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We are an informal coalition of students, staff, and faculty, dedicated to pushing back against an unsafe and inaccessible return to campus.

Joined March 2022
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📣We are looking for youth to apply to be on our Youth Action Council! The YAC is made up of youth with disabilities from across Hamilton & the Greater Toronto Area. YAC is responsible for guiding the direction of campaign, research & education work done through committees📣
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If your DEI practices don’t include protections from an ongoing pandemic, you’re excluding disabled & high risk people which means…you’re not practicing equity + inclusivity
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"Unfortunately, since BQ and XBB sublineages are resistant to bebtelovimab, the only active mAb against circulating SARS-CoV-2 strains, clinicians have no authorized therapeutic mAb for treatment." 3/x
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"Overall, vaccination with or without prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and even booster shots of novel bivalent (WA1-BA.5) mRNA vaccines did not confer protection against any of the four Omicron XB and BQ subvariants" 1/x news-medical.net/amp/news/20…
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🚨BREAKING🚨 #GeneralStrike in Ontario? According to our sources, OFL affiliates and CUPE are considering a mass protest at Queen's Park on Saturday, Nov 12 followed by a #GeneralStrike on Monday, Nov 14. ✊️ #ontedsolidarity #repealbill28 #DougFord #CUPEStrong #CUPESolidarity
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Planning on picketing tomorrow? Hell ya! Here's some tips for how to get more disabled ppl out on the picket line: - Wear N95s & bring some to distribute - Provide chairs & wheelchairs as you are able - Bring ear plugs & some to share - Don't call disabled children special needs
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I’m not in a place to forgive and I may never be…
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Please share: A former member of our @djnontario Youth Action Council, Devin Glim, needs our help! He led the organizing around snow clearing in #HamOnt in 2019. He needs an assistive device that isn't publicly funded. Assistive devices should be FREE 1/ gofund.me/1991f7aa
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Version 4. No one could have foreseen this.
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If you’re new to having a disability, understand that these types of articles are not so new to us.
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We all contribute to protecting our loved ones and our community by #masking. If you can't afford high-quality, N95-comparable #masks to protect you and yours in #Canada, our #DonateMask #charity will send them to you for #FREE. Visit requestmask.ca to request them!
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The CDC estimates that 7.5% of the current adult US population is now suffering with #LongCovid.
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YOU DO YOU IS NOT PUBLIC HEALTH
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BREAKING: Canada has now lost more lives to COVID than we did in all of World War II. 44370 Canadians have died from Covid, including my father. And if you think it’s “almost over,” remember that more have died of Covid this year already than in 2020 or 2021.
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#BREAKING: Ontario continues to promote this myth that pandemic is over, thereby ensuring that an innumerable amount of death will continue to occur as the virus spreads through: schools, long term care, hospitals, daycares, workplaces, prisons, and every other congregate setting
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cw: COVID-19 The @McMasterU President and Provost wrote that "[a]s a society, we are finding balance" in COVID management; however, it's a society that does not account for disabled or immunocompromised people, that does not keep its empty commitments, that does not care.
Classes start in a couple of weeks and this is what @McMasterU has re precautions: - no mask mandate - no vaccine mandate - no physical distancing requirements - no longer requiring students to report positive cases - no longer sharing data on the number of cases on campus
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COVID-19: Hospital Admissions Better or Worse Now? In the 3rd summer of the pandemic, are things better or worse? Looking at the # of hospital admissions because of COVID-19 in Ottawa from July 1st to August 15 in 2020, 2021, and 2022 things are definitely worse. 🧵1/
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Provincial governments across Canada are using healthcare under funding during the COVID-19 pandemic to set the public system up for privatization. This is disaster capitalism at work.
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Over the last few months, our Youth Action Council has been working with disabled folks across so-called Canada to develop a Disability-Centred Just Recovery Plan for the pandemic. Join us Monday, August 15th at 9am as we release the report/results at Hamilton City Hall! 1/7🧵
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Wait, the CDC just gave up?
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