#they also pushed hard on the antivaxx movement

[impulsivelycontentious]

This is such a weird take. Who is NOT worse off under Trump, exactly, among the less privileged? What area isn't ALREADY seeing plans to escalate under a win?

And where did this idea politicians will SAVE anyone come from? Kamala will not make things as worse isn't the position that ahe's going to save fuck all, it's the position that WE HAVE ALREADY DONE THIS and *literally every vulnerable person ended up in a worse position*. Overseas, at home, it does not matter.

It is not a position of privilege to say this. The idea it is is a position of listening to psyops whose literal role is to stop you from voting by making it feel irrelevant.

There is not a single person who will not have their shit made worse by a Trump presidency. Not one. On the whole damn planet.

Have you not been paying attention to the weather of late? Do you not recall the man literally is on record wanting to start nuclear wars? The sale of public land, the fight against "the climate alarmist industry"? Did you not notice the "lets encourage Israel actually" side of this?

Who, exactly, is going to be in the same position either way? Who is immune to the weather? To environmental pollutants? Who is immune to being part of this world?

Kamala will not save people is not the same position as Trump will make it worse.

The language of equality and activism is being co-opted by people who are seeking to convince you not to vote. That nul action is a moral position.

It isn't.

Nor is 'no actually this man will make it worse for EVERYONE' a position of privilege. It is not physically POSSIBLE to not have one's life impacted by this.

The hurrecanes and the hot summers and the warm winters and the destabilized polar winds sweeping polar air far lower than they should are not happening in a vacuum.

And no, environmentalism is FAR from the only place where he will fuck people's lives up, but it's sure as shit one that it is *literally impossible to avoid the impact of* unless you are exceptionally rich and on a very short time scale. There is no 'too poor' or 'too underprivileged' to fail to be impacted by this, and anyone telling you otherwise is a bot, a psyops agent - AND I REMIND YOU THIS IS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL YOU FIND HOLY WHATEVER IT MAY BE PLEASE LOOK UP RUSSIAN ELECTION INTERFERENCE DURING THE LAST TRUMP RUNS AND RECOGNIZE THIS IS A REPEATING PATTERN -, or someone who has fallen for what they're saying.

Scrutinize harder, and for fuck's sake, stop thinking of politicians as ANYONE who will save you EVER. They aren't heroes they are your selected political opposition and they always will be. Some are easy to work with, some will try and pass laws that make it legal to run down protestors with their cars. Know the difference.

im fresh out of patience for the whole idea that seeing kamala & trump as mostly the same evil is the privileged out of touch position. like, MY privilege is the one that makes kamala seem infinitely better than trump, because i'm on only one side of that stupid trolley problem meme, and that's what i've been working to unlearn.

[winglssdemon]

Omg

Weight loss does not automatically mean your body is eating your muscles and organs. The antivaxxer level of anti science on this site when it comes to weight loss is unbelievable.

Your body will only start "eating" your muscles if you're losing weight AND YOU DONT NEED TO AND ARE HEADED TO BEING UNDERWEIGHT.

WEIGHT LOSS CAN BE SUSTAINABLE. WEIGHT LOSS IS A VIABLE AND SOMETIMES A NEEDED OPTION FOR SOME PEOPLE.

HUGE REMINDER THAT THERE ARE TIMES WHEN WEIGHT LOSS CAN HELP DISABLED FOLK ESP FOLK WITH CHRONIC PAIN. It's not a cure-all but people with chronic pain experience large amounts of inflammation in the body and having excess adipose CAN cause inflammation just by itself. Compound that with extra weight on joints can make movement that may already be difficult even more difficult.

And while I'm on this rant, I'm SO sick of people acting like overeating and binging aren't disordered eating and also forms of self harm. I'm sick of the "body positive" activists who get SO mad that some fat people HAVE become fat through overeating and binging and want to talk about it. Like why can't those of us who gained weight through disordered behaviors actually talk about it? Why don't you talk about or let others talk about the fact that some people go from a restrictive eating disorder to a binge eating disorder.

Reasons Why I a Disabled Person decided to lose weight:

1. I knew I was eating too much junk food and not eating enough fruits and vegetables. So I started working on moderating how much junk food I was intaking and I have been trying really hard to make sure I choose healthier options.

2. My chest was/is too big. It was beginning to cause actual dysphoria issues along with the excess weight giving me constant shoulder and neck pain. Weight loss cannot be targeted at any specific part of your body, but overall weight loss can help you lose cup sizes.

3. The food was making my chronic pain worse. Many ultra processed foods are known to increase pain in people with chronic pain and it's been proven in multiple studies that eating a healthier diet can help decrease pain. It won't get rid of it, but it can help.

4. I was using food as a maladaptive coping mechanism. Stress eating is not actually helpful in the long run. Sure it makes you feel better while you're eating it, but once it's gone the problems, the pain, the stress is all still there.

5. I want to be able to use my crutches and KAFOs more often and having already lost a fair amount of weight, I can definitely 100% say that I have less difficulty using them than when I was at my heaviest. It's easier for myself to push myself in my wheelchair, and it's easier to propel myself in sled hockey. Among this, getting a bigger chair was just out of the question when I last ordered my most recent chair. The world is already so hostile to wheelchair users and spaces are already so narrow, it's easier to have a smaller chair if possible. Like we can talk all we want about how things need to be more accessible and universal design needs to be implemented everywhere so people in all sizes of wheelchairs esp those in power chairs, can get around easily without this being something to worry about, but at the end of the day, I want to be able to get through as best I can, and making sure I'm not going any bigger with my wheelchair is legit just something I have to do.

