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Protecting Female Sacred Birth And Concerns Of Loss Of Medical Sovereignty | Woke Up
Mary Lou Singleton, midwife, nurse practitioner, and medical sovereignty activist. She discusses the medical industrial complex's takeover of birth and the invasion of trans ideology into women's spaces. Concerns about surrogacy. She discusses her journey out of the left and the changes in our political landscape. The political battle is no longer Republican v Democrat but autonomy and sovereignty versus authoritarian control.
#woke up#protecting female sacred birth#loss of medical sovereignty#sacred birth#sacred birthing#radical sovereignty#safe birth#respectful care#birth plan#childbirth choices#maternal health#natural birth#female empowerment#maternal health care#maternal health disparities#medical sovereignty#health care advocacy#health care policies#patient rights#trans ideology#nurse practitioner#female reproductive care#female care#Youtube
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“Gaining the attention of a target audience is power. Persuading that audience to behave the way you want is ultimate power.”
-Diana J. Mason, Elizabeth Dickson, Monica R. McLemore, G. Adriana Perez (Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care, 8th Edition, Chapter 1)
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Please stay alive.
#Advice I've been giving my everyone: Living is an act of love to those like you that came before and will come after#Please don't do anything permanent. I care. People care.#I think I'm going to take maybe a week off of ~everything~#I'm not sure I ever mentioned before that I technically work in health policy (epidemiology research but like advocacy oriented)#So you can imagine how this just flipped my entire world upside down#I don't even know if I will have a position next year#But right now I'm trying to keep people from [redacting] themselves so#It's a lot. It's so much#Turning off the q fanart train I had going on. I think some things are scheduled so I dunno that might happen anyway
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Are you running for office in a city like NYC? Do I have practical fixes for you, that I personally would like to see implemented!
Requisite needle and med drop off at every pharmacy and hospital
Covered benches at every bus stop
Compost drop off at every subway
Free public transit
Painted curb no parking at bus stops
Painted curb no parking fire hydrant
Libraries open 24/7
More public restroom (business incentives for public restrooms)
More public transit stops and shorter time between pick ups
Free healthcare
Free college courses, only pay for use of credit towards degree
Required narcan and cpr training for all able tax payers
Landlord penalization for extended vacancies on residential and business properties
Extended park hours
Better street lighting
Better park lighting
All public resources in multiple languages available digitally and physically
365 KN95 masks and 52 covid tests to each resident of the city delivered annually for free. Additional available upon request.
Free handbook on waste disposal and recycling updated yearly and mailed to all addresses, additional available upon request
Green energy is standard for all electric and gas companies, with no up-charge for converting from traditional energy offering
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ajin is so good on so many levels but i am particularly interested in the philosophical and ethical implications it raises from the doing away with death
#ITS SO GOOD RRR#something i might actually want to write about#as a warmup. or practice#but grrr ajin and its many implications#its the perfect intersection of everything i care abt#medicine - research meta - security - ontology - ethics - public health - interpersonal relations - technology - law/policy - media#like at its core its a very action oriented manga but i think the questions it raises is a lot more interesting than anything#ajin as a very complex thought experiment from many disciplinary angles#pleasr talk to me if u have any thoughts ���#ajin#or like. r interested in seeing this happen from me#annoying philosophy guys gotta write
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debating going on the grace meng PA canvassing bus on sunday hmmmmmm
#personal#i am a tiny white girl who looks 10 yrs younger than i am and it gives me a HUGE advantage w/#convincing middle aged white women who are lean-republican to vote for kamala#(i also have near encyclopedic knowledge of health care policy history mwah... helps bcuz a lot of them are really angry about the abortion#issue in a weirdly libertarian sorta way???)#IM STILL SOOOO ANGRY I DIDN'T GO TO THE 2022 GEORGIA ONE#covid levels were a little high.... but ERIC WAS THERE???? and did a free concert for the volunteers and im forever angry
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Sweden: Parental Leave Can Now Be Transferred to Grandparents for Pay! 👶
Sweden is famous for its laws and practices that focus on happiness, daily ease, and the mental well-being of its citizens. As part of its support for families, Sweden now allows parents to transfer parental leave to grandparents, who will receive pay for this time. This change is set to take effect in 2024 and marks another step towards improving the quality of life for its…
#Child care#Family Support#gender equality#Grandparents#Happiness In Sweden#Mental Health#Parental Leave#Sweden#Swedish Policies#Work Life Balance
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#us politics#news#twitter#tweet#republicans#conservatives#gop#gop platform#gop policy#abortions#abortion bans#Florida#maternal death data#maternal death rates#john iadarola#tyt#the young turks#2023#abortion is health care#reproductive health#reproductive rights#reproductive rights are human rights
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I hate Doug ford so much.
