When I fled an abusive monster 500 miles away to North Carolina, an anonymous prepaid phone saved my life, literally..
It was my only shield.
Now the FCC wants to kill that lifeline for every survivor by forcing ID + a physical address just to buy a prepaid phone.
Payphones are gone. You need a number for jobs, housing, everything.
This is the slow death of privacy, from “for the children” ID checks to biometric iris scans and cameras on every corner.
Your 4th Amendment right “to be secure in your persons, houses, papers, and effects” is being erased 250 years later.
Covid is different for everyone. Some get it and are fine in a few days others get it and never fully recover with new health issues and expensive medical bills. Please If you had Covid and ended up ok do not be disrespectful to those who never recovered and now have Long Covid.
A lot of the nastiness stems from people wanting to discourage others from talking about COVID but it just makes me want to talk about it even more. Something bad happened, it sucks. And people need to come to terms with it instead of getting mad at sick people.
Covid killed the pope. And the queen. And Pele. It’s the reason Biden dropped out. It’s why your favourite artist is sick, stopped touring or has come down with serious health complications. It’s why the kids are failing at school, it’s why the schools are failing. It’s all Covid
I keep warning that we will get ugly laws again. It's so important that we insist that everyone belongs in society and in public. We need to double down on inclusivity. And not only when it's convenient or easy.
Healthcare workers believe they have the right to spread illness to patients. It’s really sickening that medical facilities leave it up to “personal choice.” Like oh ok so it’s their personal choice to kill or harm me. Thanks medical “professionals!”
Had a women walk up to me at the gate and ask if I always wear an n95 at work. She knew I was about to be the working crew on her flight. why? Why are you starting this? I just said, "yes." She proceeded to tell me she was a HCW who does in home healthcare
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@brownecfm At least 5 times a week I think to myself how goddamn lucky we've been that none of the recent human spillovers have had the right set of mutations to pandemicmaxx
When I told everybody here and argued with many overly confident people that the evidence appeared to me to show that Covid was a serious and exceptional infection, and that the long Covid risk would remain and probably increase after infection, I was accused of not understanding that immunity builds with infection
I tried to explain that the virus harms immunity and was called an alarmist by people that had more advanced credentials than I, whilst I was still a medical student.
For a while, many people brushed me aside and did not credit me given my understanding of the immune system as shown by my work in the olearly 2010s on T cell differentiation and death which I was awarded a PhD by the National Cancer Institute for.
In fact, the National Cancer Institute was threatened for hosting me with a NYT oped that I was spreading misinformation.
Now, the NYT is raising the alarm on increasing long covid incidence on reinfection in children- over double
It’s hard to convey the indignant rage I feel over my future- and your futures- having been robbed from us.
https://t.co/gsSDrEK4Yz
i am so sick of this shit it's so fucking clear y'all know the pandemic didn't end and the dissonance is harming you and instead of admitting you messed up and fixing it going forward y'all just get on here and whine about how things "feel off". grow up and put on a fucking mask
You can’t return to something that doesn’t exist and that’s the predicament we live within currently.
Covid is an ongoing pandemic that the masses are ignoring but it isn’t ignoring them.
This is why people are dying younger and getting sick more frequently than pre 2020.
I wonder how many more ME/CFS deaths there have to be before we finally start talking about the disease as one that kills people in what should be the prime of their lives. I wonder how many more lives have to be completely destroyed before we decide that this deserves urgency
@VerseusGreekus Do you even have the tiniest bit of understanding of disease progression?
Are you aware you can have 20% of your kidney function without any symptoms?
Are you aware you can have cancer and not know it?
But ok, you feel fine, so you’re definitely 100% healthy 👍🏻😂