Fascism works best when it convinces you that you have no responsibilities to other people. When you turn away from community, when you deny responsibility, when you devalue other lives, when you refuse to witness, this is how genocide is sanctioned.
So many ppl mourning him, how many would wear a mask for him while he was here? How many would make public spaces accessible for him as a medically vulnerable person while he was here? Fight for his right to exist, to live, to make art while he was here?
Rest in peace, legend
This is NOT holiday weather, this is NOT just summer, and your jolly childhood memories of yore have NOTHING to do with these temperatures and the harm they wreak on people, nature, food supplies (and prices) and infrastructure. https://t.co/n60CkgQn2L
We’re not going to be able to talk the ruling class into doing something about this burning planet, we can’t shame them if they have no shame. We aren’t going to convince them, they aren’t coming around. We need to force them from power, and we need to do that now.
Covid minimizing Dr Wachter who is chief of medicine at UCSF & who previously mocked his long Covid suffering wife for wearing a mask on a plane passed out recently while infected with the virus and nearly ended up dead: like 1 in 10 people who pass out (syncope) due to Covid:
Have you spotted this pattern? (quick thread 🧵)
Covid-alert folk who know that covid infections can cause damage anywhere there are blood vessels or ACE2 receptors say "Continuing Covid infections are going to cause a tidal wave of long term sickness and disability" 🌊
this is capitalism, your employer gets to profit ungodly amounts of money off your labor and when you push for basic living standards they have the power to destroy your life.
Adding to this thought, I keep seeing clips about avoiding Lyme disease...cover up on hikes, use bug spray, avoid brushy areas, do tick checks after any exposure...all from maskless healthcare folks who don't bother to avoid spreading a virus that can be more damaging than Lyme.
I HAVE RETURNED TO MAIN because I am FURIOUS that @JNJGlobalHealth is preventing millions from accessing life-saving treatment with bedaquiline, thereby costing innumerable lives and increasing the global risk of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. https://t.co/AbTdNzC1Sm
Everything that is happening with climate breakdown was forecast. So please pay attention to the forecasts for what happens if this continues. Scientists have been clear: societies will bend. Some will break. New pandemics. Water wars. Famines. Nothing should come as a shock
If you call yourself a leftist - wear a mask 😷
If you think that you’re an ally - wear a mask 😷
If you’re for collective liberation it needs no more deliberation
Support Indigenous & Disability rights and please wear a highly rated mask 👏🏽 👏🏽