Pennie Reese (she/her)
@pennie_reese
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💜#BLM #Resist #FightSupremacy #NeverAgain #FaceTheClimateEmergency #WearAMask “You're in this world, you know.” ~ Mrs Edith Beale
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Joined December 2016
"When our intention is to live with nobility, respect, and compassion, and we act from these intentions, we shape a positive future. When our motivation is rooted in anger, unworthiness, grasping, self-judgment, fear, and depression, and we act from these intentions, we.
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@conservativ3ant @QueenAnticommie That was a long time ago, man. Twenty-seven years, to be exact. Things change.
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Awesome! I've been sentenced to Twitter jail for the first time! Only my followers can see my activity for the next 12 hours. Because I told pastor Jeffress to fuck off.
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Just because you don't die in a week doesn't mean a disease has not harmed you. Weeks, months, or years down the road, you could find serious damage. Please, people, stop saying you were fine when you had covid. You don't know what it's done to you yet.
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@SamBraslow @KillerMartinis This crap makes me so utterly sick, I can't stand it. The coldness, the cruelty. The mockery. The senselessness of their so-called logic, such as equating masks with communism and Jim Crow. And subjecting all the innocent workers who basically have no choice but to be exposed.
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@wypipo_h8 White fragility: when you get into a fetal position on the ground because someone turns on their camera after you used the n word.
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Some of us wear a mask to be responsible, not out of fear. Not all responsible behavior is motivated by fear. Some people just like to be responsible.
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@SamBraslow @KillerMartinis Not only that, the mall, department stores, even WalMarts, are completely meaningless places for protests. They don't make the rules. They're not the health department. They're not the CDC. They're not the local capital. These people are just looking to bully someone. Period.
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As a Texan, I am in agreement with this, @SpeakerPelosi. Ted Cruz does not represent the people of Texas. He represents only one party, and only the hard line members of that party, at that.
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You guys remember how bad Italy was? Well, now they have 57,521 currently active cases. We have 67,349.
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Don't tell the vulnerable to carry the entire load of this pandemic, by just wearing a high quality mask, if they don't want to die. News flash: even the best masks are not 100% foolproof. Masks work better when everyone is wearing them.
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Seriously, if you're scared of people in masks because you think they're sick, maybe put a mask on?🤷♀️.
Walking into a store with my daughter, both in n95’s .Lady pulls her daughter behind her.Her : Are you sick ? We have parties this weekend. Me : Would be a hell of a lot smarter if you were masked right now .Her: 🧐.Me : Be careful, TB is going around 😉.Her : What ?!.✌🏼.
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@eofallthings One time, I was working at a contact lens laboratory, and I had to dye a whole tray of lenses the lightest shade of green for the queen of Jordan. After I tore the third lens in a row, I quit. Couldn't take it.
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@Timodc And by the way, we are not going back, because we never left. Don't you remember back when Biden had covid. last week???.
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@Alina_MSN_RN What the what? I've been hearing of this happening to other remote workers. Like all of a sudden, remote work is just not allowed anywhere, even if that was your actual job. Can we get anymore backwards?🤦♀️.
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@BartenderHemry This was an outstandingly insightful thread. It puts into words, very effectively, what I've been observing for some time. It's sad but true. Disinformation is not the problem. It's the entire "moral compass" that they claim is superior, which is indeed failing us. and them.
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I can't find record of our 7th covid case, here in the US, but it took 11 days to get from our 1st to our 8th case. With monkeypox it has taken 5 days to get to our 7th case. That's a lot of monkeypox, for a disease that's not supposed to spread very fast.
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It occurs to me that when a lot of people say, "I don't want to live my life in fear," what they really mean is, "The thought of trying to manage mitigations long-term scares me." And of course, we all know many of them fear being bullied by people like themselves.
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I'm comfortable with my choice to not receive SARS. I don't need to be talked out of it. It's worked for me for 4.5 years, and I'm happy with the outcome.
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I think, if anyone ever tells me "it's not required," with regard to masking, I just might say the obvious:."It's hard for you, sometimes, to do some things, unless someone requires it, huh?".
