#CovidIsAirborne
World Health Organization (WHO): Keeping safe from COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) this autumn and winter. Protecting lives. Strengthening health systems.
@WHO
#COVID19 #Influenza #RSV #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNotFlu @auscovid19
Counties by adult hospital capacity (darkest counties on map above):
⒈ Berkeley, SC ≥150%
⒉ Seminole, GA ≥150%
⒊ Barton, KS ≥150%
⒋ Chatham, GA ≥150%
⒌ Charleston, SC ≥150%
⒍ Marshall, KY—136%
⒎ Smyth, VA—116%
⒏ Buchanan, MO—110%
⒐ Wise, VA—108%
⒑ Yuma, AZ—108%
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks
Some 42 (-4) counties ≥ 100% capacity per HHS data.
Reporting ≥ 90%: 192 (+2)—near 8% of those with any capacity. This includes surge and overflow beds: near full can mean E/Rs with day-long wait times.
For counties w/ ICUs—near one in six are full or near full.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
![Map: Adult Hospital & ICU Capacity by County
Data: U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services, American National Standards Institute
As of: Sept 16, 2023
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Shows a color scale of 7-day average adult inpatient beds occupied over 7-day average adult inpatient beds staffed for 48 contiguous states only. Scale runs from black (well over 140%), to purple (120%), to red (80%), to orange (50%), to yellow (10%). Counties for which no hospitals/beds are reported are represented by colored hatch marks, reflecting state-level reported capacity.
Patterns of black circles represent counties where adult ICUs are near full; circles are filled in where adult ICUs are entirely full. Sparse grey dots show areas where no ICU beds are reported.
Most of the map is dark red-orange, with splotches of lighter orange-yellow in the interior, mostly in the Rockies. Black indicators heavily pepper the map.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/145/596/699/999/292/small/1e71544b39f85d7c.jpg)
NSW COVID weekly update: 22 September to 28 September
🔹New cases: 2,232 (-101)
🔹Deaths: 17 (-4)
🔹Total deaths: 7,717 (+17)
🔹Hospital: 651 (+26)
🔹ICU: 12 (+3)
#COVID19nsw @ChrisMinnsMP @RyanPark_Keira
@NSWCHO @NSWHealth #PandemicIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19
Aaaaand Leana Wen at the WaPo says people who are isolating and afraid of getting Covid should see a mental health practitioner. *headdesk headdesk headdesk* #Novid #CovidIsNotOve #CovidIsAirborne #PublicHealthFailure
'Thursday's Pandemic Update Concerning Covid Outbreaks In Vermont'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUq1vnuAl6o
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp #N95 #KeepMasksInHealthcare
The #BCndp pay #BonnieHenry upwards of 400 grand annually to professionally lie to us.
She’s paid to deny masks are useful while peddling her hand washing book. She’s paid to hide hospital outbreaks and rising death rates while minimizing #covid transmission in #bced schools and hospitals. She’s paid to publicly claim victory over a virus she’s silently embraced in pursuit of private health.
No one in #BritishColumbia voted for #BonnieHenry, yet as #PHO she calls the covid shots for all of us. No one polices #BonnieHenry, as “top doctor” she outranks us all.
I’m no longer sick of #masks, I cherish them; they’ve kept us healthy this entire pandemic. I unfortunately can’t say the same for #BonnieHenry and #AdrianDix.
Truth be told, I’m past sick of both of them. Their faces are the faces of defeat and a constant reminder of this #bcndp’s #eugenic surrender to #covid19bc.
Their briefings only serve to trigger the ongoing sadness and despair I feel for a govt I helped vote to power, who gave up on control of transmission and instead focused on restricting covid information and minimizing societal sickness and death they caused by giving up.
For #bcpoli to move forward, both #AdrianDix and #BonnieHenry must be replaced with someone less #corrupt who actually cares to combat covid.
