Can’t wait to see you, Jon! #oneofthetwo

A lot of Americans are like “We’ll fight for Canada if we have to!” No, you won’t. You’re well-intentioned & some of you probably genuinely think you would but you won’t. If there is actual violent military conflict you will Homer-into-the-hedge dot gif and try not to draw attention to yourself.

Yes, this is what we sick and disabled people have been saying for years. Now please start wearing an N95 or KN95 to help prevent them from doing so.

If you have had sedation for any surgery / procedure - you have been given fentanyl. If you have experienced a medical trauma - you have been given fentanyl. If you have had cancer care, you’ve probably been given fentanyl. It is probably the most precise, effective medication in skilled hands.

If fentanyl gets changed to Schedule I like HR 21 is proposing, healthcare will come to a catastrophic screeching halt. I really need someone who isn't just me to be screaming about this. I cannot emphasize how bad it would be. Worse than COVID and avian flu combined.

The MMR vaccine is a live vaccine. If you're severely immunocompromised and no longer have immunity to measles, getting the vaccine is dangerous, complicated, or impossible. Just try to imagine how continually and increasingly terrifying it is to exist in this world as a medically high-risk person.

How many times have you discarded someone bc they aren't conflict avoidant? Shunned them for being “too angry?” It's all "find your community" & never "communities need to divest from internalized white supremacist BS that causes them to drive the most intensely marginalized, outspoken people out.”

Morning light after a sleepless night

I see a lot of people saying now is the time to get out of the U.S. if you can. Please remember most disabled people can’t leave. It’s incredibly difficult to immigrate to another country when you have documented medical issues. Many are also too sick to endure a move. We must fight for them.

Just as we feared, @who.int has confirmed that the US CDC has stopped sharing influenza virus data even as H5N1 spreads in the country. CC @kkirkup.bsky.social www.who.int/multi-media/...

I don’t even have the privilege to grieve everything chronic illness has taken from me and will continue to take away from me because those same chronic illnesses consume every single iota of energy, capacity, mental space, and will to live I have while simultaneously crushing me.

Whenever a friend develops chronic illness, has a bad experience with the healthcare system or faces temporary disability, they say “oh my god I didn’t know it was THIS bad” They did know. We told them. They chose not to believe us Believe disabled people. Listen. Help. One day it’ll be your turn

Chronic Illness Diagnosis #chronicillness #chronicallyill #chronicillnessmemes

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.

IT ALWAYS HAPPENS(ED) TO BLACK DISABLED PEOPLE FIRST.

What about the DISABLED trans Americans who can never immigrate because we’re “too expensive” for a eugenicist healthcare system that used MAID to kill off disabled Canadians. I’m honestly so tired of people talking about fleeing this country. Stop leaving those of us in more danger behind.

🧵There is a marked divide btwn COVID-safer folks who are living a changed, but relatively full life - still going into bookstores, the movies, etc. albeit wearing a mask & those of us who are so high-risk that we can barely leave the house & spend social time outdoors 95-100% of the time, if at all.

Five years ago (Friday 3 Jan 2020), the number of identified cases of "unexplained viral pneumonia" increased from 27 to 44, as announced by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, who also wrote that there was "no obvious evidence of human-to-human transmission". ▫️1/

Five years. Five years. FIVE FUCKING YEARS OF ABANDONMENT & VIOLENT ABLEISM. I'm a shell of the person I was in 2019. All my trust in humanity & community has been shattered over & over & over again. I cannot explain the all consuming grief of permanent isolation. Wear a mask. #immunocompromised

For years I have been haunted by the memory of a 3 year old Syrian refugee I met in Greece during the height of the refugee crisis. He had regressed and was non-verbal. Same age as my kid. His dad said “he has seen very bad things” I think of him and all the others I met, with tonight’s news.

a cloak believed to belong to the shooter transformed into a dozen beautiful white doves and flew away, Authorities said,

Thoughts?

#UnitedHealthcare #DisabilityJustice

I really hope that the rest of the medical ruling class is as scared of being murdered by an assassin as chronically ill people are of being murdered by the medical ruling class.

I haven’t seen anyone talk about this. #UnitedHealthcare #MedicalIndustrialComplex

This. This this this.

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Remembering how I caught #RSV from an infusion nurse. Then caught #COVID from an infusion nurse AS SOON AS I WAS HEALED FROM RSV. Literally my first infusion after. This was in a cancer center (I don’t have cancer but am #immunosuppressed). Then I got pneumonia. I barely stayed out of the hospital.

If you’re a HCW who masked prior to COVID - why aren’t you masking now? Healthcare settings are LESS safe - yet suddenly getting staff to mask is a battle. Even if you’re “sick of masking” or see them as political virtue signalling - can’t you realize your patient shouldn’t pay the price?

If you live in US or Canada please check if there is an indigenous led organization for rematriation that you can give money to Where I live (Huichin, AKA Oakland) that means I pay a Shuumi Land Tax to the Segorea Te Land Trust sogoreate-landtrust.org/pay-shuumi/

Y’all realize the skeet is slang for cum, right?

Two vital pieces of info b4 Black Friday: 1. Price trackers have proven that Amazon has been slowly hiking prices so they can pretend to slash them on Black Friday/Cyber Monday. There are no actual deals. Just the appearance of them. 2. Amazon workers are on strike www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...

400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us

im seeing plenty of people saying they demand assisted dying because they're scared of having to suffer one day. do they know how many disabled people are suffering now due to medical & care neglect & desperately want to live & not suffer? we have to start demanding everyone's basic needs are met

I’m committing to not reposting images that don’t have alt text. Can we all agree to do that here?

So, I got turned down for a junior position (was 2nd place) bc I’m not junior (the overqualified thing) but the director wanted to debrief after the rejection & emphasized how excellent I am as a potential hire & is putting me on a shortlist for manger positions if they open up, which feels good. /1

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

FND is not a diagnosis. It’s an indication that yr medical team is uninterested in figuring out what’s actually going on. Let me be very, very clear - your symptoms are real. The diagnosis is BS & is intended to discard you / bar you from accessing care. #NEISvoid #FND #DisabilityJustice

Read about Nazi euthanasia programme, Aktion T4. Identical arguments are being made for legalisation, that were used in Nazi propaganda films. It was sold to the public via posters too, about how much disabled people cost to keep alive. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4

I wrote this a couple months ago, but feel like people might need to read it right now

🧵 1/ I usually just say "I'm flaring" but that means different things on different days to different people. Today is a very bad day. Here is a *condensed* version of what that looks like today:

I appreciate liberals suddenly caring about disinformation again, but those of us that've been tending this home fire for the past four years are gonna need y'all to recognize the covid disinformation you need to undo in your own mind if you want to stand in solidarity with disabled people.

fucked up that I can be extremely tired and extremely unable to sleep at the same time

Not, I’m not #COVIDconscious I’m a pathogen realist. COVID, Avian flu, RSV, all of it.

I don't suppose anyone's up for making a starter pack of historians of apartheid regimes (colonial Kenya, US South, South Africa, colonial Zimbabwe, etc)?

I still don't understand why people will risk catching #Covid. Wear a N95 protect yourself and those around you. #CovidIsntOver