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We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!

If you want to fight fascism? Wear a mask.

If you want to show solidarity with disabled people? Wear a mask.

If you want to protect your own health? Wear a mask.

If you recognize that no one is coming to save us? Wear a mask.

My ultimate guide to respirators:

When a disabled person asks for an accommodation, the response shouldn't be:

You'll need to
- Meet with us for multiple unnecessary discussions.
- Run an advocacy campaign.
- Join a committee.
- Promote it for us and ensure it's popular.

Quit putting unpaid labour on us. Just do the thing.

YouTube video by SciShow Exercise Actually Makes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Worse

Huge thanks to @scishow.bsky.social for warning all the new folks out there dealing with early M.E. as a result of Covid:

***Exercise makes ME/CFS worse.***

Big props to @diatoma.bsky.social for proposing this topic! REALLY wish I had seen this a decade ago 😭

youtu.be/wxSwYUennBA?...

Action for ME has just announced a follow-up to the DecodeME study that will analyse the whole genome of around 17,000 participants. This is really exciting, and might result with some really interesting data.

www.actionforme.org.uk/news/sequenc...

Doc version of my zine which is a guide for ppl new to ME. empwrtc.com/wp-content/u...

Part 1: what is mecfs?
Part 2: hypotheses
Part 3: common myths & misconceptions
Part 4: tools for getting by
Part 5: tools for crisis & emergencies
Part 6: tools for caregivers, supporters, friends & others

Boosting! 💕💸

Skyler needs help! Please give what you can and share.

#BIPOCMA #MutualAid
#HelpSky

And the converse, where ableism goes unquestioned, makes every other marginalization easier to target. As long as it’s acceptable to treat disabled ppl as disposable, anyone can be acceptably disposed of under the premise they were “mentally ill”/“dangerous”/unwell to begin with”/“useless eaters”

I’ve written about 69 Palestinian films directed by women in my newsletter over the last year. This list collects them all with links where you can watch most of them.

🔗 boxd.it/xlziu/detail

I added support/care items (especially herbs and supplements) to my throne if anyone is able to help. throne.com/plagueprose my health has been spiraling since being forcibly infected with COVID this summer.

"Today 🇸🇩Day 599🇸🇩
Tomorrow 🇸🇩600🇸🇩"

Bashy

please read this piece on Hammer and Hope

hammerandhope.org/article/suda...

and supper Sudanese people in need here:

www.sudanfunds.com

#KeeyEyesOnSudan

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struggling with housing insecurity for almost a year now since termites ate our house. Previously homeless, would love to have aid! I'm from the global south, and the sole caretaker of family of three, in no position to refuse help. If you like my art, feel free to send me a tip!
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PART OF LAYING DOWN YOUR PRIVILEGE LiSTENING OPPRESSED PEOPLE ALLY HENNY @ALLYHENNY @JEEHEIPARK WITHOUT ARGUING, INTERROGATING, MINIMIZING OR GASLIGHTING THEM

Including your health privilege

👇👇👇

“I don’t want to wear a mask”

I can’t force you. What I can do is tell you some of the things I “don’t want to do” that I’m forced to do because of my illnesses

If masking could have eliminated my suffering - I would never be without one

🧵 on prevention, being the exception & chronic illness

In 2022, the government gave you permission to abandon #immunocompromised people

You didn’t have to listen 😷

#MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy #HighRiskCOVID19

#MasksSaveLives #BringBackMasks #StopMaskBans

Blackline, a crisis support line that does not report to police. Web address: https://www.callblackline. "Don't Call the Police, Resources by City". Web address: https://dontcallthepolice.com. Firewood Collective, Crisis Toolkit. Web address: https://fireweedcollective.org/crisis-toolkit/ Project LETS, Crisis Support. Web address: https://projectlets.org/crisis-support • Project LETS, Peer Mental Health Advocates Long-Term Web address: https://projectlets.org/peer-support

It can be a hard time for my sick friends. Not being able to eat due to gp or being tube fed, being housebound, etc. I’m sending you all love. Here are some crisis lines too. Sending love to my friends in abusive rlxn too. Been there. Still haunts me.

Love u. To hell with thanksgiving anyways.

also i completely empathize with people who are like well, okay, “what the fuck do i even draw then? everything has already been done before so why does my take matter.”

it matters!!! even if only because the process of making it helped you build your own skill set!

Imagine if flight attendants handed out free N95 masks before take off instead of just hot towels. Every public place is a key opportunity to educate people and normalize masks.

The consequences of SARS-CoV-2 within-host persistence - Nature Reviews Microbiology In this Review, Sigal et al. explore SARS-CoV-2 persistence mechanisms, the frequency of persistent infections, their role in accelerated evolution and their link to variant emergence hot spots. The R...

SARS-CoV-2 can persist in some with weak immunity, causing mutations that may lead to new variants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Taipei is a drag queen in dramatic smoky eye makeup and a blonde wavy wig. She wears a hot pink patterned blouse and stands in front of a dark blue background. She describes her personal experience as a drag artist living with Long COVID, and explores how many in person drag shows are inaccessible to her. Reference images and footage are shown on screen.

In our first video essay for The Sick Times, drag artist Taipei talks about how #LongCOVID impacts her work as a performer and how many spaces are inaccessible for disabled performers due to a lack of COVID-19 precautions. bit.ly/4i4Iw1x

Elephant shrew I got to draw for the @cartoonistcoop.bsky.social 's E-Sims for Gaza initiative.

Chronically Complex: The #MEAction Podcast Whether you’re new to this disease or you’ve been living with it for decades, there’s something here for you.

Looking for a good #podcast to listen to or maybe a #book to read this Sunday? We can help with that! Check out the latest episode of Chronically Complex where we talk to Pillow Writers about their anthology- available now! www.meaction.net/chronically-...

@pillowwriters.bsky.social
#pwME #MECFS

🚨 This urgent rent fundraiser is stalled

Nevra’s health is declining, please donate and share! www.paypal.com/paypalme/Sav...

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Please keep this disabled domestic abuse survivor housed 🙏🏼

💛 We need $3,362.52

Those who oppose Covid mitigations say it’s because we won’t stop until we reinstate lockdowns

Many disabled people have been locked down for 5 years. All we want is safe access to public spaces

Just give us clean air, paid sick time & masks in high risk public spaces.

It doesn’t have to be hard.