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celestial fog for kade 💫
March 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Texas measles outbreak is up to 124 cases & US just had their first measles death in ten years.

RFK Jr is spinning this as “not unusual”, but it absolutely is.

Sadly it may not be unusual in the years to come. Get your vaccines. Wear a mask.

An N95 or better offers excellent measles protection:
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!
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February 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Ancient critters
February 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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#pride button belt chains for the one and only @grayscaleskies.bsky.social be sure to check out their page for the cutest tattoos!
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February 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Once again asking white people to confront the fact that their choice to not wear a mask anymore is directly tied to white supremacy

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
February 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Jubilee the Daisy and Friends for my mentor Mary! Done on my tattooaversary last year, February 2024 🌼
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February 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Olive Branch tattoo, donation flash for 🍉 January 2024 🍉🇵🇸
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January 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Floyd Jr. The bullfrog for my pal Jake! December 2023 for his first tattoo! 💖🐸
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January 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Make no mistake, "you do you" Covid policies helped pave the way for Trump's victory

They emboldened him to be more aggressive and openly fascist this time around

You can't throw away entire groups of people & not see very real consequences

The Spanish Flu pandemic helped pave the way for Hitler
Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains
The paper examined municipal spending levels and voter extremism in Germany from the time of the initial influenza outbreak until 1933.
www.politico.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Vlad the blue tongued skink tattoo for Hannah! December 2023 🦎
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January 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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One of the easiest, most visible ways to resist is to mask

Safeguarding your health is more important than ever. It’s easier to fight back when you’re not chronically ill

It shows you care about disabled & marginalized individuals

It tells government you won’t be complicit in the harm of others
January 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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“Disabled people have sacrificed so much over last 4 years. Every day another tool is taken away, accessibility reduced & our agency stripped back. We are constantly told we don’t deserve to survive”

My article from May on mask bans & eugenics.

Disabled people are begging you to listen:
We Are Witnessing Real Time Eugenics... and People Don't Seem to Care.
Mask bans and revocation of medical exemptions have been all over social media this week - and anti-maskers are reacting with glee. They are celebrating disabled people losing a tool for protection.
www.disabledginger.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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An entire lineage of influenza B viruses literally went extinct due to COVID mitigation measures and people will still say “masks don’t work”
I don't know if regular people will ever realize how insane it was that we literally did not have a flu or RSV season in January 2021.
January 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Y'all, I am simply begging you to start masking up again. We will have no information on the pandemic currently underway AND no information when/if H5N1 makes the jump.

Don't wait for someone from the government to tell you to start protecting yourself because it will be way too late if they do.
With Trump's withdrawal from the U.N. World Health Organization, the U.S. will likely fall behind on public health innovation and disease prevention, putting the country and the world at greater risk to the next pandemic.
Trump’s Exit From WHO Could Make Next Pandemic More Likely — and More Deadly
Global health law professor Lawrence Gostin explains the risks of the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization.
truthout.org
January 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Disabled people have been trying to warn the public for years that “you do you” Covid policies were leading to increased discrimination and eugenics attitudes. 

When States began criminalizing masks, we pleaded for support. We asked our peers to wear a mask in solidarity. 🧵
January 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
At some point every person who decided wearing a mask was inconvenient for them will have to reckon with the fact that they contributed to the rise of fascism. Disabled activists have been telling us for decades that pandemics lead to fascism, but all of y'all decided disabled lives were expendable.
January 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Matching couple's bubble tattoos! These were so fun to do! December 2023 💖 🫧
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January 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Don’t underestimate the impact you’re making when you choose to wear a mask.

You’re protecting your health & the health of your community. You’re helping ease the burden on our healthcare system.

You’re standing in solidarity with disabled people & telling the government that no one is expendable
January 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Genuinely if you haven't been wearing a mask you have zero right to complain about the US withdrawing from WHO. Y'all decided caring about a pandemic was inconvenient for you, of COURSE this country doesn't give af about your health.
January 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Today and in the coming days, remember
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Healthcare workers…If your patient is wearing a mask you should too.

When you ask “do you want me to wear a mask?” You’re putting an undue burden on your patient

You’re refusing to acknowledge the imbalance of power that makes us feel uncomfortable saying “yes”

Just wear a mask. At all times.
A Plea to Maskless Healthcare Workers from Vulnerable Patients
If you see a mask - wear a mask. Better yet - wear a mask all the time and show us you understand that we're still IN a pandemic. We are depending on you to keep us safe - please don't betray that.
www.disabledginger.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Prior to Covid it was normal to mask in the NICU. People understood that premature babies are as vulnerable as they come and need to protected.

Now? Gowns & gloves but no masking.

The damage caused by anti mask rhetoric will be felt for years (possibly decades) to come.
January 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
BMO Tattoo! November 2023, getting to do characters in my style is my absolute favorite! More characters please!
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January 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The next few days will be incredibly painful for disabled, LGBTQ+ & marginalized folks

I’m seeing alot of “we survived him once & we will do it again!”

I appreciate the sentiment, but gentle reminder that not everyone survived the first term

It’s ok to be scared & angry. I know I am.
January 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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It’s nearly impossible to explain to non disabled people the hope we had at the beginning of the pandemic.

Hope for inclusion & accommodation. For better awareness & treatment of chronic illness.

Having that hope ripped away and replaced with increasing ableism, eugenics & hatred? Its devastating
Remember when the pandemic began and everyone started accommodating remote work? Everyone began showing brand new movies and live concerts streaming? Disabled people had been fighting for this for decades. Now it’s all taken away. It’s not that they can’t accommodate us, they just don’t want to.
January 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM