A kid asked my 11yo why he missed so much class. My kid explained that he gets short of breath, chest pain, has a racing heart. She replies ‘I have all of that too! I told my doc but he says that I’m fine. I complain everytime & I think I have asthma’. LOTS are undiagnosed.
🧵People are starting to notice that things aren't normal. FB parent groups are full of posts asking why their kids are so sick & for so long. Parents are asking for Tylenol/Advil on msg groups. Take these opportunities to explain immune dysregulation. Point them to resources 1/x
Is anybody else having a really difficult time dealing with the moral injury right now? I’m having a bad day. It’s not the anxiety of getting sick that gets to me. It’s the knowledge that most ppl are ok w/ injuring others as long as they don’t have to mask.
@DJ3370178658
@ALMannixMD
Um, if a flight attendant ever does this, please just push through and help. As a frequent passenger, reading this scares the living 💩out of me. I’d rather have a real doc help me than a guy who picked up a thing or 2.
This pandemic has made me realize: a ton of ppl would never care abt their loved one ‘in sickness and in health’. Not even their own kids. Their belief is actually ‘in health and in convenience’.
What I miss abt the b4times is not the restaurants, the traveling, or even the carefree feeling of not having to think through precautions.
What I miss abt the b4times is the belief that ppl would do the right thing most of the time & be logical. Not live in denial.
The moment they let covid rip, there was no reason to care abt peanut allergies or lice.
We are in an era of Russian Roulette to see who will live and die.
The shocking thing is that so many parents are ok with this.
Ok everybody, we need to make ppl aware that we are in the midst of a 6th wave. I think ppl are genuinely REALLY unaware. I just talked to cautious friends & they had no clue. This is what happens when they obfuscate & silence. Tell everybody you know NOW b4 things get even worse
I feel defeated & sad these days. Increasingly, my cautious friends are capitulating to the ‘covid is mild’ narrative. It’s becoming hard to even talk to these friends. I feel like the crazy one. Even if covid is around forever, I’d rather live in a society that TRIES.
Ok, so now I see China, South Korea, Singapore, and India on alert and caring to respond.
Meanwhile, here in the west, 🦗🦗🦗
I’m documenting this so that it is very clear when we look back that it was the west who destroyed civilization.
BREAKING: India on High Alert for Monkeypox; Health Units at Airports and Ports Sensitized, Testing Labs Ready, and Facilities Prepared for Case Management
Soooo.... I just talked to someone who told me that some insane parents @ her kids' school are trying to lobby for an enforced NO MASK policy. Cuz other kids being safe makes their kids feel uncomfortable. WTAF.
Has anybody been contemplating their long-term plan? Masking will become increasingly socially unacceptable. But i also find infection not worth the risk. Especially if we discover some worst case scenario where everybody who gets covid ends up w/ AIDS like virus.
🧵PAEDIATRICIANS ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE LONG COVID BY PUSHING ‘SCHOOL IS CRITICAL FOR MENTAL HEALTH’.
This is a long screed because I think it’s VERY IMPORTANT to push back on this talking point as it will harm kids MORE.
I got my son’s permission to share his story.
I’ve recently talked to 5 ppl who had covid & they made me realize why transmission will never end w/o good PH policy. Every single one said ‘PH says it’s ok to go out after 5 days even if I still have covid’. Some even know they are still contagious. A few are docs. 1/x
A friend just told me she went to try to order take-out and the restaurants are packed. Everybody is celebrating Mother's Day in person with their moms. Are we going to get another wave of deaths? This is exhausting.
🧵I was karen’ed while camping last week. My 4yo woke up traumatized (nightmare or just pissed) at midnight. She was screaming and my hubs was hugging her cuz she refused to be put back into the sleeping bag. She’s screaming ‘don’t put me down’. 1/
Has everyone just accepted that they will die at the ripe old age of 60 and their kids will live with disabilities as adults?
I honestly don’t understand why you wouldn’t mask in public indoor places if you aren’t eating. That’s such a low hanging fruit with high reward.
10yo: why can’t we get back mask mandates?
Me: public health & govt have decided on a ‘you do you’ approach.
10yo: isn’t ‘you do you’ anarchy? So why do we need govt or public health if they want anarchy?
Me: ….you’ve got a point….
You do you is anarchy, not democracy
@maleve
Maybe it’s because I understand the risks far better than they do. And no, I’ve never once lived fearfully because I follow the science and then go about my life.
Also, there’s nothing wrong w/ being scared of a novel pathogen that has killed millions around the world.
@FurnessColin
is interviewed and quoted in this article clearly stating that covid messes up your immune system. It's an article on a huge media site. Use it. 2/x
My 10yo just got covid. After years of avoiding it, he got it from school. He wore a FloMask and sat less than a meter away from a Hepa filter. And we sprayed him all the time. I'm so angry right now.
In her need to be the ‘hero’ while actually being the villain, she:
1) traumatized me
2) scared my 7 & 10 yo who were awake and had no clue why someone would call the police cuz their 4yo sibling had a nightmare
3) exposed my family to a maskless interaction
@NoelFritsch
@FirstHealth
What you are doing is abuse. First, not allowing him to wear a mask to protect his health. Secondly, further compounding to the abuse by making him sit outside. You are abusing your child.
People DO NOT know this. Rather, they are bombarded with articles talking about 'immunity debt' and now believe that their kids must continuously get sick. This is why we need to take our advocacy to FB parent groups & other places where ppl outside twitter echo chambers.
I’m actually really traumatized by this. I read about karens usually in the US. But it’s different when it happens to you. She literally went from let me help you to I’m calling the police because you’re rejecting my help.
@maleve
The general ‘living in fear’ narrative offends me. B4 kids, I’ve gone bungee jumping, parasailing, rock climbing, & am a great skier (eg, go to double blacks in Rockies). Same ppl terrified of going down a bunny hill are telling me I’m terrified of living?
When is everyone pulling their kids out of school? I was debating whether I should risk next week or not. Cuz after Easter weekend, it's going to be a 💩show. Family gatherings + no masks + school. I want to get as much school time as possible 4 kids.
Also, you are absolutely in the wrong if you then decide to turn on somebody because they rejected your help. Literally the villain.
Park staff were amazing though. We’re appalled and incredulous that this happened.
My 9yo just told me that he had asked everyone in his class if they got covid. He’s the only one who hasn’t gotten covid. He’s also the only one who doesn’t eat indoors.
#COVIDIsAirborne
I told a fellow mom that my child had medical issues and asked if her child could mask while near mine. She wrote back ‘what’s your agenda’. No, her child doesn’t mask near mine.
The pandemic has revealed that a large majority of ppl are not good people.
I'm still having trouble why we haven't copied Japan & South Korea. Mask publicly. Clean air. You want to go to a restaurant? Fine. But at least you're masked at the grocery store and your kids are masked in school so you are protecting the vulnerable. THIS is compassion.
Parent knowingly sent their kid in w/ a fever last week. Sibling tells class that sister went to ER barfing a lot. Today, 8 kids are out sick in 9yo’s class. Some of the 8 kids were already out sick a few weeks ago. THIS IS A TOTALLY NORMAL SCHOOL YEAR. 🙈🙉🙊
I’m grieving the b4times today. I don’t miss the restaurants or vacays per se. I miss the perception of safety in 🇨🇦, delusion that ppl were mostly unselfish, optimism that we had progressed to become caring as a society, belief that ppl care to see past lies, & hope for justice.
@DFisman
1. Covid is not a social construct. You can't just declare it over.
2. The US has far better access to Paxlovid/PCR testing & gives away free N95s.
We can't demand covid to be over by pointing to other countries while not implementing the things that they have.
Just found out that kid in my son’s class got covid last month. I think that’s what went around the class. Amazingly, the FloMask and car lunches protected my kids from infection.
Colonialist women need to stop creating these hero stories for themselves. You think you’re the hero in your story but you might actually be causing harm.
🧵A story abt altruism & feeling good.
