Tiff Knows

Proof of what seven days in a toxic environment did to the human body. The first clip showed my baseline. I was full of energy and breathing clearly. The second was recorded just one week after I was exposed to the biohazards in my home. You could see the respiratory struggle and the physical toll that inhaling toxins took on my system. I’ve been out of that home for 35 hours and I’m already starting to feel better. We witnessed a dangerous phenomenon where medical expertise was treated as a mere "opinion" by people with zero scientific training. Two board-certified physicians, who understood the complexity of my Spinal Cord Injury and my restricted lung capacity, formally declared that environment lethal. Yet and still I was met with medical gaslighting from people who believed they could override doctors because they "didn’t see" the danger with their naked eye. This was a total lack of value for disabled lives. When a disabled resident told management they were in danger, "clean enough" was a death sentence. There was a critical difference between "clean" and "safe" that many failed to grasp. Per IICRC S500 standards, that sewage was Category 3 water grossly unsanitary and filled with pathogenic agents. You could not simply "disinfect" sewage out of porous subflooring and drywall bc those materials trapped bacteria that eventually aerosolized. For an able-bodied person, that was a health risk. For an SCI survivor, that air was an immediate pathway to Sepsis or Autonomic Dysreflexia. To suggest the environment was safe just because visible waste was "emptied" was a humiliating display of ignorance regarding how airborne pathogens work. This case study illustrated why disabled people stay in constant danger. We were told to "trust the experts," yet when two doctors mandated a move-out for life-safety reasons, non-professionals felt entitled to play medical expert. My life depended on biohazard containment, not "structural survival." I did not have the luxury of waiting for the invisible to become lethal before it was taken seriously. That dismissal of scientific fact was exactly why disabled people die. Thank you to everyone supporting me. I am researching and emailing 20 hours per day to get justice for my neighbors and myself. To those who have donated: You. Are. Life. Savers. ❤️