mexican boylesbian ⟡ militant community care, radical public health 😷 sex educator in progress ⋆。𖦹°‧ kathy acker & astrology enthusiast ☆ LIBERATION 4 ALL!🔻
during the 2nd largest covid surge since 2020, california has decided to *checks notes* change the isolation period to 1 day, let kids go to class while covid+, and shut down free vax clinics. willfully forcing infection upon us for the sake of capitalism. masking up is resisting
The Gaza health ministry has just released a list showing the scale of infectious diseases that are spreading through the overcrowded shelters. It shows more than 95,000 people suffering from diarrhoea and more than 133,000 people with upper respiratory tract infections
pretty sure i got covid from a pro-palestine protest w thousands of people where masks were “encouraged” but most people around me weren’t wearing one🫠 so yeah, mask up at protests even if u generally don’t mask up outdoors
If you are protesting, wear a mask! Kn95/n95/p100. Don't disable or kill your comrades. Don't harm one vulnerable group while fighting for another. Disease is used as a tool by the oppressor, and cops sure as fuck don't mask. You're better than that
if u see people celebrating how covid levels are currently the lowest they’ve ever been since 2020, remind them it’s bc the gov is getting rid of all the data and resources, not bc anything is Actually getting better…
good news :) i got everyone in my women and gender studies class to mask up as one of our collective agreements. i can’t control what they do outside of class but im gonna help the prof provide kf94s/kn95s and hope for the best :) !!!!!!
oomf is like "ive never had covid" but lives w anti-maskers, has a cold literally every week, a months long untreated mystery kidney infection, and was diagnosed w diabetes this year....🧍
ok so u know how we’ve joked about the early 20th century repeating itself (the titanic, fascism, threats of world war, pandemics) ?
it just hit me that the enforcement of back to normal, the overconsumption and reckless hedonism we r experiencing r the roaring 20s again!!!! 😭
ppl in my replies keep saying “there’s no way ive gotten asymptomatic covid bc my body would have shown symptoms” do you know what asymptomatic means ??
“anyone else novid? it’s getting lonely 🫤” shut up, getting sick isn’t a moral failure, asymptomatic spread is real, and using ur ‘novid’ status as a sign of superiority is individualistic and weird survival of the fittest mentality. ENOUGH!!! I’m tired!!!!!!!!!
(sarcasm) hmmm i wonder why capitalist society is so obsessed with rushing the end of a pandemic caused by a virus whose recovery time requires radical rest, like literally doing Nothing that requires exertion or is considered “productive”….i wonder 😐😐😐😐😐😐😐
i stood up and said how if we’re discussing systems of violence and consent, we should practice that and keep each other safe and not consent to being infected, then i went on ab how covid intersects w all these social issues and how everyone in the class is affected
i sound like a broken record but i can’t emphasize enough how this will disable and KILL people. CA public health officials will have blood on their hands. what part of “mass disablement campaign” isn’t clicking by now?
Lady Gaga reveals she performed 5 shows with COVID-19 on her Chromatica Ball tour:
“I shared it with everyone on my team […] I just didn’t wanna let all the fans down. [They] were all putting themselves in harm’s way everyday coming to the show.”
me personally i think we need to reframe the idea that anyone who wears masks automatically has radical politics bc theres covid cautious people on this app that are some of the most racist ableist classist survival of the fittest fuckers
and since there’s a surge, it’s in our best interests to not get sick so we can keep being in class. and then i said anyone could talk to me if they needed help accessing higher quality masks/tests they could talk to me too. i got some weird stares but in the end everyone agreed!
4+ million w long COVID, no treatment, 1 in 29 Americans have COVID. everywhere u look they’re trying to convince you that it’s normal and fine to keep getting sick over and over and to get others sick. these policies are INTENTIONAL - they know what they’re doing, they DONT CARE
my mom sent me gummy bears and n95s through the mail along with a letter using gender neutral terms to address me and saying she missed me ever day i’m gonna fucking cry
my perspective on COVID and community care, specifically in my day to day in person environment, completely shifted from despair to hope when i stopped having a lone masker, me vs. them mindset and put my compassion, urgency, and knowledge into action. what we feed will grow🧵:
“i’ll be fine” oh yeah? with what resources? because they’re taking them all away. with what treatment? what # of covid infections are you on? who around you might be affected? do you realize being disabled in this country makes you disposable in the eyes of the gov?
im gonna say it 🧍🏻
covid minimizers dramatize the severity of the 2020 shelter in place order & that is harmful, but a lot of people on here minimize it and that may not be as harmful but i think it is unhelpful. i just think we as a culture have no idea how to grieve properly!
i love my mom so much. she knows i’ve been struggling for months with cleaning my depression room to the point where it’s affecting my health so she came over today with starbucks, fabuloso cleaner, and a negative PCR test and is helping me deep clean the apartment 🥹
we need an investigation on the “white women covid influencers that prioritize making covid safety desirable & palatable over the survival of those most harmed, and whenever they’re called out for their bad takes they go into victim mode” epidemic because why are they everywhere
@laurieallee
talking about the real scientific effects that COVID has on the brain isn’t ableist. what’s ableist is calling people who have been infected mindless reckless zombies, calling people who don’t mask “ins*ne” “m*rons”, “cr*zy”, which i see daily on this app.
