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
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Alain Damasio
« On ne changera pas ce monde fondé sur les désirs individualisés et les échanges immatériels sans expérimenter en collectif, éprouver d’autres modes de vie qui destituent les effets de pouvoir, s’alimenter en bio, local et frais, trouver une autonomie énergétique, pratiquer le low-tech qui t’empuissante dans ton rapport à la techno, etc. Et surtout sans réactiver des liens au monde, au vivant et aux autres… » https://reporterre.net/Alain-Damasio-Il-faut-battre-le-capitalisme-sur-le-terrain-du-desir
Clean Air Club💙: UVC lights & HEPA filters offer Covid safe shows & spaces for musicians. This common sense approach should be mainstreamed for indoor spaces around the world. Research shows that HEPA filters can reduce the aerosol concentration of COVID by 99% after 35 minutes. A paper in the ‘Viruses’ journal concluded that far-UVC lights “can effectively kill pathogens with potentially no harm to exposed human tissues. #CovidIsAirborne#IndoorAirQuality#IAQ#Covidhttps://www.teenvogue.com/story/clean-air-club-organizing-covid-safer-shows
This would be the first time in the history of influenza viruses that foodborne transmission occurred (whereas it is adapted to infect via airways, no matter the animal), and we would expect to see those adaptations reflected in its genome