Neurodivergent Dr
Dr. Lucky Tran 
2022 isn’t the year that we emerged from the pandemic.
It’s the year we chose to normalize ignoring it and leaving the most vulnerable behind.
Kasia @luckytran absolutely
MaximVoronov, Ph.D.@luckytran This is also a foreshadowing of how we will proceed to normalize and ignore the mass destruction caused by climate change. This was a trial run, and it worked for most people. Including mist social justice warriors.
Matt Sicker@MaximVoronov @luckytran the victim blaming and talk of individual responsibility over collective action at the government level is also telling. I’m sure we’ll all be tut-tutting about people being selfish as if it weren’t a systemic problem.
RDS (shawphd on Twitter)@luckytran @MaximVoronov And it’s an extension of how neoliberalism and capitalism have trained people to be indifferent to mass death and suffering so long as they’re getting their goodies and the suffering happens to “not-us”.
alcinnz@MaximVoronov @luckytran This is what seriously disturbs me!
Bianca@luckytran As a rare disease community member, I believe it’s personal responsibility time. I wish others would mask during high circulating virus 🦠 rates but since the don’t, I wear an N95 to every small group exercise class and grocery store. I only dine out outside.
Stork Viola@GoldenRuleLover @luckytran I use N95 in public transport and stores, but it doesn't help much since my kids go to school where they have no air purifiers or good ventilation and students have to go if they have mild symptoms.
It's a disease that has to be fought as a society. As an individual, you are chanceless.
@luckytran @GoldenRuleLover Well, that’s what our officials would prefer… even as they censor and distort the information we need to keep ourselves safe.
That’s the part that enrages me.
HLGEM@shawrd773 @luckytran @GoldenRuleLover Another part that enrages me is that we don't quarantine people with the disease. You know like they used to do back in the olden days before vaccines for most transmittable diseases. My mother told stories of being quarantined (with signs so everyone near you would know not to come near) for scarlet fever and other diseases. Why do we let people who are contagious just wander around?
@luckytran @GoldenRuleLover @HLGEM Because we’re unwilling to bring them food and medicine while quarantined and to ensure that they don’t get fired for missing work.
Dan Jago@HLGEM @shawrd773 @luckytran @GoldenRuleLover Because we want them to continue working and spending money
Tobotron@luckytran too real
Bc Clarity Carlton-Martin@luckytran What #PublicHealth ? I don't see anything remotely like that here.
Pēteris Krišjānis@luckytran my biggest issue is ignorance due of inconvinience - because there are ultra right pushback, because it is hard to do public health and be consistent. We could adapt but we just don't. We just put everything on ignore. And it keeps coming crashing down.
Crunch@luckytran We started even earlier in some areas of the country.
Michelle@luckytran I have long covid and it's destroying my life. Sadly the media don't like to discuss this and too many people think covid isn't real or is like a cold. A cold doesn't leave you with long lasting conditions.
Tofu Golem@luckytran
As Rebecca Watson said, when a disease is infecting and killing lots of people around the world and the government tells you it's not a pandemic, the government is telling you which lives it doesn't care about.
In the case of malaria, that would be poor people in warm countries. In the case of COVID-19, that's people in poor countries all over the world.
Richservo 
@luckytran problem is. While there were many of us that stayed home for 2 years and wore masks everywhere and got all the shots. And yet it still grew and grew because the ignorant masses decided it was an ideology to ignore science. So our efforts were for nothing.
Kyle Hasegawa@richservo @luckytran I completely understand your feeling. Many have sacrificed a lot during COVID while others have flaunted public health rules and recommendations.
While your sacrifices may seem in vein, the cumulative effect of masking, distancing, and vaccines have flattened some of the sharpest peaks and saved many lives.
admarcus1@luckytran it’s not only that we’ve left the vulnerable behind, we are playing genetic Russian roulette. Inadequate vaccination, lax masking, and low to nonexistent tracking is allowing the virus to continue to spread and mutate. We’ve been lucky so far that the more transmissible strains have not been more deadly, but there is no reason why the next strain can’t be more contagious, drug and vaccine resistant, and more deadly. Don’t panic, but be more worries than you are.
Michael Gurski@luckytran I'm not a Virologist or Molecular Biologist, but I work with several. I follow their lead, and still mask up as much as possible, and encourage others to, as well.
J.H.NoyesGoing masks-off makes it very easy for elite philosophers to justify eliminating the unmasked. Sure, they salted the sample and chummed the waters to convince the hoi polloi that there was nothing wrong with killing grandma and sickly Timmy from across the way, but it was really just a trick to demonstrate how undeserving of health and agency commoners are in aggregate.
How much compassion do you have for patricides or adults that harm children?
See what I mean?
It was a trick.
Madison@luckytran For many of us it was the year we got COVID after avoiding it for so long 😭