Recently, I saw a naked toddler running down the sidewalk on a street perpendicular to mine as I was driving. It took a moment to register so I had to back up. As I did, he turned onto my road and started running parallel to me.
9yo just told me that the sub today told the class that masks don't work. When you sneeze into your mask, the droplets come out of your mask anyways.
I feel so much despair right now.
So I say ‘I don’t feel comfortable w/ you on my site’. This is exceedingly polite for the fact that she’s basically done the equivalent of coming into my house while I’m undressed to give me parenting advice and scaring the crap out of my kids.
The best part of winning poker tournaments is definitely the money. But the second best part is how mad the biggest dipshits on twitter get when they see a mask in a winner photo.
If you are unwell, don’t go to the place where you’re supposed to go if you’re unwell.
They aren’t even trying to make sense with their talking points anymore.
DOCUMENT & LITIGATE.
@mch_childrens
@HamHealthSci
@STJOESHAMILTON
Stay home from the hospital if you are feeling unwell?!? 🤣🤣🤣 You have just decided that unwell, vulnerable children are no longer safe in the space that is supposed to help them get healthy. This is sick.
All the other parents are worried abt ‘learning loss’ & making sure their kids are keeping up w/ hockey/soccer/piano, etc. They think in 2019 goals for their kids. Meanwhile, I’m teaching my kids gardening and looking for foraging classes.
At this point in the pandemic, anybody who is still trying to protect themselves and others hold 2 very important traits that society doesn’t seem to value: conscientiousness and discipline.
This is when she gets aggressive. She suddenly turns on me and says ‘I’m going to call the police. WTAF. So I immediately turn it back in her and set ‘I welcome you calling the police so I can report you. What person calls the police cuz a child is having a nightmare?’
🧵normalizing masking
1: barely anyone who goes out to public spaces masks. Does non-masking seem ‘normal’ & ‘trendy’? YES.
2: is 2-way masking superior? YES
Q: how do we incr. chances of 2-way masking? BY NORMALIZING MASKING.
Q2: how do we normalize it?
(Next post)
Now she’s backing off and says ‘I’m a teacher, I just wanted to make sure things are ok’ to which I reply ‘what is your site number? You know where I am but I have no clue where you are’. Then her and her partner run off.
Someone I know who had myocarditis DUE TO COVID (before vax available) and had trouble walking down the hall for a year is busy going around indoor dining.
It’s gotten to the point where I think ppl have just decided it ok to cut their lives short by a few decades.
@BarryHunt008
Last year, this one family masked diligently with respirators for the first 2 weeks of school. They went on a vacay and came back maskless. That’s when I realized that they just didn’t want to be sick for their vacation. It’s a thing.
@1goodtern
@Antonio_Caramia
Engineering is under recognized for their contribution to preventing diseases. Think of sewage/waste management & air filtration on planes.
I think that engineering is actually MORE responsible for health & safety than the medical field once you throw in road/building safety.
A mom on the local fb grp just asked for RATS. I offered masks & she said that she didn’t know covid was still circulating. I told her 1 out of 13 ppl in ON have covid & she was blown away. She said ‘it’s time to put back on masks!’
Ppl want to be safe.
This is a PH failure.
Not just therapists. Doctors. I’ve had nurses & docs ask my kid to remove his mask for absolutely no reason at all. I let my kid remove his mask cuz otherwise, they code you as anxious & refuse to acknowledge the symptoms as anything other than anxiety.
I’m just hearing people say that their psychiatrists & therapists are making them remove their masks to assess for wellness/mental health status in session?
If they can’t figure out how to assess you with your mask on, that’s a skill issue
Sorry but you need a new therapist
She becomes more aggressive and asks my 4yo ‘are you ok?’. FYI, my 4yo DOES NOT LIKE STRANGERS. So now, I’m really concerned cuz she’s 1) stuck her maskless face in our tent exposing us AND 2) my 4yo is still crying.
This is a crappy soln cuz my 4yo didn’t even want my hubs to stand up. She screamed louder everytime he tried to move. He’s stuck hugging her. Also, I shouldn’t have to explain this to a random couple invading MY TENT. So I cut in and tell her we are fine.
