Dr. bird on TikTok (#138)
Mediators Needed 👀🐥Watch here on TikTok
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In addition to folks doing the work to provide masks, and social work resources like housing, clean clothes, etc. we direly need masses of decolonial mediators who can translate social harms.
Folks who can both remind folks that most of why they’ve been misinformed and disinformed is outside of their control. And they need to do what is inside of their control, while we demand changes.
I recognize and feel for the difficult position many folks are and have been in. I know the way text comes across that consideration can feel lost. Many times text messages about C-19 can be read as heartless, while at the same time, one matteroffactly states their valid needs.
I have never once asked anyone to do anything that is outside of their control. All I have ever hoped for from folks is to do what is in their control. And the fact that many never have the last 4 years, despite all the info, disability, and death shared, breaks my fucking heart.
I feel like / know the biological and social consequences of folks not caring for themselves and others by taking proper C19 precautions. For many of us out there trying to date someone new, this is akin to someone having a substance abuse problem they refuse to seek help to end.
I personally and systematically cannot silently or loudly enable ongoing COVID-19 inaction(s). It would ultimately hurt me by watching someone I love decline as they continue to get reinfected and/or inevitably cause me to get infected. These are inevitabilities.
We need to act.