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#YallMasking

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Conny with a Y :tinoflag:

The number of ME patients, those suffering from chronic fatigue and other symptoms, living in Aotearoa may have doubled in recent years, according to ME Society (ANZMES) estimates:
"Emerging studies point to a trend where a large subset of people with persisting Long Covid may be developing ME. Overseas estimates suggest a sky-rocketing of new ME cases since the pandemic began, but the picture in Aotearoa is not yet clear and may differ in light of our initially low Covid spread. It’s crucial to remember that Covid hasn’t gone away. New Zealanders are still getting infected each week – wastewater testing last week showed the highest Covid levels all year – and every new infection carries a risk of #LongCovid."

"The pandemic could only compound the price tag. Researchers here think Long Covid might cost us about $2 billion annually – 0.5% of GDP – in lost productivity. Recent modelling from Germany put the combined cost, for both Long Covid and ME, at 1.5% of GDP in 2024."

Hey, govt that apparently cares so much about the economy, how about you do something about the increasing loss in productivity?!

thespinoff.co.nz/society/03-06

We want wider access to vaccines and anti-virals, we want safe healthcare (#yallmasking?) and #CleanAir in schools and daycare.

our.actionstation.org.nz/petit

The Spinoff · ME/CFS patient estimates have doubled – but the disease is still ignoredBy Louise Thornley
#NZpol
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Nina

I haven’t updated this doc in a year, but now that it is #WildfireSeason again, I figured I’d share it again: cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/4

This doc covers resources for dealing with #WildfireSmoke in the US, organized by state, county, and city. If you know of resources or programs in your area where people can do things like:
-stay inside somewhere with filtered air for free
-get free N95 or KN95 masks (especially local mask blocs!)
-get free air filters or air purifiers

—please let me know and I will update the doc! I don’t know that I’ll have time this year to proactively reach out to city and state governments, but I will update as I can.

cryptpad.frEncrypted Rich textCryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite
#MaskUp#YallMasking#MutualAid
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Conny with a Y :tinoflag:

Amazing interview with epidemiologist Dr Amanda Kvalsvig about the importance of #CleanAir in schools, why you should protect yourself from Covid-induced brain damage and the unfathomable impact of #LongCovid.

The fight for clean air in NZ schools | RNZ
rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/

If you haven't signed the petition yet, please do. We only need a small critical mass to initiate the change we will all benefit from.
our.actionstation.org.nz/petit

#NZpol
#CovidIsNotOver
#yallmasking
#CovidNZ

RNZ · The fight for clean air in NZ schoolsAs winter approaches, so do the germs, and as every parent knows schools are prime breeding grounds for winter illnesses. Dr Amanda Kvalsvig is one of New Zealand's top epidemiologosts, with a background in clinical paediatrics. 
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gypsyvegan

Reminder -- #covid vaccines are semi-protective, meaning that they are extremely effective at reducing the risk of death and severe illness, while also being less effective at preventing infection/transmission and #LongCovid .

That means that:

(1) vaccines are PART of a prevention strategy, not the whole strategy, so masks rated to prevent airborne transmission, regular accurate testing, and air cleaning are still cruicial tools everyone should be using; and

(2) this is why it is even more important that we keep community vaccination levels as high as we can get them, and to vaccinate at a frequency that matches how long the vaccines are semi-protective for (4-6 months) with updated formulations based on current circulating variants vs variants that long ago faded away.

None of the above is informing anything being done or decided by the current fuckleheads in charge of public health.

From the fierce and fabulous @rebeccawatson

youtu.be/BJ1hV2U-Kpc

The thumbnail from video linked in the post shows Rebecca Watson, a light-skinned woman with brown shoulder length hair, sitting in front of a microphone and facing the viewer. She is wearing a dark blue heathered short-sleeved v-neck t-shirt, blue large-frame glasses, and bright cherry-red lipstick. Large capital dark pink ombre letters along the bottom of the image say "GOP DEATH CULT". Pictured over Rebecca's shoulder in the upper right of the image is a screenshot of an article with the headline "An Anti-Science MAHA Extremist Is Playing a Major Role at the FDA" over a black-and-white photo of UCSF Covid-minimizer oncologist Vinay Prasad.
#CovidIsNotOver#CovidPrevention#YallMasking
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en neopaquita demian 😷☭⚧ (he/they)

Pregnant people are at higher risk of a COVID infection. Protect them by wearing a mask.

Children are at higher risk of a COVID infection. Protect them by wearing a mask.

The poor are at higher risk of a COVID infection. Protect them by wearing a mask.

The oppressed are at higher risk of a COVID infection. Protect them by wearing a mask.

Immunocompromised people are at higher risk of a COVID infection. Protect them by wearing a mask.

Health professionals are in continuous exposure to COVID. This is not normal. Protect yourself and protect them with a mask.

