How can I make this more clear?
There is no war.
Palestine has no army.
Hamas wants to give back all the hostages.
Israel wants to murder every single Palestinian, half of which are children, almost 2 million ppl.
What's so hard to understand about that?
It's a genocide.
Pretty much nothing I learned growing up is true.
America is not the greatest country in the world.
Capitalism is not the greatest economic system.
Billionaires aren't wealthy bc they work the hardest.
These was all just lies and distractions from what really matters.
Historically, pandemics are a gateway into fascism.
People are paranoid and crave discipline and order.
It's strange watching it in real time.
Instead of doing anything to question it or prevent it, people eagerly feast upon the boot pressed firmly on their necks.
The progression from “we need to wear masks” ➡️ “only vulnerable people need to wear masks” ➡️ “vulnerable people can isolate” ➡️ “vulnerable people shouldn’t be in public as they’re vulnerable so anyone who wears a mask is a criminal” should be alarming to anyone against fascism
Someone called me a narcissist for saying that COVID hurts pregnant women & their unborn babies.
Then they said I was a vile person for replying with a study that proved it.
The sad reality is, most people cannot handle the truth, & that's a big reason why we're in this mess.
"I don't like seeing kids in masks 😡"
Well I don't like seeing kids getting ill from preventable diseases bc more and more people are deciding not to vaccinate their kids but here we are 🤷🏼♀️
It is not normal for kids to be sick 8-12 times a year.
It is not normal for kids to have a cough that lasts for months or never goes away at all.
These are signs of chronic illness caused by being infected with Covid repeatedly.
Reading through the r/covid19positive subreddit and seeing in real time the immense gap of knowledge between those who have stayed up to date on the research and those who stopped thinking about COVID years ago bc they assumed it was over when everyone stopped masking🫠
I will never regret wearing a mask even if it turns out things aren't as bad as they seem.
But if it turns out I accidentally infected someone and they became disabled or died, I would never be able to live with myself.
Your choices matter, no matter how small they may seem.
This has taken years of planning and patience but we finally had our first grocery store trip as a family.
She did so well! She kept pointing at things and saying "WOW! What's that!?"
Thank you
@flo_mask
The store itself wasn't busy and I felt totally safe. So grateful ❤️
My husband is the only person in my circle of friends and family who is brave enough to mask everywhere in public indoor spaces with me, despite no one else doing so, and I think he deserves a lot of credit for that 💕
A nurse friend just told me they had a patient last night, a 3-year-old who had had a stroke.
This is the second story in the past few months I've heard of a small child having a stroke. The last one was a 5-year-old.
This is "back to normal"? Since when has this been normal??
There are two parts about wearing a mask that are important for me:
The first is protection from disease. I don't want anyone else's diseases and I don't want to spread any.
The second is solidarity. When I see people wearing a mask, it makes me feel cared for and safe.
The acute phase of your COVID infection feeling like a mild cold is a really bad thing.
It means it's become so immune evasive your body isn't recognizing the threat.
Then it spreads into nearly every system of your body and wreaks havoc there quietly and you don't even know.
"We have to learn to live with the virus"
No, YOU have to learn how to live with the virus. I already know how to deal with it. Time for you to do your part. Put that mask on, baby. This is a group project and you are clearly not doing your part lmfao
By your 3rd COVID infection, the likelihood you will develop Long Covid is 38%.
With that in mind, it may also be useful for you to know that there is no treatment, let alone a cure, for Long Covid.
Wearing a mask is the best way to protect yourself and your loved ones 😷
If you've had COVID one time, you're considered high risk for getting it again.
Every time you get it, it has a cumulative effect on your body--the worse it is for you.
Therefore, taking precautions against getting it, is the only reasonable way forward 😷
Not so gentle reminder that "summer flu" is not a thing.
You probably have COVID.
And if it's not COVID, whatever you have is most likely related to COVID related immune system dysregulation.
Good news is, wearing a mask helps prevent COVID and "summer flu". (Again not real)
Tbh I don't particularly love wearing a mask. They can be uncomfortable sometimes & the social anxiety sucks.
But I care more about my health than what other people think so every time I go out, I remember that no one's opinion matters more than mine and my family's health.
I've said it once and I'll say it again:
Not believing the government about the genocide in Palestine but believing the government when they tell you COVID is over is a very convenient lie to tell yourself.
Community care requires you to care and do what you can about both.
To my musician friends:
Not only will COVID take your health, it will also take your hearing and your voice.
If you want to continue making art at the caliber you currently are, avoid COVID infection like your life depends on it.
