tandy.bsky.social
She/Her. Parent Educator, retired due to disability. Raised 2 children. Share life w/ a Mini-Poodle & a husband. Writer, reader, LARPer, textile artist, activist, scholar. Never GOPer. Walk my faith, seek meaning, & try to leave my corner of Earth better.
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/where-did-the-fear-of-poisoned-halloween-candy-come-from-822302/
The myth that never dies.
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/2 of 2/ then, we were terrified of what might happen to us.
Now it's actually here.
(With the exception being AIDs--and it was the same govt branch who sat on their thumbs & made it the "gay disease" as said masks were stupid and vax was worthless. No one mentions that.)
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/1 of 2/They were. We really believed we would be nuked--and many of us watched our gay friends either die or suicide during AIDs.
We were all warned about the coming of global warming (Reagan "trees cause pollution", cow farts, etc).
I'm pissed I'm 59 yrs old and we've come full circle.
Except
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I have yet to see anything written that acknowledges that even "maybe" the mental health system let this person down. Infuriating. Heartbreaking.
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(Judi Dench) "Lady in Lavender"
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Just remember, every unmasked person you're with is carrying cooties from every unmasked person they've been with in the 2 weeks.
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Brown, disabled, women, children, elderly... globally and at home. Remember? Grandma should die that the kids can go on. It wasn't just a Trump thing. It wasn't just a Covid thing. Ukraine offers Putin's demise. What does Gaza have that they want???
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That's where my question came from: If (a big If) young adults in Israel and Palestine are mingling and feel like "global citizens" (a comment made in an interview-CNN or Guardian) then do you think that strategy can work again or has he misjudged?
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Do you think he misjudged the anger and level of involvement of Israeli people? (Massive demonstrations, etc)
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Maybe. Nothing is scarier than the self-righteous, who think their behavior is justified regardless of cost. No world politician is going to "call"him on his narcissistic victimhood for fear of being branded an anti-semite. Now he has distraction, enemy, and excuse to stay in power. We'll see.
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It's not panic. Putin did the same thing when he said Ukrainians could evac. Then he attacked trains, buses, and anyone on the evac corridors. It's a way to get a large population in position for an assault with as few of your own casualties as possible. It should be called out as a war crime.
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I would've thought so, too, except "Women for Trump" and Domestic Discipline are both real.
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4/ systemic racism. Family structure definitely changes as everything around us changes, but we can't definitively define "family"--and that includes family structure. My soapbox, lol. /end
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3/ really accurate because it only described white middle class families--the families everything else has been measured against ever since, even though they were only a tiny slice of families (however you define it)even in the '50's. It's still the mainstream "norm' but it's a fiction supported by
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2/ WASP families in the US post-farm economy and at the beginning of Consumer culture. As soon as a lot of women entered the workforce & marginalized populations had a louder voice in policy and research, the whole concept fell apart. Even saying the nuclear family existed in the 1950's is not
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1/The "Nuclear Family" is a myth. Bronislaw Malinowski is usually credited with the term. It never really existed but was a fiction created by white male theorists to describe "family" (another poorly defined word) units. It served to keep women at home, made men bread-winners, and described
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Exactly! Step forward once & the nose makes a nice bull's eye.
Broken teeth are worth bonus points.
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The "Aggressive Heil" Move.
Very nice.
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I've never seen this. Thank you!
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What is a local COVIDing group?
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THIS!! I'd like to see some kind of symbol, directory, or verbiage for people to find resources where we can get haircuts, manicures, dental work, etc from people STILL MASKING.
We need hair cuts, too, right? I'd like to find safe places to go as an immunocompromised person.
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Well that totally sucks!
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Oh wow. I can see that.
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Son got attacked by fire ants when he was 3. They were under the porch in our rental--we had no idea until they poured out one day. They got me, too, when I hosed him down. Our landlady was almost as upset as I was. It was really awful.
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Yowch. Impossible to be brave when ants attack.
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Another example of the truly mind-blowing cognitive dissonance they seem to participate in as a lifestyle.
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And you just did it again!
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Just a bunch of average joes...
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As a Woman-Who-Says-Fuck-A-Lot, I turned autocorrect off years ago.
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I had ducks. They free-ranged on our little farm. They used to shit all over the walkway to the front door. Step---sliiiiiiide!
That was how "Fuck!" also entered the picture.
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Ooooo great question!
My thought was, "Whoever got there first".
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A few years ago, I got DM'd by a 16 yr old thanking me for my social activism and showing the younger gen "how it's done". I was her "role model". She was totally sincere. The pressure nearly killed me. Mentally reviewed every snarky tweet I ever sent. Geezus.
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Possibly a conversation starter among my kids and their friends in high school...
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Some days, I've spent an hour reading my feed and not understanding a word of it. I might blame advanced age or a year hiatus after quitting "x"...but having read your comment, I feels it.
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I've never crossed picket line in my life. Sat on CSEA Exec Board, been Site Rep, married to active union member, 3rd gen. active union family. Daughter joined when she was employed last year. So proud! Woot! *Solidarity!*
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My dog "hides" hers in the shower. I've learned to look before stepping in, especially after the water has been turned on.
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Since there is no sign for "E Ticket Ride" (husband says that), then it must "Slippery Road".
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2/new direction. I can remember her interest in "bugs" beginning at age 4 & we've always supported her. It's an exciting time. I'll remember you if she wants to reach out--thank you for offering!! It can make a huge difference.
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1/Thank you! I'll hold that thought. She's in another field and had an on the job injury. She has a year of leave & realizing this career is not what she thought it'd be. Entomology has always interested her but she was afraid she'd end up in "pest control". She is at the precipice of embracing this
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7(end)/The level of denial, the Cult of Wellness, the lack of sensitivity, the insistence on personal rights in the absence of personal responsibility...none of that is sustainable any longer, whether people like me die or not. --End
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6/always been there. It's just that all of you are finally on the receiving end of it. As Long COVID numbers increase & the virus continues,social change will have to occur. The disabled may someday outnumber the abled. Before that, our "systems" will continue the implosion that has already begun
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5/inconvenienced when they can't get their manicure or have to wear a mask at the grocery store. The government's desire to hide COVID while people are still getting sick, still dying, getting Long COV. in high numbers, while the virus mutates, is more of the same--more of an attitude that has
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4/ Drawing their attention to the possibility only worked as long as it didn't inconvenience them. Making a deal out of it would have caused resentment. And this was BEFORE COVID! So it is no shock that the government regards us, the disabled, as expendable. Or that healthy people resent being
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3/normalized, that it never has occurred to healthy coworkers that covering their coughs, washing their hands, and using their paid sick leave meant I could be at work. It wasn't personal, they weren't "out to get me" and loved working with me. It just wasn't part of how they thought & lived.
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2/for infections, & finally go back to work to find everyone in the office hacking and coughing and saving their sick leave for a rainy day. I'd get reinfected and start the process over. Eventually I was never well long enough to be off antibiotics, even when receiving immune globulin. This is so
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1/ When I could still work, I was the office canary-in-a-coal-mine. I'm immunocompromised & I catch everything. So I'd get sick and coworkers/clients would say "Oh get ready! Tandy is sick. That means we'll all be getting sick in the next 2 weeks. I'd stay home, take multiple rounds of antibiotics
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Right? Those of us who are immunocompromised have always lived with this level of insensitivity & indifference. This is the rest of the world catching up. I'll be masking up forever--we live with "when can we resume leaving the house", not "when do we remove our masks". And we know CDC lies 🤷🏼♀️.
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I call it getting a steroid (Prednisone) shot. It's worse than the pain.