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"patient refused to take temp" okay why did the nurse have to use the word "refused"? i *requested* not to take my temp. i said "is it okay if we skip that today?" and she said "oh yeah sure!". the word "refused" has a specific meaning and connotation....
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"we can't be in a dystopia, everyone's just living normal lives" my guy, that's what a dystopia is. you're all living the same lives. anyways, most people in a dystopia don't recognize it. that's why it's always one or a few characters against the whole world.
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the whole "people's eyes glaze over when you mention covid" isn't confirmation bias btw. i grew up in an abusive home and i know what unspoken tension feels like. i know how people react to uncomfortable topics.
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the way that the former director of the cdc got covid and then went absent for a long time and covid conscious people were like "uhhhh what if she got long covid" and then one day she just left her position and disappeared from the world....
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i need you all to understand that getting vaccinated 2+ years ago and walking around breathing in completely unfiltered (and usually unventilated) air is like descending 4000m into the ocean using a machine designed to only go down to 1300m.
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unfriendly reminder that, by default, "people" includes "disabled people". another reminder: you don't know who is disabled or who is nondisabled. another one: disabled people exist everywhere, in every group, in every city, in every profession and hobby.
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friendly reminder that "the rich are masking" doesn't refer to most people that we call "rich" like celebrities--it applies mostly to the absurdly and unimaginably *wealthy* people who live in a separate world entirely as far as buildings they enter regularly.
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"Depression Screening Findings: Negative"
"Follow-Up for Depression: Patient refused intervention"
HELLO? HELLO? HELLO? I DID NOT REFUSE JACK SHIT? NO INTERVENTION WAS OFFERED AND ALSO YOUR OWN SCREENING SAYS IT ISN'T NEEDED?????
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do most people understand what civilizational collapses are? do they understand the scale of it? are they incapable of processing the fact that they're unlikely to survive so they either mentally assume it won't be a big deal or that it won't happen at all?
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the "uncomfortable silence" and avoidance of the topic when i bring up covid is the same kind of response i get when i have an argument with someone abusive and they KNOW they're wrong but can't admit it. their mental models of the world cannot allow for them to acknowledge it.
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i can't read social cues well because of AuDHD, but i can definitely tell when i've said or done something that is considered conventionally inappropriate. and wearing a mask, mentioning masks, mentioning covid, etc. trigger that kind of social response.
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people are genuinely glad for and appreciating and enjoying 75+ and even 85+ fahrenheit temperatures in the northern us IN THE FIRST WEEK OF OCTOBER. i know that the human brain has a lot of biases and cognitive shortcuts, but dear god, how can they not see this is a catastrophe?
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like that's the entire thing about dystopias. everyone living in them is so convinced that it has always been this way, will always be this way, is best this way, cannot change from this way, etc. most people can't perceive the dystopia. "wouldn't we all know it" NO!!!!
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when i was a kid, i wasn't allowed to interact with newborns for the first few weeks or months (i forgot how long) even once the newborns were out of the hospital--because everyone understood that children had a high exposure rate and newborns were at high risk once exposed.
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here's my theory/explanation: when someone's perception of reality is challenged, they have to at least *think* about their whole reality and how this challenge affects that. and this requires a lot of cognitive processing. if it shifts their reality, it's even more intense.
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"facial acne, mask on face" lmfao *sir*
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to say or imply that covid is a direct threat to their health and life NOW, that they are endangering themselves and others NOW, is to directly challenge an entire reality. it is to challenge thousands of media stories, political speeches, etc.
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once the propaganda started encouraging liberals to stop staying home and to stop masking--with a LOT of misinformation about vaccines being magical preventions and omicron being mild--it fell into place with the "not eating out and partying constantly is a tremendous sacrifice".
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i'm young, but i'm old enough to remember when 100F+ realfeel temps in July and August in the northern US were apocalyptic. now they're happening on the first three days of June and i haven't heard a peep from anyone about it. normalization bias is SO terrifyingly strong.
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it's not just that propaganda convinced people that covid isn't a threat; it convinced people that protecting ourselves and each other from covid is a threat. they convinced us that protecting ourselves from covid is terrible. they caused trauma that shouldn't have existed.
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rapid organizing? rapid news? adhesive communities? byebye. a billionaire fascist said you cant do that anymore.
He spent $44 billion on this site just to tell people not to use it
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"she didn't have covid! she had pneumonia!" pneumonia is a symptom, not a disease. please be serious about this. she had to have SOMETHING that caused the pneumonia.
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and most humans aren't prepared to do that. so their eyes will glaze over. they'll get uncomfortable. they'll nod along and quickly forget about it. they'll admit you're right but not act on it. they'll get mad at you, they'll get upset consciously or subconsciously.
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we thought covid would likely kill us with one infection. no one warned us about long covid; when they did, someone else told us it was rare or mild or that it wouldn't affect us for some other reason. we were told vaccines prevent everything bad.
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but you can't convince them, with just one of those things, to start protecting themselves and others from covid. even if you convince them of all of those things...they still have to synthesize it together and completely, radically, fundamentally change their REALITY.
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and most people aren't prepared to think about their perception of reality, much less to shift it. during the stay-home executive orders in 2020, the consciousness of liberal thought/rhetoric was "we're going to die if we don't protect each other" and "lockdowns are sacrifices".
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you can prove that covid is airborne, but that won't change their mind about covid today. you can prove covid affects every part of the body. you can prove vaccines and infections don't give long-term immunity. you can prove long covid is common and likely inevitable.
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"if covid was still a threat, why aren't we all dying" it was never going to kill every single person with the first infection, though. they made us think that, but it wasn't true. "why aren't hospitals being overwhelmed" they very clearly ARE overwhelmed; you just don't see it.
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someone commented on this thread with the word "taboo". i think that's perfect. things that are taboo are things that aren't just "bad"; it is bad to mention it, to think about it. it is like touching a cactus: it pricks you. it is *physically uncomfortable* to bring it up.
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remember when there were so many fires in California that people were wearing N95 masks and buying home air filters and the sky was a red haze?
because now there's fires like that all over and no one's masking or filtering the air or talking about or even mentioning it.
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sometimes i forget that most of the US did not grow up with an older brother who smokes. i've always heard "it lingers in the air like smoke" about covid and vividly remembered the way that my brother could smoke outside, wait an hour, and go to the bathroom--and i'd smell it.
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they made us perceive stay at home orders as worse than they were, and they misrepresented the threat. so when they lied and said the threat went away, people were *so* ecstatic to ditch protections. propaganda didn't just convince us covid isn't a threat; it made covid TABOO.
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we were told masks and staying at home was great big sacrifices that mean so much and are so terrible. they told us a million lies about covid.
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are "covid conscious" people conscious of the fact that wastewater data in the US has become less and less reliable this year? more and more sites have stopped measuring and/or reporting wastewater data.
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three years ago, you believed masks could protect you and others from airborne viruses and that you and everyone else had a moral duty to protect the vulnerable. what do you believe NOW? what are you DOING now?
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you're so deep in dystopia that you don't even realize how bad things have gotten. the temperature is SO much hotter, the air is so smoky, you've abandoned your own moral beliefs. @ democrats: you're indistinguishable from republicans in 2020.
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to clarify about misrepresenting the threat: they made it seem like a one-and-done deal. you get covid once and you have a high risk of dying, but after that, you're good. but the threat was *always* the long-term compounding risk and cumulative damage of a literal SARS virus.
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so when propaganda said covid is "mild" now, and not *everyone* died, liberals thought it was true that covid is mild now. but it still kills a MINIMUM of 1000 people PER WEEK *just in the US*. it gives long-term health issues to tens of thousands more.