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@realtshores @hawkeye632 @Gingerbsoapbox @mslalou @4everNeverTrump @RepGosar @delina4az News flash: hard-heartedness is not a sign of strength, but rather extreme weakness and insecurity.
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@Timodc Dude, you might want to consider taking this post down, and maybe even reconsider your position, because you're getting ratioed hard, and are helping to lose an election.
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Omgosh, you guys are so amazing! As it turns out, the actual offending post was one I which I told trump I hope he - in so many words - takes a nap with a shovel, or, sleeps with soil. Will catch up with you all after work.
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@eugenegu The entire system of this country is predatory and inhumane. That's what happens when you try to build a country on stolen labor produced by stolen and enslaved humans. You end up with a system that is cruel. Period.
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@MBurner3000 @conservativ3ant @QueenAnticommie Thank you! Yes, masking was never weird until it was interpreted to mean, "We don't like your orange man and we might even be kinder than you. Yikes, kindness! Scary!" They can't handle kindness because it makes them feel vulnerable and they don't have the equipment to cope with.
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I just realized I haven't hugged anyone but my husband in the last four years. I used to hug my friends all the time. I miss that. I hope someday I can find new, safe friends, who will hug me without killing me.
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@Baileymoon15 "I'm not mature enough or emotionally intelligent enough to own my behavior or admit I was wrong, so I'll pretend the countless comments confronting my behavior are silly and meaningless. Also, oppressed and marginalized people are fair game when you're this insecure.".
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Covid-conscious community:.I really want to say - I keep hearing myself saying, "I love these people." And, "These are my people. They've always been my people." . Really, there's an authenticity happening here that's profound and, I think, noble. I'm honored to know you all.🙏.
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@Politidope That is infuriating. This is a level of irresponsibility that is almost akin to shooting bullets randomly into crowds.
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@luckytran And honestly, a little old lady with a walker is someone in a disguise, huh? And we're the scared ones? When you start getting scared of all the disabled people and old ladies with walkers, that's some next-level paranoia.
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My #1 most likely risk from catching SARS would be a stroke. I am a stroke risk, SARS can cause strokes, and I don't want one. That is the cost I have to weigh with every in-person healthcare experience. If it's not worse than the potential effects of a stroke, I'm out. No.
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I've never sought to be a conformist, and I'm guessing that's something we COVID-conscious have in common.
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@ksorbs They had mandated masks and closures for the flu of 1918. But, funny thing, we never lost our Constitutional rights. So I'm thinking maybe it doesn't work that way. Just sayin. .
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@DrMarinaHarris "You need to forgive." . No. No, I don't. My mental health is not contingent on my forgiving anyone. The trouble is usually not lack of forgiveness anyway, but rather, damage to boundaries that need to be shored up, not relaxed further.
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We are being Chernobyled by the elites, friends. I am choosing not to receive an infection with an airborne pathogen. That is my choice. There is nothing undesirable about being pathogen-free. It is a pleasant, enjoyable, AND productive lifestyle choice, helpful and beneficial.
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@CovidintheChart If they're not letting you in, they're refusing service. If they're refusing service, that's on them. Mandate or none, you have a right to have a mask on, and to have gainful employment while wearing one.
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@Wagnerian And yet, disabled people are his peers. I guess he's not going to get a jury of peers.
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@nancydmoore25 @BBCJamesCook @Reuters @topixkim They are fleeing violence and starvation with the hope of seeking the legal option of asylum at our legal ports of entry. What decent parent wouldn't do that under those circumstances? You prefer keep their children in violence and starvation?.
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@snacklesbian And like EDS and POTS don't harm people's bodies? Does this person even have Google?.
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My great Grandma McKinney lived in the hills of Kentucky. She lived to be ninety-six. She raised chickens, grew a garden, and only went "to town" once a month for things like sugar and flour. She never traveled, never went out to eat, never went to a concert or on a cruise. And.
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@KreelanWarrior This is why people say masks don't work. If you want a mask to work, you kind of have to use it.
