#// covid

[covid-safer-hotties]

Everyone trying to explain mass illness crippling our school systems right now

[nephritebabie]

i had a death in the family during the quarantine, and yall was buying up all the food & water so much that i was driving to multiple stores just to get food. i was also a student and i was taking STATS at the time like i was truly in purgatory

[vague-humanoid]

@startorrent02 @redstarovermoundcity

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A report quietly released in Alberta is calling on the province to halt the use of the COVID-19 vaccine. The review was commissioned by Premier Danielle Smith's government in the fall of 2022 and was published on Friday. As Heather Yourex-West reports, critics have been quick to push back. Alberta’s minister of health says it contains “a broad range of perspectives” — comprising health-care professionals, academics, researchers and advisers” — and its recommendations offer a perspective on how the government can be better positioned to protect the health and safety of Albertans in the future.” Critics call it “a sad document — that lacks significant credibility,” one that “takes a lot of pieces of information completely out of context.” On Friday afternoon, the government of Alberta quietly released the report of a task force that assessed the province’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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[cod-against-covid]

Hi, I'm the Covid Cod!

I'm a fish who posts about covid safety and probably yells into the void a lot. I'm always free to talk to if you have questions or just want to rant back at me, so feel free to drop an ask or dm <3

Mask up! Protect your school!

[particularj]

Nearly 3/4 of all deaths in the world in the past month were in the US. Many hospitalizations are among those who were never vaccinated or not up to date on vaccinations.

At a time when the Senate may be ready to confirm an anti-vaccine snake oil salesman to lead the NHHS which oversees the CDC, FDA, and NIH, it is frightening that we remain so woefully unprepared to address public health crises…and may be heading into territory that allows COVID to resurge if vaccines are pulled.

Now would be a good time to catch up on vaccines while they’re still approved, stock up on some quality masks and tests if you can, and get any medical procedures out of the way before hospitals potentially become overwhelmed again.

[covid-safer-hotties]

Remember all those people who keep telling me the 'CDC changing the developmental milestones has nothing to do with covid'? It's not just the US seeing these issues, and these kids weren't even existent during "lockdowns." Covid has massive physical and neurological impacts, even from a "mild" infection. Mask up. Mask your kids. Clean the air. Demand our schools and governments do the bare minimum to protect the health and lives of everyone.

[susanoos-wife]

I always mask in any indoor public spaces unless I'm having dental work or any other kind of medical procedure that requires me to take it off. Some people do treat me like shit for it, I won't lie, but I've been strongly disliked by people in general for long enough that adding one more reason to the list doesn't faze me at all, plus none of the assholes who bitch about me wearing a mask would take care of me if I became disabled by long covid.

hiii pls like/reblog this post if u still wear a mask in public buildings <3 wanting to follow more ppl who care about immunocompromised ppl and to also just feel less insane

[riderofthemist]

I've seen quite a lot of people say they wish they masked but they couldn't due to social pressure or their family's judgement. And while I understand it because I felt it, I promise you it gets better. And trust me, letting social pressure stopping you from wearing a mask is not worth it. If your peers and loved ones judge you for wearing a mask, I doubt they will be super supportive when you'll develop Covid / Long Covid because you didn't mask. (Well, I hope they will, not what I'm saying but I'm skeptical.)

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[lapdogchase]

the "new normal" couldve been respirators & rapid tests & hepa filters & universal basic income & accessibility & caring about other people.........

edit: if ur reblogging this but u dont REGULARLY mask in public in ur daily life u should reflect on that ❤️

[animentality]

[yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt]

In light of Brian Thompson being shot dead on my birthday (🎉🥳🎂) I'd like to share a personal story about UnitedHealthcare.

During the peak of COVID, my family all got sick. I couldn't be on my parents' insurance because they were both older and on Medicare. So, I had insurance through my University: UnitedHealthcare.

For some reason, rather than roll-over each year, I got a new plan each year that ended after May and didn't start until August, so I was uninsured for the summer months, but it was a weird situation that the university denied, and told us we were supposed to be insured year-round, it was messy.

Both of my parents went to the hospital, and I got sick too. I had to take care of my pets, and myself, and try to stay alive and keep my pets alive when I was so weak I could hardly move. When my parents came home, my condition got dramatically worse (I think my body knew it couldn't give out, because there was nobody to take care of me, so once my parents were okay, it completely crashed and failed.)

I started experiencing emergency symptoms. It was a bit hard to breathe, my chest hurt, and I was extremely delirious. I wanted to call my insurance to see if I was covered (this was during the summer) and I was connected to some nice person, probably making minimum wage, who told me with caution in her voice that my plan was expired. I had no active insurance, but she urged me to go to an emergency room. I remember saying something to the effect of "You just told me I don't have insurance, I can't go to the hospital, I can't afford it."

She sounded so genuinely worried and scared. I remember she said "You really don't sound good, you sound really sick, please call 9-1-1" and I think I just said "I can't afford it without insurance, don't worry, I think I'll be okay."

And she paused and said "I don't want to hang up the phone with you like this." And it sounded like she was holding back tears. And I don't remember what I said, I think that I would be okay, and I hung up.

I still think about her. I wonder if that phone call haunted her, or if she had dozens of calls like that a day. I wonder if she thinks about it at all, if she wonders if I died after she told me I didn't have insurance and therefore couldn't go to the hospital without incurring a tremendous financial burden. I wonder if she feels guilt or blame-- of course she shouldn't, it wouldn't have been her fault if anything had happened to me. Maybe it's self-centered to wonder if she thinks about it. I'm not the main character and it was just her job. But, still.

I think about how evil it was that we were put in that situation. Because offering year-long continuous coverage through the university plan would maybe cut into profits, maybe not benefit shareholders enough, maybe cut into Thompson's $10 million salary. While his minimum wage administrators have to feel afraid to hang up the phone, because on the other line someone might be dying, and they wouldn't know. While his patients hang up and decide to take their chances rather than put their family through that trauma.

This is UnitedHealthcare. This is Brian Thompson's legacy. This is why, understandably, an entire nation is jubilant that he was gunned down like the vermin he was. I don't care about his widow. I feel pity for his children, despite the fact that they will inherit millions, but I feel more pity for the children of his victims patients who are gone because they didn't want THEIR children to inherit crippling debt. Brian Thompson got what he fucking deserved. I pray that he not be the only one. I pray for continued safety, peace , and anonymity for his killer.

American healthcare is a disease.

[stephenist]

Source

CDC Wastewater Viral Activity Monitoring

BreatheTeq

[susanoos-wife]

History repeats itself when people are too arrogant and/or stupid to learn from it.

FACT CHECK: TRUE [x]

Came up in a thread about doctors claiming masks don't work. If your doctor can get that washing hands is important, they can get that wearing a mask is too.