@wtevs
@EVYSTADIUM
When I was pregnant, i found that teenage kids who looked like punks were more likely to offer me a seat than your average male in a business suit.
Something I don’t understand: you can’t pay me enough money or give me enough power to willingly unmask indoors even if everyone was tested. My health is priceless. Why do all these politicians take this risk? They must know abt the risks. So then it’s sheer greed?
Violet affleck doing a better job of normalizing masking and advocating abt covid than all of the so-called covid scientist advocates.
If there’s a violet affleck fan-club, I’d like to join.
Violet Affleck once again demonstrating that we are still in a pandemic while protecting herself and those around her.
Also holding “The Viral Underclass” novel by Steven. W. Thrasher 🩷✊🏻
She knows.
Depressing realization today. I was informed that some parents don’t want to nag their kids to wear a mask cuz they don’t want their kids to feel guilt if their non-masking infects & then kills someone. The kid not feeling bad is more important than someone else’s life.
Suddenly, a man and a woman like their heads INTO MY VESTIBULE. I’m not even fully dressed. Then the woman asks‘are you ok, do you want help?’ and my husband says no, she’s had a nightmare. Then the woman tells us to drive her in the van.
🧵I’m feeling moral trauma. Kid’s teacher has cancer. Everyone knows. A kid is out sick w/ fever, headache, etc. There is a field trip yesterday & they show up with a mask dangling around their neck cuz they don’t want to miss out. They are now back at home still w/ fever.
Friend posts on Facebook about 7th wave and how she’s being so cautious. But from the few pics I see, she’s eating indoors and maskless indoors. WTAF do people think is ‘being cautious’???!! THIS IS A FAILURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
As a shy child, I had no clue I’d grow up and become part of the last resistance against powerful capitalistic gaslighters simply by stubbornly wearing a mask to protect myself during a pandemic. Kudos to me. Pretty sure young me is proud.
🧵I’m livid right now. Kid asks me ‘what’s the point of nasal spray if you’re already infected?’ Anti-vax kids at school told him it’s pointless. I pointed out,‘what’s the point of drugs if you’re sick?’. Then he went onto say that those kids also say vaccines don’t work. 1/
This is absolutely crazy. According to the ON website, my kids - despite having a sore throat, runny nose, & sneezing - qualify to go to school. I'm keeping them at home cuz I'm responsible. Is this how my kids got sick? Cuz other kids went to school like this due to screening?
Am I the only one with no plans this long weekend? It feels like increasing numbers of people including cautious people have gone back to normal (at least for holidays).
Had sudden realization.
People who say ‘you’re living in fear’ must have been extremely scared when covid first happened. They’re reflecting on their own feelings & assuming that you feel how they felt.
Mind you, they are still living in fear - denial is a fear based response.
@DebraLefebvre
@CPita3
Nobody deserves to spend their last years like this. People are NOT disposable because they are older or immunocompromised. Western society is just horrible if this is what we find acceptable.
@Ivriniel
Any chance that the parent would want to contact
@ONSchoolSafety
?
This is a horrible story. I’m getting rage just reading this. My children would happily sit next to her masked and not be attending school covid positive!!
I am tired. I am tired of educating ppl. I'm tired of pushing for c19 safe policies @ kids' school. I am tired of being told (by those who want c19 safe policies but do nothing) that the school has ok policies so why am I mad? I want to stop. But if I stop, everything gets worse.
But I have to say, it’s so f’king hard right now teaching kids about the right thing when literally everybody is doing the wrong thing to the point of killing others. How to explain why ppl are so horrible? I don’t know. I cried throughout my speech.
“When the whole World is running towards the edge of a cliff, he who runs in the opposite direction seems to have lost his mind.”
- C.S. Lewis
(Saw this quoted on FB & I feel this deeply right now)
@erincandy
A decade ago, I had a runny nose from actual allergies during my oncology check up (patient due to being high risk). And I got a long lecture abt needing to mask and was handed a mask right away. At my recent check up, coughing ppl not masked. Nobody blinks an eye.
