Broadwaybabyto on Nostr: In the last 4.5 years we’ve learned so much about Covid - how it’s spread, what ...
In the last 4.5 years we’ve learned so much about Covid - how it’s spread, what the virus can do to our bodies and how to prevent transmission. We HAD the tools to significantly change the course of the pandemic (and spare many lives).
Yet instead of using these tools - one by one governments have taken them away. Made accessing tests, treatments and vaccines harder. Failed to address & educate about airborne transmission. Lifted mask mandates and isolation requirements.
Then today the state of North Carolina passed a bill making medical masks illegal in public settings AND granting occupants of public places the power to demand you remove your mask (if you’re wearing one under the extremely narrow medical exemption).
It’s been a very tough day for disabled individuals. We’ve been knocked down time & time again… punished for pandemic policies that we had no say in developing or enforcing. The pendulum is swinging so far in the other direction that even healthcare workers seem uninterested in protecting their high risk patients.
I wrote about the mask ban, why people all over the world should fight against it, why it’s ableist & discriminatory and HOW we can fight back. Because we CAN fight back. We have strength in numbers are our lives (and the lives of others) are worth fighting for. Read more here: https://disabledginger.substack.com/p/north-carolina-passes-hb-237-and
CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #CovidCautious #ChronicIllness #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #NorthCarolina #directaction #MaskBans
Yet instead of using these tools - one by one governments have taken them away. Made accessing tests, treatments and vaccines harder. Failed to address & educate about airborne transmission. Lifted mask mandates and isolation requirements.
Then today the state of North Carolina passed a bill making medical masks illegal in public settings AND granting occupants of public places the power to demand you remove your mask (if you’re wearing one under the extremely narrow medical exemption).
It’s been a very tough day for disabled individuals. We’ve been knocked down time & time again… punished for pandemic policies that we had no say in developing or enforcing. The pendulum is swinging so far in the other direction that even healthcare workers seem uninterested in protecting their high risk patients.
I wrote about the mask ban, why people all over the world should fight against it, why it’s ableist & discriminatory and HOW we can fight back. Because we CAN fight back. We have strength in numbers are our lives (and the lives of others) are worth fighting for. Read more here: https://disabledginger.substack.com/p/north-carolina-passes-hb-237-and
CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #CovidCautious #ChronicIllness #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #NorthCarolina #directaction #MaskBans