fucking ridiculous. note to self: explaining to covid conscious white “influencers” the importance of ending lateral ableism in our discussions about covid leads to being blocked!! and now, the life saving, crucial information that laurie has compiled & that i bookmarked is gone.
more cute masked pics in nature!!! the smoke was sooo bad today, but being around so much greenery was helpful ^•^ sometimes i feel self conscious when i pose for photos in n95s but these are SO CUTE!!!! i am adorable🍃🌱🌿🌵🌳
new virus same psy op! there is no “public health” in this country its literally just the government, CDC & other spineless health officials, and corporations all coming together to sacrifice us for profits 👍
H5N1 in cattle renamed to Bovine Influenza A Virus (BIAV)
"Because this infection in cattle is not the same as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), ... the AABP will now refer to this as Bovine Influenza A Virus (BIAV),"
Bovine Veterinarian
baffling to me that y’all saw the world ending and instead of leaning on community and kindness and solidarity u were like “Finally,,, an excuse to be an individualistic piece of shit whose entire sense of purpose and worth is rooted in consumerism!!!! YAYYYY😁😆”
sometimes it takes a 5+ months-long depressive episode, debilitating SI, and two COVID infections to realize you need to stop fucking around and accept that you actually were not meant to deal with it all on your own and relationships are worth the effort!! who knew
found out that the prof teaching the class ab the AIDS crisis that ive been looking forward to taking is a gay cop 😭 hes given FBI trainings at quantico & pushes for “LGBT sensitivity in law enforcement” and wrote a book called “coming out from behind the badge” 😭😭😭
people have different opinions of what Novid means. this tweet refers to people who use novid to mean that they’ve NEVER had a single infection and therefore are a “rare breed” and morally superior. this is NOT directed towards people trying their best to avoid (re)infection!
“anyone else novid? it’s getting lonely 🫤” shut up, getting sick isn’t a moral failure, asymptomatic spread is real, and using ur ‘novid’ status as a sign of superiority is individualistic and weird survival of the fittest mentality. ENOUGH!!! I’m tired!!!!!!!!!
confronted my roommates about their misgendering
Roomie 1 misgendered me DURING THE MISGENDERING CONVERSATION, refused to apologize and roomie 2 said “the times i’ve misgendered u are in the minority! ig i didn’t know that i have to gender properly each time 4 us to have a bond”
really proud of myself for being braver and doing small acts of community care/disrupting the covid is over status quo lately :') it gives me hope to see other people advocating and it encourages me to advocate and then THAT inspires other people and it gives me sm joy
like
@DEC0L0NIZE
says, not all covid conscious folks are in alignment. not everyone is our comrade and wants to do the WORK to move beyond liberalism and into liberation. it sucks because i really admired laurie’s work.
i wish more people my age took covid seriously. i have adhd, depression + i smoke(d). that automatically makes me higher risk for severe symptoms if i get covid. I KNOW LIKE 329 MFS WHO FIT THIS CRITERIA and dgaf like ?!?! that’s a big deal
anyway
@AROCBayArea
can y’all start advocating more explicitly for covid safety at both indoor and outdoor actions during the second biggest wave of the pandemic 🥸 can’t be out in the streets if we’re sick!
feeling sick rn :/ tested negative on 2 rapids, one today & one on saturday + negative pcr on monday but im going to get another one today. ugh i hate the uncertainty of symptoms bc it could be covid, a cold, or just my fucked up body being sensitive to the smallest things
yea there tends to be a lull in cases around this time of year, but people stopped testing and when they do test, most people have shitty inaccurate at-home tests from the gov!! states & institutions are also no longer required to report cases/hospitalizations/+ rates.
fyi any potentially valid critique u may have about perfectionism or binary thinking when it comes to covid safety immediately loses validity when u get defensive and accuse the people most materially at risk that they’re being cops
but knowing that i did SOMETHING to break even one chain of transmission, got someone to switch to a better mask, or planted the seed of covid safety in someone’s life is what motivates me to keep going
i wish i could paste this entire video up in every single public space because it is so important and just incredibly stated pleaseeeeee watch this please
the amount of "friends" i have that are so fucking apolitical is actually astounding like damn u just dont care about anything outside of ur self and the bubble you live in?
first day of antisemitism/anti arabism class and my prof quoted some of
@itslaylas
tweets about what’s been going on at columbia since october and i had to hold myself back from yelling “THAT’S OOMF!!!!! 😁”
my public health prof mentions COVID in 90% of her lessons and asks us to analyze how different areas of public health (currently on environmental health) are linked to COVID-19 and i love her for it. she doesn’t minimize the severity of the disease nor uses past tense for it <3
aaaand i just found out my roommates are WAY less covid safe than they say they are. as in, constant indoor dining. and don’t see the point in testing, and are starting to trust vaccines less.
so….i’m gonna spend the night crying and running my hepa filter in my room LOL.
