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Disability Rights New York has filed a class action lawsuit against Nassau County seeking an injunction to stop the enforcement of mask bans.
This is exactly the kind of action we need to see happen against discriminatory & ableist mask bans.
Law enforcement should not be the arbiter of who is “sick enough” to legally wear a mask. Many disabilities are invisible - and police are NOT doctors.
For more on the Nassau County mask ban and why it’s discriminatory - as well as why everyone (disabled or not) should be allowed to wear a mask - read my article here: disabledginger.com/p/nassau-co…
#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #keepmasksinhealthcare #MaskBans #NoMaskBans
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Nassau County, NY Makes Masking Illegal - Why Medical Exemptions Aren't the Answer
Defendants of mask bans point to medical exemptions as proof that disabled people have nothing to worry about. They're wrong. A look at why bans are ableist, discriminatory and dangerous.Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
I urge everyone to read this post from Lucky Tran about a proposed mask ban in Nassau County that would see people fined $1000 for wearing a mask. As soon as North Carolina passed their mask ban - we began seeing other cities and states follow suit.
Mask bans are wrong. Period. We are in an airborne pandemic where one of our best and only tools remains a well fitted respirator. The idea that people should have to carry around a medical exemption (which not everyone can obtain) or face fines and/or arrest is ableist and discriminatory. These bans force disabled people out of society because they don’t allow us to exist safely in public spaces - and they will increase the spread of Covid.
Call, email, post… speak out against these bans. Let lawmakers know you won’t visit any city or state that doesn’t allow people to wear a medical device for personal protection and community care.
#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #MaskBan #BoycottNC #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #NorthCarolina #NewYork #UglyLaws #NewJersey
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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (@luckytran@med-mastodon.com)
This is really worrying. There's a bill in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, that has a good chance of passing due to GOP majority, that would fine people $1,000 for wearing a mask. https://www.nbcnewyork.Med-Mastodon
The proposed mask ban in North Carolina will turn people who are trying to protect their health (and the health of others) into criminals.
While the action of the government doesn’t surprise me - the response of the public does. I expected most people to find this type of law appalling - and instead I’m seeing people celebrating what I consider to be eugenics in action.
I wrote about the proposed bill, the public response and the disability community’s right to survive:
open.substack.com/pub/disabled…
#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #CovidCautious #sarscov2 #maskup #WearAMask #CleanAir #Pandemic #Disability #accessibility #DisabilityRights #ableism #Eugenics #MaskBans
We Are Witnessing Real Time Eugenics... and People Don't Seem to Care.
Mask bans and revocation of medical exemptions have been all over social media this week - and anti-maskers are reacting with glee. They are celebrating disabled people losing a tool for protection.open.substack.com
Latest comic: What did we learn from Covid?
#covid #COVID19 #coronavirus #cartoon #health #healthcare #pandemic #comic
Though the #Pandemic seems to be over the situation of #SocialDistancing aftereffects, socially acceptable #Faking and #Lying, society dividing #Conspiracies and a lot of #Denial and #Ignorance in general still creeps me out. Listen to how I tune into this:
🤦♂️ Today is a good day to point out that there are 15,000,000+ dead from #COVID and poor countries are still only 15% vaccinated.
FACT: The #pandemic WILL continue until people and countries stop being selfish.
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2️⃣ 😷
3️⃣ 🌬️
4️⃣ 🧍🏽↔️🧍🏽
5️⃣ 💸🔜🌍
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New Covid-19 Death Count Should Prompt Stronger Action
Nearly 15 million people have died either directly or indirectly from Covid-19 in the past two years, new data from the World Health Organization shows. Human rights failures underly this devastating death toll.Kyle Knight (Human Rights Watch)
📰 TODAY: Stockholder and international #NGO #Oxfam will be introducing resolutions at the annual shareholders meetings of #Pfizer #Moderna and #JNJ, demanding they #OpenSource their #COVID #vaccines for global equity to help speed an end to the #pandemic
Presentations to be made by the Director-General of #WHO and others.
oxfamamerica.org/press/press-r…
MEDIA ADVISORY: Dr. Tedros, Barkan, Seyoum Present Oxfam Shareholder Resolutions to Encourage Moderna, Pfizer, And Johnson & Johnson to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Inequity
In separate virtual addresses to the shareholders of Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson, Oxfam America will call on the pharmaceutical corporations to improve vaccine equity and access so that everyone, everywhere has access to these life-saving …www.oxfamamerica.org