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"why don't i know anyone with long covid" how many people are you close enough with to know every time they have a health issue? less than 100? even with 100 close friends/family, long covid will get between 10 and 30 of them per infection.
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everyone has been so *hammered* by news about covid not being a threat and "lockdowns" causing damage and "allergies" causing damage and "colds" causing severe damage that most people with long covid probably don't even think they have it!!!!!
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then i watched my friends go from "we have to wear cloth masks to protect each other from this airborne virus" to "well if you refuse to hang out unmasked then we can't hang out" and i thought "holy FUCK the normalization bias is so terrifying".
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also just to clarify: i'm not saying people who ignore covid are abusive. i'm saying that abusers' response to being called out/having their pretend-world challenged is similar to what cognitive dissonance looks like.
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i guess people really think that if a dystopia was real, they wouldn't have to think about it too hard in order to recognize it? but every media ever is extremely clear: in dystopias, no one is thinking very hard!!!
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interested souls, please DM me about collaboration on an independent site for covid consciousness. everyone else, please retweet and boost this. there are more details in the rest of this thread (it is very relevant info, it will save me spoons if you read it first):
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conveniently left out is "they got all their work done, and they're healthier"
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murder is bad, but we don't react when we hear people talk about murder. if we talk about pedophilia, though, most of us will probably react. have you ever heard someone mention menstruating around cishet men? the PHYSICAL REACTION is like you just stuck crap under their nose.
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it's not just that they're not looking for the patterns; propaganda has completely shifted their perception of reality that there is no pattern for them to see.
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10 people you're close with and spend lots of time with? 1-3 people per infection. the younger you are, whiter you are, higher income you are--the lower that number is gonna go. when i say "close", i mean, "they feel a little bit weird and they tell me about it".
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so many people are missing the point. she could have written "patient requested not to take temp" or "patient skipped recording temp". the word "refused" is not just a legal word with a meaning that us patients are too uneducated to understand--it prejudices doctors against us.
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i watched my parents go from saying "trump is better than clinton because she wouldn't concede" to saying "it's a good thing he stoked the flames until his supporters broke into the Capitol and tried to hang Pence" and i thought "damn the normalization bias is terrifying".
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SO many people thought the threat was short-term and universal. studies show that liberals in 2020 thought there was over 30% chance of them dying from an infection. it was only ever estimated as high as 5%, and now it's like...0.5% or something i think?
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you know, no one EVER explained in school what the immune system is or how it works, or what a viral or bacterial infection is and how they work....is that why they're getting away with this herd/hybrid immunity and immunity debt bullshit? no one knows basic facts about it?
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@Imani_Barbarin
"we're already there" intellectually i agree but emotionally that is so chilling to hear
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what's that term? bait-and-switch?
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please retweet this. i think that this is actually a really good point. "wouldn't the government have let us know--" is such a common response and the answer is NO THEY WOULDN'T.
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it's actually kind of frustrating that this throwaway thread with throwaway comments is going big, and not any of the more important threads i've tweeted lmao.
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i want to clarify that if you can mask but choose not to; if you can relax in a normal way but choose to vacation on a beach with other people; you are not an ally for people who are still coviding/at high risk from covid...because we can't safely interact with you.
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if i made a site for covid conscious people to share art, share thoughts, chat, virtually hang out, videogame, do watch parties, who'd be interested? and how would i do that, even if my symptoms allowed me to?
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the more i listen to what other disabled people were saying in january-march 2020, the more i'm astounded by claims that we thought it was just a lung disease back then. i knew, just from reading mainstream media, that the case reports were clear: it was *everywhere* in bodies.
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hey hi hello so not only is it now commonly accepted by researchers that covid affects the immune system, but the LITERATURE is starting to refer to it as Acquired Immunodefiency? AIDS? can i get an apology from everyone who said it was fear-mongering to be concerned?
