I've talked to three people in the past two days, that have had covid THREE times.
All of them acted like, no big deal, just a bit of tiredness lingering on.
I asked them, "So how many times, do you plan on getting COVID", they ALL JUST LOOKED AT ME LIKE THEY HAD NOT CONSIDERED
How are you so prepared for COVID?
I buried my lover in 1993 due to HIV AIDS after spending six years helping out with activism, drugs and policy.
So I knew to do a few things in January 2020 to now. π§΅1/6
Sheβs on day 4 of covid & says:
βI had a lot of errands to run. I didnβt wear a maskβwhen I have covid, I canβt breathe worth a flip as it isβ¦ itβs not like Iβm in anybodyβs face, breathing all over them. Bash me if you want, but Iβm not wearing a mask when Iβm sick like this.β
Your mask is only as good as your closest family member's mask and behavior.
Back when AIDS was ripping through my community I remember hearing, "You're not sleeping with him, you're sleeping with everyone he's ever slept with".
I think about that all the time with covid.
Each year my husband on parent teacher open house creates a system for parents to leave notes for their kids on days when they may be struggling.
My husband also masks, keeps a HEPA filter in his room.
I married the RIGHT FUCKING man.
Pharmacist asked me if all the "Novavax Fans" are on some type of chat or group.
The world is literally split between those running toward death and those running toward life.
Today marks my third concecutive year in an
#n95
#mask
every day.
I decided to write about how burying my lover in the 90s informed my decisions about public health and the 10 things every person should do RIGHT now.
#MaskUp
@mandatemasksus
My husband has been a school teacher during Covid with classrooms full of sick children.
Iβve been a conference speaker speaking in front of thousands of people.
Both of us flying and traveling constantly.
Both still Covid- and the only thing weβve done is wear a n95 fulltime
I'm not going to stop being safe or being radical. The things I'm seeing in the minimizer community and even in the COVID community are alarming.
This is so much more dangerous than HIV ever was. 6/6
@sebastianyue
@AutSciPerson
I do this in stairwells, elevators or any time I feel someone may misunderstand my walking patterns or directions. I call it "verbal blinkering"
Often times people will tell me it's really considerate.
I just want people to speak with each other, let them know their intentions
Seriously.
Just landed from Europe.
Come outside immigration.
Three woman in masks giving out COVID tests.
They donβt want you to know.
But they fucking know.
Iβm exhausted living defensively.
Driving, masking, scheduling, caring.
Everything requires so much defensive consideration.
Iβd give anything for a world more considerate and thoughtful.
Wearing a mask:
1. Helps keep me and my family COVID free (year three no covid)
2. Helps me know who else is a decent person.
3. Reminds me, that life is about mutual responsibility.
Trending: "The Mask Mandates Did Nothing" is sign that they were effective.
15 years for HIV treatments
30 years for HIV PrEP
50 years for cigarettes to be labeled cancerous
Nothing is going to happen for some time for LongCOVID and COVID.
You have to keep yourself safe, and your community informed.
You can do this.
End of August! Back to School.
Spirit Halloween open.
Get the latest viral trend online and off!!
The "Not COVID" costume for 2024.
* DOES NOT INCLUDE MASK.
What I can't get over with the COVID is the flu situation.....I had FLU TWICE between 2005-2020.
TWICE.
Not sven times, not three times, and I NEVER wore a mask.
This is my lover he died in 1993 from HIV/AIDS.
We spent time fighting for him and others who were forgotten by our pandemic of HIV/AIDS.
Please wear a
#Mask
and check in and support
#longcovid
patients and their CAREGIVERS.
Your WAR is just getting started.
@LauraMiers
We need to do so much more for people with
#longcovid
so they don't feel alone.
At the end my lover was so weak he was in a wheelchair and bed bound.
The once vibrant light of my life melted away.
Yet I'm watching this happen all over again.
#ACTUP
now.
