Before you tell a disabled person that they need to “just make the healthcare worker mask”… please understand the imbalance of power that exists in hospital settings.
We can’t “just make them” do anything. If they refuse -our options are to take the risk or go without care.
There’s little recourse when a HCW refuses to mask - there’s almost NO recourse that exists in the moment.
You can file a complaint after the fact - but if the care you require is urgent or an emergency - that won’t help you
Imagine you’re taken to the emergency room with an urgent (or life threatening) issue. The doctor comes in and refuses to wear a mask.
Do you walk out? Throw a fit? These are not good options
Even if you manage to keep your composure and strongly advocate for them to reconsider - the longer you argue the more potential virus you’re being exposed to.
The more you “annoy” the staff - the greater the odds of retaliation or reduction in care.
This isn’t like telling a friend or a colleague to mask. The dynamic is completely different.
HCWs have the ability to help you or harm you. You want them on your side.
A note in your chart indicating you’re anxious, difficult, non compliant etc can follow you around and impact all your care going forward. Getting charts corrected and notes removed is a time consuming and difficult process
As a result many patients don’t push the issue. They delay medical care as long as possible and then just cross their fingers they will get a compassionate HCW when they do finally go.
These delays can also cause harm - and shouldn’t be necessary.
Hospitals have never been terribly safe places. They’re where the strongest and most resistant bugs thrive. They’re also where the sickest and most vulnerable people are.
At least before Covid it felt like hospitals were TRYING to prevent infection.
These days it’s as though any amount of infection control is seen as weak. People are actually bragging about how many times they’ve had Covid or about the risks they’re taking with their health. Staff aren’t masking even around babies, cancer & transplant patients
We have to change course. Our healthcare systems could barely handle the amount of chronic illness they were facing before Covid - they certainly can’t handle the constant influx of disabled patients and staff that Covid is causing.
This is why we need mandatory masks in healthcare settings. The responsibility to keep themselves and others safe should NOT fall on the vulnerable patient.
Many are unable to advocate for themselves - and others are unable to mask.
Mandatory masking protects everyone
Lastly - the solution to this problem should not be “don’t go to the hospital”. It’s not right to make ANY patient feel like they’re wrong for seeking care. Like they’ve somehow “failed” if they end up with Covid.
Until you’re facing a life threatening emergency or serious health challenges - you can’t possibly know what you would do.
Is it scary to go to the hospital right now? Of course. Is it also necessary? Absolutely.
Patients should never be blamed for needing care or for being unable to get HCWs to mask. The system is failing us - we aren’t failing each other.
If you need the hospital - you have all my love & support. It’s impossibly hard - and I will keep fighting to make it better.
As long as hospitals refuse to do what’s right to prevent COVID (hello clean air & mandatory masking)… the onus is unfairly on the PATIENT to avoid COVID.
My guide offers tips to reduce your risk of hospital acquired COVID (and other HAIs)
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How to Stay Covid Safe When in Hospital
A guide to navigating the risk of hospital acquired Covid - as well as how to manage overall risk of nosocomial infections and hospital derived complications.Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
@InnosearchAI Your About page begins with the following sentence:
"We are an e-commerce platform focused on making online shopping easy and enjoyable, especially for those with internet access challenges like blind or low-vision users."
Personally, I really struggle with this wording. First, this implies that all blind consumers have Internet access issues, a term that, to me, seems rather broad and nebulous. As a blind consumer, I don't have challenges accessing the Internet. I have challenges trying to access Web sites which don't conform to established Web standards and guidelines. Why not just emphasize that your service allows online shopping to be a more accessible experience for everyone, including those who use assistive technologies such as screen readers.
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great write up
It's also important to note the fundraising opportunities it could bring from philanthropies and other non-technical investors.
It's difficult to explain what GNOME is, as soon as it becomes a fully fledged operating system; the mission and benefit to society is much easier to convey.
Just posted on Six Colors: Use a cloned drive to recover from Mac failures
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Use a cloned drive to recover from Mac failures
Last month, my Mac Studio stopped working. It went quickly from a bizarre error message to the inability to install software updates to a failure to reinstall the base operating system to a trip to…Six Colors
Radio station in Poland fired its journalists and replaced them with AI 'presenters'
The radio station in Krakow called it "the first experiment in Poland" to use AI-generated presenters instead of human journalists.Euronews (Euronews.com)
A fundraising drive for the US Election Protection Hotline.
Not a US resident or US citizen? Hate all the major parties? No problem! You can donate!
Then watch 8 minutes of nerd jokes about open source software and how programming skews your brain, and none about politics.
(A) Stand-up to Protect Our Vote
A stand-up comedy performance of tech jokes, on October 26th at 8pm ET, to benefit the Election Protection Hotline!www.standupstandup.tech
Fellow Canadians, would you like to sign up to be a FluWatcher and help the government track covid and flu cases?
They send out one short survey each week that asks if you’ve had symptoms like a fever or cough. It takes me less than 30 seconds to fill out: cnphi.canada.ca/fluWatcher/reg…
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Table of Contents Introduction Why Contribute to Open Source? Choosing the Right...zlaam (DEV Community)
Reaper made Easy Q&A coming up this Saturday 26 Oct.
