#stop spreading covid

[feminist-space]

"Boston COVID Action Winter Surge Hotline:

(617) 652-0022

What is the Surge Hotline? Who is it for?

The Surge Hotline is a temporary, volunteer-run text and voicemail-based hotline for people in the Boston area created to respond to the Winter 2023 COVID surge.

Please only contact the hotline if you are in emergency need of high-filtration masks and/or tests due to a COVID infection or exposure. All supplies will be provided for free as soon as possible. We ask those without an emergent need to use our standard Request Form in order to keep the hotline responsive to needs that can’t wait more than a few days.

*If you are unsure whether you should contact the hotline, contact us!*"

[rathockey]

on my hands and knees begging my book club to mask

[otherbombdotcom]

Accepting that we are all going to repeatedly contract a virus that causes cumulative vascular damage, is accepting that the most vulnerable among us will die. Layered covid mitigations, starting with wearing a high quality respirator, says no to preventable infections and "acceptable" death.

Image Description: Dark grey and red text over a grey scale background. The background is an image of an N95 respirator. The dark grey text reads, "Say NO to preventable infections". Red text offset behind the grey text reads, "Acceptable death".

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[olive-nothere]

It’s kind of insane (and unfortunately predictable) how western society acts when it comes to public health, specially after the pandemic. The amount of times I see people not wearing masks when they’re visibly sick or see people say they don’t want to wear masks because it’s uncomfortable to wear… you know what’s actually very uncomfortable and outdoes your feelings about wearing masks? BEING SICK.

Seriously, it should not be controversial or considered weird to wear masks when you’re sick; it should be THE BARE MINIMUM TO WEAR A MASK WHEN YOU’RE SICK, COVID OR NOT. How any of these people are able to go outside while sick and not care about other people’s health is insane to me. Despite the obvious fact that being sick affects everyone’s health, what about the people who are most vulnerable?

Wearing masks while sick should be the norm and honestly we as a collective should shame people who are sick and not wearing a mask in public.

[covid-conscious-and-silly]

masked selfie time!! first pic looks a little weird because i'm trying to figure out how much anonymity i want on here hehe

yes, i made the top i'm wearing in the second pic! and both masks are from WellBefore; i really like the coverage of their KF94-style KN95s!

Image Descriptions:

Image 1: Mitchie walking outside wearing a white KN95 mask, white headphones, and black floral romper. There is a black bar drawn over their eyes, and the background is blurred.

Image 2: Mitchie lying on a blanket wearing floral sunglasses and a white KF94-style KN95 mask. They are also wearing a necklace made of tiny shells and a cream-colored crochet top.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Hiii I hope youre doing alright. <3 I remember you mentioning you use a certain mouth wash to help with covid protection and Im just wondering what mouth wash it was? Im not sure what ingredients to look for so I figured Id ask. Tysm for the help! I hope this isnt too annoying to respond to. 😅🙈

Hi I love asks like these bc I love sharing information and this is straightforward n easy to answer!! I hope you don't mind me answering publicly bc I think more people should know about this!!

Cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) is the mouthwash ingredient that kills covid virus in the mouth and upper throat!

Ideally paired with other preventatives, it can drastically reduce risk since it reduces the amount of live virus at the point of infection. I use it right after being around people I don't live with, and during long events I have a travel bottle in my purse to refresh every couple hours. I use this mouthwash (under $4 for a big bottle): https://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-Alcohol-Free-Multi-Action-Antiseptic-Oral-Rinse-Zesty-Mint-33-8-fl-oz/26441079

(If you end up buying it elsewhere, double check for "Cetylpyridinium chloride" in the active ingredients. Some search results are misleading.)

Nose sprays can also help mitigate covid risk: https://www.okdoomer.io/nose-sprays-offer-a-last-line-of-defense/?ref=ok-doomer-newsletter

Fun fact, even if you DO get covid, studies have shown the fewer virus particles you're exposed to when you first get infected, the less severe the infection itself is likely to be for you!!

[affixjoy]

I’m trying so hard to balance protecting my family/educating my extended family and friend group about Covid, and giving my kiddo as normal of a childhood as I can manage and not gonna lie guys, it’s tearing me apart a bit. I think it would be easier to go full Covid cautious and see no one ever or to give it up entirely like everyone else. I’m in this weird middle where we do more than anyone else we know but I know it’s not nearly enough. I exist in this space where I’m always compromising one way or another and it’s really fucking hard.

Things that are bothering me today:

My grandmother in law in her late 90s has Covid and doesn’t understand where she got it. I’ve talked to her a little about wearing a mask before but she was never especially interested so I just kept sending her n95s every now and then and not talking about it much. Today I explained to her how it’s airborne and a lot of spread is asymptomatic and she was shocked. She’s smart! She wants to protect herself! She lives in a nursing home where people should be looking out for her! How many lives could doctors save just by educating people like her on what to do?

My pregnant sister who has already had Covid twice this pregnancy is going back to teaching until she goes into labor. She won’t wear a mask or borrow one of my hepa filters. I’ve explained that she could still catch one of the other variants or any of the other germs her class brings in. She doesn’t care.