1. Started wearing masks, because protection from infection is rule one.
2. Started stocking up on food, and medical supplies, because it wouldn't be there (and it wasn't during the early stages)
3. Started informing my friends and family to be safe. 2/6
My NOVID husband has kept his class room safe with ventilation and dual HEPA filters since 2020!
So proud of him and the other teachers looking out for our kids!
Today during my hearing, I was asked why I still wear a mask by the other sides lawyer.
I said:
1. My spouse is a teacher & has vulnderable children
2. We live in a community with vulnerable people
3. Thousands of people are still dying.
4. CDC guidelines.
No more questions.
10. HEPA filters at home and school (husband is a teacher).
11. Got Paxlovid and travel with it incase of infection
12. Moved to a safer part of the country with less people. 5/6
4. Built a system to keep my neighborhood supported with volunteers, skills and supplies.
5. Started researching alternative meds, supplements.
6. Got vaccinated day 1 I was allowed. 3/6
My husband has been DUAL HEPA filtering his classroom for three years and gives MASKS to kids who want them.
PLUS, if you're a TEACHER we BUILT a system for you TO TEACH any GRADE about CLEAN AIR!!
I seriously want to be as unaware as most of the population.
I don't know to know about COVID, CLIMATE or POLITICS.
The bliss it must be to walk around thinking everything is fine.
PROTIP:
when dealing with TROLLS.
Do not BLOCK them.
Create a twitter list called TROLLS or mine is CLOWNS and LOSERS.
Add them to the list. They get notified.
Then MUTE THEM.
BONUS: You keep the engagement and never hear from them and they are on a list called CLOWNS!
QUESTIONS:
How do I get paxlovid:
If you're in the US, plush care or others. Some doctors will RX it to you. Have it ON HAND.
If you're not in the US create buyers clubs.
I am constantly stunned a bunch of queers without internet did more than a lot of the current "movement"
STOP TREATING PEOPLE LIKE DATA.
Stop looking for the numbers, and proof, it won't change a THING.
Make every action as CONCRETE and PHYSICAL as possible.
We will not TREND our way out of this.
#CovidIsNotOver
By the way AIDS didn't kill anyone.
The opportunistic infections and damage to the weaken body killed people.
We are going to learn this the hard way with COVID.
NOVID four years x2.
Husband teaches middle school.
I speak at conferences.
We travel. Go to theater. Do it all.
Still NOVID.
Masks work if you literally use them like your life depends upon it.
Got yelled at by
@AmericanAir
agent for wearing a mask and headphones.
1. I have security disorders so the noise makes it hard for me to function.
2. The mask is to protect my self and vulnerable people.
Please train your people about
#Neurodiversity
and
#CovidIsNotOver
30 years ago, June 19 1993 I lost my partner to HIV.
He died in bed next to me, I woke up to a corpse.
It forever changed me.
For all who lost, I stand with you.
To all still struggling, I am here for you.
Today with COVID we continue.
#WorldAIDSDay
I love "When they go low, we go high" vibe of
@MichelleObama
2016.
But I'm really FEELING the "Small dick energy, get a life"of
@GretaThunberg
for 2023.
I see a lot of Covid Cautious people depressed and stressed because the world has moved on.
Remember, you're NOT missing out because you have different priorities than everyone else.
You're actually thriving.
Let me address something and try to be super clear.
Being cautious with COVID is the opposite of living in fear.
Fear would be ignoring it and pretending like we aren't losing 1500 people a week.
Fear would be hacking during work hours and saying "It's not COVID and smirking"
My childhood best friend who has lost her daughter to
#Covid
literally told me I need to stop living in fear.
If the death of your offspring isnβt enough to convince someone that this is serious, what will?
#LongCovid
The sheer number of 50 year old people I know, PERSONALLY who have dropped dead, had a stroke or heart attack is jaw dropping.
Every time, NO ONE SAW IT COMING, COMPLETELY HEALTHY.
The one thing they all have in common? MULTIPLE COVID infections.
I built a database here:
So people can crowdsource they hospitals/ doctors and their masking policy.
