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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 8h

Megan Bayne’s gear is gorgeous, Dax should wear a matching set

sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 9h

Claudio was beastly. Roddy did not let up and you *felt* those hope spots. Marvelous

sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 11h

I am going to watch wrestling soon

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 11h

I am going to watch wrestling soon

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 16h

"Is it “reasonable” to...mask all the time?...Of course, it is not reasonable, nor fair. That is why COVID-aware people continue to advocate for change...none of what we’re being asked to do is reasonable nor fair."

Must-read from @juliadoubleday.bsky.social—"living proof. COVID can&will harm you."

Do abled people understand, when they say it’s “unrealistic” to expect people to mask everywhere, that they are describing the only guidance disabled people have received re: how to get through another day alive? Like, very literally the guidance from the CDC as to how to survive the ongoing pandemic - by constantly masking, by testing every person around us, by avoiding the COVID that those around us are doing absolutely nothing to stop spreading?

Sounds simple, until you consider trying to adopt some of those measures yourself, does it?

Why not recognize: wow! What a difficult reality we’re creating for anyone who’s been harmed by the virus. That could be me next, since I’m getting reinfected in these bi-annual waves. Instead of complaining that disabled people are asking me to participate in normalizing COVID mitigations, why don’t I acknowledge the absurdity and severity and difficulty of this situation? Why don’t I participate in changing the culture before it’s my turn to suffer as others ignore me?

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 17h

"We are not being unreasonable to expect freedom from infection with a pathogen that will certainly further disable us when we step into a public space. We are not being unreasonable when we expect solidarity from nominally progressive people."

So, the only tool we have to prevent the spread of COVID- to avoid infecting and sickening other people- is consistent masking. Which is frustrating. You could even call it unreasonable.

You could call the situation unreasonable. You could call the situation our government has put us in unreasonable. You could direct your frustration over said unreasonable, untenable situation upward, where it belongs: at the government, not downward, at struggling sick people, who have no choice but to engage with COVID safety practices including masking.

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M Eilo @blinkpopshift.com · 16h

If "right to comfort" is white supremacy culture then why do anti racist leftists keep arguing that masks are too uncomfortable?

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 18h

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

substack.com

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

“We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.”

That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

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loscharlos @loscharlos.bsky.social · 18h

Not sure if anybody is doing it better than @juliadoubleday.bsky.social —Please read:

“when you shrug off the difficulty.. of practicing COVID safety.. you are casting that burden onto the shoulders of those who are already carrying more than you are. ”

Link: www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all...?

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 18h

“Both pandemics exhibit failures in global solidarity and reveal inequities in healthcare access.”

Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 18h

So for everyone who has said that comparisons between HIV and COVID-19 are inflammatory and irresponsible, I’m sharing this new article in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine that does just that and finds some clear parallels:

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

A screenshot of article highlights:

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HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 are preventable infectious diseases with chronic systemic impacts including immune system dysfunction.
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Chronic inflammation, immune exhaustion, and accelerated biological aging are shared hallmarks of HIVI/AIDS and Long COVID/PASC.
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Tissue reservoir persistence drives long-term damage in both HIV and SARS-CoV-2. SARS-CoV-2 mirrors HIV-1 in its ability to evade immune defenses and cause chronic infection.
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SARS-CoV-2 -associated neurological disorders (SAND) parallel HIV-associated neurological disorders (HAND).
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Both pandemics exhibit failures in global solidarity and reveal inequities in healthcare access.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 19h

people who care about public health: "please mask"
random journalists: no i don't think i will and here is why you asking is silly :)

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 22h

I would rather get a daily push notification from whoever it is you think is the most annoying person making you feel the worst about not masking than ever having to deal with long Covid, which I’m still recovering from.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 1d

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

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LAND BACK @geeee.bsky.social · 1d

My ancestors were almost wiped out by colonizers and their smallpox so you'll have to excuse me if I don't consider you a leftist if you refuse to mask. I'm not letting this generation of colonizers kill me because they don't understand basic science.