#BonnieHenry will forever remind me of my loss of trust in public health. Whenever I see her I’m reminded of the daily lies, misinformation and all the disgusting praise she got for surrendering our province to #covid.
We in #BC deserve a fresh new #PHO. One that is less tired of lying or distracted by her next book. One without #GBD motives and a winery in addition to the exorbitant salary she gets pretending to be a doctor.
We in #BC deserve a true public health leader.
#COVIDisNotOver #CovidIsNotMild #COVIDisAirborne #masks4healthcare #MakeSchoolsSafe #Masks4All #cdnpoli
My podcast and YouTube channel appearances are usually about my computer technology writing.
This is an exception. Here is my C0VID survival advice. #COVIDisAirborne
I think this line bears repeating:
"There is no amount of me doing my individual best that can overcome a failure of community policy."
hat tip to @pixplz
#Education #HigherEd #Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #LongCovid
»When it's pouring rain you use an umbrella. You don't decide based on how many people there are without umbrellas getting wet.
Why would you decide to base your health protection on people not masking, who are simply looking at other people deciding if they should mask.
MASK UP!«
#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #maskup #KeepMasksInHealthCare #WearAMask #covid #covid19 @novid
From March 2022:
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/airborne-toxic-events-ehrenreich
> Aerosol transmission was never merely a medical question.
> Accepting it, as Dr. John Conly, an infectious disease specialist advising the WHO on its Covid guidelines, told Reuters that first summer, “would affect our entire way of life.”
> Government, Chapin allowed, should still provide clean water and regulate hygiene in dairies and slaughterhouses. The most important task of the public health profession, however, was controlling outbreaks of communicable disease through laboratory work and data collection. Otherwise, responsibility for disease prevention must be left to individuals. “It was a common saying of sanitarians of years ago that for every death from typhoid fever someone ought to be hung,” whether it be “the city councilman, the health officer, or the landlord,” Chapin wrote. “It is more in accord with present day knowledge and modern conditions to say that if a man has typhoid fever it is his own just punishment for sanitary sins.”
Okay, but counterpoint: what if there is no treatment.
"A more realistic hope is that researchers can one day offer physicians a kind of “how to” manual for long Covid with a battery of tests to pinpoint what’s gone wrong and, ideally, treatments."
If I have to hear in every article about how a treatment is coming, while nobody talks about prevention, then as a matter of policy I will remind that we may not ever have a treatment.
»It's great. Covid is now just a cold that closes schools and overwhelms hospitals and causes heart attacks and strokes and organ damage and brain dysfunction and kills vulnerable people like you and disrupts the immune system.«
#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #ToxicPostivity #covid #covid19 @novid
Immer, wenn ich mein CO2-Messgerät laufen lasse, bin ich erstaunt, wie oft der Alarm (ab 1000 ppm) ausgelöst wird, auch wenn ich allein im Büro oder im Home Office sitze. Ich lüfte also etwa stündlich.
Alle anderen im Büro? Fehlanzeige. Damit in gar keinem Zusammenhang stehend, sind viele immer wieder ein paar Tage lang krank.
By tern @1goodtern
COVID is just a cold that...
#COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19
Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/1goodtern/status/1707290615887622394
Hashtags of the Week:
#Bloomscrolling
#CovidIsAirborne
#ClimateCrisis
#LandscapePhotography
#Cats #Bees
#HashtagGames
Some 233 (+5) counties have pediatric care near or over capacity (≥ 90%).
Of 269 (+1) counties reporting any PICU capacity, over one in five are near or over full.
