Such bad news when more and more people will need something like this in every province and it will keep growing since people refuse to #MaskUp

#LongCovid #healthcare

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-hospital-long-covid-program-closes-1.7565105

Today I ran some errands with a neighbor.

#MaskedMondays #MaskUpMonday #MaskUp #SaltingTheVibes #YallMasking

Monday Monday 🎶🎶🎶

#airquality #santiagodechile #contaminationkills #IQAir #calidaddelaire #MaskUp #smog

collaborative and community blog to leave our mark around the love of care and the fight against eugenics

https://masksarecommunity.substack.com/about

about this blog:
hello, my name is demian, i have been thinking for a few months about starting a collaborative blog, i have my own blogs where i upload my reflections, but i think it would be interesting to have a common space where i could publish and have the freedom to publish with or without a name and have it all in one blog, one of hope, love and radicalism.
the struggle against eugenics, like other radical struggles, feels very lonely. especially when the state and the system have put so much money in individualistic propaganda both before the pandemic and especially after the beginning of the pandemic.
having compassionate common spaces of love for the care of the masks and the fight against eugenics is key to be able to continue the fight. that is what this blog is for. if you would like to participate and/or help with the management of this blog, you can communicate through:
mvione@proton.me
https://t.me/demianmasks
signal: demian.67

#CovidPersistente #LlevaMascarilla #RealistaCovid #AutoDefensaSanitaria

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid

One way of stopping the sneezing... (grass pollen)... #MaskUp

Done the daily antihistamine, done the nose spray. Not enough. Sneezing is knocking me hard.

Mask! I love you! 😁💕

#hayfever

Good rain storm early this morning but the air quality remains about the same in #santiagodechile

#airquality #calidaddelaire #IQAir #contaminationkills #smog #chile #MaskUp

We're entering an era with limited access to vaccines. The BEST tool we have available to us needs to be a staple again: default to masking in shared spaces unless otherwise negotiated.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjvfy2Cj/

#covid #maskup #covidisnotover #disabled #disability #pandemic #health #left #leftist

@andymoose

I'm really sorry. I know how difficult it is... dghtr & I are on similar journey.

Occ'ally I have the same thought (saying to heck with it) but what would the past 5 years have been for if we do that?

I had ME in my early 30s, feel very lucky to hv recovered from it. Makes me wonder if I'd be more prone to long COVID if I caught the virus - not to mention I have other risk factors.

It's not easy to be 'different' but you're doing the right thing for you & yr family.

#MaskUp

Okay. Ich war jetzt also auf Facebook. Ich habe etliche problematische Beiträge zu Schwurblerei gefunden. Da ich nicht bei Meta bin, konnte ich nur punktuell reinschauen und nicht prüfen, ob der Künstler später den Absprung geschafft hat. Ansonsten ist er nicht rechts.

Ich möchte das neue Bild jetzt gar nicht auspacken und aufhängen 😭😭😭

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp #CleanAir #DieMaskeBleibtAuf

As we plan ahead for the year to come, no one is going to plan to get disabled by #LongCovid, yet it could still happen to any of us if we don't do anything about it:
#MaskUp and fight for #CleanAir indoors!

Matariki Thoughts: Playing the Long Game
A guest newsletter from Julia Schiller on the ongoing need for action on Covid.

https://nickrockel.substack.com/p/matariki-thoughts-playing-the-long

#CovidIsNotOver

I recently read Sherwin Nuland's The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (2003).

I had heard the basics--Semmelweis was the guy who figured out that doctors were causing childbed (puerperal) fever by poking their dirty hands into the vaginal canals of women whose babies they were helping ("helping") to deliver. But even though Semmelweis was right, no one wanted to listen to him, and it was decades before handwashing became routine in medicine, and poor Semmelweis died in a madhouse.

This story has circulated a lot since 2020, because of the obvious analogy of supposed experts refusing to accept that SARS-CoV-2 is aerosolized, airborne, and that to prevent transmission it isn't enough to wash your hands (though that's still a good practice) or stand six feet apart or wear a baggy cloth or surgical mask.

Nuland's version confirms the summary, but the details are fascinating, and the story well told.

Doctors, of course, did not want to accept that they were actively killing their patients, even though women who delivered in the doctors' wards in the hospital were far, far more likely to die than those who delivered at home, or in the midwife wards, or even in the street on the way to the hospital.