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I went to bat for us in my sangha (meditation group) this morning, and made an ask for more COVID-conscious inclusion. COVID has been named as a "controversial topic" by the organization that hosts our sanghas, so it was scary to bring it up. But my teacher asked for feedback, so.
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@theblondeMD @MichJak @ScottGreenfield He's too busy trying to feed his ego, giving himself a reason to believe he should be proud of himself, as he claims credit for something that is beyond his control.
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@MollyJongFast Oh, FFS. He hasn't even been in office a year. A term is four years. Also, you can't shut it down if people refuse to do what's necessary to shut it down. Ugh, god, these people are freaking nerve-wracking.
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@realtshores @hawkeye632 @Gingerbsoapbox @mslalou @4everNeverTrump @RepGosar @delina4az There is such a thing as having a sense of humor that is more sophisticated and more humane humane.
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@Brasilmagic What a big-ass man! SO big! Standing down a little, bitty girl nurse, trying to intimidate her with his size & his machismo. Fragile is what he is. If that's what he has to to make himself feel big. He is very, very small on the inside. And probably in other ways too, frankly.
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What are your thoughts about the reasons we're having a surge in "respiratory illnesses" among children? Some would say it's because their children were isolated and their immune systems got out of practice. I suspect people just are more careless now than they were before.
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@saraaaaajean I was there. It was a nightmare. Power off, power on, power off, power on - mostly off. For five days. Thirteen below zero. It's the #1 reason my husband and I left Texas.
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@CNN You know the real reason he's doing that is because they messed up his rally. That's ok, there are other forms of social media. He won't stop us.
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I'm not a holdout. I'm a trail blazer for a new era filled with cleaner air and compassion for others.
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I don't think people understand narcissism. Narcissists don't "wake up" or "learn their lesson" or "have a change of heart." trump is a narcissist and his fans are collectively narcissistic. They will not change. Nothing will make them change. Nothing will make any difference.
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@LazarusLong13 Good for him. Don't put up with that. She just could not calm the heck down and stop pushing her unsolicited opinions for anything. Good deal - if you can't show some respect, get out.
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I am dismayed that some people think that some other people don't belong in the COVID-conscious community. If we are in this community, we belong in it. This is not a country club. We're in the middle of a disaster, and we're all in this together, whether we like it or not. That.
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@Teresajane201 @StevijoPayne I love how she had the presence of mind to calmly take her shoes off first. That's next level.
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@bibicosplays And the audacity of attempting to intimidate by invoking the ancestors for such folly and cruelty and harm. I doubt any wise ancestors would stand in solidarity with such notions.
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@notjoss @LindaWrite Hmmm. sounds like protecting males from being attracted to females is more important than protecting anyone's health.
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@DrLeanaWen @PostOpinions Why? Exactly WHY should events like this go on? Because no one ever learned how to use Zoom two years ago? Is there any reason you can give me that's more important than the lives of human beings? I'll wait. Oh - and thoughtful individuals wear masks.
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@fcknsyd No. A good therapist will always intervene to stop active abuse in session, and will set boundaries with the abuser.
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@NBCPolitics Why are you calling it a punishment? It's not being used as a punishment. It's being used as a safety measure to protect the American people from further harm being brought to them by a madman.
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@broadwaybabyto And how can any of them even think that it's scientifically possible to know such a thing without actually testing the particles in the air? Like, why would you just lie like that? What's happened to society is truly amazing.
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Had to go out in public again today. Been seeing maybe about a fourth of the people here masking. And everyone who masks, now, appears to be wearing an N95 or something else high quality. No baggy blues.
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@GregMolidor Are you freaking kidding me? A teenager did that? That is one talented girl! I would only give her one piece of advice and that would be to make sure she never sells herself short. She needs to know her worth and expect it to be valued accordingly!.
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@bbbrazil__ Yes, also, I noticed a couple things. Paul Simon will not likely be performing again, because long covid took his hearing. And Snoop Dog's 24-y.o. daughter has had a severe stroke.
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I am comforted in the knowledge that @realDonaldTrump is afraid for his health tonight. He uses anger as a front to disguise his fear. He has had little reason to fear up until now, and has led a nationwide mob in mockery of any fear anyone might have. Now. It's. His. Turn.