So many places where there ain't enough staff for sick or injured kids to receive required care.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #pediatric #hospitals #pedsICU #RSV #Strep #Flu #LongCovidKids #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #dataviz
Great wrap-up of the current state of all things COVID-related (vaccines, variants, wastewater levels, masks, masking in healthcare, etc.), from the People’s CDC.
https://open.substack.com/pub/peoplescdc/p/peoples-cdc-weather-report-september
@novid #COVID #COVIDIsNotOver #COVIDIsAirborne #WearAMask #N95 #N95Masks #CleanAir #USHealthCare #PublicHealth #HealthCareIsAHumanRight #CDC #PeoplesCDC @PeoplesCDC
Another good one:
Please consider signing this petition urging CDC Director Mandy Cohen to acknowledge and advocate for a multi-layered (Swiss cheese) approach to preventing COVID. Let her know that the current “You do you” and vaccine-only approaches don’t cut it.
😷 + 💉 = 🧀
@novid #COVID #COVIDIsNotOver #COVIDIsAirborne #WearAMask #N95 #N95Masks #CleanAir #USHealthCare #PublicHealth #HealthCareIsAHumanRight
Hello, friends. Please consider signing this petition urging Congress, the White House, and HHS to provide free N95 masks by mail within the US. 😷
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/freen95s?source=direct_link&
@novid #COVID #COVIDIsNotOver #COVIDIsAirborne #WearAMask #N95 #N95Masks #USHealthCare #PublicHealth #HealthCareIsAHumanRight
COVID Vaccines (gen 1), and moving forward
tl:dr: #WearARespirator
* No sterilizing vaccine (gen 1)
Read this whole thread: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/111128536513191405
If you read one source paper referenced there, read this: https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1009509
It was always a lie. Vax or infection immunity fades fast.
'Sterilizing' immunity only found for pathogens that spread systemically via blood/lymph nodes (think rash -- measles, chickenpox, smallpox, etc)
* Asymptomatic transmission still occurs!
Even with Measles/Chickenpox etc, there's still transmission occurring with vaccination, we already know all too well, it happens with #COVID
* XBB 1.5 based shots have limited potential to protect
Immunity (short-term) is provided by antibodies, which the new shots produce way fewer of than compared to OG strain.
[https://zeroes.ca/@mathew1927/111058580527255277]
* Single infection likely causes immune damage/organ damage LC or not
[https://zeroes.ca/@mathew1927/110901657480421942]
* Vax/relax is a death trap, almost as foolish as being anti-vaxx (#TeamBlue)
[https://zeroes.ca/@mathew1927/111126758274632708]
* NPIs like respirators, distancing, air cleaning are essential
Online Calculator for SARS-CoV-2 decay, provided by DHS, via @spid.
https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/sars-airborne-calculator
#COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #KeepMasksInHealthCare #covid #covid19 #maskup #WearAMask @novid
HAPPY HUMP DAY! Your Wednesday reminder to #wearamask because it's the least you can do to protect yourself and to protect others, when distancing and ventilation isn't assured. #COVID19 #COVIDISNOTOVER #COVIDISAIRBORNE #WEARINGISCARING #cdnpoli #polcan #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #polMTL #MTLpoli
My colleague has a stomach bug and is in the office. I am not but suggested he go home and wear a mask or test. What do I get? „We need to move on! No offense.“
Offense taken!
I am so done with people 😔
Gerade im Büro eine Frau getroffen, die auch Maske trug.
I've been away, and even though I N95 masked everywhere indoors (and crowded outdoor locations) it's still a good idea to test. I'll test again in another 48 hours, but so far so negative #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #KeepTesting
@Purple_Lilith +9001%
Was mich aber richtig ankotzt sind agressive #Coronaleugner und #Maskenverweigerer die sich darüber beschweren wenn ich [gemäß #Arbeitsvertrag und #Dienstanweisung!] #Maske trage...
Es reicht denen nicht, dass diese selber #Demozid per #Durchseuchung begehen sondern die stören sich daran dass andere nicht deren #Lüge von "Ist doch Vorbei!" glauben.
🇺🇸US weekly COVID update: Nearly 250,000 new COVID cases, and 1,392 deaths were reported.
