“Why won’t medically vulnerable groups be quiet and make themselves disposable while the rest of us pretend this ongoing pandemic is over?” Fixed it.
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It never ceases to amaze me that although disabled ppl experience way higher unemployment, poverty, less access to healthcare, etc, plans to reduce disparities rarely include disabled people as their own demographic. Problems will never be solved without that distinction.
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This is what I have ongoing nightmares about. Punishment for being as financially self-sufficient as I can be. It's not just inhumane, it's counterintuitive and defies logic for the greater economic good. How does keeping disabled people in poverty seem like a viable option?
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Holy shit.
I'm losing ALL of my homecare nursing because I have a job. Even though I have had this job for about six years. Even though I qualify for NJ WorkAbility, which states you keep all your Medicaid benefits if you make below 68k (which I do). 
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As if I could get any sicker today, this excuse for a human wants to pretend like he had nothing to do with it? If he's even capable of feeling shame, I hope it follows him to his grave and haunts him until his dying breath. 😡
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The narrative is that anyone who wants to be vaccinated already is by now. If you have a condition that limits your mobility and you live in an area without accessible public transit though? If you live in MI, and this is you or someone you know👇
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It's worth noting that January 2022 was the 4th highest death toll since the beginning of the pandemic. So though omicron was/is less deadly, if it's so much more contagious that, PROPORTIONALLY, just as many ppl die, that sure seems worth emphasizing.
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To this very day there are over 1000+ people in the US dying because of COVID-19. Who knows what BA 2 will do. Our immunity is waning from booster shots. They claim a 4th won't offer any protection against omicron. We're in a very bad spot. straitstimes.com/world/united-s
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In the 3rd year of the global pandemic, we must end practices and policies that ignore, marginalize & deprioritize chronically-ill & disabled people, including people with #LongCOVID.
Please join me in signing @LongCOVIDNatl's #LongCovidJustice pledge:
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Thank you showing yet again how little mainstream cares about the #deafcommunity! You seriously cheated & Wawa and ur whole #deaf audience from this moment! BTW ur live captioning was utter sh*t!
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no #halftimeshow interpreting & sh*t a$$ live captioning! Guess you don’t think #deaf ppl like music. Kinda ironic since there were 2 #deafrappers right there interpreting the whole thing!
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Sit up half the night to watch the #SuperBowlLVI mainly for the #superBowlhalftimeshow to see and only got 2 seconds of them?! What was the point of that! Having them there isn’t enough, we have a lot of work to do to improve inclusion for all!
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WTF ??? Where were and ??? Thanks for showing literally one second of but that WAS NOT ENOUGH. This is ridiculous. How HARD IS IT to have a small box in the bottom of the screen??? You have about a thousand cameras on that field.
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Haven't had time to be on Twitter for a while but I just had to come on to express my disappointment that these deaf rappers weren't more front and center. They're amazing and while I'm happy for them for the exposure, it wasn't enough. 😔 #SuperBowl2022
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Epic #PepsiHalftime @Eminem @SnoopDogg 
but where were the deaf rappers Sean Forbes & Wawa Snipes?
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but where were the deaf rappers Sean Forbes & Wawa Snipes?
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"And while I continue to support these bills, I will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country,"
The division isn't the disease. The greed & corruption of the right is, including Sinema. #SinemaEndsDemocracy
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And still, #MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy
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Y’all still asking “but did you actually read the study???”
We’re above that now…
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It's true that the vaccination rate for COVID-19 is actually higher than past pandemics. It's also true we didn't have the technology to have the data about the impact of those past pandemics front and center like we do now. Ignorance is no longer an excuse for sacrificing lives.
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Someone I grew up with just died of COVID.
She was 40, not disabled, to my knowledge. The swiftness with which it took her makes me terrified
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We must start quarantining again. So many people are dying of this horrific virus.
I'm at a loss right now. 💔
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I've been researching vaccination rates in Detroit for the last couple months. From what I've learned about the lowest vaccinated areas - some less than 25% - having vaccines available in the DPSCD schools could be incredibly helpful.
