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2024-07-04 23:48:45

Yesterday, the CDC very quietly updated their guidance on covid to acknowledge that covid is NOT seasonal and ventilation helps.
Also, "Although COVID-19 is not the threat it once was,* it is still associated with thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths each week in the United States, and can lead to Long COVID."
*i.e., not the threat to capitalism that it was; but not necessarily unthreatening to you or your loved ones....
#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #WearAMask #N95 #NoMaskBan
https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/covid-19-can-surge-throughout-the-year.html

2024-07-04 22:48:23

#DisabilityPride #WearAMask
https://linktr.ee/MaskBloc301
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2024-07-03 21:05:00

#NormalizeMasking #DisabilityPride #DisabilityJustice #N95
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2024-06-29 16:45:00

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"non-profit level of pay but"
(still more than I've ever been paid in my longish life, so...different worlds....)

2024-06-08 18:00:17

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I am told by an infectious disease expert that "spreading disease" includes spreading it to yourself. Also that legislator intent is less important than actual wording. So it would indeed be arguably legal to wear a mask for preventing spread to oneself.
However, by the time you get to the arguing it stage (in court) you have already had to remove the mask, because yeah, anyone can tell you that you have to at least temporarily for ID, and police can tell you that you have to (not temporarily) for any reason (or none): they have removed stipulations about why cops can tell you that you have to remove a mask--they don't need suspicion or probable cause.
So then they can arrest you and you can get covid in jail (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/18/incarcerated-people-covid-death-rates)
Time for the theatrical events!
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2024-06-07 17:38:53

Revised Anti-mask bill passed by North Carolina Senate, a few days before the House votes on new language.
As J. Offir, PhD pointed out on the hellsite, and @npub1llp…pa5s here, the revision allows masks to prevent *spreading* disease but not to prevent *catching disease* --it specifically took OUT the language about "ensuring the physical health or safety of the wearer."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/north-carolina-gop-lawmakers-agree-add-health-exemption-110908099
https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2023/8694/0/H237-PCCS40622-CE-5
#MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #Democide #CovidIsAirborne
#CovidCautious
#ChronicIllness
#CleanAir
#WearaMask
#Disability
#LongCovid
#Ableism
#Denial
#Pandemic
#PublicHealth
#InfectionControl
#Eugenics
#SafeHealthcare
#N95
#Respirators
#MasksWork
#MaskUp
#Discrimination
#NorthCarolina
#MaskBan
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2024-06-07 00:09:45

from Julia Doubleday at The Gauntlet:
"75,603 deaths in one year [2023] makes COVID the infectious disease killing the most people in the US by far, and likely to remain so."
"We are currently in a “lull”, but “lull” is a relative term, and “low” in 2024 isn’t the same as “low” in 2020-2021. In 2021, shortly after vaccination, our summer low hit 12k cases a day. This year it’s never gone below 160k new cases a day- over 12 times higher than the low of three years ago.
"Let’s bear in mind that in November 2021, nearly a year after the debut of the vaccines, when Dr. Fauci was asked when things could fully “go back to normal” and mitigations like masks could be dropped, he projected that when new daily COVID cases were under 10k, we could expect to fully resume normal life. During the surge this winter, we had over one million new cases a day. Not only have we never for one day had under 10k new cases since Fauci made this prediction, we have never had under 100k new cases on any day since then."
"Celebrating the period of temporary immunity that follows mass infection is, as Dr. Lucky Tran put it, “like celebrating a low in heat wave deaths during winter.”
"But objectively, deaths are much lower than they were in 2020-2022. How do you explain that?
"Let’s start with the obvious: dead people can’t die twice. When you’ve already killed over a million people, you simply have a smaller pool of vulnerable people to kill. . . . No matter how we’d responded to COVID, no matter who was in charge of the response, no matter if we’d had longer or shorter lockdowns or more masking or fewer vaccines, deaths would be drastically lower now than they were in 2020-2022. "
#CovidIsNotOver
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/covid-lulls-arent-being-earned-by

2024-05-26 17:30:04

The "mortality risk of people who have experienced homelessness is about 3.5 times higher than that of the housed population"
#HousingIsARight
#housing
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/first-national-calculation-mortality-us-homeless-population

2024-05-20 01:27:46

After Columbia Unviersity cancelled its main graduation ceremony, Columbia University and Barnard College organized a "counter convocation" with approximately 1200 in attendance. Recorded May 16.
https://vimeo.com/event/4306847/6f65465c7a
The distressing thing about this ceremony is the lack of respirator masks at this indoor mass gathering.
I had been heartened by the prevalence of respirator masks visible at students' anti-genocide encampments, and the comments about care and solidarity students made in explanation.
But the failure to mask at this event seems to say that it wasn't after all about that vision of care and connection and stopping All the genocides.
Maybe they don't care if the right wing says Look, they were only doing it to hide their faces, so it's okay if North Carolina bans wearing masks for medical reasons.
Maybe they don't care about not infecting each other and keeping everyone as strong and sharp as possible for the long struggles.
But I wish they cared.
#CovidIsNotOver #SARSCoV2 #N95+

2024-05-14 03:07:23

So, Israel is genociding Palestinians, Hawaii is flooding, Mexico is burning, North Carolina wants to ban masks, UK wants to deport immigrants to Rwanda, SARSCov2 is still mutating & spreading, as is H5N1, and we can't seem to get the guillotines to work.....
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2024-05-04 01:14:13

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thank you for your work