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balverine:

Original post can be found here.

Gentiles are encouraged to read all the way through and reblog.

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breakaway71:

demitherobosexual:

lluvia185:

ruinedchildhood:

For all of you who are confussed.

Oh

As an older millennial, I bless the people who created both the meme and the timeline because, YES, THIS

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Chill alone. Listen to music. Restore your energy.

kushandwizdom:

- Reverie Hippie

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black-is-beautiful18:

PERIODT

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little-witchys-cottage:

They be blessing

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And that’s on not being a selfish asshole.

thecodethreechronicals:

To those who believe we should continue to keep the world shut down I would like to bring your attention to this story. This is a real call I ran. This was a real child abuse case where the parent was to be prosecuted for felony child abuse, neglect and Involuntary man slaughter secondary to neglect. Just to name a FEW charges. It seems that the only way to get people to listen these days is to shock and scare the living hell out of them. The media has been doing it for months with corona virus reports and incorrect death numbers and now I will do the same with this story.

Maybe if everyone stopped caring about ONLY themselves for five minutes this world would actually be a better place.

With that being said - ‼️Trigger warning‼️ child abuse/neglect/sex trafficking/drug use. All identifying information has been withheld to protect the parties involved.

Around a year ago I ran a 911 call for a two year old who was dehydrated. That’s the only information I had enroute. We got on scene and there were about 10 police cars parked down a neighborhood street. In that moment I knew exactly why we were there. A DFS worker was there and explained they had received an anonymous tip regarding the living conditions of 3 juveniles. A mom had been squatting in a condemned house with the roof partially collapsed, no power, plumbing, A/C (it was 100+ degrees out that day) minimal furniture, and a single mattress on the floor covered in urine and feces. There was also no food and the middle child (10 yrs old) told us they had hadn’t eaten in days and had been caring for the younger sibling with special needs for nearly 3 days alone. The two year old had a GJ feeding tube that was severely infected and coming out. Someone had taped around the whole belly with duct tape to prevent it from coming out causing chemical burns to the skin. The two year old had significant medical history and visible disabilities and was unable to eat by mouth. There was no formula that was supposed to be given and instead the 10 year old said the mom had been chewing food, spitting into a cup, mixing with soda and forcing it through the GJ-tube, which explained the severe infection. In the days following speaking to various caseworkers it came out that the older teenager was being sold for sex by the mother in exchange for drugs, which she was also giving to the teenager to cause an addiction and therefore be dependent on her, which is sadly a common practice amongst sex offenders.

A few months after I was contacted by another DFS worker to let me know the case would be heard by the DA and criminal court instead of family court due to the death of the two year old several weeks later as a result of malnutrition, neglect, septic infection, etc.

A few weeks ago we had a pre trial hearing-social distancing style. I was asked to provide a written statement on the conditions in which the children
were found and and my professional opinion on how the children presented medically at the time of EMS arrival. Since then I was told the actual court
proceedings had been rescheduled several times until last week when I was told the trial had been postponed indefinitely. The mother was released months prior on bail and custody was granted back to the mother. The reason? Foster parents are refusing to take children due to the concern of corona virus. DFS has been directed to move as many kids as possible out of child haven and work with the biological parents on safe parenting plans in the home, which is not their common practice just so these kids don’t have to be in homes or child care facilities with large groups. Things are falling through the cracks and the safety of one of the most vulnerable populations is being compromised for fear of a virus that as of TODAY has killed 253,000 people worldwide which is 0.014% of the yearly worldwide deaths of heart disease. Or cancer which kills 10 million worldwide, yearly for a total percentage of 0.0253%

Child abuse cases are up 40%
Suicides are also on the rise but it’s unknown the exact amount at this time since it usually takes over a year to obtain those statistics.
People with felonies like rape, child abuse, domestic abuse are being released from jail daily and trials postponed over the fear of a virus that kills less people annually than diseases that we live with on a daily basis and no one bats a single eye.

When this started I was all for social distancing and flattening the curve. We’ve accomplished this. The second wave everyone is talking about is all of this. Abuse, neglect, domestic violence, and suicides. People can’t leave their homes. They can’t utilize the gym to combat anger, anxiety or depression. Adults are stressed and depressed over looming financial obligations from being laid off. Kids don’t have the outlet to escape to school or hanging out with friends. Education is falling by the wayside as many low income families don’t have the resources to provide their kids with “distance learning” and many just in general don’t care about their kids education anyway. Higher education institutions like nursing schools are not allowed to participate in clinicals to gain experience. Practical skills and Invasive procedures are being taught online instead of hands on.

So when you say the world should stay closed who is this really about? Is it actually about protecting others or is it about yourself and the fears you have?

Because I’ll tell you right now the disservice we are doing to our vulnerable populations right now has a much larger socio-economic impact on the world than this virus EVER will.