A lot of cautious ppl are getting covid. We are now in a global mass infection experiment. There is no room for error if you want to avoid Covid. Wear your mask outdoors. Remember your nasal sprays. Rinse with a mouthwash. Get boosted. Build a routine so it becomes muscle memory.
I realized this week after a summer of not dealing w/ school admin and parents just how traumatized I am by the school community. My body goes into fight or flight mode just reading an email. And I hate their smiles.
@DGBassani
Masks work. Index case of unknown illness in kid sitting next to my flomasked 9yo. Gets kid B next to him sick. She’s out for days. They give to kids in row in front of them & they’re out for days. Then it moves to kids diagonal to them who are out. My kid never got it.
11yo told me abt his friend who has a new lung issue that is ‘worse than asthma & he can’t keep up while walking around the school’.
11yo’s are now comparing new onset illnesses like middle aged adults. This would be funny if it weren’t enraging.
When will ppl care abt kids?
I’m convinced that many people don’t know how to have fun and/or be content. This is why uncreative & discontented ppl NEED indoor dining. It’s never occurred to them that there’s many ways to continue to live their best lives without indoor dining.
These are the same people who said that kids don’t get sick, then kids get mild covid. And now that it wasn’t so mild, they should just accept it and go to school and be happy.
CANADIAN PAEDIATRICIANS DONT GIVE AF ABT KIDS.
Can somebody in Toronto PLEASE set up a covid safe school? I’d be happy if it was half-day in-person & covered the main subjects + recess. Then in-person school ends at lunch. Maybe do a zoom subject after lunch. Obviously mandatory respirators and vaccine.
What is impacting his mental health? For one, ILLNESS.
In his words: ‘how is school supposed to be good for my mental health when all of my friends play soccer but I can’t because I get short of breath and I stand there alone by myself?’
Yes, people suck. Some should know better. Others just turn off their brains and follow instructions.
This is why I will keep yelling about how much public health sucks and they should all be let go. Society depends on good leaders to make l policies that benefit ALL ppl.
Since when did anybody’s faces need to be checked to go watch the movies
@CineplexMovies
? My name isn’t even on the ticket? I can literally buy a ticket and give it to someone else??!!!
To normalize masking, we must show up masked. That means:
1. Wear that mask, even if you feel safe cuz it’s outdoors. The plus side? You’ll be even safer.
2. Post a picture of yourself masked even if it’s in a safe outdoor space. Seriously.
3. Stop criticizing ppl who mask.
He told me that his seal had started breaking on the FloMask. (He's getting too big for it). He told me this just 2 weeks ago. I had started looking into other options but apparently, I didn't switch fast enough. I'm kicking myself. I hate that I have to be perfect.
One of the earliest covid cautious ppl I know who was very into masks just posted a pic of herself at a large unmasked gala. What is happening? I don’t understand.
🧵abt non-Twitter cautious ppl. Talking to hair dresser today & it is stunning how misinformed she is. She only doing the right things CUZ she’s extra cautious. But if she was informed, she’d probably do a lot more. 1st eg - she is completely unaware that covid is airborne. 1/x
What I’ve been trying to yell from the rooftops. IT’S EUGENICS.
Every unmasked school admin who won’t protect the vulnerable? The life of the vulnerable is not worth the cost of inconvenience for the other students. It’s not even worth the cost of the teaching plan.
“This is eugenics…”
My friend
@tamarataggart
doesn’t mince words in her response to British Columbia’s decision to lift mask mandates in hospitals and long-term care facilities.
🔥🔥🔥
Watch it TONIGHT at 9pm!
This is VANCOLOUR
@CHEK_News
📺
(right after Steele & Vance!)
🧵Just cuz mask mandates in the near future are not realistic, that doesn’t mean masking advocacy isn’t important. My goal is to normalize masking. Think of Japanese culture. If you wear a mask, nobody will blink an eye. If you get sick, you put on a mask. 1/x
His words paraphrased: ‘I am depressed because I was the top male athlete in track and field last year and now, my joints hurt too much to jump and I get short of breath while running. I looked forward to regionals all year.’