hello dear humans and thanks for being here. this is episode 2 of Start Making Sense, and speaks to my orientation to the sars2 pathogen, community care, and how we move forward in a world where our health and the health of our communities is not a priority of the state. episode contents with timestamps listed below so that you can be in full choice about what/how much/how fast or slowly you engage with this content. there’s also a transcript available for anyone who likes/needs to read rather than listen.
0:46- resourcing on purpose before diving in
2:05- settling into resource, feeling feet & container of my body
2:22- the reality of today: unmitigated sars2 infection
3:01- naming unmitigated sars2 outbreak and orientation to outbreaks of 2003 and 2014
4:07- call to reduce lifetime number of infections and overall viral load we are exposed to
4:43- naming conditioning out of collective care and into individualism by intersecting systems of harm that serve to maintain “business as usual”
5:53- i’m here to talk about how to move towards collective and individual health and care within the truth of the reality of our situation; no systemic support for testing and treating or managing disability outcomes of sars2
6:31- 1/3 Oklahomans and 1/4 Americans are experiencing long covid
7:11- categories of difficult after sars2 and my context as a healthcare professional
9:12- recognizing massive cognitive dissonance in medical professionals around “do no harm” but taking no precautions against sars2
9:42- naming grief process of people taking precautions only because it was “the rules”or legislated
10:07- data is widely available about BSL3 pathogen impacts
10:48- i am baffled that folks with capacity to understand the science of this pathogen are still impacted by cultural gaslighting around the affects of sars2
11:23- i would rather have a grief process than collude with harm
11:38- maybe it’s capacity, maybe it’s a desire issue; the committment to our own comfort over the lives and safety of other people is unacceptable to me anymore (for me, and for my close communities). this isn’t judgement or shame, just a reality of trying to stay alive in our current world
12:35- if you still believe you are exempt from sars2 harm because you’re young/healthy/etc, my response is that if you’re a human with blood vessels and a brain and femurs, you’re just as at risk. nobody is exempt from this harm.
14:05- this is the slow truth of a sars2 infection, of unmitigated spread
14:43- after 3 infections you’re 38% more likely to get long covid, which is a disease category
15:27- disease category of long covid means persisting symptoms beyond 3 months; 2 folks with LC will look differently
16:09- erectile dysfunction is a major long covid symptom; we shouldn’t need massive personal impact to care about the collective
16:50- vagus nerve function and impact/harmful implications
17:57- if you are a human with a body, you are at risk
18:17- “high risk” group includes things like depression and anxiety; also previous infection
19:17- the messaging of “those other people” includes you with this understanding
19:49- we are being manipulated into passive eugenics; the cultural messaging and the ways we’ve been maipulated into not caring for each other in our behavior around sars2 is serving to massively disable and kill off large groups of people
20:43- more people have died from sars2 in Jan 2024 than have died all year in 2023 of flu; 2000 people per week are dying from this still. we aren’t attuning to this because our attention is being purposefully driven away from this information
21:37- if we weren’t manipulated by capital interests, we would understand the impact of harm
21:56- it’s never too late to care about your neighbor, your body, your community
22:20- know better, do better. i’m asking for a level of individual and community care
22:44- call to action
23:57- i do not accept the reality that people can’t go the grocery store or hospital without risk for severe infection
23:38- it’s never too late to add precautions
25:04- i’m here for the grief
25:38- we share air; my health is directly realted to your health and visa versa. i’m asking us to be with whatever difficulty comes with these realizations in a way that creates more community care
26:41- a scenario i think about being out in the world with unmitigated infection
27:17- up to 60% of sars2 infections are asymptomatic infections; the reality of what i’m seeing…
29:20- high correlation between sars2 and ME/CFS and POTS
29:50- we don’t live in a world with guaranteed sick pay, universal income, or disability benefits and support that are easily available
30:25- by ignoring the truth of the pathogen of sars2 and listening to the cultural messaging of minimization, you could be permanently disabling or killing your neighbor
31:27- we need to baseline care about not infecting each other and creating spaces with clean air that everyone can access
31:43- until sars2 is not a BSL3, until it is not a neuromuscular autoimmune highly disabling virus, these are the truths of living with this virus
32:11- the longer we are unwilling or unable to face these realities, the more harm we’re doing in our communities (whether purposeful or from cultural messing). i’m asking that we do better, because we have to
32:50- this is one layer of intersecting systems of harm within our culture
33:15- there are better and different ways to deal with the reality of this pathogen in our air
33:51- i’m not crazy or wrong, i’m early in my understanding of what’s happening culturally and physiologically with this virus
34:07- comparison to early days of AIDS crisis where it wasn’t widely accepted that condoms prevented transmission and reduced harm; took 8-10 years for govt to name the crisis and harm reduction around that
34:40- i invite you to be early in your understanding of sars2 harm reduction and disability justice
35:16- resourcing on the back end of information
36:50- vast support of momentary and purposeful attention to resource
37:08- attuning to baseline human nature of collective care and solidarity
37:38- we don’t need to be perfect or change everything all at once; we get to make the next doable step/choice towards care and community and let that be momentum towards a different future
38:19- we get to create something else, an i invite you to join me
39:06- on mask blocs and community care for respirators, mouthwashes, nasal sprays, etc
39:33- what is the next doable step? you are enough, you belong by being human, and you get to make choices that serve the collective
resource link for claims made:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HJt3Amv9L7JYNmR8NS_Fn6Wx9n7TQLjiSxToBII_QOQ/edit
