get another wrinkle from being mad at how we're so fucked when the people who have the most resources use them to indoor dine
PSA I'm very trans and very much not a woman and I am changing my name to Alber ! If you can only use Alber for me that would be great and a little reminder that my pronouns are only they/them 💖💖💖💖
This isn't to say don't use your pureair/qt3 if you have one - I still bring mine around some places- it is more for you to have the full information about what you are buying and to then keep yourself safer!
If you are mates with anyone who has sexually assaulted someone or raped someone and you never confronted them about it / did something you are part of rape culture ! If you laugh at rape jokes part of rape culture! No more time for this shit
Fuck you mean an emergency care doctor is gonna actually send me for imaging when I come in with neck pain or stomach pain? At most they'll give you paracetamol and scoff at you for asking for help
cw suicide; cw suicide ideation
here I am living with intense suicidal ideation daily but not taking risky chances with SARS2 because I don't want to be further disabled when transmission can be reduced!!!!!!! yeah I wanna die but not at the cost of others!!
Nah y'all literally voted in 2007 to remove the citizenship right of children born here to non eu parents 😭 Ireland puts asylum seekers into moldy unsanitary living conditions!! I could go on because it's a systemic issue
So um how are we cleaning mobility aids to prevent transmission of viruses into the house? I been wiping my rollator with HOCl but realised I haven't been cleaning the wheels 😵
Trying out the JEDX FFP2 in this camel color and Im loving the feeling of the material!!!! It has very comfy nose foam and elastic headbands (not rubber like Auras). I have a wee round face and it fits really well and held up when talking.
I think if you organise a conference aimed at people with Long Covid and other patients with post infectious diseases and you don't have any infection control you just want more patients
@fru1typunch
Its not cool, what woyld have been cool is if they boycotted and did not participate as asked to by BDS campaign. This ogham ceasefire is genuienly virtue signaling.
Confirmed that there will be no more Novavax available in Ireland 😵💫 and that they keep making the groups of people who can get the updated vaccines in autumn smaller and smaller