Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬

Californian in the PNW 🌦️ | Social Worker | Policy Wonk | Queer and Jew-ish | Cat Mom | Bookworm

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

Every month I donate to/shop for the Cal Poly Cat Program - I'd love it if you made a donation too! https://t.co/sAxn45Hygl

[Nerdfighters Against Tuberculosis @NftwtAgainstTB]

Yes, yes you are. And you should act like it, @DanaherCorp. YOU can improve SO MANY lives with your XDR tests, save entire families, communities. You are choosing not to. Make the right choice. Reduce your exorbitant prices, stop gouging those who need help most - it's #TimeFor5

[Nerdfighters Against Tuberculosis @NftwtAgainstTB]

The message is simple @DanaherCorp... Help us save real people. You have made millions of $$. People are dying for want of a test that costs you less than $5 to make, but you charge around $15. Please. Be kind. It's #TimeFor5. Put ACTUAL #PeopleOverProfit. Help us help them 🙏🏻

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

@DanaherCorp put #peopleoverprofits and lower the cost of lifesaving diagnostic tests! #timefor5

[TBFighters @TBFighters]

Today marks 9 months since @DanaherCorp lowered the price on their standard #TB tests 🎉 But they still haven't followed through with their other crucial diagnostics! Tell them it's #TimeFor5 🖐️ for ALL tests by sharing your favorite memes! Find some at: https://t.co/dTgEBI6EBq

[Clara Laherty @ClaraLaherty]

Every day @DanaherCorp doesn't drop their GeneXpert test prices is a day with a body count. They need to drop them immediately. #TimeFor5

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

It’s been 9 months @DanaherCorp. It’s time to drop the prices on all your GeneXpert tests. It’s #TimeFor5

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

It’s been 9 months @DanaherCorp. It’s time to drop the prices on all your GeneXpert tests. It’s #TimeFor5

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

Want to see people in low and middle-income countries have access to affordable medical tests? Want to help prevent deaths from drug-resistant TB, HIV, and hepatitis?? Sign the #Timefor5 petition: https://t.co/UooMUnq3Gw

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

.@DanaherCorp and @CepheidNews - I'm calling on you to reduce the price of GeneXpert tests used for all diseases to $5, including XDR-TB, HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and Ebola! It's #Timefor5 and time to save lives!!

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

Thanks to everyone who has shared this video about @DanaherCorp's price-gouging the world's poorest people. Please keep sharing it on reddit, facebook, and with friends who will care about the Danaher's Reverse Robin-Hooding. https://t.co/JKfsVyqz63

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

.@DanaherCorp STOP price-gouging and start putting #PeopleOverProfits

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

. @DanaherCorp makes 8 billion dollars in annual profits. Much of that profit comes from price-gouging the world's poorest countries for life-saving tuberculosis tests. Danaher has done this in the dark for 13 long years.
Today, we shine the light. #PeopleOverProfits

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

#PeopleOverProfits - Danaher, this is unacceptable!!

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

Are you familiar with the printer ink business model? Sell a printer for a modest profit because you'll make the real money from forcing people to buy your ink? IT's also known as the razor blade business model.
Danaher sells its diagnostic machines at a small profit and then price gouges for tests--thus denying millions access to affordable, accurate tests for tuberculosis. And then THEY BRAG ABOUT IT TO THEIR SHAREHOLDERS. Just listen to @DanaherCorp CEO Rainer Blair. #PeopleOverProfits

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

What a marketing technique

[Walter Koenig @GineokwKoenig]

Come see me before I die. #GalaxyCon in Austin on Sept 1-3!

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

(this is not to discount my amazing peers, but to discount how awful my schooling was. We all succeeded IN SPITE OF the education we received)

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

Just wrote an email to my middle school's principal (in advance of a school board meeting), and it took a lot of self restraint not to introduce myself like, " Hi, I'm Claire. I have two masters degrees. I am, academically, quite literally the best this school could put out"

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

@goroymoi Luckily (or unluckily?? Idk) I've hit my out of pocket max for my insurance this year lol - I am going to continue trying docs, and hopefully I can bring AJ with me to appointments for backup!!

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

Okay folks, any advice for medical self advocacy when surgeons are pushing me to have surgeries that I don't want?? I have had three surgeons dismiss my referral/presenting health condition and refer me to bariatrics because they think I just need to lose weight.

[Melissa Karibian @Mel_Karibian]

Actually so obsessed with this display

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

I just don't know what to do. Third surgeon told me to look on the bright side that I don't have Barrett's (yet). That doesn't make me feel better. I might get it because of my family history and because YOU WONT HELP ME

[Claire (she/her) 🕯️🪬 @Claireospace]

Third surgeon (different hospital system, thoracic specialty, I specifically sought him out because he does not specialize in bariatrics) referred me to a DIFFERENT surgeon BECAUSE she does bariatrics and he wants me to work with her to find a "balance" of surgical options (???)