#// covid

[charliejaneanders]

I increasingly feel as though other people who mask indoors are just super attractive. Like, they are obviously smart thoughtful people. They care about the well-being of everyone else around them, and want to make sure everyone has a good time.

They would probably be extremely good in bed, is what I'm saying.

[emoclone]

what everyone thought would be the worst-case scenario for covid: periodic lockdowns, mandatory testing, and mask mandates as cases go up.

what the actual worst-case scenario is: not even a mention of lockdowns, little access to testing even for people who want it, and masks are literally being banned in some places while cases of covid, flu, and RSV are at all-time highs.

but everything is fine! you can go back to normal. don't even worry about it :)

[covid-safer-hotties]

Also preserved in our archive

A good, plain-English explainer behind the science of viral escape. Keep covid from evolving: Don't catch it in the first place, and don't spread it if you do. Mask up.

[gingermonster82]

[liminalweirdo]

here's the link to the doc!

[verysickyvicky]

Not so crazy now, am I?

[presidentkamala]

5 Days at Memorial really on my mind again. If you want to see in excruciating detail just what it looks like when years of mostly Republican mismanagement and general dysfunction at the local state and national level looks like, then please take a read (or anything else Hurricane Katrina related) or even watch the miniseries. The way that black communities and poor communities were immediately & shockingly discarded and left literally to die. The way that the hospitals received NO support from corporate ownership or any local relief. The conditions that deteriorated so significantly over only abt 72 hrs. And this was domestic! This is a major American city of huge cultural anfld economic importance we're talking about here!

Trump/Elon just did that on a global scale by cutting USAID. There is no private response that can replace necessary, cooperative public work that sustains over time.

They are actively making another Katrina response inevitable.

[obsoletethorns]

When the machine starts up again

Will I be snapping at its wheels?

Drinking down the voices?

Oh, and buying books on how to feel?

When the machine starts up again

Will I forget what it's like to be standing here looking up, drinking in the sky?

~"When the Machine Starts" by Missy Higgins.

[riderofthemist]

I just felt a pang of sadness when I realized that Covid can be spread via kissing.

Like, considering everything else, I guess it's not that big of a sacrifice. But damn, I'm going to miss kissing.

I understand your sadness. Though, it doesn't have to be over, if you find someone who's willing to take Covid seriously and to protect both of you. Stay strong.

[scogito]

Sanitari preparano i balletti. Però erano e sono oberati di lavoro.

È una delle categorie con maggiore frequenza di presenze demoniache. Fatto che dopo le bugie covid si è espanso senza più maschere.

Ho commentato personalmente sotto alcuni video di questi diavoli e sono privi di qualsiasi rimorso, di salute mentale e di coscienza.

Insieme alle religioni crollerà anche tutto lo schifosissimo servizio sanitario.

[covid-safer-hotties]

[swampgallows]

Transcription:

Wearing a mask was not political, but they made it political, so now wearing a mask is an act of resistance. I don't care how stupid that sounds to you and I'm gonna be very transparent, my goal here is to try to get you to wear a mask. So I need you to take whatever I'm about to say, pick the thing that resonates with you the most, and then have that be what drives you to wear a mask. Trump pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization and he instructed the halt of all communications from public health agencies. This includes the CDC, the NIH, the FDA on recalls, so we are even more in the dark than we were before on how bad things are right now. If you've been sick recently, you might know what I'm talking about. Flu A, COVID, Norovirus, all high—high transmission—but now with the halt of communications we are not gonna know what's going on. The CDC already sucked on that—I'll get to that shortly. All across the country, cities have called for and/or enacted bipartisan mask bans. Do you want to know what led to these mask bans? Well, it was anti-genocide protests. They don't want you to be able to hide your face because then you're easier to target. But what is the side effect of this? Going after people who mask to protect their health and the health of those around them. They don't like our calls for a free Palestine. One of these people who called for that was mayor of L.A., Karen Bass, and now that the fires have been raging, of course the city didn't have any stockpile of PPE for all the people who are inhaling ash, and wildfire smoke, and asbestos, and all the other chemicals that are burning with homes in the fires. No, that fell to mutual aid groups, specifically, anti-COVID and clean air groups. In the age of AI under fascist regimes, both Biden but especially Trump, when facial recognition technology can be weaponized against anyone, masking is an act of resistance. And finally, and most importantly, the number one core reason is because COVID still rages on. Wearing a mask is an act of resistance when corporations and billionaire CEOs can lobby the government to shorten COVID isolation periods, and then Biden does so. Since the very beginning of the pandemic when they said, "No, it only affects this group of people", and so we said "Okay, yeah, no, that's not me. We don't have to protect them." They tried to get you to not care, further harming disabled and high risk individuals, and lying to your face in the process because we're all high risk. In 2024 we got to see COVID rip through the Olympic Village. What we did not hear so much about is all of the athletes that didn't make it to the Olympics despite their training all of their lives because they were disabled by COVID. A recent study showed that 1 in 4 U.S. Marines that got COVID met the criteria for Long Covid. Wearing a mask is an act of resistance when COVID cases persist. When you feel sick all the time and everybody is having brain fog and you wonder why you are so tired, when they didn't bother clearly communicating that COVID is airborne, and that it moves like smoke, and that a lot of spread is asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic, meaning you don't feel sick, you don't know you have it, but you're spreading it.

Wearing a mask is an act of resistance when the World Health Organization told us that 10 to 20% of COVID cases result in Long Covid, and that doesn't account for consecutive infections. When that Long Covid can be mild, like the POTS [Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome] that I got from my COVID infection while being a previously healthy individual, or it can be severely debilitating and leave you bedbound. Wearing a mask is an act of resistance when you get sick and they want you back to work and they gut worker protections—in a country that provides no universal healthcare, so you're left either in debt or without options, untreated, in a country that loves its Big Pharma and counts on you getting sick. Wearing a mask is an act of resistance when all of this is in the name of capitalism. They do not care if you get sick. They want you betraying your disabled and immunocompromised community members. They do not care that you want to protest for a free Palestine. They do not care that you want to protect your identity from their AI surveillance. They don't care that the general population is sicker than ever. They want you to ignore it, and they want you to attack the people who still wear masks, like myself. They want you to attack the messenger. They do not want you questioning the premature declaration that the pandemic had ended because then they don't have to atone for this: the wastewater data that shows how prevalent COVID still is in our lives. And when you think about how many COVID cases lead to Long Covid, they don't want you thinking about how they allow for the general population to become disabled, because that would mean that it costs them something to prevent it, that would mean that they owe you. By the way, with Trump's halting of communications we can count on this [wastewater data] to go bye-bye because the CDC can't give us that data anymore. Biden gave that "pandemic is over" premature declaration after the Democrats had an internal memo declaring that they would do so because it earns them political points. It would be cheaper to not provide you with what you need and it would score political points by declaring the pandemic a victory on Biden's part. I don't want this video to be too long even though I could go on, but take whatever I just said that resonates with you and have that be what drives you to wear a mask. It is the easiest way to care for your neighbor and simultaneously give Trump the finger. Because we can't do anything if we're all sick, we can't do anything if we're constantly disabling each other. Lock in. [End of transcription.]

"Mask" here refers to a KN95, KF95, or N95 respirator, not a cloth or surgical mask. A cloth or surgical mask is better than nothing, but they are nowhere near as effective at preventing airborne transmission as a well-fitting respirator. The goal is to form an airtight seal against the face so that all incoming and outgoing air you breathe is filtered through the respirator.

If you need access to free or low-cost masks, testing, air purifiers, and more, get in touch with your local mask bloc. Find one near you at CovidActionMap.org.

Listen to her. Please.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[aropride]

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]