And you know what, even with all of these reasons, there's still the fact that people deserve bodily autonomy so if I want to safely lose weight for ANY reason, then that's my choice.

[fitnesshealthyoga-blog]

New Post has been published on https://fitnesshealthyoga.com/anti-vaxxers-bring-resurgence-of-preventable-and-dangerous-diseases/

'Anti-vaxxers' bring resurgence of preventable — and dangerous — diseases

Toddler with measles rash. Photo: Centers for Disease Control/Public Health Image Library

Can refusing to vaccinate children result in a public health emergency? Let’s consider a case study in the state of Washington, where there is a serious outbreak of measles, as well as upstate NY and NYC. We’ll also take a look at the controversy about parents’ refusing vaccinations for their children, and the “anti-vaxxer” movement.

Measles is an extremely contagious virus, spreading among people through the air. Most cases affect kids under the age of 10. While it was a common rite of passage for many children up to the 1950s, it killed hundreds every year in the U.S., and tens of thousands worldwide.

The symptoms include a spotted rash starting inside the mouth, spreading over the entire body, with fever as high as 104 degrees, cough, enflamed eyes, and runny nose. One in every four measles cases requires hospitalization. Once infected, there is no treatment available, though ibuprofen and acetaminophen help to reduce the fever, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Pneumonia, inner ear infections, inflammations of the brain and seizures are some of the other complications arising from measles. Permanent neurological damage, deafness and death can also occur.

Fortunately, owing to a vaccination rate of 85 percent worldwide, death from measles — and the occurrence of the disease at all — had all but disappeared except in some developing areas in Africa and Asia. The island nation of Madagascar has suffered 300 deaths, and counting, in a measles outbreak that has hit 20,000 people who have lost interest in widely available vaccinations. And now in other parts of the world, more parents choose to avoid vaccination for their children, leading to more outbreaks, and a significant climb in measles-related deaths.

The World Health Organization reports more than 110,000 kids, mostly under the age of 5 years, died from measles last year, but not in the U.S. A public health policy that had once earned parents’ support nationwide accounts for our children’s escape from this dangerous but at the same time entirely preventable virus.

Now a dangerous turnaround can be found in communities in the states of Washington and Oregon. A number of parents choose not to allow their children to be vaccinated for measles or anything else. Take Clark County, Washington, which is only about nine miles away from Portland, Oregon. This county has among the lowest vaccination rates in the state. As recently reported in the Oregonian, citing state records, 22 percent of public school students in Clark County did not complete vaccinations. Since the beginning of 2019, they have identified 56 confirmed cases of measles with other, suspected cases soon to be diagnosed, prompting the declaration of a health emergency.

Starting late last year, there were measles occurring in Brooklyn and in the Lower Hudson Valley upstate, with over 200 cases, making this New York’s largest measles outbreak in decades.

Vaccination for kids covers not only measles, but also polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria and other diseases that once took a terrible toll in human life year after year. Yet increasing numbers of parents have embraced the “anti-vaxxer” movement, deeply rooted in a growing distrust of big pharmaceutical companies and government. But are parents spreading preventable disease in the form of vaccine refusal?

Back to the West Coast — in 2016, in the face of an anti-vaxxer challenge, the courts upheld California’s “Proof of Vaccination” law. Refusing to vaccinate on religious grounds was also outlawed. Medical reasons, such as bad reactions to shots or a pre-existing condition, are the only exception. New York has a similar law, but foolishly still allows avoiding vaccinations for religious reasons. Also in 2016, at the Tribeca Film Festival, actor Robert DeNiro, himself the parent of an autistic child, hosted an anti-vaccine documentary. In it, a doctor who has since been barred from the practice of medicine linked child vaccines to autism. He claimed vaccines are linked as well to asthma, diabetes and allergies, all with absolutely no substantive proof.

The anti-vaxxer movement is also rooted in a belief that forced vaccinations are wrong in a free country. Insisting it’s a personal decision, the anti-vaxxers are known to send their kids to private schools that are more accepting of low vaccination status, or none at all, for their students. Many advocates of holistic medicine and the health food industry now openly question vaccines. They point to the ongoing, horrific opioid epidemic, and how it might have been avoided if so many had not relied, to their peril, on the pharmacy companies, the medical profession and the protection of government regulation. But is this relevant?

With vaccines, there is hard data backing the scientific conclusion that a vaccination rate of 93 percent or better is needed to prevent measles outbreaks among the public. To that end, government pushes mandatory vaccination. A resulting paranoia tightens its grip as some parents refuse to get their children vaccinated owing to distrust in government.

The CDC warns of measles outbreaks as travelers return from such areas as Israel and the Ukraine, where large outbreaks recently occurred, and spreading the disease here. The CDC emphasizes that the once-eradicated measles virus is more likely to spread in areas with “pockets of unvaccinated people.”

With all of this considered, maybe the time has come for strengthening mandatory vaccinations with penalties for those who refuse. Parents’ stubborn failure to vaccinate their kids unreasonably endangers the “herd immunity” on which they could be said to selfishly rely, unconcerned with the risk to others who could not be vaccinated for medical reasons or simply being too young. Some have suggested that health insurance by law should not cover medical expenses for illnesses arising from deliberately unvaccinated children – a harsh solution. But even more harsh is the spread of the virus among those who could not be vaccinated for valid reasons.

For information on measles vaccinations, and the senselessness of avoiding them, call the NY Measles Hotline at (888) 364-4837. To choose the antivaxxer path is fraught with risk. It makes sense to weigh carefully a truly life-and-death decision before you make it.

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