#this is relation to recent news about safe injection sites#hmmmmmm MAYBE PEOPLE SHOULDNT DIE ON THE STREETS OF OVERDOSES WHEN WE CAN PREVENT THEM#maybe there would be less addicts/users if we dealt with the social circumstance that leads to drug use#MAYBE IF WE HAD A FUNCTIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM people wouldn’t need to rely on non prescription drugs#MAYBE IF WE DEALT SITH OUR HOUSING CRISIS you nimbiys wouldn’t have to see all the drug use#I’m so fucking tired of them framing it like safety for children too#you know what’s not fucking safe for children under funded understaffed schools#homes on the brink of homelessness and food insecurity#this was never about fucking children ever. and that’s not even to start on if you cared about innocent children’s lives you’d be calling#for a ceasefire and arms embargo instead of arresting pro Palestine protesters or punishing students calling for divestment#everything is so fucking backwards and I’m just so heated lol#fuck Doug ford I hope he never wins another fucking election#they never should have let him in with what was it like 15% of the vote. if people didn’t vote in the election. they need to enact policy#that gets people participating or deals with the reason why people don’t vote#eliscisojwnso ike w#jxoskjdk ofkwmdc#I will have beef with ford till he or I die. and the way he’s making this province I seem to be closer to the chopping block than him
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A sad fact of humanity is that a lot of people won't do something, even if they know it's right, unless they have to.
Take organ donations- an overwhelming majority of those polled, at least here in Canada, support them. But only a distinct minority actually register to be donors.
This is also why the idea bandied about, when they started lifting Covid restrictions, that people would just be responsible for themselves now, was so obviously unworkable. Because most people are not going to prioritize getting vaccinated or wearing a mask or staying home when sick if they don't have to, and most businesses aren't either. Even if they theoretically think its a good idea (I speak from experience- there are precautions I know I probably should do that I've put off and neglected).
Not all of this is shear laziness. Some of it is hypocrisy- I think this is a good idea, but want other people to bear the burden (see NIMBYs). But also... people are often really busy, overworked, overstressed, with limited resources, and, if it's not something they're passionate about or something they have to do to avoid death, imprisonment, or destitution, most people will, often, ignore it. So requiring people to do more isn't necessarily helping if you don't put supports in place to make it possible for them to do something.
BUT, the fact remains that if you really want to get people to do something, even something popular, the best way to do that is probably to mandate it. Or, if you want to take peoples' freedom of choice into account, and minimize backlash from the "Don't Tread On Me" dipshits, make it opt out rather than opt in, like some places are currently doing with organ donations. That way, the people who really don't want to still have a choice, but the people who aren't strongly opposed in theory, but just won't be arsed to do it if they don't have to, will go along.
Basically, making something opt in means only those passionate about it do it.
Making it opt out means that the passionate people and the undecideds/indifferent do it.
I would also argue that it follows from this that if a government ever proposes a solution to a long-term major problem, but makes it rely on voluntary participation, the effort is like performative and not expected or intended to actually succeed.
#Policy#Health Care#Covid#Vaccines#Masking#Organ Donation#Bodily Autonomy#Freedom Of Choice#NIMBYs#Opt In#Opt Out
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COVID rapidly spreads in China as government eases strict quarantine rules, December 27, 2022
China is grappling with the rapid spread of COVID-19 after the government began rolling back its zero-COVID restrictions earlier this month. Now, cases are spiraling across towns and cities, hospitals are overburdened, medical staff are outnumbered and crematoriums are running out of space. Judy Woodruff reports.
PBS NewsHour
There is no nuance left in politics or public health policy when there is either an absolute and strict inflexibility of zero COVID or wholesale dismantling of safeguards before the healthcare or support systems are prepared for the waves that have been forcibly suppressed. The political insistence on using their own less effective, non-mRNA vaccines based on the original strains rather than Delta or Omicron, coupled with a low vaccination rate of the vulnerable and elderly is not helping easing the transition at all.
The way they’ve been counting mortality from COVID diverged from nearly every other country since early 2020. A death had to be directly attributable to SARS-CoV-2 eliminating cases of many preexisting or undiagnosed conditions, chronic illnesses, and other high risk factors that may have been exacerbated by the virus which became listed as the direct cause or if they simply tested negative in the few days before dying. The policy as of this week will further limit the count only to deaths caused by pneumonia or respiratory failure after contracting COVID, in addition to dropping much of the remaining inbound quarantines and regular case counts becoming even more inconsistent with lived reality.
It appears the PRC was prepared to stay in suspended animation within an onionskin of self-isolation layers indefinitely, maintaining the appearance of control and adherence to policy that was left to different local officials to execute. Downgrading the classification removes the local, emergency-style powers to lockdown and quarantine which were used capriciously. Residential buildings, offices and commercial areas such as malls, and even theme parks could be suddenly cordoned without warning, causing panic due to the stringency of testing and knock-on effects if a positive case was found rather than fear of having contacted or contracted the virus. Becoming listed as a close contact or a complete stranger’s positive result could mean further quarantining and repeated testing, as well any change in one’s COVID passport status severely restricting mobility for work or education, travel, or even basic necessities. The protests spread because “dynamic zero” was anything but dynamic, refusing to change or amend course in preparation for a transition to an endemic or post-epidemic state. People were simply fed up and the building momentum was becoming a potential danger to a regime that had just renewed its own political mandates.
