The Chronic

The Chronic is a comprehensive guide of curated resources for those with chronic illness who are navigating a broken healthcare system

[Hannah 🐰♍️🐐🦂 @hannastasia]

This is what we mean when we say that it’s essential to disconnect your ability to work from your right to basic human needs.

Some of us are disabled, some people always will be: we also need to get to live inside, with food, even so.

[Lindsay Ballant @lindsayballant]

If the judge is married to a former Big Pharma exec but prosecution vows to weed out jurors with "disabilities" assuming they've had bad experiences with the health insurance industry (since they have to deal with it frequently), what exactly about this case is impartial or fair

[onjali rauf @OnjaliRauf]

They were:

Electricians
Firefighters
Bakers
Nurses
Tilers
Restaurateurs
Shop workers
Gardeners
Plumbers
Office temps
Builders
Prison guards
Lorry drivers
Carpenters
Technicians
Soldiers...

NEVER again can #women be told our fear of male violence is "irrational".

#GiselePelicot

[Covid Bag Of Dicks 🦠🛍️🍆 @covidbagofdicks]

You are the fucking clown here. You have no idea what these people’s circumstances are. My friends six-year-old daughter has leukemia. If she catches anything, she will die. Go fuck yourself.

[The Tweedy Mutant @the_tweedy]

So many of the folks fantasizing about ways they would have protected Luigi from police, etc. are the same people who regularly fail to listen to and act in solidarity with disabled people.

You could have *already* been living that radical life and "sticking it to The Man".

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

Just reflagging this resource: LitCOVID has over 440,000 articles on covid. The media isnt highlighting how bad covid is, but it is proving out to be so, so, so incredibly dangerous. Pubs updated daily: https://t.co/aPeP40sWaD

[David Challen @David_Challen]

Only in a year where #GiselePélicot holds 50 men who raped her to account does a rapist President get named Person of the Year (for the second time). The message is clear: misogyny rewards power, while survivors like Gisele fight to ensure #ShameMustChangeSides.

[Kendra @SurvivingCFS]

If you’re poor and have MECFS and no family this shit is not doable. It’s really just not. I’ve loved it for a decade and I’m here to tell you: it’s not doable. I’ve fought tooth and nail trying to fight this illness. It’s genuinely not doable.

[Disabled Doctor @DisabledDoctor]

This man apparently died shortly after posting this and the number of comments suggesting maybe he just had a panic attack should make everyone question why mental health issues are often the default assumption when medical providers don’t find some immediate cause right away.

[The Chronic @info_chronic]

I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Preserving Telehealth. Write one here: https://t.co/3Az96s9bA6

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Anaphylaxis needs to be taken more seriously than it is.

Epi is great - but it’s only buying you time. Biphasic reactions can be lethal.

Also - especially if you have MCAS - make sure to learn the various ways anaphylaxis can present.

It doesn’t always involve the airway.
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[soul khan, msw @soulkhan]

you can be driven into homelessness by someone like brian thompson, then legally murdered by someone like daniel penny, while the money that could have saved you is spent on murdering children in gaza.

[Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈🍉 @theBrianaMills]

To be disabled is to be radical. Many of us are forced to depend on others, rest, and be vulnerable. We’re basically forced to behave in ways that non-disabled people are taught not to do and I think that’s one reason why we make them uncomfortable.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Kyle Rittenhouse is allowed to get away with murder. Daniel Penny is allowed to get away with murder. Cops get away with murder all the time. The people pearl clutching about this CEO killing are really concerned with who was killed, not the act of killing.

[Wear a respirator. Long COVID killed Fiqah Hudson. @kendandelion]

Removing remote access is simply removing access to healthcare entirely. Not having telehealth in the past led to unequal healthcare access. Disability activists have fought for this. Not having safe and equal access to HEALTHCARE will likely kill people.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Telehealth was something disabled people had spent years begging for. It’s a game changer when you have an energy limiting chronic illness

It’s hard to imagine any legitimate reason to remove it - it will cause harm.

Let patients access care in the way that is safest for them.

[Medic Kim @medickimw]

They’re gonna spend 100x more manpower and money to find the UHC CEO shooter than they ever did investigating UHC’s unlawful practices and the deaths they caused.