Keep yourself safe this week and well into the new year with these mitigation resources. Get info on respirators, indoor air quality, testing how-tos, and so much more.
#CovidIsNotOver
RE: https://todon.nl/@arjan/114013813042974890
Update: only a few hundred left here! I expect my stock to be replenished though. These and more masks are available through @MaskBlocNL now: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/b+y4+DEaELJuuSoOYKNwEnRiLRtBs4--WfMYa0AkSzI/
#MaskBloc #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #MutualAid
Telegraph: "(they) believed they were watching a massacre in real time"
Overwhelmed ICUs, no PPE left, horrible lonely deaths, fridge trucks used as morgues.
Endless gaslighting.
We just supposed to forget all that?
In the US, a solid million people were just swept away into death, so many the poor overworked Grim Reaper had to resort to using a fucking leaf blower.
Go fall into the sun, Telegraph.
Drauß' vom Walde...
#diemaskebleibtauf #maskup #COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver and neither are the other flu-like nasties
Er ist hinter der Paywall. Aber der neue Artikel von Britta Domke ist wieder einmal absolut fantastisch. 😲 Endlich mal Fakten und Substanz in der Debatte um den hohen #Krankenstand, vermeintlich "faule" Arbeitnehmende und was denn eigentlich sinnvolle Ansätze (v. a. für Arbeitgebende) wären.
Insgesamt 10 Personen könnte ich einen Geschenklink zusenden. Schreibt mir eine PN und ihr bekommt ihn. (Ich editiere hier, wenn es keine Links mehr gibt.)
Workplace exposures tied to higher risk of long COVID
CIDRAP
December 18, 2025
By Laine Bergeson
Work-related factors may increase the risk of developing long COVID, according to a new population-based study from Spain.
https://stillcoviding.ca/en/news/workplace-exposures-tied-to-higher-risk-of-long-covid/
#SARSCoV2 spike protein causes synaptic dysfunction and p-tau and α-synuclein aggregation leading cognitive impairment: The protective role of metformin
https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0336015
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
Hashtags:
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
#Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2 #auscovid19 #CovidIsNotOver
2025-December-19 Friday
294 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19
1,239,132 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
‘Person’ had a GP appointment this week. I don’t know what led to the doctor commenting that she’d seen a lot of people with ‘flu recently but person (wearing an N95) almost choked at the doctor’s (literally) barefaced comment.
We’ve had an ‘in joke’ for a while now… Person says “Hmmm… If only there was a solution to mitigate against infection…” We then roll our eyes in disgust/snigger depending on our mood.
Masks now required at all Nova Scotia Health sites
CTV News
December 18, 2025
By Natalie Lombard
https://stillcoviding.ca/en/news/masks-now-required-at-all-nova-scotia-health-sites/
#BringBackMasks #N95sSaveLives #NovaScotia #NS #CovidIsNotOver
There's a tiny uptick in #COVID cases in #NYC, but #COVID19 deaths are down to 20 in the month of November! As far as I'm concerned, #COVIDIsNotOver until we go at least a month with no deaths, but this year has been encouraging!
But it's #FluSeason and #flu cases have already passed last year's peak. The #RSV wave seems to be tapering off, or at least rising more slowly.
I hosted in-person karaoke this week, but I still #WearAMask in elevators, trains, doctors' offices and supermarkets!
𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙈𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙡: 𝘾𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙙
𝘧𝘰𝘳 Dec. 18th, 2025
𝘣𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 @violetblue
- US definitively enters nationwide surge; also Austria, Denmark, Germany, and more
- Covid “alters host RNA, disables immune response”
- Covid leaves “lasting mark on the human brain”
- California DPH says to wear an #N95
- How not to give or get Covid for Christmas
- Navigating #LongCovid during the holiday season
- #TomHanks rides the #NYCsubway in resperators to prevent Covid
- 8% of US healthcare workers work when they have Covid
- @mike_honey_ gets a lovely write-up in #SBSnews
* 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙈𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙡 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 -- 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 $1/𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 *
https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-december-146121890
#ThreatModel #ThreatModelCovid #ThreatModelNewsletters #VioletBlue #COVIDnews #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver
#CDC's most recent dataset, updated today, shows three XFG subvariants, broken out last month, outpacing growth of parent and remaining siblings.
Meanwhile, XFZ and XFV, both recombinants themselves descended from prior recombinants of LF.7 (XFC and XFG, respectively) are shown as quickly gaining in combined share.
Note that, in absence of robust data from states, CDC has given up modeling historical estimates, instead giving only shares of reported sequences.
Raj's dashboard, updated near a month ago, showed Stratus dynasty with diversified XFG.3 family at plurality, accounting for quarter of all samples. Notably, GISAID submissions didn't reflect CDC's estimated growth of XFZ & XFV recombinants.
GISAID data for the most recent four-week period was dominated by paltry submissions from New York (80 sequences), followed by Maryland (45), Colorado (41), Minnesota (33), and Illinois (26).
