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Alberta, Canada
Joined September 2008
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Kim Johnstone retweeted
"Before the flint club,
or flint butcher’s tools,
The first tool of all
was a sling for the baby
to keep our hands free."
(@neilhimself, The Mushroom Hunters: themarginalian.org/2019/11/2…)
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Kim Johnstone retweeted
The angry little face as the green beans get snapped.
I've been laughing at this for an embarrassingly long time.
Kim Johnstone retweeted
It is human nature to adapt. Our brains are literally designed to accept the status quo so that we can respond to new stimuli. That’s why you can’t feel your underwear right now. I urge you not to become complacent and accept this. Healthcare is failing. edmontonjournal.com/news/loc…
Kim Johnstone retweeted
Well, here is a bit of a lump-in-throat update. This is the final instalment of my @TorontoStar parenting column, as my work with @CBCRadio has become full-time. Parenting was never meant to be this hard. Let's fix this.
thestar.com/life/parent/opin…
Kim Johnstone retweeted
We should have never started reporting comorbidities. It perpetuates a false exceptionalism, and devalues the lives of people with health conditions so that those who are "healthy" can tell themselves that they are too special to get sick and/or die. It shouldn't matter.
Kim Johnstone retweeted
No parent ever looks at their child and reduces their health or their disabilities down to co morbids. The child we lost was everything and amazing to those who lost them.
Do not become so cold as to ever reduce a human life down to a comorbid especially a child
Kim Johnstone retweeted
If I die because of COVID-19, this government will refer to me as a 27 year old female in YEG area with comorbidities.
Raise hell. I have so much more to accomplish in my life. Comorbidities don't make our lives worthless. #covid19ab
Kim Johnstone retweeted
Comorbidities are not what Albertans are dying of. They LIVED with comorbidities.
People are dying DUE TO Covid. Period. Regardless of anything else.
If a person with cancer dies in a car collision, we don't say - they had cancer.
Same here.
Stop. It. It. Is. Wrong.
Kim Johnstone retweeted
BREAKING:
a 14-year-old is among the 33 new COVID deaths being reported in Alberta.
#yeg #yyc #ableg #Covid19ab
Kim Johnstone retweeted
We recommend not using mental health terms to describe unrelated issues. Don’t say that an awards show, for example, was schizophrenic.
Kim Johnstone retweeted
A hijabi woman checked me in for my flu shot today, said “Asalaamualaikum” as I approached, then pronounced my last name correctly. Almost cried because feeling at home in a healthcare setting is rare for me, but oh does it make such a huge difference.