There were tensions between different theories of disease (the prior explanations of childbed fever sound ridiculous now, but there were theories behind them, and institutional investments in those theories). Semmelweis was an outsider--a Hungarian in Vienna, a German speaker in Hungary. He was also impolitic, rude, and a bad writer. He failed to carry out experiments that would confirm his theory, and failed to engage with the hospital's microscopist to get a look at the 'cadaver particles' he speculated doctors were carrying from the autopsies they did in the mornings to the examinations and deliveries they did in the afternoons. He hated writing and didn't want to bother to publish his theory, so his opponents beat him into print with misrepresentations of his account. When he did finally write up his theory, the text was digressive, repetitive, bombastically phrased, and full of cranky attacks on his medical rivals (reminds me a little of Anthony Leonardi--correct on the science but tetchy with those who aren't on board).

Nuland speculates, based on available records including Semmelweis's autopsy, that he suffered early-onset Alzheimer’s, that he was badly beaten by attendants in the insane asylum where he spent his last weeks, and that as a result he died of sepsis--essentially the same disease he tried to save his patients from.

The work of Pasteur later provided the germ theory that supported Semmelweis's observations, and Joseph Lister developed theories and practices of antisepsis and asepsis. But even Lister, who was, in Nuland's account, a suave, classy, diligent scientist, who did repeated experiments to confirm his theories, and published and spoke about his work extensively and persuasively, still took about 20 years to win over the bulk of the medical profession.

Anyway, wash your hands, and wear a respirator.

#CovidIsAirborne
#SemmelweisWasRight
#MaskUp

Need a quick explainer for why you’re still masking and why you’re advocating for respirator use in your medical appointments? Sean Mullen, PhD created this one-sheet Covid summary to share.

https://uofi.app.box.com/s/9llu70jkrfm6fqjbvvwhj0og9okpls46

#MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver

Saturday morning in #santiagodechile

#airquality #contaminationkills #calidaddelaire #IQAir #smog #MaskUp

So sieht das also aus, wenn der Newgene-Test anschlägt. Das war's dann mit "wir hatten beide noch nie COVID". Interessanterweise ist bisher nur meine Frau positiv, mal schauen, ob es bei mir so bleibt. Bisher geht es ihr ganz gut, nur leichte Erkältungssymptome.

Das haben wir uns dann wohl vorgestern beim Open-Air-Konzert eingefangen. Einmal ohne Maske bei so einem Massenevent. Sollte man also wirklich lassen. #covodisnotover #diemaskebleibtauf #MaskUp

Want to Reduce Your Risk of Cancer? Heart Disease? Diabetes? Dementia? And More? Here’s How.

#Health #AnOunceOfPreventionIsWorthAPoundOfCure #MaskUp #Covid19 #ProtectYourHealth

https://whn.global/want-to-reduce-your-risk-of-cancer-heart-disease-diabetes-dementia-and-more-heres-how/

@tarraccas The mass denial of the covid pandemic in healthcare is truly horrific. People we trust to take care of our health are those putting many lives at risk and contributing to a decline in people's health. These are acts of omission (not masking, not addressing the fact that SARS-CoV2 infections are a threat to people's health) and commission (possible nosocomial transmissions, spreading misinformation).
PRIMUM NON NOCERE

#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #PublicHealth

@tc_morekindness @broadwaybabyto Rapid antigen tests (RATs) have generally had very low sensitivity for years now:

"Only 6 out of the 26 COVID-19 RATs yielded faint test lines using buffer spiked with the lowest concentrations" and some RAT brands were essentially unable to show positive to a human eye: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039914024005265

Omicron sensitivities of appx. 20-60% in nine different brands of RAT:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00430-022-00730-z/tables/3

Many tests are orders of magnitude - 10x, 100x! - less sensitive for Omicron than for wild type: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.18.21268018v1.full.pdf

#CovidIsNotOver #COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #maskUp #CovidCompetent #AirborneAware #RapidAntigenTests

NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" is growing, known as "razor blade throat". W.H.O. says it is a variant to monitor, as it is expected to take over soon as #1 strain infecting folks in U.S.A. Link is to COVID wastewater map (pictured), additional resources.
#CovidIsNotOver #SummerSurge #hospitalized #proper #respirator #face #shield #mask #asymptomatic #carrier #razor #blade #cough #COVID = #AirBorne #MaskUp #LongCOVID is #number #one #illness in #children #surpassing #asthma https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-wastewater-surveillance