#COVID19US #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAIrborne
Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/BNOFeed/status/1706118396868280473
@Geoffberner @MatWright
“Wear masks while you’re sick” isn’t even part of BC health messaging
They expect you to share hospital rooms with covid patients, so why ask sick people to mask in public?
'Tuesday's Pandemic Update The Media Is Finally Mentioning Long Covid'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQyF-vyOkrQ
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp #N95 #KeepMasksInHealthcare
Yay, explaining to unfamiliar doc that my anxiety was entirely workable until an actual pandemic happened & then I am called for jury duty DURING SAID PANDEMIC. "Do you have a psychiatrist?" she asks. (My unspoken answer was "The right question is, 'Do we have a functional public health response to THIS ACTUAL PANDEMIC?'"). But no, it's MY INDIVIDUAL PROBLEM right? Anyway I am getting excused out of jury duty for being Very Anxious. Sigh. #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #Novid
Pediatric staffing never recovered to pre-omicron levels. Rather, near one in five pediatric beds reported May of 2022: now missing. (There's been a very slight recovery in recent weeks.)
PICU Capacity Level (not shown): 68%.
Weekly average ~150 PICU beds were covid patients.
We're failing our kids. The emergency is over.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
Capacity Level has been elevated since independence from the virus was declared two summers ago—as fewer and fewer professionals are available to staff hospital beds.
Critical Staffing Level, already at 2021 levels, has been further elevated for months now—with over one in nine reporting hospitals at critical shortage.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
![Chart: Hospital Capacity: United States
Data: U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
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Stacked area chart of daily 7-day averages for Unoccupied Beds, Non-Covid Beds, and Acute Covid Beds, for the period from August 2020 through September 16, 2023.
Hash marks overlay bottom of each stacked area—indicating ICU beds. Dotted lines indicate historical and current Hospitals Surveyed (85%), Hospital Capacity Level (75%) and Critical Staffing Level (12%). First has fallen off as psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals have gone to once-annual reporting; second is the ratio of total occupied beds to total staffed beds, nationally; last the ratio of hospitals reporting critical staffing shortages as a share of those that answered said question either 'yes' or 'no'.
From October 2020 forward, top of the total stack trends downward. A diagonal notation along the top edge reads: "Reported staffed beds have been declining on average ~800 a week for ~2 8⁄₉ years." [There's been a slight recovery in recent weeks.]](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/132/594/514/149/279/small/801b52c9d3012dfa.jpg)
How come nobody talks about getting a good night's sleep as part of a good COVID response?
Keep your immune system in tip top shape. Don't just squirt NO up your nose or pop pax.
Keeping hydrated probably quite helpful too. Keep the mucosal membranes working. Humidity etc
@MadisonMonkey Perhaps, after a repeat bad “Tripledemic” bout this fall/winter, which will have negative effects on both healthcare AND the economy, there will be more incentive for governments and businesses to pay attention to clean air.
They can’t live in denial forever. It’s just unfortunate that scientists and advocates have predicted and warned all along but governments wait to “learn the hard way” first. 🙄
#COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #cleanair
#HEPA #CO2Monitors
Getting vaxed is an act of care for everyone around us, and should not be restricted to certain groups. Vaxing a fraction of the population makes no sense from a #PublicHealth perspective - only an electoral one.
Reminder: there is no shortage of #covid #vaccines here. The govt just does not want to spend the £10pp it costs to vax all of us.
tl;dr: Go get that vax! 💉
@novid #CovidisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #CovidCautious #CovidVaccine #PublicHealth #Vaccine #Vaccinated #VaccinesSaveLives
Not sure if this info has made the rounds here yet, so:
PSA for UK friends who would like to get #vaccinated for #covid and/or #flu (most of you, right?) 💉
The NHS booking platform will allow ANYONE to book a #vaccine appointment if you answer "yes" to "do you regularly look after someone who is ill, an older person or disabled?"
Most pharmacists are not interested in policing who is getting jabbed, & will give you a bonus free flu jab too
Pass it on!