A post from @joadsprocket.bsky.social that reads "I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous." The post is quoting a blocked post by @chantzy.bsky.social which reads "Dear liberals, if you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It's one small act of solidarity with millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health"

The second post by @joadsprocket.bsky.social reads "Also a fine example of 'anyone not doing what I want them to is a Liberal."

The third post by @joadsprocket.bsky.social is a screenshot of the original chantzy.bsky.social post with the caption "ope"

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

the alternative is actively advocating for systemic clean indoor air interventions (12 ACH, etc) - or being cool with excluding immunocompromised, disabled folks from public life

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 2d

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Kevin Ball @stairway-to-kevin.bsky.social · 1d

what does that even mean, “the ask is not reasonable”? by what & whose metric? it’s superseded somehow by your implicit “ask” to rawdog your possibly disease-ridden halitosis on others and possibly debilitate or even kill them? and invoking solidarity in service of it is “ridiculous”? go eat ass sir

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 2d

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Misha (not a girl) @mishacopyninja.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, most people are not interested in masking in public because most people also don‘t consider disabled people as their equals or full fledged adults even tho disability is the one marginalization you can acquire at any time and is most often used to manufacture consent for systemic violence.

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 2d

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Just Follow Me On Fedi If You Care @literalgrill.com · 1d

I'll just say it here too, you can say "Disabled people should die because I find them asking to be able to live life outside their house unreasonable." Eugenics is pretty damn popular with Republicans right now, they'll welcome you under their tent. 🤷‍♀️

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 2d

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 1d

The vaccines help keep people out of the hospital, and that’s important. Inaccurately messaging saying they can reliably prevent infection is part of why there’s still so much COVID spread—people think they’re more protected than they are.

sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 1d

I got COVID a few weeks after getting a vaccine. Millions of vaccinated people have gotten infected!

It’s no more “antivax” to say current vaccines don’t reliably prevent infection than it is “anti birth control” to factually note that spermicide doesn’t prevent pregnancy as well as Nexplanon.

Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 1d

Do you think that the messaging "vaccines can't keep you from getting infected and you'll get Long COVID and be disabled forever" moved people towards or away from RFKjr? I'm not asking about layered mitigation, I'm not asking about policy, I'm asking about what I'm seeing all over this discussion.

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 1d

They obvs see people begging for basic inclusion and masking until we have clean air + public health measures that wouldn’t make strict adherence to masking as necessary to prevent infection and keep people safe

& they almost always choose to shit on those people, some of whom are literally dying

sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 1d

how people with big accounts, media people, etc etc. will talk about disabled/immunocompromised people or anyone protecting themselves from COVID like we’re not real and can’t see or hear what they’re saying

blows me every time

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 1d

I hope @jamellebouie.net thinks about people like Tinu and Shafiqah—who both begged healthcare workers and rideshare drivers to mask—before speaking dismissively about how “irrational” people are to understand the threat to their own lives from SARS-COV-2 next time.

sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · Sep 13

It especially makes my blood boil when people treat COVID conscious people like they’re over dramatic or oddities to be amused by when I think about Tinu Abayomi-Paul and Shafiqah Hudson.

sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 1d

Before any bs: N95 masks work, but if the seal comes loose for even a moment in a public setting, that’s an exposure risk. That risk is *much* lower if others mask too.

There are also babies and children who can’t mask *or* get vaccinated but hey who gives a shit about them amirite

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sleater-kenny omega @layneransom.bsky.social · 1d

It’s “rational” to endlessly spread SARS-COV-2 and let it mutate because screw everyone “demanding” to not get sick, disabled (more), or killed, right?

“rational assessment” = “I don’t wanna mask, but in a way that makes me sound like The Reasonable Adult (unlike those hysterical disableds)”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)

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