@sofiabuffgf
@bloomfilters
also like how is genital preference DISCOURSE a thing. how is this not a private conversation between people considering having sex with each other
A CDC study found
surgical masks in indoor public settings cut the chance of contracting the coronavirus by 66%.
Higher-quality N95 or KN95 masks reduced the risk of infection by 83%.
A mask protects not only against the coronavirus but other respiratory viruses, too.
@AtlasStylinson
@sofiabuffgf
@bloomfilters
Oh, I’m sorry, that’s not what I meant. I meant it’s weird that people have made it like, a “debate” with normative takes, instead of a personal preference that varies from person to person.
This is for the "justice" organizers who infected me. This is for everybody left of center who stopped wearing masks. This is also for those of us who are being forced to live in a less safe world because of them, which is all of us.
#CovidIsntOver
@JoseMLuna
@mo_journeys
Actually, the Welsh town
@LGSMpride
supported was very open-minded about it! Mostly by sheer good luck. The town they chose just happened to have strong socialist internationalist tendencies.
Fuck it.
I’m already identifiable as the most radical for wearing a mask and I’m not showing up for community that won’t mask to protect me and others.
I don’t look cute here. I’m scared and in the A&E waiting room after Gender Rebels infected me. They gave me (Long) COVID.
lol the director of that choir that gave me Long COVID has me blocked on here. guess he doesn't like seeing me talk about the violence he and his friends inflicted on me in the name of leftism
@RealGayArbys
Same. I have had people say it is an acceptable “compromise” and that people need to cope with the horrors of capitalism by uhhhhhh going clubbing and indoor dining
“Back in my day, we didn’t have all these autism people and stuff!”
Back in your day, disabled people including children were basically incarcerated from the time they were born until they died, George…
Don’t Be Fooled.
Sitting In This Chair At Home Can Lead To Blood Clots, Cardiovascular Disease, And Diabetes. But It’s Totally Safe When You Sit In It In An Office.
One reason many disabled people are okay wearing masks is because we've had to deal with much worse. We want people to wear masks so they don't have to go through what many of us have, such as being intubated. Trust us when we tell you, wearing a mask is nothing compared to that.
People refusing to practice COVID risk mitigation measures including masking outside of their homes are severely negatively impacting the mental health of those of us living in reality wrt COVID
Thank you for saying this. I thought so too. And as your next tweet says, where are the majority of COVID safety advocates? Do Palestinian COVID deaths not matter? Do Palestinian Long Haulers not matter?
What Bisan describes sounds a lot like Covid. Combined with no real shelter, heat, or warm clothes; no medicine, not enough food; air & water poisoned by white phosphorous, more.
Politicians in the genocidal settler state have publicly called for disease to kill more than bombs.
I keep thinking about the former friends who tell me they don't like being called a eugenicist and I'm like I don't like you expecting me not to call you what you are
The people who reflexively deny that what’s happening is eugenics and social murder are themselves invested in eugenics-based values, they’re just not willing to investigate their own investment in these imposed value systems.
@x3r0gxx
Same. I was masked but less cautious before Long COVID not because I thought any one of the risky activities I was doing was worth Long COVID, but I thought the lifestyle I had before was worth the risk. I regret it a lot. I also needed to have one good friend who still cared
@samah_fadil
@vioIetdrip
@maysoonzayid
Y’all I am begging you to mask at events like this. That is also anti genocide action. As sheyam ghieth put it, we can’t do fuck all for Palestine if we’re all taken out by COVID.
You have to keep dining indoors for your mental health. Making other people bedbound is a reasonable compromise for socializing, which of course can only be done in indoor dining establishments.
@yesallcrops
Oh yeah. In England we lost access to PCR testing in 2021. The state and the interest it represents do not want us to get tested accurately, or at all.
@SaliWho
Yeah. One of my exes wore surgical masks through lockdown because it was what they had access to. I was jealous they could just buy that without a second thought when I was in cloth because of money.
@Chican3ry
It also places so much focus on language. Yes, trans women are women, but I don't think I'm alone in thinking that a lot of trans people's priorities are not language but access to HRT, employment, housing...and yeah language ties into that but shouldnt be so foregrounded
@Imani_Barbarin
Yeah with the decrease in lifespan we’re seeing from COVID I will be very surprised if I live as old as my great grandparents lived to be
@leahajk
@x3r0gxx
It’s so disappointing because
@johngreen
Green can say all the right things about everyone else AND how we left people with TB to rot and die is so similar to how we treat Long Haulers and those dying of COVID
Been thinking about this a lot about ppl who have given up bc they don’t feel it’s fair to stop going to pubs and clubs etc. do you not understand you are in danger? And I say this as someone who understood I was in danger but got worn down by ppl who ignored me
Realizing that a lot of people honestly do not understand that this pandemic will not automatically end on its own. If we do nothing to stop transmission, this can & will go on for so much longer. There's no rule that says viruses have to evolve to become milder. They often don't
How many ventilation/air filter systems has the government installed in schools/workplaces over the Xmas holidays? A responsible government would be doing everything it can to reduce the spread of COVID-19 (and other viruses) when people return to school/work.
@10DowningStreet
It is! I tried it a little bit—masked but not cutting ties with people who refused to mask and stop dining indoors because I didn’t want to be alone—and subsuming myself was in fact so bad for me and my mental health!
@Julie_AF_
I’m sorry. While I’m not a HCW I have had people I consider comrades and my classmates and teachers (people I was coerced by
@uniofeastanglia
into being around) all ignore COVID and it feels horrible. The moral injury is awful.
Today is the International Day Of Persons With Disabilities. Mask up to stop killing and further disabling us. Stop using disabled people committing the lateral ableism of choosing not to mask to justify the ableist violence of choosing not to mask.