These things aren’t happening in isolation, China is also changing tact on its travel restrictions domestically and internationally. The Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau have been trying to reopen ports and travel with the Mainland for years now for travel and economic reasons. Both were forced into accepting one-way policies where it was difficult for their citizens to enter China or even between one another, while rules were softened for travelers and politicians entering from and returning to the Mainland for short trips with the reason that the pandemic was less well-contained than within the Mainland.
As news of the highly visible current outbreak within China is continuing to emerge, the Hong Kong SAR is now proudly announcing agreements have been made with the Mainland to drop their travel restrictions posthaste. It’s being reported that many are travelling specifically for mRNA vaccines which are approved in Macau and Hong Kong.
#China#covid 19#coronavirus#pandemic#public health#politics#Chinese Communist Party#Xi Jinping#pbs newshour#seriously#fundamentally ridiculous#bureaucracy#zero covid policy#vaccination#epidemiology#reuters#financial times#news#current events#health care
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Tennessee law already says that religious leaders do not have to officiate weddings they object to. Critics say the new bill goes beyond that and would empower county clerks to refuse to certify marriage licenses, meaning that LGBTQ, interfaith, or interracial couples could be unable to get married at all, rather than just needing to find a new officiant for their ceremony.
Marriage equality is technically the law of the land thanks to the Respect for Marriage Act, which President Joe Biden signed in December. But Tennessee’s bill exploits a major loophole in that law. Critics had long warned that the Respect for Marriage Act did not go far enough. The bill had been amended during the debate process to say that religious organizations do not have to marry same-sex couples, and the law also does not require states to actually issue same-sex marriage licenses.
#things I missed during last months chaos#cw: america#for those not in America#inability to marry has huge financial consequences#which includes health insurance on partner’s policy#(and the cost of US health care requires insurance)
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actually a fucking crime that i cant learn everything i want to
#how to draw how to sew how to paint how to woodwork#russian history culture and language indian history culture and languages#chemistry neurology psychiatry#public health and policy#im crying. if you care#literature#and fiction writing just. all fiction writing and poetry
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Idc who this upsets, but I actually hated the whole forced mask wearing era with a burning passion. As someone with epilepsy which is aggravated by heat, it was absolute hell to have to wear that shit because (and fuck what y’all abled-bodies wanna say) it DOES impact my breathing and make me overheat. And I actually cannot just ‘go get a medical exemption’ because a) they don’t give that shit out like free candy, I had to go pay $500 to a neurologist to get that lil note, and b) I could staple that med cert to my fucking forehead and still get people losing their minds every time I went anywhere without a mask. Everyone like ‘oh disabled people are so terrified of COVID-19 so you should think of them before ragging on masks like this’ as though everyone ain’t already spent the last three decades of my life not giving a singular shit about my disability, but now suddenly want to act like they care about disabled people? Why tf should I care about giving anyone the spicy cough when no one has ever given a fuck how many seizures their actions cause me? Y’all want me to put my own health at risk by wearing this mask, so you don’t get a lil sore throat, when y’all will remain deliberately oblivious to epilepsy and other heat-related illnesses, right up until someone dies, and then you’ll still have a giggle about that too? Way more people be dying every day from heat-related illnesses than from COVID-19, so where’s my mandatory air-conditioning and icepack stations at every street corner? Fuck hand sanitizer stations, provide me a free cold drink. Additionally, mask wearing was the ONLY thing people got this fucking turnt about too. It’s not like any of y’all were social distancing (something which would have actually helped me with my disability lmao). No one was getting booted out of stores for standing on my damn heels every time I had to get in a queue. Anyway, after the first twenty times I got asked to leave a store for not wearing a mask (despite having that magical medical certificate) I made up my own mask by getting four of those ‘valves’, absolutely gutting the inside of them to allow unrestricted airflow, and then stitching them into a linen mask. Still uncomfortable, fo sure, but a lot better than having to deal with hot air on my face and under my sunglasses while already struggling not to pass out in the middle of the Australian summer.
#and like#the amount of fake news about this topic too#everyone still think that the only people who had a problem with mask wearing or COVID-19 policies or whatever#are all crazy anti-vax pro-Trump nazi conspiracy theorists#when actually most people speaking up and protesting were people like me#people with disabilities whose lives were (ironically) being put on the line by these COVID policies#or doctors who were asking very reasonable questions about the safety of these vaccinations#(and especially irt the safety of women who we later found out are actually at a much higher risk of vaccine injury)#(but lol we still don't care about that bc fuck womens health amirite)#or lawyers who were concerned about the legal framework these COVID-19 policies were being implemented under#concerns that have now come to fruition#since many of these laws that were brought in 'just for COVID-19' are still in effect and still being renewed and applied to other areas#like for example#cracking down on protestors with the threat of decades in jail#especially if those protestors inconvenience a coal mine#but you wouldn't hear about any of these qualified people and their qualified concerns in the news#bc that doesn't make headlines like 'nazis form a hippy commune and plan to eat your babies' did#honestly this whole past couple years just made me hate society even more lmao#epilepsy#disability#ableism
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