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If someone is wearing a medical mask for whatever reason forcibly removing it is wrong. And an ADA violation if the person happens to be wearing it due to a health condition. Regardless of opinions around the protests, this is blatantly wrong.
#UCLA
cops are removing the masks from the protesters so they can’t hide … from their parents, neighbors , future employers
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Important life-saving info: if you have a condition on the CDC's list of risk factors for COVID-19 you can get universal masking as an ADA accommodation.
Here's some helpful info on how this applies to healthcare from
@PeoplesCDC
:
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Dear cultural venues, when you go "mask optional" you are in effect removing the option to attend from disabled and immunocompromised patrons. It would require minimal effort and no cost to set aside mask-required hours and performances so that everyone can participate.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but disabled people need to go to far more places than the doctor's office. We have the right to exist in all kinds of places.
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My
@Uber
driver on the way home thanked me for being his only passenger who masks. Told me his daughter is scared for him and he always masks (flimsy surgical). My heart broke that I didn't have an extra KN95 or N95 to upgrade him. The government has failed our essential workers.
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Hey
@POTUS
, dis you?
JUST IN: Biden declines to veto GOP-led measure to end COVID-19 emergency
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It's interesting that CNN is leaving out the things that can help you avoid getting sick in the first place:
😷 High-quality masks indoors & in crowded outdoor settings
🍃 Gathering outdoors
🥵 Rescheduling meetups if friends are sick
💻 Scheduling business meetings via zoom
It’s time to stock up on tissues, bingeable TV options and Covid-19 tests. Yes, many signs are pointing to a Covid-19 summer surge – although one that’s far less intense than what emerged the past few summers.
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Thank you
@AMNH
for providing this incredible masked tour as an accommodation for myself & others who are high risk! It was an incredible day.
If you haven’t been going to cultural institutions because of lack of 😷,talk to them. Would love to see this replicated in more places.
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The CDC says they removed the isolation guidance bc other countries did the same.
That is false. Other countries removed a *legal* obligation to isolate, something that never existed in the U.S. Many still recommend isolation for full course of illness.
For example, Australia:
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Pictured: a super fun,
#COVID19
-free production for the
@DisabilityChall
.
Not pictured: the positive COVID test result from a team member whose asymptomatic case was caught before production began. While we were sad she couldn't join us, implementing basic measures described
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This is the most important point in all this that many seem to miss.
All COVID protections being labeled “restrictions” was perhaps the most harmful thing of the whole pandemic.
A mask is a tool that can help us live free from a disabling virus but still do all the things.
"This didn’t have to be an all-or-nothing choice. By framing precautions as either lockdown or a free for all, the Biden administration has missed an opportunity to better protect its citizens & send clearer messages on Covid & long Covid."
@lauralew105
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I'm Anna. I'm in NYC.
I mask because I'm at high risk for COVID complications.
I also mask for others around me. Because no matter how careful I am, it's not worth taking even a slight chance that I could potentially cause someone else's disability or death.
I was proud to
Hi. I’m Keith. I live in Canada and I refuse to accept that infections and reinfections are inevitable - I will continue do my utmost to break chains of transmission. What about you?
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We are truly in the upside down when this lady is talking more sense than the
@CDCDirector
Covid is still a threat, and there are many long covid sufferers. We should reinstate mask mandates in healthcare settings; ensure free high quality masks and PCR tests; and mandate effective air filtration for all public transportation, buildings, and businesses.
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The infighting within the COVID-smart community needs to stop ASAP.
We need to be advocating for masking in the spaces where they matter not endless debating & calling people out in spaces where the risk is not zero but is as close to zero as u can get.
Perspective>Perfection
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This is a very handy tool when paired with a CO2 reader. Fun fact: if you don't mask at a Broadway show, you have a 50%+ chance of getting COVID. Most Broadway theaters have a CO2 level north of 2000 by Act 2.
Tl;dr I made a Covid infection prob. calculator, w/ room CO2 level & exposure time as key variables, using equations in Rudnick & Milton, Indoor Air (2003).
How are we supposed to make “individual risk assessments” without tools like this?
(2/21)
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@MeetJess
@danitasteinberg
If I were the producer, I would boot her and recast. No one has time for the production to be put on hold for an outbreak.
Clearly someone who's been infected multiple times isn't immune from anything 🙄
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During the Holocaust, my great uncle was in a military outpost in his small town in Belarus. He got word the Germans were coming and got most of the family out. He warned everyone in town but many people didn't listen. Those who ignored him ended up in a mass grave.
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Disability events not being COVID safe 🤝 COVID safe events not being accessible
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If 1 in 20 were the odds of the lottery, I wouldn't call those low odds. I'd be playing every single day.
... vaccinated (and it IS irrational not to be), their chance of dying if they get Covid is less than 1 in 1000 , and their risk of Long Covid is about 1 in 20. For some, those odds are low enough that Living-Like-It’s-2019 is a reasonable call. (9/25)
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@Michael59503746
“I eat indoors and I go to unmasked indoor meetings”
Fast forward:
“I have no idea how I got COVID”
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If you're not wearing a mask on public transit so you can be marginally more comfy, remember that means someone else has to go to extremes that you would find untenable just to stay safe.
Thank you to the woman who spoke about her experience as someone with cancer walking 3-4 miles each way to get cancer treatment because taking the trains was not safe as they ended the mask mandate!
@MTA
must reinstate the mask mandate!
#MaskTransit
#MandateMasksNY
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@VT_Vagabond
@Uber
When I Uber, I send a note as soon as we match that 1) asks if the driver is willing to mask 2) explains I'm high risk 3) tells them I have extras if they need one 4) ask them to let me know if they don't want to mask so I can cancel and go with someone else
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I'm a Jew, I mask, I'm disabled, and as appalling as some of the recent incidents of antisemitism are, this sentiment is even more appalling,
@GovKathyHochul
.
You can fight antisemitism without endangering and opening disabled people up to harassment.
UPDATE: NY Governor Kathy Hochul said on CNN last night that she is considering a ban on masks.
@GovKathyHochul
this is absolutely shameful! New York has suffered so much from COVID, and COVID is not over. We should be normalize and depoliticizing masks, not banning them.
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It's so nice to have Still COVIDing groups to commiserate with.
Pro tip: if you are a straight man looking to meet women and not having much luck, get you an N95 mask and that will change real quick. 😂
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Avoiding COVID comes down to luck, but we can improve our luck by decreasing the likelihood we transmit respiratory viruses by
#KeepMasksInHealthCare
.
One time my luck almost ran out was when my PT had the sniffles & tested + next day.
Two things saved me: my mask & his.
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Dear
@NYCCouncil
, we aren't living with COVID. We are living with constant illness, disability and death. Here are 11 ways you can help all New Yorkers gain more equitable access to the city.
#CripTheVote
#HighRiskCovid19
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@VT_Vagabond
@Uber
I then take a screen shot in case someone arrives and doesn't follow through. Uber will take your side & refund the cancellation fee if it's obvious the driver didn't hold up their end of the agreement. So far that has not happened & everyone* came already masked & chill about it
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Hey
@JetBlue
, can you please explain why? Many people need this as an accommodation for disabilities and other small battery powered personal devices, like laptops, can be used.
@EssJay919
You can take your personal air purifier in a carry-on bag. However, you cannot use it while onboard the aircraft, and it must be in an "OFF" position.
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According to the latest CDC data, people with disabilities are 1.6x more likely to get Long COVID & 7x more likely to develop severe Long COVID.
If you are hosting a disability event without universal masking, you should seriously consider the harm you are doing. If you are
WHO statement on long Covid/“post Covid condition”
“An estimated one in 10 infections results in post Covid condition suggesting that hundreds of millions of people will need longer term care”
Hundreds of millions 😟
Not one in 10 people
One in 10 infections 😳
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@luckytran
Btw I would find it hard to believe more than 5% of employees in these states are masking right now so this is just targeted harassment of people with disabilities and chronic illness.
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@ModelAyshaMirza
P.S. you are such a boss! I wonder what would happen if you just handed them out to everyone around you without asking like Oprah …. And you get a mask! And you, and you, and you!
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If you have an disability on the CDC's COVID risk list you can get an exemption to this type of policy under the ADA. Businesses must provide a reasonable accommodation that allows you to shop there without unmasking if it would not be safe for you to do so.
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@dianaberrent
Have you considered what might be a risk to other people in the space in case you're asymptomatic? Personally, I mask indoors primarily for me but also to avoid harming other high-risk people.
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And just a reminder that you don't need your local elected official to tell you to do the right thing. Wearing a mask for an Uber or taxi ride, or on public transit, is the least you can do to show a little care for fellow humans who have to be in that space with you.
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@MayoClinic
@MLevantovskaya
High risk patients and staff (unless you're outright saying you don't hire disabled people?) need access to all the same areas as every other human. We're people, not magical unicorns.
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In a sea of bad policy and even worse messaging,
@HSpecialSurgery
is a shining light. Thank you for keeping me and other patients safe!
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If you are not offering COVID safe options for customers at your place if business you are 1) leaving money on the table and 2) discriminating against disabled people. 87% of people in a received poll agreed with businesses that require masks.
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This trend should be: Y'all masking AND are y'all single, so much 🔥 🤣
Here's me, safe and sound at the Childish Gambino release party in NYC.
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The real issue is a failure to adapt to a changed world. Compromising on indoor dining doesn't make the activity safer and is altogether unnecessary when the key aspects of restaurant dining can be experienced more safely outdoors: great food & great company.
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@DontVoteSplit
@MalakaGharib
Seriously. If he became a quadriplegic, would she be upset about him not going to restaurants up stairs or just move on and eat at the accessible ones?
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People who are strongly opposed to masking won't have to mask because they'll still have access to the majority of hours and performances.
This doesn't need to be an all or nothing decision.
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@DrLeanaWen
Why are masks a "restriction?" When everyone was masking there were more places I could safely go as
#HighRiskCovid19
. Now not so much. If anything, they are tools of freedom as they keep ppl free from a disease, which at best sidelines them for a few days & at worst kills.
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@Sia
@HelenAngel
@EmilyPember
@supportingsia
@Kris10Parisi
@autisticbruce
@Variety
@dominickevans
Maybe you should watch her audition before you judge it? FURY.
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COVID is a virus. It doesn't care about feelings but it does respond to physics.
#WearAMask
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@germfreegangsta
@DrSinBin
@luckytran
But then you can only wear THEIR N95. Nice to see they admit N95's work but don't want people to wear voluntarily.
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While film plays in the make believe, the pandemic, unfortunately, drums on IRL.
#COVID
safety, having fun, and producing at the highest level aren't mutually exclusive! Here's how I kept my set for my
@DisabilityChall
film COVID-safer🧵
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@BeingCharisBlog
@babs_zone
There is no legally documented "right" to not wear any item of safety equipment that the employer requires to be worn in any circumstance. If the staff person has a legitimate ADA accommodation need to not wear a mask then they can grant an alternate accommodation, like...
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I wear a mask to protect myself, but also to avoid any possibility of being part of the chain of transmission that eventually causes this level of heartbreak.
A THREAD 🧵
My 4 year old niece will be taken off ventilator tomorrow and put to rest after a short fight with Covid in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). She died as a result of medical negligence. Let me tell you the story in the following thread: /1
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@mandatemasksus
@MassGenBrigham
They're really letting their clown flag fly... So no one needs to wear a mask but if you choose to wear your own they need to make sure it's effective? Wut?
