I copied this obituary this morning from the LA Times, just a reminder to everyone that #covid is NOT over. #COVID19#maskup I am not related to this lady, but on this mother’s day please protect those you love. #covidisnotover#covidisairborne#science
Fellow people who are still genuinely #CovidCautious, particularly those who are also single, live alone, and have basically lost your entire (already small) social circle over the last few years because no one else is taking any precautions anymore (...just me?).....: How are you keeping life worth living these days? I must admit I'm struggling.
🔸WHO now admits the COVID virus and other germs spread “through the air.” #CovidIsAirborne
🔸A Fight About Viruses in the Air Is Finally Over. Now It’s Time for Healthy Venting #CleanTheAir
"People who misunderstood airborne spread needlessly wore masks on outdoor walks and veered off sidewalks to avoid their neighbors."
people have closed face-to-face distance on me incredibly fast, and I was caught scrambling to put on a mask, when I could otherwise have already been wearing one
Still testing positive after 10 days of testing and 17 days of feeling sick.
Fuck Covid. And Fuck Cancer.
Logged an incident report at work explaining how I got this infection from a maskless co-worker because I was forced to be onsite and they knew their partner had "a mystery cold" and could work from home whenever they want but chose to come in anyway.
Yesterday I had not much to say. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have much to feel. And it all feels bad out there lately. (“Waves hand generally,” younger folks would say on Reddit.)
Today it has hit me in the stomach real hard that irreparable damage has been done to the lives of millions of people by this destructive and insidious virus that causes #Covid. And that’s not just from people with #LongCovid but also those of who still know #CovidIsNotOver and #CovidIsAirborne and all that shit.
Covid News: HBR Long Covid at Work - a managers guide
Quite an compelling look at long covid in the workplace and what can be done if management is willing.
Definitely worth a read.
Of course as always the best way to prevent long covid is to not be infected or do your best to reduce the number of infections. Wear a N95 and watch your air. You want clean air.
Scientific American is spreading the news that WHO says #CovidIsAirborne . Can we finally get workplace and public space air quality standards appropriate for the risk now?
COVID-19 and flu update Ballarat: Masks Still Matter in 2024 | thecourier.com.au
"MASKS still matter is the advice from the region's public health leader as the community faces rising cases of COVID-19 and influenza."
"If everybody who is symptomatic tests themselves, many will show they have COVID-19." - Dr Rob Grenfell, Grampians Public Health Unit chief strategy and regions officer
Unfortunately the PCR result will be the only result on my medical record.
And today I return to work and one of my maskless coworkers tells me he was also off sick with covid last week, and laughing about giving it to me whilst denying it was him because "I can't prove shit" - as if anyone in my workplace would give a fuck even if I proved it beyond reasonable doubt by some magic or other.
Just a coincidence that he brought it to the office I'm forced to work from and he had several conversations about his wife's "flu" with me.
If only my employer was forced to provide clean air by some kind of workplace safety laws.
The sheer amount of people who stopped wearing masks as soon as they were optional demonstrates how many people never understood why they were wearing them in the first place, which is a tremendous and ongoing failure of institutional public health
I’ve spent the past few days driving across the country. The natural beauty of Arkansas and of Oklahoma surprised me. The aggressive, creepy white Christian evangelical vibe of western Tennessee did not surprise but it disturbed me. The Texas panhandle was as nuts as I anticipated. Some billboard messages from Texas follow. 1/
@heidilifeldman This is the billboard I’d like to see put up in the deeply red states… maybe it would get some of them to mask up. Sharing the info with some dyed in the wool MAGA couldn’t hurt. Even the ones complaining about it would spread the message as well. #Covid#CovidIsNotOver#CovidIsAirborne#GOP#USPol
#IDMastadon#publichealth There is the reason to #maskup😷 and Why we should keep 😷 on in the enclose environment ? In the new study show ambient CO2 affects how long #SARSCoV2 remains infectious in air & even subtle increases in CO2 affects both how long #COVIDisAirborne and transmission risk @ukhadds .
#CovidCautious community, I’m tabling at an academic conference next month to spread awareness of both the Public Health Pledge (@phpledge) and #COVID19 precautions as paths toward inclusivity, and I’m trying to think of what would make this table both useful and appealing to passersby. Does anyone have suggestions on what else I can do, in terms of signage, giveaways, activities, etc.?
Context: This is a small organization that holds one to two mini-conferences per year inside larger conferences. Last year, I asked the organization’s all-volunteer officers if they were familiar with the Public Health Pledge (@phpledge) and what we could do to be in line with it, after which they created the Public Health Officer position for me. For various life reasons, the most concrete thing I came up with for next month is tabling. #CovidIsNotOver#COVIDisAirborne