It's respiratory season and the holidays. Time to be prepared for any negative feedback about mask-wearing and taking precautions.
https://www.oliviabelknaptherapy.com/post/navigating-holidays-while-covid-conscious
#COVIDIsAirborne #COVID #CovidIsNotOver #Health #MaskUp #Mask
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Neighbor kiddo singing jingle bells as loud as possible as we head into double digit above average temps. The closest sleigh is an inflatable a coule of blocks away. No horses or snow in sight. Yet, I'm happy he can sing. Hopefully his horrible cough is gone after two years hearing it.
Taking some steps to prevent the transmission of COVID is better than taking no steps.
Please be safe out there and #maskUp, friends.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@amy_rose/115673270354980506
I'm still masking. Are you? If not, now is a good time to start again.
#maskup #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #COVIDSafety #communitycare
Are you still masking? COVID is still here. If you're able to mask, please do. It helps protect you, and others too. Masking is a wonderfully easy way to show care for yours and other's wellbeing💜
@ai6yr
#MaskUp Absolutely. #Flu has been going around, and now all the kids and teachers that swapped germs and viruses with family over Thanksgiving weekend are back in class sharing with each other. All this sharing will bloom over the next 2 weeks.
And wash your hands. I caught #Norovirus this week, in spite of my efforts. Yuck.
PALESTINA LIBRE SIGNIFICA USAR MASCARILLA
SÁBADO DE FORMACIÓN
13 diciembre
accede a nuestro discord para ver los detalles y acceder a la formación!
https://linktr.ee/autodefensasanitaria_
Al igual que el genocidio hacia los pueblos indígenas, la propagación sin paliativos del Covid-19 en nuestras comunidades es una opción política, no una fatalidad. Los virus desafían las fronteras, y cuando decimos Todos respiramos el mismo aire, tampoco estamos hablando en metáfora.
Dondequiera que estemos en el mundo, los virus revelan tanto nuestra inextricable conexión como nuestro enemigo común: no los virus en sí mismos, ni siquiera necesariamente quienes los propagan, sino las fuerzas más amplias del capitalismo, el colonialismo y el imperialismo que arraigan en nuestras psiques y nos incitan a ser sus soldados rasos.
Tomar conciencia de la pandemia en curso y asumir la práctica cotidiana y militante de llevar una mascarilla en público es negarse a dar la espalda a la violencia que nuestro gobierno inflige a quienes considera desechables. Desde Abya Yala, la Isla Tortuga, Palestina y todos los territorios colonizados, debemos resistirnos a la muerte y la discapacidad masivas.
Al igual que debemos educar a las masas sobre las verdades del colonialismo de colonos, el imperialismo y el proyecto sionista genocida, también debemos insistir en que la educación sanitaria básica es imprescindible para la autodeterminación.
Los gobiernos priorizan sistemáticamente la percepción pública de la pandemia sobre la salud pública.
El enfoque “sólo sensaciones” de los gobiernos se ha hecho para restar importancia, distraer y desalentar el enmascaramiento - porque si la gente piensa que la pandemia ha terminado, el gobierno ya no será responsable.
Esta producción sociológica del fin de la pandemia ha desmantelado por sí solo las redes de seguridad social que construimos para sobrevivir a la misma crisis en la que nos encontramos.
❤️🔥😷mascarilla es cuidado comunitario
El COVID no ha terminado:
• El 50% de las infecciones son asintomáticas.
• Mínimo 10% de las infecciones acaban en COVID persistente.
• Las vacunas no evitan ni reinfecciones, ni el contagio, ni las secuelas persistentes del COVID.
• Las reinfecciones nos destrozan. No hay forma de “entrenar” el sistema inmunológico porque no es un músculo. La realidad es que no construyes tu inmunidad con infecciones repetidas, las vacunas fortalecen el sistema inmunológico enseñándole a reconocer los patógenos sin todos los riesgos. Centrarnos en la prevención de las infecciones es clave.
• Los test de antígenos dan muchos falsos negativos. Los PCR y test moleculares son los test con más precisión.
• El COVID se propaga y mueve como el humo de un cigarro, piensa en las personas de tu alrededor y en ti como personas que están todo el día fumando, se hace más visual entender cómo se mueve el COVID.
• En las infecciones con síntomas se tarda un par de días en dar los síntomas lo que quiere decir que estás por lo menos un par de días infectando sin saberlo. Eres infeccioso de COVID por lo menos 10 días.
#CovidPersistente #LlevaMascarilla #RealistaCovid #CovidSonAerosoles #birdflu #gripeaviar
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid
"resolver la pandemia nunca estuvo en los planes del mundo capitalista, el objetivo explícito de la clase dominante ha sido hacer que la pandemia simplemente desaparezca de la percepción pública.” Let Them Eat Plague! – The Red Clarion (unity-struggle-unity.org)
Chatting with other Compassionate Covid-Conscious Radicals
December 6 and 7
access our discord to see the details
https://linktr.ee/HealthSelfDefense_
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice
#LongCovid #Prävention #CovidlsAirborne #TeamVorsicht #C19 #SARSCoV2
#FFPMaske #Luftreiniger
#CleanAir #SaubereLuft #Prävention #CovidIsntOver #TragtMaske #MaskUP
Genau DAS👇
Schon gegen #Corona geimpft?
Bitte weiterhin Maske😷 tragen und Luftreiniger einschalten, danke🫶
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tlt75qtm4l5ivg47ho27qxbk/post/3m7abqbpfnc2i
Ayúdanos a distribuir mascarillas en españa!