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@DontVoteSplit
@MalakaGharib
I've been physically disabled my whole life. At no point am I sad that I can't do something because of my disability. If I can't do something it's not because my needs are weird or abnormal, it's that society hasn't made the appropriate adaptations in all spaces.
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Remember, this is not a law. There is no city or state order that requires you to take off your mask for any length of time.
It will also do absolutely nothing to stop crime.
“We are putting out a clear call to all of our shops: Do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face mask," NYC Mayor Eric Adams said
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@maxwellhallel
This is unacceptable, but honestly, it sounds like you dodged a bullet. I wouldn't trust someone this ignorant with my medical care.
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@MayoClinic
What is your alternative plan to ensure patients don't get a COVID in the hospital and what will you do for them and their families if they develop Long COVID or die from seeking care in your facilities? Same question for staff
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@ProfesoraLMO
Also, just put it on, don't ask. Asking just puts the other person in an awkward position.
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212-COVID19
NYC will provide:
1) free hotel
2) free testing
3) free food delivery
4) and apparently someone can even come walk your dog for free
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.
@NYCMayor
, those of us needing to wear masks for health reasons need to wear them in all indoor settings specifically *because* your policies have failed to make those spaces safe.
If you cared about making anyone actually safer, you'd be telling people to N95 mask.
"I'm a strong supporter of the decision of stopping of masks on our subway system, masks in protest, and masks in other areas where it's not health related."
@NYCMayor
you can get COVID everywhere. EVERYWHERE is health-related. A mask ban doesn't make sense.
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Is
@TwitterSupport
suppressing accounts advocating for safety in a very much ongoing deadly and disabling pandemic? Saw nothing on
@MandateMasksNY
that violates any
@Policy
/ TOS.
@elonmusk
, thought you wanted all points of view to coexist on the platform?
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but masks are medical devices. Stop dragging them into politics.
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Please consider that many people who are high risk have invisible disabilities and there are many high risk people around you in public places.
@nycHealthy
, you should be telling people to more than "consider" masking.
COVID-19 cases have been increasing in NYC. Consider wearing a mask, especially in crowded indoor settings and particularly if you are over 65 or have a medical condition that puts you at risk for severe COVID-19, or are around others who are:
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@1goodtern
Because the unions worked with excellent actual experts to put together common sense layered precautions
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@kbrown65807
@PeoplesCDC
The ADA applies to all workplaces, the main difference being you do have to provide medical documentation if requested. Disclaimer: not a lawyer. Would love to see
@PeoplesCDC
do a session on workplace accommodations.
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@germfreegangsta
@DrSinBin
@luckytran
Are they paying for these employees to get fit tested? Because all N95's don't fit all face types.
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@kiknack
This response is not it. The comments on the photo were anything but divided. Everyone was saying the same thing.
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@RDAFreeThinker
@kalo18
@davidaxelrod
@JohnJHarwood
This. I feel way more inconvenienced that I have to measure liquids to the milliliter than by wearing a mask.
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Why would one of these items make me too hard to recognize and not the other?
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Like seriously, we are all mad but save your consternation for the medical "professionals" who refuse to mask in hospitals and the moral deficit political operatives who told them it's fine.
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This is not okay. There is no valid reason why people cannot keep wearing masks in hospitals after doing it for three years.
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@luckytran
@MetOpera
Not only should they take this down but they should make one performance per show mask required so that everyone has the opportunity to attend even if they are at higher risk for COVID-19
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@makeupartist524
🙌 I too realized that a pretty serious health issue I experienced was post-viral, and I feel so much the part about protecting people.
I went to elementary school with kids with complex medical needs and was constantly going to wakes for kids who would die from post-viral
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@luckytran
Nothing can be mandatory... Like taking off shoes to fly because one guy failed at terrorism 20 years ago?
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It's amazing to me that you need to go to a hardware store and not a pharmacy to get an N95 mask in the center of NYC when
@CDCgov
guidelines call for masking with a well fitting mask when positive or exposed and
@nycHealthy
recommends respirators. These are healthcare products.
