Most ppl are not comfortable with the guilt or shame that might surface if they did admit to mistakes. We, particularly white folks, need to learn how to be uncomfy. Not likely to happen until circumstances like disabling LC force it directly on them.
Solidarity ❤️ from a fellow 3 year-er. The disability community is pretty damn rad.
"New Zealand Faces Long COVID Crisis: Government Plan Lacking?"
'The long COVID prevalence of 9.2% of all adults in New Zealand is more than a hundred times greater than this rare-disease threshold...Long COVID is a health burden which must be addressed..'
www.miragenews.com/new-zealand-...
We're at $150/$250 if you'd like to support. Please RT for reach. So close! 🙂
We know how to slow the spread of C-19: respirator masks, clean indoor air, testing, staying home if sick. Make prevention methods accessible for all. Long Covid recently surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children. Recent deep dives are necessary to be speaking from authority.
You deserve protection ❤️
This. Or worsening chronic illness /disability. Its WILD to me that so many can't understand (nor respect) my desire to not lose more ability / independence.
Awesome 🙌 I've considered noting my current job being "out with Long Covid" or something more clever.
Yep. It's highly stigmatized & there's a (valid) fear of being ostracized. As I've learned, ppl don't like being reminded of covid, masking or lockdown days... and if they see symptom burden from those living with LC, its shameful to look away from another's suffering, so they try not to see it.
Some of you are terrified of disability bc it means you’re going to be treated like the waste of life you think the disabled are.
Short answer: ableism.
Longer answer: fear of disability drives them into denial. So ableism.
I’m glad that in my lifetime I am finally witnessing the shift of people understanding that it’s not that countries and people needed to be liberated by the United States, but that they need to be liberated FROM the United States.
We could end homelessness and hunger tomorrow if we wanted to.
We could agree that everyone should be fed and housed.
We could admit that being disabled, poor, homeless or unemployed is not a moral failing.
That society would be better off if everyone’s basic needs were met.
A long covid clinic in my city has drs who don't mask with LC patients... and they also "aren't covid specialists & can't treat LC". They only do research (which they don't advertise, hoping to bring more patients through). I think for many researchers the grants are what they care about.
On this Disability Day of Mourning, let’s honor Wael Tarabishi, a disabled man who died when ICE took his caregiver away.
Wael told them he would die without his father who was his “arms, legs & lungs”.
ICE took him anyways.
Wael died 3 months later:
www.disabledginger.com/p/ice-took-w...
Read Wobblies and Zapatistas @JoshuaPotash It's not just that cops hurt people, it's that they do it with money that could grant safety. They attack the homeless with money that could build housing. They police the mentally ill with money that could go to mental healthcare. They hurt us with money that could keep us safe.
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Of course they wouldn't have to be, if @cmadocs.bsky.social recommended & strongly advocated for #CleanAir in schools -
This is ableism and eugenics and it’s most ugly.
Rodney has suffered for a year with almost no media coverage.
No one cares about disabled lives.
Please fight for him. He’s got the attention of Congress now, let’s make sure they keep up the pressure.
You can sign a petition for his release too!
🫂 Im a softie too! In the ongoing process of unlearning internalized ableism. I'm still surprised how far the concept of "living a life" can be stretched. Glad my efforts can be of support!
Or.... you don't have to 🤷♀️ there are plenty of wonderful things for softies too!
I called her a beast for returning to the sport after 16 years retired & trying PAIRS. Yeah, she's an idol.
You get used to it? My 1st time back on the ice a few years after ending my skating days, I had the gentlest fall ever & was in pain for a long time 😅 i once hit the boards mid-air while rotating, took a minute to make sure I wasn't injured, then tried the jump again! No idea how our bodies do that.
It seems as though Deanna also skated that program with an injured nose, possibly broken? I guess there was a nasty fall on warm-up. She is the EPITOME of determination.
@Lexi3Alexander X.com I truly feel despair at the amount of people who don't understand that we got to where we are right now by accumulating "lesser evil" for decades.
AND, let's remember that this is basic human decency. Comparing leaders in this way & putting one on a pedestal for this is a bit dangerous bc it can create a blanket trust that is not earned.
The rebuttal to this is that Star Trek is not a show about how the future could be but how the present should be. To eradicate disability, rather than accept and accommodate it, is a eugenicist ideal.
I hope he CAN process this effectively & recover his mental game. He's been so consistent for so long. It was an extremely rough performance, not even just for him. Oof.
Yep! And the kid has a mostly consistent quad axel in the mix & is learning who he is creatively in his performance. He'll for sure win again. A particularly hard loss this one was, not just being the Olympics, but also how far off of his game he was.
You think? I thought that at first, but I've seen more maturity over recent years. An arrogant skater would've blazed past his opponents after that loss, but he took the time, in what must've been a dysregulated moment, to congratulate & share seemingly kind words. This exp will humble him further.
Yeah, he didn't only fall... It was an unprecedented disastrous performance. The kid hadn't lost a single competition, winning by a long shot, since Nov 2023. Here's to hoping he can overcome the mental toll this must've caused.