This important news even if most people that care already new it. It’s important on the face of it, it’s important the WHO is acknowledging it (again), AND it’s important that the CDC still won’t admit it.
Masks work. Indoor fresh-air ventilation works. The US Gov’t says, “Your job is to keep shopping…nothing to see here.”
Heading into the office for the first time in about six weeks. The usual one hour team meeting has been changed to a 5 hour meeting and we’ve had to postpone a release with another team til next week. I’m not best impressed. Neither is the other team.
I also need to remember I’m in person & the eye rolling, jiggling and pacing I do with my camera off must . not . happen. #masking
Having to use the bus. Went early so it wasn’t rammed.
That headspace where I’m watching a documentary on Juggalos and finding myself thinking … “fuck, I think I may be into this #ICP thing after all”
Noticed I was maintaining the same opinion I formed twenty years ago, and it’s maybe time to re-evaluate. I’m finding some really interesting contrasts.
With #autistic#masking, my past avoidance of the subculture makes perfect sense. Very similar past-tolerance / new-affinity feeling as I’ve found for #furry folks
On #COVID#masks#masking, I frequently read (and empathize with) people around here posting abt comments by various ppl questioning their masks. It sucks!
Wanted to give an other perspective: I've worn N95s (pillowy Dräger 1750) at the office for 2 years (incl. dozens of business meetings) and nobody's ever said anything about it. (A couple of "are you sick today or just cautious" in 2 years.)
Your mileage may vary, but in case you've been thinking about trying, hope hearing that might help?
My conversion equivalence is based on efficiency. No precise conversion is possible without doing a defined test.
More though, it is all relative as we don't (that I have seen or found) have test data for penetration of SARS-CoV-2 in real world conditions. And since each mask (whether ffp or N rated) relies on a certain particle size distribution.
All of these work. Higher efficiency is generally better. But their are caveats for each. CO2, H20, DP
@actuallyautistic@audhd
Really hard conversation today about what was given up in youth for the sake of #masking before we were old enough to understand the cost. Touched on everything from special interests to expressions of gender identity. ❤️🩹 #actuallyautistic#autism#autistic
Those who see my worth have continually done what they can
I'll never forget that even as I watch my mother perish in terror by my side because I'm 100% sure a "shelter" will kick her out because of her #dementia
I will never forget those who fought with me until the bitter end
Today in Labor History February 20, 1905: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. There were lots of problems early on with the vaccine. For one, they reused needles, causing the transfer of syphilis from infected to uninfected people. They also had problems with bacterial contamination of the vaccine that made some people sick. On the other hand, because of global mandatory vaccination programs, the disease was eradicated in 1977, the only human disease to be completely wiped out. By the mid-1950s, over 2 million people were dying worldwide annually.
With respect to personal freedom, the Court ruled in Jacobson that individual liberty is not absolute and is subject to the state’s use of police power. Consequently, Jacobson has been invoked in other Supreme Court cases to justify police power. The ruling led to a mobilization of the anti-vaccination movement and the creation of the Anti-Vaccination League of America. The Jacobson ruling was later invoked to support forced sterilization of those with intellectual disabilities (Buck v Bell, 1927); the federal partial abortion ban (Gonzales v Carhart, 2007); drug testing of students (Veronica School District v Acton, 1995); and, most recently, COVID mitigation mandates, like face masks and stay-at-home orders.
“'A question shadowing suits such as these is whether there is a #FirstAmendment right to refuse to wear a protective mask as required by valid health and safety orders put in place during a recognized #PublicHealth emergency. Like all courts to address this issue, we conclude there is not...