Help us distribute masks in spain!
Somos un grupo de ayuda mutua que se centra en combatir la eugenesia y a favor de la autodefensa sanitaria.
We are a mutual aid group that focuses on combating eugenics and in favor of health self-defense.
Cost breakdown:
238€ for 800 masks
rest of the money: mailing for those who need
Transparency posts showing purchase & shipping will be provided
The money left over will be used again to continue sending more packages to people in need and comrades who are distributing them on the ground.
Donate via Ko-fi or Paypal if you'd like to help with this campaign; donations to Venmo (due to logistical limitations) cannot be used to purchase masks in Europe.
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice
Hidden COVID virus found nearly two years after infection
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/11/hidden-covid-virus-found-more-than-a-year-after-infection/
Pieces of the COVID virus can lurk in our blood and tissue for almost two years after the initial illness has vanished, a discovery that might offer clues to the mystery of lingering post-infection disability, according to new research from UC San Francisco. Four years after the U.S. went into lockdown, the worst of the pandemic has passed. But for people with long COVID, the illness remains a daily misery. The new research suggests why: The virus is not always fully cleared after the initial infection, so remains deeply embedded, even though people are no longer contagious. It is not yet known if these small viral proteins, called antigens, are causing long COVID. But, based on the new discovery, the UCSF team is conducting clinical trials of potential therapies that could attack the hidden pathogen.
“Long COVID patients deserve swift, accurate diagnosis and timely, effective treatment,” said Jaime Seltzer, scientific director at the nonprofit MEAction, which advocates for patients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS. Is the clandestine virus constantly provoking the immune system, causing symptoms? That’s one leading theory. Another possibility is that COVID triggers an autoimmune response when the body mistakenly attacks itself. Or perhaps, long after it fends off infection, the immune system fails to turn off.
Masks are community care❤️🔥😷 free masks: maskbloc.org
• 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.
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice
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The relationship between the management of the COVID pandemic and eugenics
https://healthselfdefense.substack.com/p/fed-study-ties-1918-flu-pandemic
Let's first define eugenics:
It is an ideology that seeks to "improve" the hereditary traits of the human species. It was proposed in 1883 by Francis Galton and, under racist, classist, and ableist logic, seeks to increase the number of supposedly strong, healthy, intelligent, and white people (*hint: no oppressed person can fall into this category, among other reasons because capitalism disables you).
Although eugenics already had antecedents dating back to Ancient Greece, the first theoretical definitions took place in England in the 19th century, driven by nationalism and scientific racism, based on Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. The movement gained popularity in scientific circles, especially at the beginning of the 20th century with the participation of Darwin's descendants, who by 1912 spoke of eugenics as a "primary duty."
By this time, practices such as the forced sterilization of chronically ill people, the disabled, and those categorized as criminals, among others, were already being carried out. This practice quickly spread to racialized and oppressed groups.
Within systems of oppression, forced sterilizations have been and continue to be carried out on Indigenous, racialized, intersex, communist and anarchist populations, and people with disabilities.
Eugenics continues to be present in many aspects of our lives, and we see it in ableism, sanity, genetic engineering, the health industry, and the idea that some people are "disposable."
Why do we talk about eugenics when we talk about COVID denialism?
Since the pandemic began, and we began to have more information about the virus, it has been constantly repeated that it only affects the "vulnerable" population. This discourse seeks to divide the oppressed in an attempt to spread anti-solidarity and justify the state's negligence in dealing with infections. If we believe that some people are "biologically weak," and we also add continuous misinformation about COVID and how it spreads, it creates a breeding ground for the belief that infections are inevitable and that "we will all end up with COVID."
Since before the pandemic, the individualization of care that should be collective has been spreading, along with the normalization of the deaths of disabled and chronically ill people, and COVID was no exception.
A hierarchy was established that excluded sick, disabled, or older people, and, in general, people aware of the risks, from public spaces. This population became “collateral damage” so that others could “return to normal,” and many of them have had to adopt completely isolated lives in order to survive. It's also important to add that this narrative makes us ignore the fact that this virus has disabled millions of people considered healthy and will continue to do so.
“The solution cannot be that everyone has to get COVID. That is eugenics because many disabled high risk people will die and those who do not die will have serious complications and lifelong impacts to their health and wellbeing via COVID and the possibility of long COVID. Do not buy into this eugenic thinking that expects the most vulnerable to be sacrificed. Long Covid is real and it can happen to anyone”. You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence | Leaving Evidence
Masks are community care❤️🔥😷 free masks: maskbloc.org
• 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. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.
“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) 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.” Let Them Eat Plague! http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice
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hunter*: "what opinion will you defend like this?"
decolonize: "covid is far from over and repeat infections aren’t good for anyone! wear a gawdamn mask!"
This is from 2024. I focused it in on Mr. Beast's staff. #sars2covid #MaskUp
Today's Threat Model: #Covid newsletter from @violetblue is a big 'un, as evidenced by the teeny tiny font size I had to switch my phone to to get all the Top Stories headlines to fit in one screen. Read/share/support: https://www.patreon.com/posts/144962976
#LongCovid #PublicHealth #MaskUp
I had the pleasure of knowing Leslie Lee III and guesting on his podcast. Another devastating loss. Please mask up.
https://thesicktimes.org/2025/12/04/leslie-lee-iii-culture-critic-and-long-covid-advocate-dies-at-43/ #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #Disability
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