radicalcarecollective, to random
@radicalcarecollective@niagara.social avatar

American Mask Bans: Why Canadian Abolitionists and Disability Justice Advocates Should Be Paying Attention.

radicalcarecollective,
@radicalcarecollective@niagara.social avatar

We need to be working together to solidify our abolitionist and disability justice politics and fight attempts to push eugenics and squash dissent.
This means returning to masking as a regular, everyday practice, as centring the most vulnerable continues to be our best path forward to liberation.

18+ Trekhausen, to random
@Trekhausen@todon.eu avatar

This has been a challenging start to the year. I have finally fully left the little remote/home based work I did because of my Long-Covid and ill health after wrongly 'pushing through' in a state of constant PEM - just varying in intensity - relying on adrenaline surges, my partner caring for me, being pretty much housebound and making myself worse and worse. I regret not stopping sooner. I regret how much extra damage I have done. Though, I understand there was a interplay of structural and agency shaping my choices. I also know I am lucky to have had the choice to 'push through' and how many would not have been able to choose that even if they had wanted to. I have now got a lot of social security applications and appointments which, coming as no surprise, is fucking tough and challenging. The questions you have to answer, the awareness of all the ways the state tries to screw you. I am lucky to have a super supportive partner helping me with this, someone from a local charity helping and can't talk highly enough about the Benefits and Work guides!!!

Trekhausen,
@Trekhausen@todon.eu avatar

Solidarity with everyone who still wears a mask. Solidarity with everyone who has had friends and family turn their backs on them for being covid cautious. Solidarity with everyone who has Long-Covid and does all they can to make sure no-one else has to live through the daily difficulties we do. Solidarity to everyone fighting against ableism, eugenics, Social Darwinism and health supremacy. Solidarity to everyone who gets shouted at and abused for wearing a mask. Solidarity to everyone who keeps going despite the overwhelming hegemonic narrative that what we are living through is 'normal'. Solidarity to everyone sharing science and facts about how covid spreads and the dangers of covid. Solidarity with you.

grheavyroller, to random
@grheavyroller@mastodon.social avatar

@violetblue 's Covid Sanity Handbook is "a direct challenge to the social and political gaslighting conspiring to make us feel crazy, isolated, hysterical, misinformed, overreacting, excluded, broken, somehow unwilling, or paints us as threatening simply because we do not want a Covid-19 infection."

One of the Covid Sanity Handbook's exemplary stretch goals is a DRM-free audiobook, and it's very close. Help it get there:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/violetblue/the-covid-sanity-handbook

airadam, to random
@airadam@mastodon.me.uk avatar

The gym is definitely the place I consistently get the most puzzled/mocking looks for wearing a mask, but since most of the people I know who said things in 2020 like "I don't need a vaccine, I have an immune system" were also ostensibly the health and fitness crowd...

#MaskUp

catrionagold, to coronavirus
@catrionagold@mastodon.social avatar
ahimsa_pdx, to random
@ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social avatar

I had to go to urgent care earlier today (nothing serious, needed antibiotics for infection).

I'm please to report that the nurse, the doctor, and all the patients I saw (about 8-9?) were wearing masks of some kind. I was pleasantly surprised! 😷😁

crow, to random
@crow@cville.online avatar

Me at Costco, wearing a , waiting for a booster.

Pharma tech calls my name, beckoning me into a small room.

Me: Would you mind masking up?

Tech: Why?

Me: Because you might have COVID.

Tech looks surprised, walks off. Returns with a cheap surgical mask: “It’s not an N95 so it won’t do much.”

Me: Better than nothing.

Tech, asking screening questions: Have you had COVID in the last 3 months?

Me: No, because I’m careful.

Tech: Yeah, me too.

Me: 🧐

pezmico, to random
@pezmico@mastodon.nz avatar

Reality is that you only really need to wear a mask and consider air quality if:

-you breathe air regularly.
-you care about your brain, heart, immune system, lungs, kidneys, bones, teeth, eyes, liver or other organs.
-you ever have other people around you.

pezmico,
@pezmico@mastodon.nz avatar

I because breathing is one of my favourite things to do. 😷

I am constantly doing it, literally can't stop.

I'd consider it an addiction but so far it hasn't affected my life negatively.

And because I don't plan to give it up, better do it safely. ✌️

grheavyroller, to random
@grheavyroller@mastodon.social avatar

@violetblue 's Covid Sanity is "a self-defense guide, a conversation starter, a resource for finding community, a helpful tool for hard decisions, and a means with which we ultimately disallow our valid refusal to endure repeated Covid-19 reinfections to be used against us."

"We're made to feel separate from society for avoiding covid, but we are far from alone."

