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@fastlerner wrote an incredible article for The Intercept about the immediate and lasting effects of the various types of gas we've all been exposed to--what we know, and what we don't
I feel so much less alone for reading ithttps://theintercept.com/2020/10/10/portland-tear-gas-chemical-grenades-protests/ …
I was interviewed for this article, along with @JuniperLSimonis, @livkittykat, @Showmeurbeans, and
@MacSmiff. But obviously, we're far from the only people affected by this gas
If you went to protests in July especially, this article is about you
I didn't know what was wrong with me in August. I didn't know why I couldn't eat, why I was losing weight so fast. I thought it must be psychological Or why I was getting horrible headaches when I've never had those before I didn't know others were going through it too
There's still so much we don't know. We don't know what it will do to us long-term. We don't know if it gives us cancer. I watched my father die of cancer when I was six, I watched my mother nearly lose her own fight with it when I was 13. Is that our future? Will that be me?
It feels like it should matter. It feels like people should care that we were poisoned for protesting. Sentenced to God-knows-what as punishment for speaking up
Articles like this make me think maybe people will
Thank you, @fastlerner, for telling this part of Portland's story
I interviewed many people and sadly wasn't able to include most of them - but overwhelmingly they said the same thing : they were sick and felt way worse/different than being tear gassed
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