Today I am presenting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatographic_urticaria
this is when anything that touches my skin causes welts and sometimes lesions. This is the joy of having https://dermnetnz.org/topics/autoimmune-progesterone-dermatitis/
I get a variety of reactions depending on what chemical conversations are happening in my body.
90% of the time I can manage with a variety of medications. I am engaged, creative, prolific, & I am able to work most of the time. Sometimes it presents so seriously that I have to take a lot of time off and that is when this is important:

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla
Most of the time I am a tax paying, society contributing, productive member of my community. I am a loving friend & caring wife. I am a good neighbor. I have taught self defense for free. I've done everything I could think of to make a difference.

But none of that matters to the
party that is not doing anything about COVID while trying to take my healthcare away.

Having this disease means that I am unable to take vaccines. My immune system is already attacking my body every day. There is no way for me to take a vaccine without risking my life.
All of this makes me expendable to the GOP. I am not a perfect person so why not let me die?

I rely on the kindness of strangers to take THEIR vaccines. I rely on the kindness of the government to give me time when I need it so I can be a tax paying member of society. I rely on
my healthcare to keep me alive & functioning so I can be all those other things to the rest of the world.

To the GOP I am a statistic. I am a line on a cost sheet. I am a personal liability because I represent the money they pay in taxes. They can look me in the eye & steal my
healthcare.

To them, I'm a liability, I'm stealing their tax dollars to fund a loser of a life. I should just die.

Until I got sick I was a fucking hurricane. I was a force of willpower & might. I trained until I was impossible to fight. I was strong. https://twitter.com/RedloraineV/status/1171228723204345862?s=20
I was unbreakable.

Things happen. People get sick. Unexpected, rare diseases rear their heads & tumble your life.

This is why society requires a safety net. People get sick. People need help. Lifting others raises us all up.

What the GOP believes is raising others costs my $.
They look at me as a calculation of how much $ they could save in taxes. They don't see a person, they see a cost factor. And some of them see a person they can fck over for a good feeling.

They are trying to take away the Affordable Care Act at a time when they are allowing the
contagious pandemic ever to flourish in our country. They are spreading it, nurturing it. At the same time they are trying to take our healthcare away.

They can justify every cruel thing they do which is why they should not be in charge.

$ is not more important than lives.
GOP believes that instead of lifting others up they can scrape away the earth at the feet of the targets of their abuse, to lower everyone around them until they loom over the rest of the world.

They don't feel strong until the have made others weak.

The point of government
is to create an environment free of obstacles so the we can all flourish. And that is what the democrats want. We just want to create an environment where failure is not catastrophic. Where accidents don't result in eviction. Where health problems don't risk your jobs. Where we
can have a helping hand.

I pay my taxes proudly because I know that the government is helping people I will never meet. That is the job of government and that is why I am proud of my party.

GOP wants to punish people for accidents, illness, & poverty. & they want to create an
environment where those things are more likely to exist. AND why would they want that? Because abusers know: vulnerable targets of abuse are easier to abuse.

Making you sick, tired, poor & vulnerable is a goal for the GOP. You are easier to control, easier to take advantage of.
Abusers know - people having the hardest times of their lives are the easiest to abuse.

Why else would they want all of us to suffer?

It is abusers VS the rest of us, watch for the principles, watch for the failures, the abuse. https://twitter.com/RedloraineV/status/1314672576749162497?s=20
And it is our job to stop them https://twitter.com/RedloraineV/status/1307391164123734016?s=20
You can follow @RedloraineV.
Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled: