Joy Clark

Actress, storyteller, auntie: velvet steel,lover of beauty, equal parts wisdom,truth & sarcasm, general purveyor of pixie dust & for now 1 wave covid longhauler

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

.@ElonMusk is right when he said: “you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be.”

The same principle should apply to supporting our farmworkers, construction, and trades workers who build and feed our country.

Top talent is top talent.

[julie is voting Green 💚ψ😷 @jubunnies]

This is what it feels like to still wear a mask in public and hear people complain about their "weird" new health issues while calling their hacking cough "allergies"

[tern @1goodtern]

🚨A reminder for everyone who is sick with Covid🚨
The UK government says:
"Avoid meeting people who are more likely to get seriously ill from viruses, such as people with a weakened immune system, for 10 days after the day you took your test."

And since you don't know who that is, can you please stay the f*ck away from EVERYBODY for those ten days.
Thank you.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Elon Musk spent at least $130 million to elect Trump, despite $3300 being the maximum an individual can legally donate.

He increases his wealth by $333 million each day.

But tell me again how taxing billionaires and campaign finance reform are “radical,” “far-Left,” policies.

[Tricia Dearborn @TriciaDearborn]

I've seen people saying that each time they get C0VlD it's milder, so basically it's nothing to worry about.
This study of nearly 75,000 people in China showed that "reinfection was associated with milder symptoms but led to a higher incidence and severity of long COVID"

[Arijit Chakravarty @arijitchakrav]

If there's a voice inside your head saying "you're probably over-reacting, there's no reason to worry", you (should) ignore it. Feeling concerned in response to a real threat is a rational survival response, & a lack of fear can be maladaptive. Evolutionarily speaking. (21/)

[Gina 😷 SARS2isAirborne #VoteGreen 💚 @Saffiya_Khan1]

@chrischirp @brownecfm The @UKHSA would have us believe that SARS-COV-2 is only a seasonal Winter virus.

Why do the UKHSA never mention long Covid or ways of preventing infection in the first place?

[tern @1goodtern]

Remember when the WHO were telling you "no, no, of course it's not airborne" while silently upgrading their entire HQ to have clean filtered aerosol-free air throughout?

[Ace Ace Baby 💜🦋🌻 @TheGoldenAro]

Covid denialism has spun us so far backwards when it comes to public health because why is it suddenly normal to cough over food other people will eat?!

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

Um, if she was first author of the research, why isn't she a recipient of the award? 🤔

[Joy Clark @joyclarkacts]

RT @SimonWDC: Trump, a private citizen, went into an active disaster area and lied about about the US government was doing, lied about what…

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

Americans with student loans are out here begging people to listen because we are spending DECADES paying on these loans, but the balances never move. I have paid my entire loan balance from 2006 + $10,000, & I still owe more than the original loan. THIS IS CALLED USURY, & it is the norm. Debt consolidation scams are also rampant. My debt is on the lower end, but people are out here with 6 figure loan balances they will NEVER pay off. These aren’t loans, it’s crime.

Unfortunately, a lot of people—older Americans especially—have no idea this is our reality. Individuals are blamed, instead of the *extremely lucrative* student loans scam. People say, “Just pay your debts.” WE PAID OUR DEBTS, and then we paid them again, & again, & again. The balances never budge. I graduated college 20 years ago. End Stage Capitalism is SO bleak.

[tern @1goodtern]

Them: "If Covid were damaging people's abilities to fight other infections then we'd see a huge rise in illnesses right across the board"

The Other Infections: <holds up graphs>

Them: "No, not like that"

[Julie Johnson for Congress @juliejohnsonTX]

Cheating *Republicans* scrubbed the voter rolls in Texas.

Click to find out if you’re one of the millions of Texans they are trying to deny a vote 👉🏻 https://t.co/19n7CaaRfo

[I @W_Asherah]

... About something really petty that he should have just agreed with. She asked him "what exactly are you resisting?" - which is when he remembered what I'd told him. It's socialized resistance to women speaking - and every man I know does it either subconsciously or consciously

[I @W_Asherah]

This gets horrid when it piles up. It makes daily conversations with men anxiety inducing for women because you have to *literally prepare a defence for everything*. In a good no of cases - women stop mentioning or asking anything. No one wants a fucking toothpaste discussion.

[I @W_Asherah]

I've been asking my male friends to do something - *watch if the first response to everything a woman tells you is to refute, say no or something negative*

One texted me later: Holy f*ck

The problem is, constantly putting up with unwarranted resistance is bad for mental health.

[Joy Clark @joyclarkacts]

@contextdogs Boundaries on point.

[tern @1goodtern]

Holy cow.
This risk assessment from the CDC in February 2020.
😮
➡️Covid: Airborne
➡️Catch by: Inhalation
THEY KNEW.
Read the full thread!!
h/t @mdc_martinus

[Plague Poems @PlaguePoems]

Though it is true
do not say that last week
the virus claimed
more than a thousand lives,
in these dark moments
you must try to be more precise,
so do not say that last week
the virus claimed
more than a thousand lives,
say that it claimed
more than fifteen-hundred lives.