aspiring cryptid @j@anarchism.space

paypal isnt doing fees for transfers rn because covid so if you wanna send me money this is prolly the best time to do so

https://paypal.me/cutebridge

“Though health access for our community has been long fought for, there are still gaps that leave us specifically vulnerable to health threats, such as this pandemic. From medical neglect at private detention centers, to being less likely to be allowed to stay home from work, undocumented people face challenges that are specific to our community that we want to to address and ask allies to pay particular attention to amidst the panic.“

https://ciyja.org/covid19/?fbclid=IwAR2tMk2EUq0XCyYdTn5Kh2GhV3xD0_kkKaG3BnOITZl5mMG2rlPrPL02Llo

Given the recent calls to save, “the economy”, I think this piece is especially relevant right now:

“So many of us in the chronic disease community have been gaslighted and able-splained in recent weeks as we share legitimate concerns over the lack of information and public response to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The absolute exhaustion that comes with this work is nothing I can compare to. But we who do it feel that no other options exist.”

https://creakyjoints.org/living-with-arthritis/coronavirus-disability-activism/

if you are healthy & able to, this is a good time to check in on any friends you know are sick... even if you can't do anything to help with food or anything, it can really help to know someone cares enough to check up on you and ask how you're doing ❤️

“Trump’s push to use hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 has triggered a run on the drug. Healthy people are stocking up just in case they come down with the disease. That has left lupus patients like Valdez and those with rheumatoid arthritis suddenly confronting a lack of medication that safeguards them, and not only from the effects of those conditions.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/lupus-patients-cant-get-crucial-medication-after-president-trump-pushes-unproven-coronavirus-treatment

“When I was experiencing homelessness being out there, you would have to go a mile or two to wash your hands or go to the bathroom,” Lester said. “I wanted to make sure we put stations in parts where people are under bridges, just in case someone wants to stop and wash their hands.“

https://shoppeblack.us/2020/03/terence-lester-portable-hand-washing-stations-for-homeless/

“When I interviewed seismologist Lucy Jones about her book The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them), she wouldn’t tell me what to put in an earthquake emergency kit. Because it’s not about what you have stocked up in your garage—it’s about knowing what your neighbors have in their garage, and who you can go to if your garage is gone.

“What really matters is our communities,” she said.”

https://www.curbed.com/2020/3/3/21157918/coronavirus-prepare-home-neighborhood-covid19

I helped yet another family with some groceries meanwhile, but now my own mom, gran and brother, who are all at-risk people, need help with groceries too and they're too far away from me so I can't share some from my own pantry.

I'm welcoming donations so I can make online groceries for them.

If you can, please help with this. Any euro & any boost matters!

https://www.paypal.me/eloisa85

Thank you very much

“ These reports of wildlife triumphs in countries hard-hit by the novel coronavirus got hundreds of thousands of retweets. They went viral on Instagram and Tik Tok. They made news headlines. If there’s a silver lining of the pandemic, people said, this was it—animals were bouncing back, running free in a humanless world.

But it wasn’t real.”

https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/animals/2020/03/coronavirus-pandemic-fake-animal-viral-social-media-posts

@Y3WTREE non-amp link:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/03/coronavirus-pandemic-fake-animal-viral-social-media-posts/

“In interviews with the Guardian, several workers at Target and Walmart expressed concerns.

Workers said they were anxious about working in crowded environments, with increased workloads, understaffing, inadequate sanitation protections and lack of increased compensation or paid time off for workers now on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/22/target-walmart-coronavirus-workers-not-protected

⚠️ PSA to all Germans ⚠️

Starting tomorrow, Telekom and Telefonica will hand over your phone's movement data to the government and other authorities.

It is opt-out, not opt-in!

Deactivate ASAP.

Telekom: https://www.optout-service.telekom-dienste.de/public/anmeldung.jsp

O2: https://www.telefonica.de/dap/selbst-entscheiden.html

Cops still giving out parking tickets, especially to medical staff near hospitals, during a global pandemic is everything you need to know about who is really the bottom feeders of society here

So I'm writing all of this to give a sense of what is going on in Italy – what is making the outbreak much worse, and what the effects of social isolation and distancing have been to our society. I hope this helps you prepare for the next weeks.

Of course, this is from my point of view, and other Italians may think differently or have different experiences.

#coronavirus #Covid19 #EndOfThread