#covid pandemic

[covid-safer-hotties]

[i-still-mask-because]

Nassau County of Long Island, New York passed a mask ban bill today. Please make a habit of calling your city, county, state, and federal representatives expressing your opposition to mask bans because fascist legislative proposals like this is absolutely going to be domino effecting throughout the US. AND WEAR A MASK IN PUBLIC. WEAR A MASK TO NOT ONLY PROTECT US, BUT SUPPORT US.

Editing to add (8/14/2024): Please read the recent update.

[intersexfairy]

at urgent care and the sheer number of people with covid in here is absurd. if you haven't gotten the most recent vaccination, NOW is the time to get it. if you arent wearing a mask, NOW is the time to start. protect yourself and others as much as you can! you will regret it if you don't.

[milf--adjacent]

Salmonella is "a part of life" too, but y'all don't go around forcing others to lick raw chicken. Why have you given up all caution around covid and other airborne diseases?

[fairysexualism]

tumblr just nuked @milf-adjacent's blog with zero warning, no explanation from staff or e-mail whatsoever. her blog has been a vital resource for documenting COVID-19, and she did nothing ban worthy. she seems to be another target of the transmisogyny being carried out by staff.

[mswyrr]

[inter-volve]

[thedialoguedilemma]

President Joe Biden has announced in the final hours of his Presidency preemptive pardons for General Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, all of the members of the January 6th committee as well as the cops who testified at that committee.

The Trump administration was planning to go after them in the sense of retribution for uncovering the crimes the incoming President-elect has done in pertaining to the January 6th Insurrection as well as his inability and disgraceful handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

They are now protected.

[victusinveritas]

[afroflowerr]

You are doing the right thing! I know it feels awkward, and uncomfortable, and scary, and you wish people cared more to be inconvenienced to stand out in showing how they resist a system that hurts us; but YOU do, and I see you.

I see You in the grocery store, I see You walking down the street, I see You add “mask required” to your event flyers, I see You mask blocs, I see You sharing information, I see You protesting mask bans, I see how much You will fight to protect people and yourself.

I see all the notes in the tags, the comments, the hurt you express on how long it’s been, the feelings of betrayal from family, loved ones, friends, community organizers and leaders that seem to care about everything…but somehow leave out people who respect and are hurting deeply from global, life-stopping, airborne virus.

“Masks suggested” is polite…but an insult at best.

We may blame our governments for the overall neglect and disregard, but it is how those close to you—act or don’t act—that hurts the most.

But you are not alone. My dear, please believe me, you are not alone.

We protect each other.

We protect each other.

We protect each other.

• UnMasked Thoughts: 10 - Medium, face masks and paint markers •

• January 2025, Ave •

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[Image Description of a black surgical mask against a white desk background. Written on the mask in white paint markers are the words “You are doing the right thing!!!” And in the bottom right corner of the mask is the artist Instagram handle vertically spelled out “@afroflowerr” END ID]

[covid-safer-hotties]

[i-still-mask-because]

If you're waiting for public officials to tell you that covid is in fact still here and that you should in fact still be masking & regularly getting tested, it would already be too late by then. I need more people to let it sink in that the US government's first and (probably only) priority is the economy, as opposed to being honest about covid.

Rich people and government officials like the PotUS are still making it mandatory to mask when interacting with them.

Rich people and government officials like the PotUS get PCR tested and make it mandatory for everyone to do the same before interacting with them.

Rich people and government officials like the PotUS are making it mandatory to make sure everywhere they go has filtered, clean air.

They are protecting themselves and still taking precautions during this on-going pandemic while lying to our faces that the pandemic is over. They may be maskless on camera, but they're sure as fuck rushing to get tested after the fact.

If you're waiting for these people to be honest with you about covid & to tell you how to protect yourself, it would already be too late by then.

[intersexfairy]

COVID IS NOT JUST A FUCKING COLD. IT'S NOT A COLD.

getting COVID multiple times does NOT decrease your risk of serious complications.

COVID is SERIOUS ILLNESS that can KILL you, even IF you're perfectly healthy beforehand.

you CANNOT rule out whether serious complications will happen to your our others.

if you're sick MASK UP, and STAY HOME whenever possible.

[duchessathena]

don’t understand how anyone with a curious bone in their body doesn’t get why banning any sort of face covering outright is fascism but that seems to be where we’re at right now. the reason we were all ‘forced’ into our homes (and i know for a fact many of us here in the states never actually stayed at home the entire time early into the pandemic so stop lying) was because there was and and still is a massive disabling disease running rampant and killing people! people died! and people are still dying to this day!! statistically right now 1 in 40 US Americans has COVID! you continue to spread it by walking around unmasked! It’s one thing to sit here and say you don’t want to wear a mask. Perfectly fine by me at this point. Drink up the toxic air filled with a bsl-3 pathogen, micro plastics, wildfire smoke, and lord knows what else. I don’t care anymore but coming on here and claiming that you were forced when there were people at the start of the pandemic refusing to mask is absolutely ludicrous. Just say you don’t care about your health and the health of anyone else around you and be quiet. These mask bans are about the student protestors for Palestine, DRC, now Lebanon and many other parts of the world where contradictions are at an all time high. These mask bans are about using ai to track us better and to carry out violence on people of color, especially black bodies. These mask bans are about disabled people as many people in my previous post have mentioned and how the state wants to cull as many undesirables as possible. This isn’t about you. This is about the future and the world we want to live in.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

It’s not hard to connect the dots between the anti-vaccine extremists, including Premier Danielle Smith, who now dominate Alberta’s United Conservative Party and the admission by a beleaguered Alberta Health Services that it is shutting down its long-COVID clinics in Calgary, Edmonton and Sherwood Park. AHS, once a model of how to run a modern integrated provincial public health-care agency, is in the early stages of being broken up by Smith’s government, which is bent on relitigating the 2020-to-the-present COVID-19 pandemic from a MAGA perspective that denies the reality of the disease, believes life-saving vaccines kill children and views public health measures as a totalitarian control mechanism. However the desire to shutter the seven long-COVID clinics was communicated to the cowed current leaders of AHS, it is safe to assume this reckless decision did not originate with health-care professionals at a time when medical researchers are still trying to unravel the mysteries of long COVID.

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[decispark]

Reminder that if you are going to TwitchCon, DreamHack, PAX, or any other event, to please mask up. The virus is still out there. I know of a creator who had to quit streaming because of Long Covid.