Same sister is planning on taking her brand new fresh baby to a wedding about 2-3 weeks after they’re born. She’s said repeatedly that she’ll babywear to protect the baby from germs. As if there aren’t going to be 200 people there breathing on them. And what can I do when her doctors are telling her it’s fine? I feel like even before Covid was a thing it wasn’t smart to take a brand new baby to a huge event like that. But here we are.

Public health has failed us miserably and I’m so sad and angry about it. We need a massive campaign to explain airborne transmission and how to stop it, and it needs to come from the WHO and the CDC and doctors because people like me just get looked at like conspiracy theorists.

[macbxth-pdf]

The worst part about being a Covid conscious queer is the taste of saline + xylitol nasal spray migrating to ya mouth! The things I do to not get sick🤮

[yourgamemasterthewhiterabbit]

I do understand the temptation of the conspiracy theory that corona virus was designed in a lab for maximum damage. It really does seem like it doesn't it?

All the things in your body it takes advantage of, all the long term impacts, the way it triggers and reactivates other diseases, disabilities and viruses, the mechanisms it uses to evade and manipulate the immune system, it having mechanisms of action similar to other known greats [other deadly infections like Ebola and HIV], and even down to the fact that it spreads so easily, is so air-born, the way it mutates so quickly, has such a low infectious dose and quacks like nothing worse than the common cold during initial infection...

Like I do not buy into conspiracy theory thinking at all, but I see why it's tempting in this case. If I was playing a video-game and trying to design a virus to cause the most damage possible, and spread and infect as many as possible before anyone bothered getting too upset about it, and have as many unforeseen and devastating impacts as possible... If I wanted to wipe out or weaken a whole planet [or a set population provided I also developed a secret cure]... I would design this virus exactly.

And now we are seeing that it can go latent in the body and reactivate, so once you have it, you have it, much like herpes or chicken pox, and unlike other viruses and colds which are gone once your body clears the infection and can't reactivate.

Like we know that viruses like chicken pox can reactivate later and become shingles, we know what HIV does, and we know some of the initial symptoms and early long term symptoms can be disabling and even fatal to many as it is, but for all we know this virus causes everyone's hearts or brains to stop outright ten years or so after infection, or completely clogs your arteries, or outright shuts down your body's ability to make a vital protein, or just triggers mass cell death [during even my initial infection the body-wide tissue damage was so bad it nearly shut down my liver and kidneys like I had crush syndrome, I very much almost died]. It's already having impacts like this in the short term for some people.

We are not going to know the true impact of this and the longer term symptoms until it is already too late.

Please get vaccinated, wear fucking masks, and try to reduce spreading.

[transmascwoman]

it's just depressing how many pride events and whatnot are not practicing any form of covid safety.

[casperillion]

biggest way i know twt keeps giving me posts that arent relevant to me is that i keep getting served posts saying people should still be masking and that you're risking so many peoples lives if you dont constantly mask

then i went outside today to a hospital and didnt see a single person masking, so i check my local numbers and no where within even like a 4 hour drive has cases over 0.2 per 100 people and no where within 2 hours has anything over 0.08 per 100

and its peak flu season here

[macmanx]

We just wanted to give you an update on Dianna’s health, since she’s been sick for a while and may not be returning for longer than we previously thought.

Her science videos are postponed until she can make a full recovery. We really appreciate everyone's support here on her channel. We know Dianna wishes she could be here making videos and happily physicsing, but right now she needs to stay in bed and away from work until she makes a full recovery.

Get vaxxed, mask up, stop the spread.

[fxggotclown]

ive told my mom like three times ive started experiencing brain fog and that it's really affecting my life and she either glances over it or asks me if im taking iron or something else equally unrelated and it makes me feel like im losing my mind more than i already am.

[affixjoy]

A lot of Covid feelings today. But the main thought I’m having today is that I hope the kids never forgive us. I hope when they grow up and realize how much their generation has been fucked over by chronic illness caused by Covid they never forgive the people who decided it was okay to infect them over and over again. I hope all the people who I talk to about it and seem to understand but then go back to taking no steps to stop the spread have to sit with the guilt in their stomachs forever. They’ll throw up their hands and say they didn’t know but I’ve been here screaming about it at the top of my lungs for years, along with a lot of other people.

I hope my son looks at the pictures of us in masks here in 2024 and knows I tried so hard to protect him. If we make it another two weeks he’ll have avoided Covid the first 3 years of his life, which shouldn’t be huge but IS huge when almost every other kid we know has had it multiple times.

It doesn’t have to be this fucking hard guys. If more people just gave a fuck about not spreading airborne illness things would be so much easier. I’m not even that strict with precautions! I’m not advocating for lockdowns! I just want more people to mask, I want masks and tests to be free, I want people who are sick to have paid sick leave, I want money to be put into upgrading the air systems in public spaces. This all feels very minimal and reasonable and yet somehow it’s a fringe position???

Today is a bad day and I’m feeling very angry. It didn’t have to be this way.

[macbxth-pdf]

Best part of being a covid conscious/cautious queer is only doing your eye makeup…. But I do need good falsies for my glasses

NON SAPPHICS AND MINORS DNI