If our immune systems were a muscle, old people would have the strongest immune systems and in addition to chicken pox parties, we would have rabies and AIDS parties but we don't bc that's ridiculous. Your immune system is NOT a muscle and Covid WILL fuck it up.
I know most people haven't read the research on what COVID does to your body bc no reasonable person could read it and not take immediate action by wearing a mask in their daily life.
I'm glad I was radicalized at a young age instead of just accepting that this is how the world is.
It doesn't have to be.
We don't have to accept genocides & constant illness. We don't have to accept a growing militarized police state & increasing housing costs.
Imagine better
Quick reminder: COVID causes brain damage and heart attacks as well as damaging other organs AND your immune system so if you like those things and want to take care of them, wear a high quality, well-fitting mask if you can 😷🥰
TW: medical
I get that people don't wanna see kids wearing masks.
Personally, I'd rather my kid didn't have to.
But I've seen my kid unconscious, intubated with a tube draining fluid out of her chest.
COVID is a deadly, disabling disease.
Forgive me but I'd rather avoid it
Zionists have arrived thinking I'm here to argue with them.
This is not an argument.
This post is for people who are still unsure somehow, 4 months in.
I don't care about your filthy zionist opinions. Get blocked.
Cops don't exist to help you, the individual. They exist solely to protect the state and the state's interests.
If you don't agree, you haven't been listening to Black people and you should ask yourself why that is.
We didn't always "live with disease."
We died from disease.
Modern medicine is what made it possible to "live with disease."
But now that's being systematically dismantled.
So back to dying from preventable illness we go 🙃
There is no amount of COVID infections that will make you immune to COVID.
More COVID infections make you more likely to get Long COVID or suffer some other devastating health consequence.
Prevent COVID by wearing a respirator 😷
"Did you mask before COVID??"
No bc COVID (pandemic) didn't exist yet lol
But if I had known that masks work as effectively as they do, I would have worn one.
As with most things, as you learn more, you do better. That's how life works (for people who care about doing better)
Avian flu jumped from birds to seals and sea lions last year.
Last week we had our first case of bird to cattle transmission.
Today we have our first case of cattle to human transmission.
The alarming speed at which these events are taking place is most concerning to me.
I think my Sāmoan ancestors would be pretty proud of the fact that I'm avoiding preventable diseases by masking.
Because they didn't get the chance when colonizers brought deadly diseases to their island that decimated their families and their homes.
When I say people should protect themselves from Covid, I don't mean it in a dictator "everyone should do what I say" way.
I mean it in the "I would love to live in a world where people care enough about each other to wear masks and clean the air."
When I joined Twitter, I intentionally seeked out reputable COVID info and since then, literally every prediction of theirs came true; opportunistic infections, death latency, new pandemics.
It hit me so hard last night. This is the world now. The world my daughter lives in.
How do they see all the "mystery illness", sudden cardiac arrests, and accidents related to brain fog in the news and not put 1+1 together that the pandemic isn't over
I'm incredibly sorry that this happened to this person's baby. I have to disagree that this was SIDS, as the baby was COVID positive when this happened.
Please understand that COVID can be deadly and disabling for everyone, including children.
Wear a mask, avoid COVID.
For every person who takes no precautions against airborne disease, the person who does has to take on twice the burden of protecting themselves AND you.
Periodic reminder that COVID is a vascular, neurotropic disease.
Which means it affects your blood vessels, especially your heart. And your brain, hence the brain fog and memory issues many people are having even after a "mild case."
But most importantly, COVID is airborne 😷
Ah yes, I remember in high school biology when we learned about the powerhouse of the cell.
Looks like the mechanism that causes fatigue in long covid patients is...
You guessed it! COVID infecting the mitochondria and fucking it the fuck up.
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I don't trust healthcare workers that don't mask.
How can I? They're not doing their job in protecting the vulnerable.
Truthfully, I don't fully trust anyone who doesn't consistently wear a mask.
They don't care enough about their community to fight the stigma & protect ppl.
I'm begging you to consider what might happen to children who are infected repeatedly with SARS-CoV-2.
If you wear a mask for anyone, let it be for them.
The constant work of keeping yourself and your loved ones safe from Covid is astronomical.
The heaviness of grief, and at times despair, can be overwhelming.
I understand why most people don't do it.
And if you are still doing it, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
No amount of hostages in Hamas' possession could justify Israel's current genocide of Palestinians.
Israel has many, many more Palestinian hostages in its possession, including Gaza itself.
Back in my day, we used to PREVENT diseases.
