📣 Demonstrations in DC & Boston 😷 Twitchstream to raise $ for Long Covid research 📣 The masks are sure off, and maybe the gloves too 😱
📣 Demonstrations in DC & Boston 😷 Twitchstream to raise $ for Long Covid research 📣 The masks are sure off, and maybe the gloves too 😱
Walensky steps down, more docs need to step up, WHO sends mixed messages, & Satancon accommodates the high risk at convention in Boston while Boston hospital flat out refuses accommodation requests.
Contents:
- Events, Actions, & Campaigns
- Pandemic field notes & “Living with the virus”
- In the News (virus & adjacent media, science, news, and op-eds)
- This is NOT Fine section (gaslighting & other outrages)
- He(a)rd Scuttlebutt (the pandemic grapevine)
Online Action: Training for Mask Accommodations Request
Today, Monday May 8, 2023 12pm Noon US Eastern Time
By People's CDC - "The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Protects the Right to Safe Healthcare for us all. the accommodations process is structured to exhaust and isolate disabled people. Not if we do it together. Join Peoples CDC for a Training Mask Accommodations Request Online Action. Monday May 8, 2023 We will learn about, then collectively invoke our right to safe care.
Charity Twitchstream Online Event - "Shorten Long COVID" event raising money for Patient-Led Research Collaborative
Thursday May 11th, 2pm US Eastern Time to Midnight
By twitch.tv/homozygoat - event is dedicated to raising money for the Patient-Led Research Collaborative for Long COVID - a charity of physicians, scientists, and laypeople who have long COVID themselves. Together, they're raising money to allocate for research and advocate for policy that is likely to help those with long COVID. Donations will be incentivized during this event - any above $25 will net you a custom drawing/commission from a talented group of artists who have amazing portfolios and have drawn popular and influential pieces! @neurofourier and other public health experts will share stories and offer insight on the direction of the COVID-19 pandemic.
USA Action: Washington, DC STILL SICK, STILL FIGHTING: #MILLIONSMISSING 2023
Friday May 12th 2023, 2pm US Eastern Time
By ME Action: #MillionsMissing 2023 will be held at the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC on May 12th that will feature an art installation and press conference. We will also have a press conference that will be livestreamed at 11am PT/2pm ETthat you will be able to watch on our social media channels.
The pandemic won’t stop just because some officials say that “the emergency” plans are finished because they don’t want to do it anymore.
You don’t have to go in person to the White House to send President Biden a message - there’s a White House online contact page. The end of data collection, lost access to free testing & treatment, will not end the emergency, it will extend it, and make all the pandemic problems continue or even get worse.
“Even if we are tired of the pandemic, the pandemic is still there. That is one message that the public health official wants to deliver - to say that, well, the risk is still there and we still have to wear a mask we still have to be vaccinated. It’s necessary.”
Feng Hao - GovExec Daily podcast. April 2023
🗞️ In the news
🇺🇸 MedPage Today CDC Director to Resign — Walensky gives no reason for her departure, which will take effect at the end of June. by Joyce Frieden May 5, 2023 Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, who acknowledged her agency's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic "did not meet expectations," is stepping down as director of the CDC, the White House announced Friday.
🌐 CBS News: COVID global health emergency is officially ending, WHO says, but warns virus remains a risk. By Alexander Tin, May 5, 2023 The World Health Organization announced Friday it would declare an end to the global COVID-19 emergency, urging countries to begin transitioning their response to a virus that it warns still remains a global health threat. "The worst thing any country could do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard…”
This is NOT fine
Hospitals don’t seem to care, but the PEOPLE do care about public health in Massachusetts.
Why are people demonstrating in the street for healthcare safety? Because hospitals are egregiously asserting they WILL NOT protect patients, even patients requesting reasonable accommodation!
"Due to changes in policy, our policy is changing" is not an appropriate explanation for putting high risk disabled patients at risk at their most vulnerable moments. Hospitals should NOT be FOLLOWING THE POLITICS! And make no mistake, they do not claim that the hospital is safe - they never do because it’s not - they are simply stating that they do not want to protect people.
This is not about “comfort” — lives are at stake!
I’ve heard rumours of hospital administrators pushing to end pre-surgery testing because the hospital is not happy with having to cancel procedures. Apparently they want to push through more lucrative procedures uninterrupted, even if it harms patients by risking their ability to recover from covid and or the surgery.
He(a)rd Scuttlebutt… pandemic grapevine 🍇🌱
People in charge of the “Satancon” in Boston clearly don’t want to get and spread covid as they had mask and vaccination requirements for the event last week. The Satanic Temple cares more about human lives than the hospitals in Boston? Holy cow.
An infection control doctor in Massachusetts has even been pushing nonsense misinformation citing that debunked mask paper. What happened to heroes and my mask protects you, doctor? Do you even still wash your hands at the hospital? Holy crap.
Not only are the masks sure off, revealing some healthcare workers, but apparently the gloves are coming off too. Holy shit.
“Eugenics beliefs were popular even among socialists and communists. Obviously the Nazis are the ones who used these ideas to massacre 12 million people in the service of race science. When you’re talking about the origins of these ideas that are accelerated by the Nazis and adopted by them, they were not controversial among a lot of scientists, even scientists who find fascism abhorrent. There are a lot of anti-fascist scientists who nonetheless believe the Nazis are not entirely wrong about race science.”
- Robert Evans, Behind the Bastards, Josef Mengele & the Nazi Doctors, Part One