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Though the CDC Director thinks that it's fortunate that it's only us disabled folks getting killed by COVID, we're the least vaccine hesitant of any population because we VALUE our lives. #MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy We also face the most barriers to vaccines:
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The CDC director finding it "very encouraging" that it's largely the "already unwell" dying from COVID while signaling no intent of added public health measures is the definition of eugenics.
We are not disposable.
#MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy of being protected and saved.
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Sin-ema is not naive. She knows her decisions confuse her base. She counts on it.
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I now pay income taxes and I don't get SSI anymore. But if I'd have to quit so that I don't lose services critical to my survival? No more income taxes and they have to go back to sending me a monthly check.
Now I'm even more exhausted from that rant. Goodnight. 😞
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Ironically, these penny pinching policies that see fit to pull the rug out from under the people who are trying to be more economically self-sufficient, shoot themselves in their metaphorical foot 3/
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Instead, I'm exhausted from worrying about my medicaid being taken. Exhausted from the phone calls and emails trying to explain to people with control over the services that allow me to work and LIVE that I have the right to KEEP these services. 2/
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I avoid ever saying that I envy non-disabled ppl because there's already too many absurd stereotypes about our quality of life as it is. But when you get a job you love doing and pays well, it should be nothing but a positive, joyful change. 1/
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Trying to sabotage every right of his *fellow* Americans with disabilities is a great reason too.
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There’s no shortage of reasons to fire Greg Abbott.
Leaving Texans to freeze to death in their homes — and then refusing to do anything to keep it from happening again — is chief among them.
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AMAZING collaboration between Wayne Health and other community orgs are bringing a wide variety of health services and outreach resources with their mobile vaccination clinics. The one I'm going to has mammograms, pap smears, mental health clinician & connectors, & more👇
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The Wayne Health Mobile Units (WHMU) will be at multiple locations this weekend. Services may differ at each location, please visit our website to view each location, time and services being offered. VISIT: waynehealthcares.org/mobile-health-
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This. If only more were as non-resistant to effort. That's all it is. Just a little bit of effort shows so much validation and respect.
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Confession: I practice at using non binary pronouns every chance I get, because as of yet, they and them doesn't come into my mind and roll of my tongue as effortlessly as she or he does, and I am desperate to change that. Desperate to not diminish loved ones' existence just
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It's weird because my job is essentially about getting more shots in arms and it's the first full time, decent paying job I've had in years.
Yet I can honestly say I'd be thrilled to lose my job because we just didn't need people for that anymore.
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I really don't see any other way to end this. The virus will keep mutating, new versions of the vaccine will continuously need created & distributed, unless we all get like NYC and force the ignorant & misled to get vaxxed.
But what do I know. 🤷♀️
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Getting boosted this Sat.💪For those of you still keeping up on it, just a couple months ago, over 90%, of COVID hospitalizations & deaths were among the unvaccinated. Now vaccinated rates are going up. That's b/c the immunity from the original vaccine is wearing off. #GetBoosted
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I feel this. A lot.
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I hate Bezos and I hate how Amazon employees are treated (I have a long time friend who works there), but I also realize Amazon is extremely helpful especially for disabled people. To get quick shipping and save the exhaustion of going to the store.. especially THIS time of year?
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It doesn't even matter if they're good cops, or how good, Ted. If we can't keep guns from getting in children's hands, kids will keep dying.
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From July, but the *real* journalism demonstrates highlights just how much the opposite opportunistic & politicized version, influences not just our perceptions of what happened in Kenosha, but a lot of *why* it happened in the first place.
I usually use Twitter to comment on current events, but seeing as current events have caused me to need to take a break from Twitter recently.... how are you all doing? (Popular current events aside.)
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I've read a lot about social media's impact on mental health. Studies found those that use it less or not at all experience less depression and loneliness. But staying off Twitter doesn't help my wanting to scream & cry at the same time about the #RittenhouseVerdict either. 😡😢
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I feel difficult to entertain tonight.
I think I'm just gonna take that as I need to get the heck off Twitter. 😂
Night, friends.
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