25 (She/Her) GenZennial Pop Culture + Beauty Writer Mailing masks across the Mid-South region 💌
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.me if you need masks!
4.45 🚨STILL NEEDED 🚨 Almost done for today, thank y'all so much 🙇🏾♀️ Who's got .45 cents?
Black disabled parent w/ long COVID & baby needs 476 by Oct. 16th to for an overdue utility b i l l or power WILL BE CUT!
C: $patrondefille V: patron-defille For: "Bills"❤️🩹
Ok I thought I was making this up but I feel too many people who vape have a noticeable lack of etiquette that people who smoke cigs are way more mindful about 😭
not to be a narc or anything but smoking is banned indoors for a reason. there could be people with respiratory issues in that restaurant, you can put your vape away for an hour
I know I'm not well-read, but going off the knowledge that the US as a state is literally never on the right side of history has never steered me wrong.
cleaners, janitors, sanitation workers, people that maintain cleanliness and safety of spaces are valuable to the wellbeing of society. rightfully they should be held in high regard
Bird flu is literally in NYC parks, a virus that even the CDC explicitly says requires EYE PROTECTION and RESPIRATORY PROTECTION to stay safe. God forbid ppl don't want ash in their eyes either! No amount of language will change the fact that a mask ban will kill people.
He also said the bill is meant to target full-face coverings, distinguishing those from COVID/health-related masks, which only cover the nose and mouth.
"What this is focused on is wearing a mask that totally covers your face, except your eyes," Dinowitz said.
Idk how to articulate this, but I think this is what makes everything so wild for me because she was ready to just slide right into their system and not actually challenge anything and basically be a token but their own racism got in the way 💀
Meghan really said it was important that the black girls from Africa see her in a racist institution that is responsible for 99.9999% of their problems.
Am s c r I m m I n g
Watching people pearl clutch over that lady posting Jonah Hill's texts when people were LITERALLY talking about "needing evidence" of abuse from the two women who spoke out against Majors and Huerta is something...
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@SinQ95
We shouldn’t be applauding men going 40+ years of not respecting women until they claim ownership of one?? That’s not something good??
It's very disorienting?? seeing "leftists" gleefully laughing off COVID when people are literally being forced to work while recovering from COVID which is 1) THE fastest way to develop long COVID and 2) a literal workplace safety hazard?? Why aren't things clicking??
A lot of "whataboutism" ends up just being able-bodied people not remembering disabled people exist, being reminded that disabled people do exist, and then trying to spin their embarrassment at being corrected into some testament to society's moral failing vs being more mindful.
Finally, catching up on mask requests and will work on a June thread! In the meantime, is offering 50% off non-promo/non-discounted items w/ the code "Summer50" and shipping (in the US at least) is always free 🤿
I don’t know who needs to hear this but a virus can most certainly cause disability. Any virus, not just COVID, can cause damage to your body. Public health is nonexistent now. Please care for your health because the government sure doesn’t.
(🧵) If you're COVID-cautious, not hurting financially, but don't have the energy (or desire) to try and educate people around you on COVID's harm, do your part in ending the pandemic by donating to a mask bloc doing the work for you 👇🏾
#GivingTuesday
I am not exaggerating when I say people are online DAILY asking for tips on how to "safely" starve and dehydrate themselves so they don't have to break their mask seals at work because taking it off means being infected and they can't risk another or any infection.
The thing is with covid, it DOES have to be this extreme “all or nothing” approach, because the rest of y’all are doing nothing, while we have to overcompensate and do everything. We have to be perfect and strict about our precautions because it literally means life or death
The "young people don't need to worry about COVID" shtick needs to die for a # of VERY OBVIOUS reasons, but public health officials pretending that "young people" live in vacuums and not with elderly relatives in their homes and old people in their communities is so ghoulish.
I don't even like bringing up the fact that anyone can be and will be disabled at some point to get people to care about "disabled issues" because it should just be enough to care about people not being harmed. ESPECIALLY when you can mitigate that harm to some degree.