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@J__Possum You are not hysterical, just because you're not numb to a pandemic that has not ended. People who think we're hysterical for masking would think a wall is hysterical. We're just being practical and sensible. They're the ones being overly-sensitive to something perfectly sensible.
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The ICU at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital, in Arlington, is at 100% capacity.
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@SamBraslow @KillerMartinis They choose their protest locations based on how helpless the workers are to stop them. Which is truly disgusting.
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@theBrianaMills That's right, trauma didn't make me stronger. It made me sicker. My desire to be strong and the steps I took to strengthen myself are what made me stronger. Not the trauma.
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@philaheather @DeanEggitt Right? Like who let them out? Housebound people are not allowed to leave, ever, at all. Who let this happen?😂.
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Just finished Mary Trump's book, a treatise on HOW trump became what he is. A few takeaways:.- He is driven by fear. - His biggest fear is being seen as a failure. - He has a pathological need to minimize negativity. - His cruelty is meant to distract from his failures. #FAILURE.
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@PeterHotez Thank you, Dr Hotez, for being a voice for the immunocompromised. It really has been quite a horrifying experience to be just thrown at the virus so everyone else can have their lives back. And now everything is more dangerous for me than before. I can't even go to the doctor.
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People who are not taking precautions, who say they haven't caught covid, who don't test daily, don't even know, factually, whether they have truly had covid or not. They are not stating facts. See, this is the meaning of asymptomatic - without a test, you can't detect it.
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@LauraMiers It's like when the tide rolls out before a tsunami. And that's when it's time to get off the beach.
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@DrTedros You really did not say that. And you work in public health. Well, since we're here, welcome to #DisabilityTwitter. Stick around, you might learn something!.
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@goodell2017 @expobear1 Hey Goldie, I can relate. I live with chronic pain, among numerous other symptoms, and I have felt that way often. I hope you'll reconsider and just realize that you never know what you might find to live for tomorrow.
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@eofallthings Wearing dangly earrings when I go out. Sometimes I will, but most times it's just too inconvenient to maneuver the mask straps around them. So, I'm in search of new, smaller earrings.
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@IvankaTrump Posters with this information have been ordered removed from immigration courts in Florida. That's shameful.
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@rebeccanagle Who? Where? This is not pleasant news. I think we're all starting to feel a little hunted.
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@LadyChuan Thank you. This is not about how we feel. This is not about comfort. Masks are not a security blanket. A mask is a medical device that performs an actual medical function. This sign assumes that is not the case.
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@luckytran @MsJulieSLam "Allowed"? That's where we are now? "If necessary due to a disability"? Not just because you don't want one, or because you don't want to kill someone else, or for any other humane reason. So, you actually had to be disabled to be allowed to wear a mask there? Yes, they are.
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No, the shooter did not cross the border illegally. There are people with Mexican names who are US citizens. He was born in freaking North Dakota. Smh. Freaking racists.
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I have found myself on the outside looking in. I'm feeling the ostracism now. It was easy to avoid, because I moved to a new state. But I recently started trying to reach out to my old friends, by posting covid stuff where they can see it. I honestly thought by now, some of them.
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@Joanna_Resists This is so disgusting. People have literally become murderous for trumpism. This is literally a civil war.
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@howroute @joncoopertweets A few years ago, my Trumpster sister got so bent out of shape, just from overhearing a liberal complaining at a store about a lack of a certain product, when she (my sister) left, she was in such a screaming fury, she lost control of her car, hit a curb, and popped her own tire.
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@thislilyspad @cltomlinson Yes, a class action suit, for all the millions of people who suffered. I particularly would like the hours of power that we PAY for to be reimbursed. And I resent that a-hole who said people are looking for a handout. No, we just want what we freaking PAY for.
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Here in Dallas, we are on the land of the Wichita.Honor the Indigenous History of the Land on Which You Stand #TheBodyRemembers via @demcastUSA.
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@amandalhu So now, society says, if you're autistic and ADHD, you should kill yourself? This whole dystopia thing escalated really quickly, didn't it?🫤.
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