Vulnerability should not be punished. It should be cared for. Wear a mask. Be in solidarity with the sick.

Masks protect the most oppressed. COVID exposes viruses used as weapons. Protect your community.

#YallMasking#StillCoviding#MaskUp
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HardWired

I think she’s my new hero. Violet Affleck, “I was surprised at her [my mother’s] surprise: as a lifelong Angelena and climate-literate member of generation Z, my question had not been whether the Palisades would burn but when.” #climate #ClimateChange #COVID #COVID19 #LongCovid #masking #YallMasking #CovidIsNotOver #mecfs #pem

yaleglobalhealthreview.com/202

A colour photograph of Violet Afleck. A closeup photo of the upper half of her body. She has long straight brown hair, dark framed eyeglasses, a pale violet cardigan over a pink top. She is wearing a 3M white respirator mask and holding a book (The Viral Underclass). Photo credit: Hello! Magazine 2024
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Jen, MPH :verified:

Covid Vaccine Access is Under Attack

Public comment to FDA’s VRBPAC is open until May 23, 11:59 pm Eastern. Easy to follow instructions in the link

Asks:
-Ensure an updated COVID vaccine by Fall 2025

-Universal COVID vaccines for all ages

-More frequent boosting (every 6 mo) & more frequent updates

-Ensure vaccine manufacturers anticipate future dominant strains of SARS-CoV-2

peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vacc

bird.makeup/users/peoplescdc/s

People's CDC · Vaccine Access is Under Attack. Act now to tell the FDA we need universal COVID vaccine accessBy People's CDC
#COVID#COVID19#MaskUp
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en neopaquita demian 😷☭⚧ (he/they)

Don't talk to me about queer pride if you don't talk about COVID

how can we celebrate queer liberation while chronically ill and immunocompromised people continue to be excluded during the ongoing pandemic?

how can the queer community really be a community when the most oppressed are left behind because the rest don't care enough to help protect them from a deadly and disabling virus?

queer leftists love to think they would have been activists at the beginning of the AIDS crisis, but they are literally leaving the lives of vulnerable queer people behind right now by refusing to practice pandemic safety as community care.

it's not just clearly capitalist people who are leaving us behind, we've been seeing queers turning their backs on those people most marginalized by the system. talking about “liberation” while they don't even have the decency to wear respirators.

let's fight eugenics. we need real change.

there is no pride in having ableism and helping the spread of an ongoing pandemic.

WEAR RESPIRATORS! MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCE! GET TESTED! PROTECT YOUR COMMUNITY!

#YallMasking#StillCoviding#MaskUp
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en neopaquita demian 😷☭⚧ (he/they)

The Decolonizing Bruja

Pride month is coming up & weare BEGGING event organizers to help keep trans & queer people alive by wearing a mask!

Due to systemic transphobia & homophobia, the LGBTQ+ community is at higher risk of disability, illness, poverty, etc. This system does not care if we live or die. So we need all hands to protect us

And masks help with that!
This is not just about Covid. There are many crippling air borne viruses going around right now (bird flu, measles, etc.) as well as continuing worsening air quality due to rampant, violent, capitalistic environmental abuse. The collective could have benefitted from community face-mask wearing even from way before the pandemic.

• Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves.
• There is no way to “train” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key.
• Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
• Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world.
• Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.

screenshoot of the words of The Decolonizing Bruja
#MaskUp#WearAMask#CovidRealist
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Russ Sharek

Hell yes. <3

whn.global/stuck-in-the-middle

> Health stopped being about performance. It became about sustainability. About protecting something that would allow me to keep showing up in all parts of life — fully present, fully functional — for as long as possible.

WHN · Stuck in the Middle with Masking: Playing the Long Game in a Short-Sighted Age - WHNby Sean Mullen, PhD “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…” That line plays in my head more often than it should—especially when I’m the only one walking into a conference ballroom, faculty meeting, or classroom wearing an N95. The song is Stuck in the Middle with You, and it wasn’t written … Continued
#YAllMasking
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Mx. Eddie R

When I cleared out the Jeep I found some old cloth masks, then found some more secreted about my desk.
The two top ones were pretty fancy, they had the pocket to add a PM2.5 filter.
The pink one has adjustable ear loops, very snazzy.
The bottom one is one of my very first, homemade, cloth masks. It used to be a T-shirt and a pair of pyjama pants.
Relics of a more innocent time. Now I wear a KN95.

A bunch of cloth masks laid out on my weight bench. The top two are fitted masks with metal nose pieces etc. They lived on the dash in my truck for years, they're super sunburned and it's hard to tell what the patterns used to be. Next is a surgical-style cloth mask, pink with smiley faces. Last is blue plaid, homemade from pyjama pants and lined with a T-shirt, with hot pink ribbon for ties.
#YallMasking
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