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Adele Stafford's avatar

Can we check our ableism here? While I appreciate that being sick for a matter of days or weeks is a total drag, especially with kids in tow, this type of banter is realllllly challenging to ingest for those of living with chronic illness. This is our life! Daily! And for those of us with Long Covid, hearing an able bodied person winge about not being able to go on vacation because of a positive Covid test is just fingernails on a chalkboard. It's high respiratory season b/c people are unwilling to protect themselves and one another. You can do your part to change that and that would make for a far more relatable read for those of us stuck in this liminal space of illness for who knows how long. Chronic illness vent sesh commenced.

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Heidi's avatar

We are in a quademic right now,(RSV, Covid, Flu and Norovirus) and yet, masking for our health has disappeared. Yes, I still mask everywhere in public indoors. I have not been sick with a respiratory illness since 2019.

Every link broken in the chain of transmission matters!

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