More importantly, I built a form letter here:
I want to add a CHATGPT integration to just create the letters for people .
A heartbreaking tragedy has led one family to take legal action against Albany Med Health System, alleging negligence and unhurried care led to their three-year old sonβs death.
Not ONLY do the Japanese wear masks and take care of their elderly and disabled, but they also BUILD SPECIAL tunnels for TURTLES to avoid TRAIN deaths.
Seriously, America is just fucking toxic.
Exhausted seeing people talk about masking and being covid cautious but not really saying WHAT they mean.
So I made a chart (because
#Neurodivergent
and I see patterns and tribes around masking and
#covidcautious
)
Tag yourself!
I'll Start
#TheConcerned
#CovidIsNotOver
50% of my husbands middle school is out.
Seriously 1/2 the class are missing.
Yesterday someone said to me "So and so has Strep throat again"
And I asked, "Do you wonder why all of a sudden, they are getting strep every month?"
Zombies, we are surrounded by zombies.
"We are in the middle of a FUCKING plague and you behave like this."
Watch this video until you understand the urgency.
Then:
1. Find ONE person with
#LongCOVID
and help them.
2. Find one other and STAND in front of a statehouse.
#ACTUPAGAIN
@laurieallee
I've spent a lot of time in Japan.
People always talk about how it's a matter of politness.
This is completely untrue.
The Japanese practice such graciousness for each other out of a mutual sense of cooperation.
Cooperation is the foundation for politeness.
Iβm damn angry.
I have no empathy in my heart for people who are brunching or going on cruises.
A million fucking people are dead and millions more chronically ill.
You want your freedom, so do our damn dead and ill.
Doctors can WRITE you Paxlovid BEFORE you test positive to have on HAND if you were EXPOSED (Updated guidelines)
Do yourself a favor, TRAVEL with it, keep it on hand, do NOT DEPEND on the system to work or be there for you.
Same thing happened with HIV. People just assumed they were "safe" enough and didn't test.
Then without fail, they were shocked with their immune systems tanked.
Regardless of what you think, your COVID respirators were our condoms and risk denial is your bathhouse.
The more I talk to people who are sick & not testing for Covid - the more I realize that theyβre not testing because deep down they know if positive thereβs a moral obligation to isolate. And they simply donβt want to. Plausible deniablity should be the motto of the pandemic.
I lost this beautiful man in 1993 to HIV/AIDs.
We marched on Washington, we ignored the CDC and we loved and stayed safe in public.
At 55, I'm not here to debate COVID or public safety, I'm here to say, I'm not going away from the fight.
Unpopular opinion.
I donβt understand all this βhave empathy for those who donβt know about Covidβ due to misinformation.
What part of over a million people dead, missing from the workforce and everyone chronically sick did these people miss?
Empathy for them? No.
@thedyingcity
@ziibiing
@AutSciPerson
I'm so lame, POWER POINT!!!
I see things naturally in my head in a timeline, so they are really easy to make.
Here is one I made for my COVID vaccines when I was in a study.
I just got back from a week in California at a CONFERENCE.
NO COVID.
My secret....lean in real close...
I USE A MASK.
I DEMANDED we have HEPA filters at the event.
NOVID 3 years.
DO THE WORK, STAY HEALTHY.
For everyone who lived through the 80s, lost people and then saw COVID for what it was, hang in there.
For the trolls, villains and minimizers, welcome to finding out.
@TheMcKenziest
Watching him struggle and become more radical, there for pushing his other companies off a cliff is a pleasure.
I dumped my Tesla in 2018 after a chance encounter.
Nothing destroys someone faster trying to save their face and ass at the same time.
Local art gallery was having a lot of push back about a gay artist talk this weekend.
So I purchased all the seats and told them to give them away.
I'm the wrong faggot to fuck with. I have:
1. Time.
2. Money
3. Really good fucking lawyers.
xoxox
Chris
Anyone telling you HIV/ AIDS is NOTHING like COVID, doesn't understand either and should be avoided.
