Disabled / immunocompromised / chronically ill people are STILL dying from COVID in the year 2025 If you want to do your part in preventing s, then please wear a mask in public spaces Every effort to break the chain of transmission matters #Immunocompromised lives matter #Disabled lives matter

Artist: William Leitzman

I am happy to report that I do indeed have enough measles antibodies.

At the doctor’s office getting my measles titer done. I was *probably* vaccinated between the years of 1963 and 1968, and in those years, the vaccine used may not provide immunity. Time to find out!

This is a bummer; everything I’d read about #Novavax was that it was superior to the MMR shots—especially for #immunocompromised folks.

Also, while we’re talking #vaccines, #Canada should be looking to rebuild our domestic vaccine production capacity in light of everything.

https://grafa.com/news/health-novavax-ends--28m-vaccine-deal-with-canada-395089?utm_source=us_news_en&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=395089

On my Etsy store as a tee, hoodie, mug [ https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChronicIllnessTees?ref=dashboard-header ] or on RB as pin, sticker, magnet [ https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167876916 ]

Welcome to hell - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the #FDA to revoke authorization of #Covid #vaccines in May 2021, when they were in high demand and considered life-saving. And one million Americans died and a lesser number continue to die, especially #elderly #older #ImmunoCompromised #congress #HHS #maga #trump

CDC Recommends Second COVID-19 Vaccine Dose for Older Adults | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | JAMA | JAMA Network https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2827770 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2827770 “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (#CDC) recommended a second dose of the 2024-2025 #COVID19vaccine, administered 6 months after the first dose, for people aged #65 years or older and individuals who are #immunocompromised.”

Plenty of nonhuman mammals have COVID. This is a factor in the rise of bird flu in all sorts of animals. COVID is ground zero in a cluster of burgeoning interrelated pandemics. It ruins immune systems just like HIV does. Wear a mask. Get vaccinated. Use HEPA filters. Save one another and save the animals, too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_that_can_get_SARS-CoV-2 #pandemic #covid #BirdFlu #ImmunoCompromised #ExtinctionEvent

The question to my rheumatologist isn’t “how do I fix my feet so I can do #yoga?” It’s

“Have you seen this paper about why you’re SUPPOSED TO WEAR an #N95 around your #immunocompromised patients?”

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9660019/
#NewYearsResolution be assertive
try more yoga

If people fail to see #disabled & #immunocompromised people's inherent worth, the answer isn't to minimize our identities when we say why we wear a mask It’s NOT our fault that we’re seen as "less than" or "the other" Policing our language is not only gaslighting but ALSO victim blaming 1/3

Why do David Eby’s freshly re-elected BCNDP, whose Health Minister swiftly promised my BCED K-12 wife Novavax availability in the election lead up months ago, now refuse to even respond to her emails?

Must we join Elon’s right wing hate site just to communicate with our out of touch BC govt!?

Politicians like David Eby deflate the BCNDP’s legitimacy by making false promises like this in an attempt to mislead voters.

Does Eby think we voted BCNDP because we enjoy having to beg the apathetic Bonnie Henry and Adrian Dix for basic means of covid mitigation?

David Eby’s campaign clearly lied to us about providing Novavax access (just as John Horgan’s BCNDP feigned support for TMX opposition in the 2016 election) simply to steal our votes. As soon as they have them, they toss our concerns aside and abandon us.

Power corrupts, and re-elected govts often forget that those whose voted them back in, did so for good reasons. To ignore those reasons is to ignore our democratic voices.

ALL in BC should have equal access to covid vaccines. Pfizer is not an viable option for many vulnerable.

Those who must take Novavax for health reasons should not be, yet again, abandoned by Bonnie Henry’s BCNDP.

We demand access to Novavax now or Eby and his cronies can expect a landslide Conservative win next election in BC.

All my future votes in this province will go to the Greens regardless of threat from the magaCons.

I just cannot continue wasting my vote on this flip flopping, out of touch BCNDP.

They ignore covid, they ignore long covid, they ignore Novavax requests from teachers, they ignore covid transmission in hospitals, they ignore the societal damage this unmitigated pandemic is reeking on our schools and communities.

All of us abandoned to a virus by their well paid, capitalist, economy focused health officials.

This BCNDP govt has embraced societal sickness and now refuses to provide viable vaccine options. Disgraceful politicking. Vote them out.

Now imagine how isolating it is being #disabled & #immunocompromised & #chronicallyill and living through an *ongoing* pandemic, having to see people’s smiles while they breathe a deadly & disabling virus into your face #MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy #HighRiskCOVID19 #StopMaskBans #COVIDisNotOver

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#Ableism & capitalism both require you to conform to what is seen as “normal” If your #disability doesn’t allow you to conform & appear “normal”, society sees you as disposable That’s one of the reasons why we’ve seen INCREASED hostility toward #disabled & #immunocompromised ppl since 2022 1/2

Should us older people try to get titer tests to see if our childhood vaccines still work in case we need a new one & we want to do that before the republicans ban vaccines?

Is this something that happens to people?
Is this something that happens to people with Neuroimmune diseases if it doesn’t happen to healthy people?

My mom was a boomer and I’m pretty sure she contracted measles or mumps or whatever was going around Portsmouth, NH like 15 years ago. She got kind of sick and had swelling only on half of her jaw and her doctor told her it was no big deal.