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in true civilizational crises, none of us are likely to be survivors. when the western US runs out of water, the people in the west wont have some special quality that will allow them to not be Refugees with all that entails.
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i had a similar thought yesterday about fascists, genocides, and anti-fascists. i am disabled and queer and i do not have the luxury of waiting until after fascists systemically exterminate millions of americans to start fighting back--because i'll be in the first 1 or 2 million.
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all of these "we increasingly understand that covid affects the whole body" articles astound me because i was reading mainstream media articles in April 2020 about doctors who were terrified/confounded because covid was in all the blood vessels 🫠
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when the central US experiences severe prolonged droughts and most of the US experiences true famine....we're not gonna have some special quality that gets us at the top of humanitarian aid lists (not that it would save us anyways).
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@EclecticRadical
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yeah they messed up Zack, and sometimes even Brennan too. but overall, she is suuuuuch good autistic representation. i feel like season one even framed the entire show through an autistic or neurodiversity-paradigm lens. we were laughing with her, not at her!
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i got sick BEFORE i stopped exercising. i got sick BEFORE i stopped exercising. i got sick BEFORE i stopped exercising. when i stopped exercising, my symptoms decelerated. when i started exercising again, multiple times, my symptoms accelerated. THAT IS NOT DECONDITIONING.
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and none of us--especially on covid twitter--are likely to be one of the few survivors. so we can't wait until the collapse happens to organize and fight because we won't be alive enough to do so.
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when lethal, 45C+ heat bakes large swaths of the US for weeks at a time, and plants and animals die and water dries up, there's not gonna be somewhere we can go to hide from the suffering. large amounts of people will die.
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remember when a bunch of people who know how big sites work predicted that the system wouldn't be able to handle people *using* it, and that it was only a matter of time??? this is probably what's happening right now, and he's using a crappy excuse to cover it up.
Elon Musk says unverified users will be limited to reading 600 tweets per day, verified users up to 6,000 tweets per day
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"just wear a mask and stay home" ok but disabled teenagers with long covid are being involuntarily institutionalized and it'll only become more common and eventually someone will die because of this so i will be as angry and fight as hard as i need to
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with wet bulb temperatures of 87F, the average young adult healthy human body sitting down in the shade drinking lots of water *cannot cool itself down* and the core body temperature will reach fatal temperatures in about six hours. (this is different from wet bulb GLOBE temps).
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a lot of people think that us all saying "that's a sign of long covid" is just confirmation bias, but here's the thing: some of us predicted what long covid would do (based on the large amounts of evidence at the time) in 2020 and 2021--before the signs appeared.
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sorry for putting this in your feeds, but idk what's worse: excluding short-range transmission and severity of hazard from risk assessments, going on a colonial vacation, doing submarine tourism, or only talking about this after being outed as a quasi-zero-covider....
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@eofallthings
counterpoint: we have this consciousness in order to do something about it, but instead we're using it to watch the fires :/
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i am once again thinking of the tweet i saw sometime in the last two years that doctors aren't aware they have significantly larger patient lists because they still see the same number of patients in a day--they don't schedule appointments, so they don't know the waitlist length.
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@GangstHannah
i always got big Jerk vibes watching other streamers play with him but i think now i gotta completely stop watching most the streamers that i watch. i don't follow any of them on here so i didn't realize how bad it was.
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what the hell is your issue with people with brain damage? @ "covid conscious people". it is not a moral flaw. it is a disability. it changes the way your brain works; it does not make you evil or despicable or undesirable.
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what the FUCK happened to society???? (oh. yeah. propaganda. because the billionaire's plan to survive climate change is to allow climate change to *massively* depopulate the earth. we're doing their genocide for them, against ourselves and each other.)
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i find it interesting that the argument against covid protections used to be "we have to get back to normal" and now the argument is "everyone's acting like we're back to normal". like it is genuinely SO circular. they use their own ignorance to justify continued ignorance.
