Catherine Clase @cmclase@qoto.org

Since this has been my new social media home for a few weeks - figured I should pin an #Introduction post! I’m a former freelance theatre critic. Now #Disabled & interested in #LongCovid, #PostViralIllness, #mecfs , #POTS, #MCAS & more. Love #Theatre, #Britpop, #Sondheim, #Reading, #Writing and #Cows. Passionate about #DisabilityRights, #SocialJustice & more. #Toronto based but dreams of #Scotland.

@michael @ProjectN95 @trendless @cmclase another vote for the vitacore N99. It’s a nice snug fit without being too small so things pop out. They’re my go to for most high risk situations.

The next project I’m going to start after trying to systemize the mutual aid network (without functioning like charities)

is a #COVIDsafe citizens coalition.

We may be the only ones masking in some areas, in others it’s half the population. We don’t need to wait for the government to change what we can.

Between

#WeMask
#MillionsMaskMovement
#COVIDSafe
#BringBackMasks
#HighRiskCovid19

we’ve reached the point where we can unite & elevate.

Reply if you want to be part of this.

My New Year's resolution will be to try and be more active over here too. Just not enough time some days.

Dear #Lazyweb --

Does anyone know of trustworthy #N99 (or equivalent, and not #N95) #respirators that are on the larger size?

I have tried https://wellbefore.com/products/wellbefore-n99-respirator-mask-niosh-approved and like them, but they are too short vertically and my chin wants to pop out when I speak.

#COVID #COVID19 #WearAMask #CovidIsStillHere

Free N95s! NYC! Times Square! Tomorrow! Details at link, including if you want to help: https://med-mastodon.com/@MaksiSanctum/109746631551076850
#Masks #MasksWork #MaskUp

A quick PSA:

Thanks to all the engineers, nurses, MDs, PhDs, etc who've taken so much time out of their lives to translate critically important information into common language for their fellow humans.

It's been a bright, shining light that's guiding us safely through.

@cmclase SUPER USEFUL! Thank you SO much!

An ABSOLUTELY HEARTBREAKING message from a teacher in Duval County, Florida who is being forced to make her classroom library inaccessible as a result of @RonDeSantisFL@twitter.com's policies

(via @MelissainJax@twitter.com)

Jill Filipovic looks at a lawsuit filed in Texas by anti-abortion activists to prevent women from accessing mifepristone, and she concludes,

The "norm of just straight-up lying is pretty baked into the anti-abortion movement."

And why so? "Because it shows that they know they can’t win on the merits." They know that if they tell the truth, they'll lose.

#abortion #misogyny #Texas

https://jill.substack.com/p/is-honesty-too-much-to-ask

#CovidIsAirborne
Time to clean the air that we ALL breathe indoors when away from home. If it's good enough for #WEF23 #Davos and UK #Parliament, it should be good enough for us ALL.

Please support this petition, and share with your network. Thank you.
https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-covidisairborne-time-to-clean-the-air-that-we-all-breathe-indoors-4ec98d436b8f7dc7?utm_campaign=ddvgKJQbhL&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share

Hey all!

My Petition to demand Mask Mandates in Healthcare settings is LIVE.

PLEASE SIGN AND BOOST!

I mentioned my city in particular, but this is also for all healthcare settings in the USA too.

https://chng.it/SxNfVqKFHc

@disability @disabilityjustice@a.gup.pe @DisabilityJustice@chirp.social

#CovidIsNotOver #Covid19 #Masks #MasksAreAnAccessNeed #MaskMandate #Pandemic #PandemitMitigations

RT Tara Moriarty's #COVIDForecast

https://twitter.com/MoriartyLab/status/1617182209835945984

"The Jan 22-28 Canadian COVID Forecast and associated data are now live.

SEVERE: CAN, BC, MB, NL, NS, ON
VERY HIGH: AB, NB, North, PEI
HIGH: MB, QC, SK

All but PEI stable or decreasing

About 1 in 32 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Link: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index "

#COVIDIsAirborne
#COVIDIsNotOver
#MaskUp
#BreakTheChain
#N95sSaveLives
#BringBackMasks
#CANHealth
#ONHealth
#Canada
#COVID

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1617182209835945984.html

#introduction

Henlo, frens! Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

I'm a white mid-30's #gendernonconforming nerd with #invisibledisablities. I'm here to make friends and influence people.

YAY:
#murderbot, #ominouspositivity, #thrifting, #unions, #memes, #harmreduction, learning and growing, out-of-genre covers, #swearing, #localradio

NAY: tomato sauces, corporatespeak, work pants, forgetting what I was about to say, needing to constantly add and remove layers in winter.

"Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. calls himself an originalist, someone who thinks the Constitution should be interpreted only by how it would have been understood by the Founders when they wrote it. So it’s no surprise that his draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade is full of history.

"At least seven times, Alito cited Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century jurist who didn’t think marital rape was possible because wives were the property of their husbands, and who sentenced at least two women to die for witchcraft. Alito also cited a legal text from 1250 by Henry de Bracton that, in another section, says women are inferior to men, and that they sometimes give birth to literal monsters.

"Alito confined his exploration of the past to legal history and English common law. But to assess how the Founders would view abortion rights, it’s necessary to paint a fuller picture of what abortion was actually like in the time of the Founders."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/15/abortion-history-founders-alito/?fbclid=IwAR1VtkkpiTvaM7JEy8Cz21R_6qsKL9gEhCEtLHt6UfFyiIdg0kRvmYaXEJg

https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:8039c613-cd36-3e92-a829-a552ed8722e4

Someone asked me, "Why use 3rd party apps when an official Mastodon app exists?"

It comes down to this: being open source, Mastodon is built for choice.

Some people like vanilla ice cream. Others like strawberry or chocolate.

Well, some people like vanilla Mastodon. Others like strawberry @icecubesapp or chocolate @ivory.

The fact Mastodon allows 3rd party apps is one large reason it's better than Twitter.

It's nice that we all get to choose our preferred flavour of the Fediverse!

Ancient stone bench at St Peter's Church, Preston Park, Brighton, East Sussex, UK. Around 800 years old.

I usually follow back, & really appreciate often fb boosters.

#Photography #Church #Brighton #Interior #Sussex #Stone #Bench #Churchyard