Colonial forces like the US and Israel have historically weaponized sickness to commit genocide, and they're still doing that with COVID. Anyone who says they care about liberation and decolonization shouldn't feel fine carrying out that legacy by carelessly spreading COVID.
I'm getting tired of people making my COVID precautions a problem that I'M DOING to MYSELF and not me just responding to their own behavior which they could easily change if it hurts so bad to see me masking so stringently.
If you're taking an at-home rapid antigen test, swab your throat, roof of mouth, inner cheeks, and nose to get more accurate results! Don't just swab your nose despite the test only asking you to swab your nose!
Swabbing correctly for
#COVID19
? Most are not.
@IamKGB
tests—
1) VERY POS—back of throat, cheeks, roof of mouth & both nasopharyngeal w swab held in place for 10s.
2) NEG—outside portion of nostrils
3) NEG—anterior nares/nasal septum
4) FAINT POS—throat & cheeks
5) Repeated
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I used to mince words, but now that I've officially quit M4RS, I want to say that any organization that does not proactively practice COVID precautions and pay attention to COVID safety is not about to be liberating anybody.
Alright, who's going to teach the rest of us how to electrostatically charge our own fabric for masks now that these mask distributors keep packing up 😭
This is exactly what played out in my area's socialist org that made me pack up my shit and bounce🤷🏾♀️
Was told verbatim that it didn't make sense to enforce masking when "nobody else does" and that it "wouldn't do anything about the spread of disease" 😭
At this point I think most people on the left are fully aware of covid, its consequences and that they should be masked up.
I think they are intentionally ignoring the ppl talking about it because they feel fine that so many others are doing the same. They are comfortable.
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It's not supposed to be funny, but people being written off as "crazy" for the levels of care they're taking to avoid COVID infections is funny because "mentally ill" people are literally high-risk.
Idk how people who were keeping up to date with COVID info suddenly decide they're tired of avoiding COVID and then completely drop all precautions because, me personally, every newer variant seems worse to get 😭
We can't even attend your fucking meetings without risking being infected by a disease that has MASS AMOUNTS of people intolerant to having the lights on in their own bedrooms because you bitches won't put a piece of fabric on your faces.
CW for a the body of a dead child //
Hey, if you're on Twitter right now and see a tweet from @/ehajjarr that starts like this, please brace yourself when reading and scroll carefully. It's the body of a dead child hung up on the wall of what looks like a house.
It's why I typically only use "COVID-safe" first and then maybe "COVID-informed." "COVID cautious" and "COVID conscious" feels like I'm framing basic safety against a literal biohazard as a personal problem IMO 😭
Even if I have to cry through it, I'll be damned if I let my own peers in progressive spaces gaslight me over giving a fuck about taking action against a biosafety level 3 virus infecting us and our community
I am honest to god tired of family trying to talk to me about when I'm ready to "move on from COVID" instead of asking for exactly wtf I'm seeing that has me "doubling down" so hard!!
Layla is one of the Columbia students who was attacked with a chemical weapon by a former IOF soldier during a pro-Palestine protest.
They're going to have to throw away too many of their items because the chemicals can't be washed off. Please send $$
almost 96 hours since I was sprayed w/ skunk on campus: skin is still burning. very dizzy and nauseous.
turned in items for police evidence & having to throw away the rest. i finally got 6 hours of sleep. skunk water sticks to any fabric & cannot be washed out.
Do not have the energy to find a non-white, COVID-safe, and ADHD-informed therapist so I will simply be printing pages of Black feminist theory and pushing them up my nose to my brain or whatever ancient Egyptians used to do.
Tired of how people taking COVID precautions are harassed for literally actively doing everyone around us a major favor. God forbid you clean the air for your coworkers.
my coworkers were being super annoying making jokes about me turning a Hepa filter on and about my mask and I was like 1) you’re not funny 2) at least I’m not rawdogging dirty air 3) shut up and they did :) please clap
But that might be me still not being over the last mutual aid distro I did for a socialist org I used to be in where one of the white people I was working with blew their vapor (?) right at me while I was the only person masked 🧍🏾♀️