At the end of the day they actually get to do what they want at pharmacies so this is going to turn into a lot of permission for the people who are already highly right-wing and politicized on this and that is, to an extent that I think we are often politely ignoring, a TON of healthcare workers.

Also "chronic lung diseases limited to the following" is such bullshit. Many people don't end up having a clear diagnosis with respiratory issues, why tf would you LIMIT this. All lung issues should qualify. I think a lot about how our treatment of health as discrete medical conditions is inaccurate

This is one reason people end up having to chase a diagnosis, even inaccurate ones, when resources and care are gated on matching a textbook. Inhumane.

Anyway my practical advice, having faced down many healthcare practitioners who clearly would prefer I suffocate to death rather than do their own jobs, is to practice a confrontation where someone is refusing to give you your medicine and also refusing to explain why. Practice asking questions

Focused, calm, but completely stubborn and ice cold "I can't leave until I have it documented why you aren't doing this" has worked for me. And warmth and trying to do social persuasion does not work imho with bigoted healthcare people. They have bully energy so you have to.

I made a couple example scripts to help my friends who were also facing challenging dismissal from doctors, not vax specific but may be useful as more people have to experience being denied reasonable healthcare for political reasons now.

Talking to doctors about evidence and post covid symptoms

For the last six months I've been attempting to get healthcare for post covid symptoms. It will likely come as no surprise that this has been difficult. After covid, a very large percentage of people experience cardiopulmonary symptoms. It is very common and you likely know very many people going through this, or could be one yourself.It takes me a lot of energy to share about this but it's worse going through it and feeling like there's no help, so on we go. Everyone's case is different and com

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Also after that first pharmacist denied me I was both crushed and confused, gaslit enough that I wondered if I was somehow the crazy person she was accusing me of being even though I KNEW THE SCIENCE and she didn't. But I went to another pharmacy and got it. Be mean. Be persistent. SURVIVE.

I want to emphasize that being placating, NICE, trying all the things that women are raised to do to de-escalate tension, does not work with sadistic bullies who deeply enjoy the feeling that they're gaslighting you and you're weak when you try to explain things to them. Their emotional interiority is not your concern anymore. Finding their fragile-ass leverage points is. They are sadistic little cogs in a cruel machine who are probably burnt out. You can make them decide blocking you is scary.

Believe me, every week I talk to women who have been denied a critical diagnosis for more than a decade longer than men would have been, who have been belittled, dismissed, sent home in dangerous circumstances. This IS a war. It IS inhumane. Be mean. Be persistent. SURVIVE.

@grimalkina

This whole thread is something men need to read and grok. Over and over again.

I cannot tell you how flabbergasted I've been seeing how medical professionals have treated my wife. The condescension and divisiveness is obscene. Then they'll look at me with a you-know-what-I'm-talking-about face.

Fuck you. Help my wife. She's not crazy, you're an asshole.