Lots of attention given to absenteeism, threats to fine parents, online dashboards for real-time student tracking and all the BS non-solutions.
Instead we could clean the air in schools, normalise masking in risky environments, regularise testing, support adequate isolation. But for that it would be necessary to break out of the collective delusion and admit that #CovidIsNotOver.
You'd expect the teacher unions to be raising hell about this, but they also seem to be caught in the fantasy that covid (and all the other diseases) are fine to catch over and over again, and that workers' health is disposable.
Covid won't get better until there is collective action to materially change the conditions where it spreads.
We know what to do and it's cheaper, easier and better than this endless cycle of death and disability.
Das der Abwärtstrend nicht ewig weitergehen konnte war ja klar, leider entfernen wir uns jetzt wieder vom niedrigen Niveau - die nächste Welle nimmt seit einigen Wochen Fahrt auf, unsere temporäre Immunität lässt offenbar mal wieder nach:
"Unfortunately, the newest widely circulating pathogen in the human population uses a broadly expressed ACE2 receptor to infect cells, meaning it can damage almost any part of the body."
"They want your ignorance and incur no cost if you are harmed by being repeatedly infected by COVID-19 or any other pathogen that might be surging in its wake."
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is doing a study on the impact from covid on people's health.
They need folk who have had and have NOT had covid for a survey.
"COVID-19 has infected more than 600 million people and has resulted in greater than 6 million deaths globally. Research scientists from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health want to better understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people’s health.
We are interested in hearing from people who have experienced COVID-19 illness and those who have not. Everyone’s experience is important for us to understand."
#FunFact
The same N-95, KN-95, and equivalent respirators that protect you from airborne contagious disease also provide protection from wildfire smoke. #MaskUp#AirQuality#CovidIsNotOver
It would criminalize mask-wearing in public even for medical reasons ... It's just unacceptable.. there's a change petition https://chng.it/6kf5XTsv6t and people we need to email tonight/before 9am Wed morning (5-15), this endangers us / violates rights! George.Cleveland@ncleg.gov; chris.humphrey@ncleg.gov; bill.ward@ncleg.gov; harry.warren@ncleg.gov; David.Willis@ncleg.gov
In true disability justice fashion, we approach the Covid-19 pandemic centering those most affected. We believe in taking all precautions during this ongoing pandemic, including but not limited to communal masking, air filtration, vaccination, and more. The organized abandonment of disabled and chronically ill individuals by both the government and the general public is a eugenic move that bolsters the current rise of fascism both within our own country and across the globe. #CovidIsNotOver
That is not to say that individuals who have made choices not to mask any longer are eugenicists and fascists, as the human psyche is much more complex than that, but intention does not negate the impact. It is imperative that we combat the rise of fascism and eugenics with an ethic of care centering those most affected. We must orient ourselves towards living each aspect of our lives, to the best of our abilities, caring for those around us. #CovidIsNotOver#Niagara#DisabilityJustice
Sitting with the fact that cattle industry has more power over whether humans in their employ get tested for #AvianFlu than #PublicHealth authorities do.
Hence #CDC preparing to launch wastewater dashboard for tracking spring and summer influenza surveillance...
To address absence of #BirdFlu testing. Taking a page out of the #CovidIsNotOver handbook of better too-late-to-be-actionable data than no data.
Anyone have recommendations for high quality air purifiers with a Hepa filter and Merv13+? I’ve tried different purifiers over the years and either they end up not having an actual Hepa filter, stop making replacement filters, or filter replacements are too expensive. I like my Levoit, but it turns out they aren’t actually Hepa filters. And my Renpho went from having $30-50 filter replacements to now $90 on Amazon. I can’t even buy them from Renpho anymore. #covid#COVID19#CovidIsNotOver
Cautionary tale in "COVID is not over" (see thread) from one of the regulars here. If nothing else, for the huge impact on your life if you end up with a bad case of it.
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.
Le Capital et la controversialisation des maladies | Elle Carnitine
"La controversialisation de l'encéphalomyélite myalgique permet de justifier non seulement notre abandon, mais aussi l'ancrage de l'économie politique de la santé sur des principes d'austérité, en d'autres termes, l'abandon de toutes les personnes handicapées."
Gentleman appears to be blaming covid lockdowns for mental health issues among young people, which in turn is causing high absenteeism. It couldn't be that the pandemic is not over, nooo.
"the number of people out of the labour force because of ill health is up by a third on pre-pandemic levels."
Also no mention of the #ClimateCrisis when wondering why despair is doubling.
I for one am glad she's back...because that quote below is my life for the last five years; the world in microcosm:
"You admit you're scared. You admit you don't know what to do. You stop. You listen. You look for answers. You come up with a plan. You abandon your previous assumptions about reality. You adjust to the new reality in front of you." #climate#COVID#COVID19#CovidIsNotOver
"Über die Abwehr von #LongCovid als sozialpolitische Frage, die Moral der Pandemiepolitik, die Niederlage der instrumentellen Vernunft und die Aufgaben einer humanen Gegenrationalität."
Danke an Paul Schuberth für diesen Text!
(Der Text wäre eine Spende an Jungle_World wert + Teilen.)
"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.