@novid #CovidisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
This is a collection of my top recommendations regarding #Covid, based on a great deal of reading, research, and testing I've done in order to protect my #Immunocompromised family.
High-performance respirators ranked & sorted by size
https://kind.social/@Texan_Reverend/111130905061762898
More effective rapid test swab procedure
https://kind.social/@Texan_Reverend/111130493720390531
Low-risk, OTC meds to reduce symptoms & Long Covid risk
https://kind.social/@Texan_Reverend/111130637790630058
@novid
#Covid19 #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #WearAMask #WearARespirator
Do you care about preventing nosocomial transmission of COVID-19 and more? Do you care about working conditions for healthcare workers? Please register for this webinar:
https://rutgerstraining.sph.rutgers.edu/PreventATD/
Preventing Aerosol-Transmissible Diseases in Healthcare Settings:
The Need for Protective Guidelines and Standards
Via @Barryhunt008 #toronto ##canada #montreal
In 2013, Dr Li re-analyzed & re-published the 10y old data on SARS 2003 at Amoy Gardens.
Still airborne.
Dr Yuogo Li mapped the 2003 Amoy Gardens SARS outbreak showing airborne spread.
He has been a world leader in indoor air quality for disease control for decades.
https://www.mech.hku.hk/academic-staff/Li-Y
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #CovidTests #Covid19
#usa #news #covid #covid19 #MaskUp #MedMastodon
#news
To governments: how about using CO2 monitors to ensure sufficient fresh air is supplied in classrooms, to avoid another #tripledemic this fall?
Study below says an average of 700ppm is needed in classrooms to reduce infections. How many BC schools meet that target? Prove it!
Plus, no masks means air quality is more important than ever. Staff, kids & families deserve better.
An institution received P100 elastomeric respirators designed to filter out 99.97% of airborne particles.
However, many of these respirators' filter cartridges had expired in 2014.
The study aimed to test the efficiency of these expired cartridges.
Results showed that, even though they were past their expiration date, they were still as effective as new N95 masks, although slightly below the 99.97% filtration standard.
#COVIDisAirborne https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7272694/
Here’s how much coronavirus people infected with COVID-19 may exhale
"Based on the new data, the team estimates that a high shedder could potentially exhale enough virus to infect someone in a closed space in about 20 seconds, making even elevator rides risky. With an average shedder, infection could take a little under 4 minutes."
#COVID19 #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19
Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-infected-covid-19-exhale
This article is about Molnupiravir. But does anybody else remember when some people floated the idea that Omicron might have been accidentally "bred" by early Paxlovid trials in Southern Africa? Is that notion just an insane conspiracy theory? Anybody know anything solid? #CovidIsNotOver #Paxlovid #omicron #LongCOVID #COVIDisAirborne https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/25/use-of-antiviral-molnupiravir-evolution-covid-virus-mutations
The US federal government has also opened a fresh round of distribution for more accessible tests for Blind and low vision folks.
If your household includes people with vision disabilities, you can use this link to order and get more info:
https://special.usps.com/testkits/accessible
(A link to this page also has been added to our Linktree for easy remembering and locating.)
Per the page information:
• Limit of one order per residential address
• Your order will include 12 rapid antigen COVID-19 tests with enhanced accessibility for blind or low vision people. www.COVIDTests.gov has more details about at-home tests, including extended shelf life and updated expiration dates)
• Supplies of tests with enhanced accessibility are limited. Only order these tests if you do not have other options for using the standard COVID-19 tests
• Tests require you to use a compatible, Bluetooth-enabled smartphone, as well as download and install an app from the App Store (for iOS) or Google Play (for Android)
• Orders will ship free starting the week of October 2, 2023
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #CovidTests #Covid19 #Blind #Access #Accessibility
ORDERING IS NOW OPEN FOR ALL US HOUSEHOLDS!!!