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #variants #CovidIsNotOver #dataviz #datavis
![Chart: Est. & Reported U.S. Variant Proportions by Common Name
Sources: CDC, Cov-Lineages, NYITCOM, D. Focosi, WHN, others
[ beadsland on Ko-fi ]
Reskin of CDC's Variants Nowcast, and any significant variants in GISAID not broken out by CDC.
Four bar-style tree-charts, for four-week periods through 11/23–12/20. Legend of last four-week period, organized by subheadings of color-grouped families and convergent clusters. Percentages overlay each color key, reflecting share as of most recent tree-chart.
Over nine tenths WHO-Vaccine-Target JN.1 dynasty. Stratus XFG family accounts for over four fifths share.
For 10/26–11/22, packed bubble charts fill single-variant tiles, reflecting GISAID detail not shown by CDC's Nowcast.
Legend:
LF.7 + NTD-meets-RBD [red]:
61% - XFG.2†, XFG.3†, XFG.3.4.1 / QF†, XFG.4.1† & other Stratus XFG
LF.7 + NTD-meets-RBD [brown]:
24% - XFG.14.1, XFG.1, XFG.6 & XFG.1.1†
WHO-Vaccine-Target JN.1 [greens]:
7% - XFZ, XFV & NW.1
0% - FDA-Vaccine-Target LP.8.1
JN.1 + FLiRT-LF-7 [blues]:
⅒% - LF.7.9
⅜% - other LF.7
LF.7 + NTD-meets-RBD [purples]:
¼% - XFC
0% - other LF.7 + NTD-meets-RBD
Other [greys]:
5% - XFY & other Nimbus NB.1.8.1 / PQ
¾% - other Omicron B.1.1.529 / BA
1% - Other (not specified)
_____
XFY is a child of June's Nimbus NB.1.8.1 / PQ and left-field recombinant grandkid XFG.5.1.
XFZ is a child of left-field WHO-Vaccine-Target scion PG.3.2 and Septemberish recombinant kid XFC.3.
[Some footnotes omitted, due to too many recombinants.]](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/748/426/422/935/944/original/e59909b4a02ecfd1.jpg)
Viele Grüße vom Weihnachtsmarkt!
#diemaskebleibtauf #maskup #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
If healthcare decision-makers know that masks in hospitals etc. save people from getting sick, why don't they require masks all the time?
Because the people who get sick the rest of the time are people they are fine with killing or disabling. They are acceptable losses. People that healthcare decision makers feel like society can live without.
Running healthcare on a principle of acceptable losses is not triage. It's not "realism". It's eugenics. It's fascism.
I just have to say this every now and then to affirm that this is what's happening here in Canada. Our leaders are avid supporters of and believers in eugenics.
#CovidIsNotOver #canada #canpoli #CovidIsNotOver #BCpoli #maskup
Bulletin hebdo SPF semaine 50 (du 8 au 14 décermbre)
La grippe tape sévère avec des indicateurs qui croissent aussi rapidement que lors de l'épidémie de l'hiver dernier, mais avec un peu d'avance. Taux de positivité de 28,9% en ville et 12% à l'hôpital. Côté mortalité :
la part des décès avec une mention de grippe parmi l'ensemble des décès certifiés électroniquement (1.8%)était deux fois supérieure à celle observée en S50/2024 (0,9%)
Pendant ce temps là, le Covid repart après avoir atteint un niveau relativement bas, avec :
une stagnation des taux de positivité en ville (6,5%) et à l'hôpital (3,9%) dans un contexte de forte augmentation du nombre de tests réalisés
une hausse des passages aux urgences (+39,13%) et des hospitalisations (+37,10%)pour suspicion de Covid,
une poursuite de la "hausse importante du niveau de SARS-CoV-2 dans les eaux" avec une augmentation de l'indicateur national de +41,2% ;,
une hausse des décès certifiés par voie électronique : 75 décès vs 54 décès en S49.
En semaine 50:
736 passages aux urgences pour suspicion de Covid-19 dont 303 suivis d'hospitalisation ;,
Au moins 983 tests PCR positifs dans les réseaux RELAB (480) et RENAL (503) : on est presque revenu aux 1000 Covid hebdomadaires diagnostiqués par PCR ;,
75 décès certifiés électroniquement avec mention de Covid ;
Au moins 130 décès certifiés électroniquement avec mention de Grippe ;
Au moins 139 nouveaux épisodes de cas groupés d'IRA en établissements médico-sociaux en semaine 49, dont 34 attribués exclusivement au Covid, 57 exclusivement à la grippe, et 6 exclusivement au VRS.
Infection status
Released Dec 19, 2025.
- As of period from Dec 8 - Dec 14, 2025 -
No. of patients per medical facility (nationwide) 1.21
Change from prev. week -0.05
[Source: Health-Labor-Welfare Ministry weekly report]
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001615788.pdf
🔸Week 26 of 13th wave
Saga at 0.54, Tokyo at 0.61, Akita at 1.56, Hokkaido at 3.57, Okinawa at 0.4, Niigata at 3.05
#Influenza (nationwide) at 36.96
Change from prev. week -1.55
#Miyazaki at 99.93
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001615674.pdf
#CovidIsNotOver
#Japan
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