wanting doors and windows to be open bc ventilation for covid but also needing doors and windows to be closed for wildfire smoke is a different kind of hell when ur in class
i was walking down the street and i saw an older woman (65+) with a 3m aura so i told her i liked her mask and she told me she liked mine and we walked the same way together for 10 minutes talking about how important it is to protect yourself and each other and how scary covid is
me personally i think we need to reframe the idea that anyone who wears masks automatically has radical politics bc theres covid cautious people on this app that are some of the most racist ableist classist survival of the fittest fuckers
carrying around spare (k)n95s has been a game changer. instead of judging the family wearing cloth masks i write them a note about the best protection and hand them masks. i’ve been handing them out to my lyft drivers, telling them that cases are rising.
in the last few months, i’ve done a deep dive into disability justice, the history of public health activism, really prioritized moving away from individualism as much as i can, & started talking to my local maskbloc. it’s changed everything!
if you block everyone who doesn’t blindly agree with you, i don’t trust your ability to form solid community and be in solidarity with a diverse group of folks
@laurieallee
COVID safety must be rooted in disability justice. it’s not normalizing a dangerous message to call out problematic phrasing while still encouraging safety and research.
i used to walk around SO angry and hopeless, seeing everyone as plague rats and vectors of disease. anger is sacred and valid, but the dehumanizing wasn’t okay. constantly feeling like it was me vs. everyone was draining and did nothing to make me feel like i had any agency.
sometimes i’ll just remember how my body has never been the same ever since the time i got “the stomach flu” on vacation new years 2017 and it left me hard of hearing for 6 months and with sinus and skin (possibly staph!) infections that continue to this day 😸 lmaooooooo!
no longer being actively suicidal & depressed is so weird because its like damn everything sucks but i’m gonna willingly stick around 😭😭 like whatttt fr?
my roommate has developed a new habit where he shits with the door halfway open and only closes it when he hears me open my door😭 you are GROWN where is your fucking decorum oh my god
thinking about when my mom banned us from listening to i kissed a girl by katy perry not because she was homophobic but because she was anti-casual sex
it’s really interesting to work in an environment where respirators are necessary (ceramics studio). when i’m mixing dry clay dust with the wet clay i am obligated to wear an n95/p100 AND anyone around me (the glazing spot is next to the pugmill) has to as well.
like why do i have to keep dropping in person classes i was really looking forward to because im the only one masked and theres no ventilation and no masking and no proper isolation guidelines and no resources…i can’t learn in environments like that fuck y’all
the initial horror and anger of seeing people sick and maskless doesn’t go away and i think it’s still okay to have that reaction. it’s what you do with it that matters because if you’re only focused on protecting yourself, that’s not solidarity (see tweet below)
These big white Covid conscious accts need to admit they’re not posting for the better of humanity. It’s so that THEY don’t get sick. It’s individualism with a hint of liberalism and a lot of white supremacy.
i was 15 during the shelter in place and my entire adolescence has been shaped by this. we’re worse off in 2023 and need to take action and stop fixating on lockdowns that weren’t lockdowns, but can we acknowledge that 2020 was traumatic and we never dealt with that properly?
DISCLAIMER: this is my experience, what’s worked 4 me as a pre-disabled college student trying 2 change my micro-world & have a better sense of agency. i do NOT advocate for oppressed ppl coddling their oppressors nor do i have this patient attitude towards maskless (yt) leftists
i’m lucky to have received accepting, enthusiastic or at worst, indifferent responses. i know that the more marginalized you are, the more dangerous it is to do this bc of the likelihood of harassment. but if there’s any action you can take to encourage ppl to protect themselves
note: i’ve found that duckbill masks are more breathable for people unaccustomed to n95s rather than 3m auras!! a lot of people may disagree, but i also don’t get hyperfixated on the fit. if they have it on and it covers their face, it’s a win. ideally the straps and nose bridge
from today’s visit to the botanical gardens 🌞 mar & the gigantic leaves would make a good kid’s book title i think 😷🌿 :D
for reference i am 6 ft so these leaves are like… the size of a small child!!!!!
bringing this up again bc now my allergies r 10x worse, i got knocked out by a cold last week, and there are generally 5-7 things wrong with my body at all times now! soooo fun😇 /s (i am angry all the time about this)
it’s been almost a month since i got covid and im sorry i am not gonna shut up about how i can physically FEEL how fucked up my immune system is now. i knew this for years obviously but damn seeing it happen in real time is wild
me after the white boy named kyle in my class clocks me and asks me how my transition is going but before i can answer he starts to tell me unprompted how testosterone steroids made his balls stop working for years
when people in my classes say they’re sick with “not covid” and sniffle/cough around me, i obviously still wince and freak out, but i don’t leave it there!!! I say i’m sorry they’re sick, i tell them how tests are unreliable and i give them an n95 if they have no mask/surgical
i just wish that i could help everyone i care about on here in real life. i wish i could make you dinner & go with you to the doctor to advocate and help you move and celebrate your birthdays and just exist alongside you instead of only being able to send love via an online reply
in the last few months it’s REALLY hit me how so many people’s (including me sometimes and i have to unlearn!) sense of identity and joy and their perception of what makes life worth living is just: consumerism/materialism!!