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i will never not be mad that we've turned streaming (watch anything at any time in one place for a small price) into cable but worse (everything is on a different site and you have to pay for each site AND watch ads/commercials + streaming sites *delete* entire shows for taxes).
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the media/government flipped a switch and most people radically changed their beliefs about covid *very* quickly. i knew there were intense psychological and sociological tendencies to follow what The Authorities and Your People say...but holy FUCK. this was SO drastic.
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can we talk about how american society now views the experience and expression of any negative emotions to be mental illness? and how oppression causes negative emotions in the oppressed? and how experiencing negative emotions only justifies oppression in fascist minds?
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why are y'all angry. this was not meant to prove that the statement is true, it was just to point out that pointing to unmasked celebrities is not proof that the statement is false.
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people who aren't healthy are generally better at health stuff because most healthy people are only healthy due to luck. unhealthy people grt a lot more practice with actually managing their health.
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@miraisandrist
capitalism is dystopian, yeah. this can be both regular capital and a dystopia.
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i actually feel very uncomfortable with the way the US media didn't care about wildfire smoke when it came from alberta into the midwest, but now that it's in the midwest AND the northeast, everyone's talking about it.
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"everything has a risk" but not everything has a possible or likely probability of a catastrophic hazard. not everything has the same risk as swallowing uranium or breathing in ebola or sars....or sars2.
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the news on BA.2.86 sounds like January/February in 2020. "a handful of cases have appeared in several countries, and those cases have no known connection + had not recently travelled. we have no idea how far spread it is, but it is out of containment."
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if anyone tweeted in the last 9 months that major American cities would be underwater a lot sooner than the 2050s like most climate videos say....how many replies did you get saying that you're fear-mongering et cetera because that could never happen/climate change isn't real?
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the terrifying thing about this increase in covid hospitalizations is that they've significantly decreased testing and reporting. a LOT of hospitals are not testing patients unless their condition is serious + respiratory, and so many hospitals aren't reporting that anyways.
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are you claiming that respirators/masks, after decades of engineering and testing, are not effective at doing what they're designed for? or are you claiming that lots of people use them in ways that make them ineffective? because the second claim has a solution: EDUCATION!!!!!!!
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did "the boy who cried wolf" really lie any of those times? or did the villagers simply scare off the wolf when they ran to help? or did the boy cry wolf because he saw prints or saw it stalking, and the villagers weren't as perceptive? did the villagers REALLY check?
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when i wear a mask because i'm at high risk from the common cold--and much higher risk from covid--people treat me like shit and yell at me.
when people dont wear a mask and cough directly on me, i dont say a word.
tell me which of us wants to "violate people's rights"????????
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i need you to understand that "fall by the wayside" means "discarded along the side of a road". it does not literally mean "be thrown into the ditch" as a wayside and a ditch are a bit different, but that is essentially what it means. that is what Fauci does to vulnerable people.
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it was SO NORMAL to lose months or *years* to illnesses before modern public health--which only cleans the food and water, where most diseases have come from historically. it hasn't been normal to be sick so often and so long since this era....but now we have AIRBORNE viruses.
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idk who needs to hear this, but you gotta separate illness and disability. they do not mean the same thing. saying "illness is bad" is not the same thing as saying "disability is bad" or "disability is a moral issue so if youre disabled youre bad".
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not only is this the highest-ever recorded level of covid in US wastewater at this time of year, it is also the first time it has been increasing at this time of year and it's the first time it's increased so soon after a 1000+ copies/mL surge.
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YOU'RE GONNA LOVE THE VIEW if you saw the white people hiking video and you're white and you didn't think it was hilarious please unfollow me immediately, that is exactly what my family does on hikes lmao
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so republicans have successfully convinced much of this country that because kids had a 5 month summer break instead of a 3 month break -- THREE YEARS AGO -- that's why kids are dying so much more often now than they did then?
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