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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:49:51 JST mcc

   Heard you can get the monkeypox vaccine in the US now https://mastodon.social/@violetblue/112985489954578493 so I look up what the status is in Canada & find this page on the City of Toronto website https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/health-wellness-care/health-programs-advice/mpox/ there were indeed new eligibility guidelines so I take a look and

   wwhhhhh

   This is word spaghetti. I'm sincerely unsure if I qualify

   Currently trying to figure out the least illegal possible way of performing an act of sex work, so I can just point to the second option, the one that isn't a runon sentence

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     gkrnours (gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:49:50 JST gkrnours

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     @mcc you just self-identified as planning to engage in sex-work for the purpose of getting the vaccine. The way I read it, that's enough to qualify

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:49:57 JST mcc

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     Why would you say "transgender or cisgender people". Isn't that just "people" at that point. How do you write that long list of adjectives at the start and not realize you've just exhaustively listed every possible category

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:49:59 JST mcc

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     Did somebody think "cisgender" is a sex thing

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:49:59 JST mcc

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     If you cisgend, or are planning to cisgend, you may qualify as a cisgender (and therefore be eligible to receive the vaccine)

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:49:59 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @mcc this caused the phrase "avatar: the last cisgender" to pop into my head

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:50:09 JST mcc

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     @ebooksyearn I've known people who identify as neither transgender nor cisgender but they listed the other categories too so there's no escape

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     Jon Renaut (ebooksyearn@thepit.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:50:11 JST Jon Renaut

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     @mcc I for sure identify as one of transgender or cisgender

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     Tom Forsyth (tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:50:15 JST Tom Forsyth

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     @mcc I think they went to Harvard.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:50:20 JST mcc

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     @indepndnt "If you are in column a, column b, straddling columns a and b, or in a third category outside of columns a and b, you qualify"

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     Joe (indepndnt@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:50:23 JST Joe

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     @mcc there are two kinds of people in the world. People in column A and people in column B. Or something.

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     sloot (sloot@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:50:29 JST sloot

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     @mcc
     Pretty sure that none of those qualifications require documentation.

     "My partner has sex with men who have sex with men"

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     Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 (theogrin@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:50:35 JST Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊

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     @mcc

     Yanno, I'm EXTREMELY glad that sex workers and their partners are being provided first crack at the vaccine, but I'm deeply, thoroughly annoyed at the continued narrative that MLM relationships, sex work, and the LGBTQIA+ community as a whole are chiefly responsible for the spread of monkeypox.

     That's the kind of shit that lets bigots murder people, especially since it's not actually an STI per se, just easier to spread with extended close physical contact.

     https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-and-public-health-preparedness/article/monkeypox-is-not-a-sexually-transmitted-disease-a-public-health-concern-and-avoidance-of-myths/0E13703F0C3EF5CAA51635844246F501

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:50:40 JST mcc

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     @theogrin I think the original reasoning was that there was a limited amount of vaccine and they wanted to apply it where it would do the most amount of immediate good*. But now they have loosened things up (due to, I assume, more vaccine) and this framing is still in place, but having been expanded the framing seems less meaningful.

     * This, of course, raising the question of "what if you've made a miscalculation about the method of spread"

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     leo vriska :light2: (leo@60228.dev)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 17:50:50 JST leo vriska :light2:

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     @mcc i mean, saying you "may be planning to" do something seems mostly unfalsifiable

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