Head to Kickstarter and help Covid Sanity become reality:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/violetblue/the-covid-sanity-handbook

HeatherInNZ, to random
@HeatherInNZ@mastodon.nz avatar

A question, fellow folk, what do we think about KN95 mask expiration dates? Seeing a lot of expired or soon to expire masks for sale and my mum is asking if they are still good? So I am asking all of you.

KiwiNikki, to random
@KiwiNikki@mastodon.nz avatar

This is not a good look, Canterbury. Mask up.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social avatar

Masks work, our comprehensive review has found.

"Getting most people to wear a mask could nip the outbreak in the bud, preventing a pandemic or lessening its impact. Wearing a mask is inconvenient, but not as inconvenient as lockdowns."

"The bottom line from our recent review is masks work. Along with improving indoor air quality and avoiding crowded, underventilated places, they provide the best way to avoid catching a respiratory infection. And our findings support previous advice to not just wear any mask but wear the best mask available."

@auscovid19

Source: https://theconversation.com/masks-work-our-comprehensive-review-has-found-229658

pezmico, to random
@pezmico@mastodon.nz avatar

Everyday is day.

But these days are particularly so.

The research is out, the science is clear:
Respirators work.

Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cmr.00124-23

pezmico,
@pezmico@mastodon.nz avatar

If you follow me, you likely don't need to hear this anymore but still spread it around:

Masks work.
Respirators are better.
It should be very normal to wear one.
😷

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/05/university-of-otago-s-michael-baker-among-health-experts-calling-for-better-face-mask-use-in-new-zealand-after-international-study-on-effectiveness.html

compost, to random
@compost@regenerate.social avatar

It looks like the lawmakers of North Carolina have finally realized the law to ban masks in public was a stupid thing to do...

It was right to protest and remind the lawmakers that they were working for the people.

#MaskUp

https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/nc-house-votes-not-to-concur-with-bill-reinstating-mask-restrictions/

arra, to random French
@arra@toot.aquilenet.fr avatar

Bonjour Masto !
On recherche des recommandations de lecture sur le début de la pandémie dans les pays nord-africains, et plus particulièrement au Maroc

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eeyam, to random
@eeyam@med-mastodon.com avatar

Fellow doctors noting that #COVID19 cases are up again! #MaskUp

(There's is no reliable data monitoring from the Department of Health anymore)

cookiesinheaven, to random
@cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org avatar

I just so love this family photo of yore.

violetblue, to fallout
@violetblue@mastodon.social avatar

North Carolina bans medical masks (seriously), US/UK/NZ surging, covid 60% deadlier than influenza, weird new variant symptoms, US: no fall vax for uninsured, covid ripping through New Zealand schools, rAW MiLk eNTHusIaSTs, masking on the Fallout set, and more.

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-104353958

#covid #longcovid #covidisntover #Fallout #rawmilk #Aotearoa #maskup #FanimeCon #Novavax

lappenjammer, to random German
@lappenjammer@openbiblio.social avatar

Es gibt ja nicht nur leichte Momente auf Reisen. Das National Covid Memorial hat mich sehr berührt und erschüttert. Bereits von weitem sieht man, dass die gesamte Wand des Ufers gegenüber des britischen Parlaments rot ist. Jedes dieser Herzen steht für einen Menschen, bei dem COVID auf der Sterbeurkunde vermerkt wurde. Die Zahl ist seit meinem Besuch weiter gestiegen.

😷✊️

National Covid Memorial in London
National Covid Memorial in London
National Covid Memorial in London, hier steht die Gesamtzshl der Toten bei über 239.170 (die letzte Ziffer ist nicht auszumachen).

faerye, to random
@faerye@pie.gd avatar

Bumper sticker idea:
I’m already trying not to catch the NEXT virus!

#MaskUp

justyourluck, to random
@justyourluck@masto.ai avatar

ONE BILLION

1,000,000,000

"By 2033, a billion people are expected to suffer from Long Covid - most of them in the economically active age groups."

https://www.manager-magazin.de/lifestyle/long-covid-konferenz-wir-muessen-uns-endlich-eingestehen-wie-gewaltig-dieses-problem-ist-a-4389644b-1795-4acf-bccf-759d6dce1982

The is STILL going on‼️

sucks more than you can imagine‼️

or as the WHO now says it spreads ‼️

with or better & Stay Safe‼️ 😷🫶

kaitlinsundling, to climate
@kaitlinsundling@med-mastodon.com avatar

As a physician, I can attest that masks protect against many threats to our health, including pollution, wildfire smoke, infectious diseases, and allergens. All of us, and especially disabled and immunocompromised folks, need to be able to wear masks freely in public spaces. Please sign and share this petition against the North Carolina mask ban. #COVID #MaskUp #ClimateChange #disability https://chng.it/C7XNnpx9gL

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