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If you are concerned about 5 people in a submarine, just know you can personally save the lives of 5 people by masking, testing, and staying home when sick.
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@NYCHealthCommr
But wouldn't it be better if people did the thing that actually prevents getting it altogether? Like wearing high quality masks in public indoor settings where it's easy to do so?
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Long COVID is not just something that makes you disabled and you can merrily go on with life. It is a deadly condition in its own right.
🚨“More than 5000 Americans have died from long COVID since the start of the pandemic, according to new estimates from the CDC.” And it’s an undercount!
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@corgeousgeorge
Here in NYC a few venues have done it successfully. Certain nights/matinées are mask required, others are not.
I agree that it would be safer for everyone for masks to be required for all venues 100% of the time, but in lieu of that, need at least some options that are inclusive
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My only known close contact with COVID in the past year was with a physical therapist who tested positive the evening of my appointment. I didn't catch it because masks saved my
#HighRiskCovid19
life.
#KeepMasksInHealthCare
#KeepMasksInHealthcareNY
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If any store refuses to provide a reasonable accommodation, you can and should file a legal discrimination complaint. They will have to spend thousands on lawyers to defend it, which should quickly put an end to this nonsensical idea.
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@LindseyBoylan
@united
@USDOT
Replacing a custom wheelchair is not nearly in the same stratosphere as replacing a suitcase of clothes, yet the two are treated essentially the same. It’s also time for planes to be manufactured in a way that allows wheelchair users to fly in their own chairs.
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@DrLeanaWen
@JoannaInNY_MPH
Would you say the same about smoking? Second hand smoke impacts others around you. If COVID was only a personal ailment, okay cool, but it's a highly contagious disease so each person's choices impact others
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@DisabledRedHead
@DisabilityChall
@ericthetall1
@maysoonzayid
@TogetherWeMask
@nicnovicki
@Shash214
@friendlycovid19
@anitahollander
@MsJulieSLam
Thanks! To be fair, a lot of productions do similar things but don't talk about it publicly. I think shining a light on it is important to help others see that being safe isn't a big burden.
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@thesteveway
True story: I got denied and had to pay out of pocket because I weighed too little for my chair. No minimum weight limit, just insurance being greedy. The fact that a smaller model would tip over the second I leaned on it with full CP force was irrelevant to them.
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@KassyDillon
Crowded outdoor situations still can be a transmission risk, albeit less than indoors.
It's winter in the U.S. and I find it's a great way to keep my face toasty and protect my respiratory system from the cold air, which is an asthma trigger for me.
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My Uber driver arrived masked and playing Biggie. Can I give 10 stars?
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This is why you're only seeing minimizers platformed on TV.
Was recently asked to do a TV thing, 4 hours, in studio.
Asked about ventilation in studio, they said they didn’t know.
Asked if studio crew could wear masks, they said no, not required to.
Asked if I could wear a mask, they said no.
So anyway I didn’t do the TV thing.
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@JumaaneWilliams
@NYPDnews
Are you aware that COVID is airborne and can absolutely spread by unmasking for even a few seconds?
And that asking people who need to mask for medical reasons to not wear one is an ADA violation?
No? Now you know.
You're welcome to check out my full face on social media
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@bumblebuzz6
A friend had the same experience and just tested positive for COVID. Possible to have both at the same time
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@VT_Vagabond
@Uber
*except one guy who came masked but then tried to eat a whole meal in the middle of the ride, but you can't filter out all stupid.
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@MeetJess
I'm getting triggered because all the obviously hot and smart men seem to be in Canada and I am not
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Though it should be year-round, very happy that NYC outdoor dining is permanent.
Not once in 3 years have I had to make half the restaurant get up so I could get to my seat.
Not once have I been told there's no room for my chair.
Not only is it safer, it's more ♿ friendly too
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