Las clases dominantes tienen una larga historia de caza de brujas para convertir a los enfermos en chivos expiatorios
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone

2025-April-11 Friday

469 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19

1,226,126 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total

There were roughly 2.7 million covid cases THIS WEEK! Roughly 1/120 in the US infected.

Covid really is not over.

It's as important now as it was in March 2020 to protect yourself, your family, your friends, your colleagues, & your community! Wearing an n95 mask in public spaces is the most efficient and effective way to protect yourself day to day especially when combined w/ vaccines!

I went to my doctor's office this morning (for vertigo and a tick bite). Just wanted to post about my experiences in regards to masking.

Last week, I had gone to the same office, but my doctor was out so I saw someone else. That doctor had told me, "you know that you don't have to wear a mask, right?" And she was not masked.

I saw my own doctor today, and she continues to double-mask. She wears an N95 (3M Aura head strap), and over that she wears a surgical mask. The healthcare staff who are not doctors were all wearing surgical masks, semi-decent face-hugging ones, not the really baggy blue ones. Receptionists were not masked.

None of the other patients that I saw were masked. I had an ear-loop KN95. I knew I would have to remove it briefly for the exam, or else I would have worn my Flo-Mask. That mask takes me a while to get sealed, while I can get a quick decent seal on the KN95, and I wanted it to seal as quickly as possible when re-donning. (My doctor gave me the option to remove it; she would have accepted it if I had refused. I didn't refuse because frankly I'm nervous about having vertigo for two weeks ongoing and wanted to have all available tests done.)

When I took it off for the 30 seconds or so of the facial exam, I was overwhelmed by the scent of perfume. I can't believe a medical office allows that much fragrance. Even if Covid and other respiratory illnesses vanished, I would continue to mask just to block out that horrible overwhelming perfume (and other awful intrusive scents) in public places.

This place has a mask policy posted, but it just says if you are feeling sick or had a positive Covid test to wear a mask. It doesn't specify KN95+ and isn't sufficient to protect against asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic infections.

No one bothered me about my mask. I hope that continues.

A surprise work lunch appears. You don't *have* to go, but it's awkward if you don't. You have been wearing an #N95 at work for over a year.

#COVID #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

Do you:

What a pity high school PE teacher cosplaying NSW “Health” Minister spends most time enjoying photo opps while another state posts useful information.

#COVIDisnotover #wearamask #cleantheair #itsnotoverjustbecauseyouareoverit
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/covid-19/improving-ventilation-stop-spread-covid-19

New hospital study: air purifiers cut airborne COVID by 98%. Rooms with HEPA ventilation had 0 virus detected. Clean air is essential public health infrastructure — not a luxury.

#COVIDisnotover #wearamask #cleantheair #itsnotoverjustbecauseyouareoverit

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021850225000643

¿No es irónico que tantos que se identifican como comunistas, socialistas o anarquistas—practicados en luchar contra el estado y su mortal statu quo—sean tan rápidos en confiar en el llamado del estado a "volver a la normalidad"?
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone

Usa respirador de alta calidad. AutoDefensaSanitaria coordinamos envíos a Latinoamérica y Europa. Busca otros bloques de mascarilla en CovidActionMap. Puedes crear tu bloque local de mascarillas, nosotres te podemos ayudar.
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone

Eugenesia, capacitismo y COVID. Cómo no ponerte un respirador te convierte en un arma contra tu comunidad.

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone

La pandemia no ha hecho más que intensificar el compromiso del Estado carcelario de deshumanizar y castigar a los que están dentro.
Texto de Beatrice Adler-Bolton

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone

people are being socially killed by COVID and are becoming disabled for life, but can't make mandatory masks in your spaces because "you can't force people."

Of course you can force people, that's what we did in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Maybe you don't want to make the effort because you don't have enough courage to defend disabled lives.

#COVIDconscious #MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone

But safe spaces are also based on mutual commitment.

“We’re trying to find the missing pieces that help people connect the dots and the intersectionalities of capitalism and this pandemic.”

New today in Deceleration: "Mask Blocs" help the sick, #disabled, and #COVID-conscious stay involved in their communities in #Texas, while raising awareness about why this needs to be a core issue for organizing on the Left. https://deceleration.news/texas-mask-blocs-covid-19-federal-and-state-attacks/

Hi, I'm Bun, your local #trans, #fat, #nerdy, #depressed, #AuDHD, #disabled queer! I frequently run and boost mutual aid campaigns for others, but I occasionally request help for myself as well. I also love #cats (I’m #TNR certified).

Here on Fedi I post/boost what interests me, or what feels important. I believe in #FreePalestine, #LandBack, #BLM, #WearAMask, and a whole lot more that won’t fit in this #intro. I do my best to act in a way consistent with my politics.

#Introduction

I hope to not be the only person wearing an #N95 mask on the Island Bus Link today.
I will update from the bus, early afternoon

"You just don't stop talking about the importance of wearing a mask."

God forbid a person wants to make accessible information about infections and how COVID continues to kill and disable people. God forbid a person cares about oppressed people and talks about how wearing a mask saves lives.

There is a difference between the biological end of a pandemic and the social end of a pandemic.
We have seen this difference quite clearly, as our society has "returned to normal" even while we continue to endure wave after wave of illness, disabilities, and deaths from COVID.

Huge cuts at NIOSH mean that those who reply on respirators to keep themselves safe will have less protection. This impacts firefighters, miners, healthcare workers and all manner of industries.

It’s also devastating to the disability community.

“You do you” Covid policies left many of us with N95s as our main line of defence against repeat infection.

Respirators make public spaces accessible. They allow us to attend healthcare appointments without forced infection.

Cutting the people who ensure their quality will endanger disabled lives.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/06/health/cdc-niosh-cuts-safety/index.html

People refer to Covid in the past tense because they WANT it to be over… not because it actually IS over.

We’ve all suffered a collective trauma, and most people are refusing to process or deal with it.

A few key points people are determined to “forget”:

“During Covid” is now.

“During the pandemic” is now.

Covid is not over.

Covid IS airborne.

Masks, especially well fitted N95s, offer excellent protection

Anyone can get Long Covid, and your risk increases with each infection.

Even if your initial infection was “mild”, you could have long term damage to your vascular system, immune system, lungs and brain.

Repeat infections are NOT inevitable.

We CAN beat the pandemic together. But it involves collective effort. It involves acknowledging we’re still in a pandemic and “you do you” isn’t working. It involves caring about the air we share, and being willing to adapt.

Let’s make 2025 the year we can actually begin putting Covid in the past!