As the end of October sneaks up like a cobra,
this Saturday brings Q&A, Jen might even stay sober.
Either way, Jenny K, Shay and muggins here will be there,
Helping peeps with the Reaps, til I'm too hungry to care.
Usual start time, 8PM UK, 3PM Eastern, or the equivalent time wherever you lay your hat.
TeamTalk details, a calendar invite and a way to send us something to play are all over at reaperteacher.com. The part where we listen to things people have shared and give them objective feedback has been getting popular, so if you've got something you want our take on, don't snooze on getting that uploaded, we can only play a couple things each month and most of the time, it's gonna be first come first serve.
As always, any amount of experience is welcome, and we do our best to make sure newcomers get their questions answered.
See ya there,
scott and Jen
Fstab Options: What Are They, and When Should You Use Them? | Linux Today
Our latest tutorial covers all the fstab details and everything you need to know about this file. Let’s get straight into it.LinuxToday
Onions have not been confirmed as the source, but restaurants aren't taking chances.
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Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, Burger King pull onions amid McDonald’s outbreak
Onions have not been confirmed as the source, but restaurants aren’t taking chances.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
I want something like callgrind but that will let me make a plot of function call depth vs. stack space consumed.
Librsvg consumes a lot of stack. I've been reducing it gradually, but finding the functions that could be putting temporary stuff in the heap is very manual work.
“our lead shares our philosophy that technology should serve the user, not the reverse
this is why they focus on blockchains, a technology basically always used at the expense of its users”
i do think the degree to which bluesky is stressing that they do not use blockchains really underscores how toxic even a faint whiff of blockchain has become to any normal platform
This is why I have been trying to warn about #BlueSky.
BlueSky has just been partially bought by a cryptocurrency company "Blockchain Capital" and appointed a blockchain / cryptocurrency expert to their board:
bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2…
The board member is a bitcoin researcher involved with NFT analytics.
BlueSky describe the tie-up with Blockchain Capital as a "natural partnership" and says the blockchain company has "a uniquely deep understanding of our decentralized foundation".
(via @jwz)
Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky
Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.Bluesky
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Welcome to The Global Voice - The Global Voice
The Global Voice brings together an international team of broadcasters, producers and radio journalists to present for you a wide range of entertaining and informative programs.The Global Voice
Vyzera to tak, ze populacia SR ma vcelku problem¹ vyhodnotit, co im skodi viacej:
- mafiani vo vlade
- zvysenie DPH o 3%
- alkohol
- tabak
- marihuana
- nejaki bratislavcania debatujuci pri kave
- zopar qeeer manzelskych parov
- …
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¹ alebo su skratka az taki prajni, ze obetuju seba a rodinu kludne aj mafianom
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Bežným ľuďom politici riadne siahnu do peňaženiek. K prezidentovi Pellegrinimu zaujali iný postoj Voličom koaličných strán podľa prieskumov verejnej mienky neprekáža, že síce deťom či vnukom budú môcť dať menej, ale ich volení zástupcovia si platy …Rockosbasilisk
Ballots damaged in USPS mailbox fire in Phoenix
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Ballots damaged in USPS mailbox fire in Phoenix
A blue U.S. Postal Service mailbox in Phoenix, Arizona, was set on fire Thursday morning, damaging approximately 20 ballots and other pieces of mail.Jane C. Timm (NBC News)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 16 updated and 1 added apps:
* Paranoid's Pal - Privacy Lock: lets you quickly lock your device and safeguard your data
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Apple created a Virtual Research Environment to allow public access to testing the security of its Private Cloud Compute system, and released the source code for some "key components" to help researchers analyze the privacy and safety features on the architecture.
How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero | Quanta Magazine
Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.Quanta Magazine
#IzzyOnDroid adopted the Contributor Covenant (see contributor-covenant.org/). So while in the past we suggested you to add our badge or shield to your Readmes when your app became available at the #IzzyOnDroid repo, now it's time for us to adopt a shield. The first of our repositories already have it in their Readmes, the others will follow soon, so you can easily find it: codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/.prof…
OMG, Harris also has Tyler Perry, Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Springsteen in Atlanta? 😃 😃
I really should by ketchup stocks. 😃
Spanky has Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, Hulk Hogan, Dennis Quaid?
Dennis Quaid went over to the dark side?
UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hack affects over 100 million, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach | TechCrunch
UnitedHealth, the largest U.S. health insurance provider, blamed a Russia-based ransomware gang for the huge data breach of U.S. medical data.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline | TechCrunch
A hack on UnitedHealth-owned tech giant Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the biggest data breaches of U.S. medical data in history.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
11 Useful X-window (GUI Based) Linux Commands | Linux Today
In this article, we will provide a few X-based commands that are generally available in most standard distributions today.LinuxToday
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in reply to Broadwaybabyto • • •I’m sad that a guide on how to avoid COVID in hospital is even needed. But it IS needed.
What we need MORE is mandatory masking in hospitals. They would prevent the overwhelming majority of covid infections.
HCWs - you don’t need to wait for a mandate. You can CHOOSE to do the right thing and put a mask on! Protect yourselves and your patients - you will save a life.
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A Plea to Maskless Healthcare Workers from Vulnerable Patients
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