SOURCE: 55 year old gay man who buried too many people in the 80s and now the 20s.
Monjula Ray π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈπ₯₯π΄
Conflating a deadly disease that killed so many in our community, with a flu like illness that has vaccines and medication is peak first world nonsense.
Literally no where else outside the US are people doing this drama.
Super inspired by all the positive feedback.
Let's let CHATGPT help us.
I created an automation that will WRITE a letter to your local health care facility here:
It's amazing and all you have to do is CARE and hit SEND!
#CovidIsNotOver
#maskup
Can I just remind people, that COVID is not an inevitability.
And if you've convinced yourself that you're bound to get it, that's ok.
Please don't though, shame people who diligently work to stay COVID free.
The more often you get COVID, the higher your risk of complications.
Get added protection with an updated vaccine today.
Find free updated COVID vaccines at .
#WeCanDoThis
If 1000 people a week were dying from flu it would be all over the news.
REMEMBER that, if we had a STRAIGHT year of FLU killing 1K people a week, people would be demanding answers.
This isn't about minimizing COVID, this is about embracing DEATH.
Finally, a week in the US with under 1,000 deaths - first time since August 2023. Still too many people dying, but at least this is heading in the right direction. For those at risk, timely diagnosis & treatment and up-to-date vaccination could prevent many of these deaths.π§΅1/4
People "still" wearing masks.
Let me share something with you as an old timer who lived through HIV/AIDS.
Trust me, keep it up.
Because there is no AFTER AIDS and there won't be an AFTER COVID.
On Hulu, in a movie about the Trump assassination attempt, they make sure to say this kid "wore a mask, even after Covid".
First of all, "after Covid" hasn't come yet. Second, I'm getting real damn tired of the deliberate attempts to tie respiratory protection to criminality.
@5011x
Here you go:
There are EIGHT pages to it. You can add your own information, use a much or as little as you want.
Thank you for caring about you! It's all any of us really have to do.
@chantz_y
Actually yes to seat belts, helmets and drinking and driving.
All were deemed assaults on freedom and living in fear.
As much as I hate the world today, hasn't changed much in 55 years.
Just a little reminder.
If you're going to bring your anti-mask BS to my timeline, I'm going to download your twitter history and ruin you.
I have database skills and time.
You got the right one.
I'm stunned at how many people in airports, just HACK into the air, or brush up close to you while their blowing their nose.
It's like their are trying to just infect everything around them. Very zombie like.
It's almost as if COVID is driving people like little meat puppets.
Why are we testing international travelers in a few airports and not every single health care worker in a health care setting?
Maybe the TSA should run public health and the CDC should take a stab at managing Boeing at this point.
In the future, they will study those of us who avoided covid.
In the face of hostility, lost relationships and a crumbling world.
There is no greater power than the power of mutual preservation and communal good.
Adele is wise: βEveryone that I know that I work with has fucking COVID, so itβs a miracle that I havenβt had it yet,β she added. βAnd I really do love chatting to you, but I donβt want to get sick, Iβll take selfies from a distance or shoot your vid."
Letβs stop calling it peer pressure when people donβt mask and start calling lack of moral fortitude.
Peer pressure is eating pop rocks with a coke.
Willfully infecting yourself and others is a lack of moral fortitude.
"My kid is on their 4th strep throat"
"I'm on my 3rd week of allergy stuff"
"Been sick with a flu thing, not doing well"
All people I talked to. How's that not masking and repeat infections working out for y'all?
My spouse is a school teacher. I speak at conferences.
No Covid in all these years.
Just a trusty N95 an unwavering commitment to each other and the world around us.
Look at all these beautiful letters being created demanding facilities BRING back mask mandates!
Using AI combined with our experiences we can create a powerful message to health care.
@AutSciPerson
I've had major events show me their COVID plans, promise me things were covered, masks, testing, protocols and arrive onsite to find none of it was true.
I've been the only keynote THIS YEAR masked at events, and the only person to NOT get COVID post events.