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Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
Disabled math is figuring out exactly how much you can make a month without falling off the Medicaid coverage cliff. Bonus points for knowing more than people who’s job is to figure that. Bonus bonus points for when they say “now that’s not fair…” while reviewing your numbers
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
Disabled/ chronically ill math is figuring out how much of your paycheque will need to go to buying: safe food, HEPA filters, fitted masks, safe hand sanitizer, Covid tests, & medication not covered by insurance.
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
Disabled math under covid is becoming your own amateur actuary, constantly calculating the potential negative impact to your lifespan of avoiding healthcare versus the potential negative impact of seeking it.
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
Disabled math is trying to figure out the date to refill a rx. You know either the dr, pharmacy, or insurance company will fuck it up. Fill too early and you're a "drug seeker," fill too late and you'll end up unmedicated if there're any issues. #DisabilityTwitter
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
Disabled math is figuring out how much to drink in case you are out and need to pee knowing how inaccessible and gross most bathrooms are and deciding to go dehydrated because of it
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
Often see job advertised: Social Media and Communications Coordinator
Seeking 1 Employee to "Develop, plan and implement, social media strategies and monthly content across all channels;
and also analytics
and also brand management
and also engagement"
1/2
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
Unfortunately, as our PM is abusing the Alt Text - I'll write the Alt Text #DisabilityTwitter
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
Let me be clear; people with disabilities deserve to be paid the same as their non-disabled coworkers. The notion that disabled people don’t deserve or don’t want equal pay is ableist, inaccurate, and damaging to our community. #DisabilityTwitter cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/f… – at Statesboro, GA
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
Today, SecondStreet.org released our annual Died on a Waiting List report.
Since 2019, we've been tracking how many Canadians died while waiting for surgery or a diagnostic scan.
This year, waitlist deaths hit a four-year high.
Learn more here:
secondstreet.org/2022/12/13/…
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
what is your government telling you about the value of _your_ life when it is easier to ask for help with dying than it is to get housing, social services, medical relief, etc?
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Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
Over the past 13 days, from Labor Day to Constitution Day, we have released one story each day from someone who has been forced to labor under the exception in the 13th Amendment. Here are all their stories. 🧵
Take action to abolish slavery for all at EndTheException.com!
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
"Being deaf is my proudest identity. Having a disability is not a barrier. I am disabled because I live and work in a world that disables me,” Deaf English actress Rose Ayling-Ellis said addressing feeling excluded and underestimated as a creative thr.cm/HpvXUfD
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
London’s McCormick Home fined for not complying with provincial air conditioning rules sarkariexamnews.in/londons-m…
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
Poverty-Level Financial Support for ALL Disabled Canadians in EVERY Province. $2200/mo = Canada Poverty Level per LICO2021. NOT one single Province provides this Level of support. 74% of Disabled Canadians do NOT have access to subsidized HOUSING but many WILL to MAiD in 2023!
Rolling out rapidly expanding state organized, fully-funded, physician-ending-of-life through #MAID #euthanasia soon incl. for #mentalhealth is easy. But providing dental care, now that's really ‘complicated,’ Freeland says of planned dental care program thestar.com/politics/2022/08…
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"Nova Scotia is [eliminating] the requirement that patients undergoing a medically assisted death be completely conscious to provide consent at the time of death." Read: globalnews.ca/news/9048043/n…
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
Just a few words about having a disability. Having a disability myself I can speak to this. People with disabilities are choosing MAID because politicians have failed. Myself I was too pissed off to choose MAID. People are quite literally living with constant hunger.
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Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
As you’ll discover this season on @cbcwhitecoat Canada is a country where in some places you can get #MAID faster than you can get an appt with an oncologist or an MRI.
Nadia aka virtuallynormal retweeted
There's a genocide happening in Canada! Disabled people are being coerced to die in Canada via MAiD (euthanasia). Due to lack of access to medical treatment, safe housing, food, and enough money! So they're being driven to die since that's the only choice they're being given.