Now we just pretend they don't exist!
And that's going about as well as you'd expect.
What a wild turn of events, I never would have predicted this.
I don't fuck with people anymore.
I used to be able to make friends anywhere. I can talk to anyone. But I just don't feel like it anymore.
Most people are fine with spreading COVID & I don't fuck with that. Most people don't care about the genocides worldwide, even Gaza💔🇵🇸😔
Whenever I have a conversation with someone who feels like masking, testing, or getting vaccinated is/was oppressive, it makes me realize how truly little oppression they've ever experienced in their lives.
I wonder if Rolling Stone came out with the article about masking 😷 bc big artists like Billie Eilish, Adele, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Lewis Capaldi, etc have all gotten "severe flu" recently so they're trying to rehab the music scene and make it safer for artists?
There is no group more kind and compassionate than those who still care about not spreading COVID.
They do the work that no one else wants to do. They show up where no one else shows up.
Wearing a mask is solidarity and community care 🩷😷
Public health agencies have done us a huge disservice by grouping COVID together with the flu and RSV.
COVID is a neurotrophic vascular disease.
The flu and RSV are respiratory diseases.
While RSV and the flu should not be fucked with either, COVID is much more dangerous.
To me, wearing a mask is community care.
When I wear a mask, I'm telling you that I care about you and protecting our collective health.
And when you wear a mask, you're telling me that you care about me and my health.
I care abt u lot so please consider wearing one 🥺❤️
Fascism is overturning Roe vs Wade.
Fascism is anti trans laws.
Fascism is segregation.
Fascism is cop cities.
These things harm a small marginalized minority under the banner of safety.
But they actually make life unsafe for everyone, not just those it targets.
If you care about disadvantaged, marginalized, and disabled people being able to access basic necessities like healthcare, public transit, and grocery shopping: wear a mask in those places.
It's community care. And it's the very least we can do for each other 😷
The other day I thanked the librarians for wearing respirators and they were like, "Well, yeah...it's been 5 years 😑."
And I was like "Ikr 😅 what are we doing 😭."
Why is the most popular zionist argument,
"wHy DoEsN't HaMaS jUsT gIvE tHe HoStAgEs BaCk ThEn???"
Instead of,
"Why does Israel feel it necessary to kill every man, woman, and child in Gaza?"
Bc it's a genocide, that's why.
Since the pandemic began, I learned that people who claim to care about each other will not do the bare minimum to protect each other from disease.
Since October 7th, I've learned that most people think they're immune to genocide.
These 2 realizations connect darkly in my mind
Don't mind me, just doing my regularly scheduled mourning of the life I thought I would live before a global pandemic occurred and its seemingly indefinite mismanagement that continues to require constant mental and emotional work to process 🥺
For those saying mask mandates are fascism, they are not in the same way that seatbelt laws are not.
Mask mandates are public health, they are for the good of everyone. The same way vaccines are. The same way speed limits are. The same way building codes and sanitation laws are
I don't blame my friends and family for not masking.
Systemic issues require systemic solutions. That takes time.
I do wish they would listen to me and protect themselves for their own sakes and for mine and my family's.
But I've processed my animosity. It's not about them.
There's no evidence that COVID infections are ok.
There's only mounting evidence every day that even a "mild" infection can be devastating, permanently disabling, and deadly.
Mask up with a high quality respirator to avoid increasing your chances of catching it 😷😷😷
The real reason I do everything in my power to avoid COVID is bc seeing my daughter in the PICU after her open heart surgery at 6 months old broke something inside of me and I will never allow that to happen to her again if I can help it.
After searching for years, I've finally found several irl friends who share my values of not spreading COVID and am part of more than one group practicing COVID safety and advocating for marginalized groups. It feels amazing. Like I'm finally part of the world again.
Someone said they felt bad for my kid bc she's never been to a grocery store before.
...y'know there's more to life than grocery stores right? 😂
She's been to the tops of snowy mountains. Overlooked desert valleys from a mesa. Gazed across the ocean.
She's fine lol
I'm watching the comments/quote tweets like a hawk.
Zionism has no right to exist on this post.
This is not a safe space for zionists.
Move along, you're only going to get blocked like you rightly deserve
I have a nurse friend who said they admitted a toddler the other day with a fungal infection you would typically only see in an immunocompromised person 😔💔
These fungal infections increasing are a sign of opportunistic infections due to the impact SARS2 has in the immune system.
Search the names of the fungi mentioned in the article with HIV and you'll see. Coccidiosis, Blastomycosis, Histoplasmosis.