@ChristianerLes
@Jo_W_11
I possibly have brain damage from one of my infections. I definitely have cognitive impairment.
It has slowed my processing speed. It has not made me dig in denial, nor has it made me incapable of making good moral choices or recognizing patterns.
@healingfromlc
That seems to have done the trick! Twitter is a functional webbed site 🫠
No worries if you do unfollow. I’m here for COVID cautious community because if I’d listened to the COVIDers on Twitter instead of my AFK “friends” I wouldn’t be reinfected at all or as badly in Feb.
you’re not ‘crazy’ for not going to superspreaders and for still wearing a mask everywhere. you’re actually the most rooted in reality. you’re facing the danger and adapting for survival like we are SUPPOSED to do.
@aquariusbutch
@bloomfilters
Jesus fucking Christ. I've literally had this some conversation w/ a closeted transfem friend who was like "I don't experience transphobia bc im closeted" "BABE WHY ARE YOU CLOSETED". Like you said, use your brain. This takes two fucking seconds.
@brokenbottleboy
Firefighter and cops tbh. Where’s that tweet that goes “please use gender neutral terms; instead of fireman say firefighter. Instead of policemen and policewomen say capitalist tools of the bourgeoisie to crush the working class”
Disclaimer: some disabled people cannot wear masks at all or for very long.
The rest of you though, those who can wear masks, I'm so disappointed that even after me asking, you don't. Calling yourself leftist or anti-fascist and refusing to is a fucking joke.
I wish I had found you all sooner but I’m so glad to have found you all now. Thank you to
@covidisntover
for letting me actually make friends instead of feeling like I had to scroll Twitter to be affirmed in reality and settle for eugenicists for friends
@NateB_Panic
Call in that this isn’t “mania”. This isn’t symptoms of a manic episode. This is the result of a multibillion dollar worth propaganda campaign
I wanted to see if I could find "TERF Island" to perform it because it is a banging song, but I can't remember the lyrics well enough, and he's asked me not to contact him because he called me posting about how they infected me and are antimask harassment.
If I'd believed him..
Look I am not into men at all and that is important to me but the way you talk about the way women who are attracted to men who are then hurt by them as if it’s their fault for being into men instead of sexism is gross and idk why so many queer people think it’s cute
@graeme_0
Oh yeah, I get that! I just mean if surgical is all some people can regularly afford, we should absolutely not be telling these people they're not even worth wearing/buying. I also only have respirators for distro.
WE ARE BEING TOO NICE RIGHT NOW.
I don’t care if my decades long relationships are shredded, if instead of making new friends, I make strangers & acquaintances uncomfortable. This isn’t a time for niceties. It’s time to PROTECT HEALTH and HUMANITY.
@BeGayleDoCrimes
@butchanarchy
Yep, the way abuser and “narcissist” are used interchangeably drives me up a wall. Even considering my dad might have NPD and honestly, my mom might as well. The way the word gets thrown around makes me wonder if actually they are just shitty people
I need somewhere COVID safe to live come this summer. Do you have somewhere I can crash or somewhere cheap I can split rent with? Want to split rent in my flat and take the spare room? Please DM me! I wear a respirator whenever I leave home, have three air purifiers, + am vax'd
People who ignored me before the POTS ignored me after the POTS. They just also got to pity me more without doing anything to make my life less pitiable
but I also shouldn't have been totally dismissed about COVID and "encouraged" to let them infect me and treated like I was being ridiculous for not wanting to let them infect me.
And now he doesn't want to see me post about it.
OK.
He told me who he was. I just stayed anyway.
Hey so benefits from spreading the message we were defeated, past tense? Who benefits from saying “no one even knows it happened” as if we who are still fighting are no-one?
I know things feel bleak right now. I know they are dire. But don’t do the enemy’s job for them. Please.
A friend of mine said, “This is a war, and it’s over—we lost—& no one even knows it happened.”
It’s a profound statement because it’s so true. Everyone knows things are off & all wrong, but we’re pretending things are fine & normal because we are all hostages without options.
when he told me who he was the first time or first few times, I wouldn't have Long COVID now, so it's hard to feel like I lost very much. I lost something I should have never tried to have. I played with fire and got burned.
The loneliness of this era is crushing
@SaliWho
Yup. I got told I could take off my mask so many times in health care settings and I’m like “no” while being firm and also fawning because I want a shot at medical care
Literally watched this go down in some COVIDing groups I’m in. Some of y’all are just white libs scared of getting sick with no understanding of international solidarity with POC
The word 'nuance' is becoming shorthand for: 'I am disguising my ignorance as intellectual rigor & I truly know nothing about this situation. This will become clear if you ask me any questions whatsoever. Taking a principled stand might cost me opportunities. I'd rather fencesit'
@moontwerk
@BIRcovidhealth
Is that the actual origin of the term brain fog though? Because I thought it's just a name for describing a symptom (not its pathology) succinctly
@TheMemeticist
@RealGayArbys
1 A: moved in w/ them Match 2020 to avoid homelessness if
@uniofeastanglia
closed dorms. They refused to set their boundaries. The worst five months of my life. Broke up w/ them once I moved out
2 J + T: J ignored me saying I didn’t want to be partners with T, I fawned for a year
@senorhettler
Governments and capital want us to feel doomed. Don't give up. Every fraction of a degree of warming matters, I've seen another climate advocate say.
I've never tagged or named him in any of my posts about it. I've just been angry about it. And I know I should have just not even joined a choir because of the pandemic, and I should have left when they told me who they were, and I shouldn't have gone to the party or rehearsal
@chronicallybeee
Thank you, the first time I caught COVID to my knowledge, it was because I was flying to get away from one of my abusive exes and my abusive parents didn’t give a shit about me getting infected!