Violet Affleck wrote an article about her experience with the Palisades fire, but it also discusses something vastly more important. The underlying essence of the article is a warning, that we are not prepared enough. That we to easily slip into complacency. We live through a tragedy and pick up the pieces and try to get back to where ever we were before the disaster. IN the process we make change in baby steps instead of being progressive. We are slow to learn and I worry it will get worse. I am seeing the half glass empty perspective. Affleck does point out how the reaction to Covid was oddly helpful to the fire disaster, as there were already people in place to respond and hand out masks for the air pollution from the fire. And this help came from the disability community. She points out the damage of EUGENICS and how the wealthiest in the World are adding to the problem. Irony is that I feel that some of her own family are part of that Wealthy and not seeing the big picture.
Before I even read what Violet Affleck wrote I thought anyone thinking that the FIRES in Palisades was a fluke needs to look at the big picture. In the Palisades there is one mall that survived. The BAY THEATER. Why? Because Rick Caruso who owns the Theater hired private firefighters to personally protect his property. “He’s Smart. He wants to be ready” reads the LA TIMES headline. SO was it that much of a fluke. I did not think though to consider and compare COVID preparations to Climate change preparations. But the mentality for both is similar. Yet what is terrifying is that COVID is still a problem and we are making it harder for people to get vaccinated and get care. The same is true with CLIMATE CHANGE. I would agree with AFFLECK that we each need to consistently take steps to reduce climate change. Each one of us has an impact on making the climate better. We also though have an impact on preventing disease.
I find it ironic that Affleck points out that it is the disabled community that has actually set fires of change. While the current ruling party in government has been effectively preventing that community from receiving care or respect, yet it is that community that has been warning America about the dangers the current administration holds on all our lives. I am one of that community and I have fought hard to have a voice. I have faced MACARTHISM like tactics from my union SAG AFTRA but I am not a COMMUNIST OR SOCIALIST. I am a person who loves acting for its art as a means of HUMAN EXPRESSION. Yet SAG AFTRA is promoting the we only want ATTRACTIVE HOT PEOPLE. The very reason for the American DISABILITY ACT was to combat UGLY LAWS.
Donald Trump’s nephew has a disabled son and well this video says it all. Fred C Trump, III has written a book “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way” and I want to read it. I do not like TRUMP. I do not think he will make AMERICA a great place to live. YMCA is from the GAY COMMUNITY. He is a tyrant. The truth is in the subtext. TRUMP is not a good man.
Affleck also discusses long COVID and its effects. It is terrifying. I have had cancer followed by Hashimoto's disease. I have a yeast allergy that was not a problem until I suspect 2007 when I suddenly started losing weight after my cancer. I have been underweight since 2007. I had though ideas and heart. I wanted to make the world better and what I got was ostracized from my UNION, SAG AFTRA (the union Violet’s father is a part of). I was told recently on FACEBOOK that I was gotten rid of on sets for being sick by ARNE STAR. ARNE STAR a man who worked background with me on numerous sets and who delusional thought he was wanted on a set by crew where I was working. I had told a crew guy named TOUSSANT that he was available, but ARNE called CASTING to tell them TOUSSANT wanted him there when I said no such thing. Irony is that ARNE wants everyone to think I had that level of disillusionment. No. I would ask Casting directly if I was wanted, unless I felt like something was really wrong or someone was doing something to ruin me.
I think about how HOLLYWOOD has fed the hate by our society of the disabled. Yet it is our efforts just to survive that in some ways I suspect makes the world better. I have this need to let people know the choices I make just to tolerate my health problems. I still wear a mask because I need to get a doctors approval to get the new NOVAVAX Covid 19 vaccine. I had the J&J and the J&J boosters. I share what I eat and buy in the hopes someone will be helped by my actions. I am an introverted person who prefers having a script when I have human contact and need a character to play to interact. I have realized people do not understand I am different. There is nothing wrong with me because I want art and acting. The founding fathers wanted AMERICANS to be critical thinkers and to be educated. They did not want the people of this country to be made into skilled labor for a small percentage of the world to gain profit from.
I am an actor. But I am more than that. I am also a woman who tries not to waste anything. I have to eat whole highly nutritious and non processed meals. I cannot eat leftovers. I do not eat meat. My yeast allergy prevents me from just grabbing food. IN 2023 I made money running lines with actors until I was terminated because of one girl from ATLANTA who decided to insinuate I was rude. I Think she just did not like me because I was an old sickly looking white woman. I voted for OBAMA and I cannot live in a state where it is swampy. YEAST IS A FUNGUS. I loved being on WEAUDITION. I had HOPE. Killing my hope of being an actor is not making me a better person. It is making me not want to survive. It is not making me want to help people as a lawyer. I cannot lie and pretend I want to fight for people’s rights to do things while I want to walk back into SAG AFTRA with my head up because I DO NOT DESERVE NOT TO BE IN THE ROOM.
I was raped by this guy.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1000919/
I do not have a learning disabiltiy. I do not have any STDs. I do not have a medical psychological condition. What I had was autoimmunity. I was socially ackward by nature. I am not an extrovert. So I was lied about. I do not see myself as ATTRACTIVE. But I AM SMART. I am TALENTED. I am good at ACTING. THERE IS LACK OF EMPAHTY IN THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT OF SAG AFTRA.