(Link below and on our Linktree in bio.)
Please order your tests, whether you "have enough" or can afford to purchase them yourself.
Demanding the tests already set aside for you by the federal government proves we still care about the ongoing pandemic.
Show them we know C19 remains a threat. We demand more support.
If you can afford your own tests, please redistribute your allotment to larger families/households. 4 TESTS PER ADDRESS IS NOT ENOUGH. You can also give them to free pantries or directly to your unhoused neighbors.
Please also remember to help your neighbors and loved ones, especially elders, who may not have internet access or who otherwise lack the ability to place their own orders.
No one should miss out on their tests for lack of accessibility.
Get your free rapid tests here:
And remember to check ALL rapid tests you acquire against the FDA extended shelf life list! (Also on our Linktree for easy locating.)
Don't risk throwing away unexpired rapid test kits!
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #CovidTests #Covid19 #MaskUp
![Screenshot from linked site. Text under the USPS logo reads: Thank you, your order # [redacted with flower stickers] has been placed. Orders will ship free starting the week of October 2, 2023. Red text has been photoshopped above this and reads: Ordering is Now Open for Your Free COVID Rapid Tests!!! COVID.gov/tests](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/126/403/845/729/329/small/02ff70d3379fb252.jpg)
had to make this. I’m sure someone already has… #COVIDisAirborne #AlwaysHasBeen
@gemelliz “I DON’T WANNA!” has ceased to be a political statement; it remains a statement about wishful thinking. #maskUp #COVIDisAirborne @CStamp @hannu_ikonen
🔬 Real-time #Simulation
Comparing the infectious doses emitted by the wildtype and #Omicron variants. The disparities are astonishing, especially after just 90 seconds.
📊 Wildtype clocks in at 48 infectious doses an hour, while Omicron skyrockets to 2345 doses an hour!
💡 Understand what these dramatic differences mean for public health, transmission rates, and potential outbreaks.
#COVIDIsAirborne #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver #IAQ #blender3d #Epiverse #epidemiology
Since 2021 I've been moderating the New York Tech Karaoke meetup. I've now drafted an infectious disease policy; here's the short version:
1 We have online meetups, and groups on Facebook and Smule
2 No in-person meetups if the NYC hospitalization rate is above 6
3 Get vaccinated
4 Test regularly
5 Do not attend in person if you test positive or have symptoms
6 Tell us if you get sick or test positive after an in-person meetup
#Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BQ9aeIDNlAp5Cri5E2z7nnnMcTfexaOtprwyy4CHkkQ/edit
I keep hearing people here who think they're properly cautious about COVID because they wear a mask in "busy" public places.
No! Wear a proper respirator in ALL public places. COVID travels in the air like smoke. It stays in the air after people are gone.
And wear a PROPER RESPIRATOR.
Not a baggy blue surgical.
Not cloth.
Wear a RESPIRATOR that's well fitted to your face that's N95, KN95 or P100 rated. See the next posts for more... #CovidisAirborne
By Valerie Jay @ValerieJay16
Current pandemic assessment:
The virus is mutating completely unabated
There is no treatment for children
There is no treatment for Long COVID
There is no neutralizing vaccine
I do not plan to carry on as ‘normal’
#COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNotFlu @auscovid19
Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/ValerieJay16/status/1705101746174079296
1. We should never have stopped.
2. Masking should be expanded NOW.
Eastern Townships health authority makes masks mandatory for staff, visitors in medical institutions again... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mandatory-masks-eastern-townships-ciusss-1.6973908 #WEARAMASK #COVIDISNOTOVER #COVIDISAIRBORNE #STOPTHESPREAD #COVID19 #cdnpoli #polQC #assnat #polcan #QCpoli #polMTL #MTLpoli
@lillyfinch @theogrin @Jeramee @JuliusGoat
Please please someone come up with the solution for this scenario. I like the above for dealing with bad faith actors, which is most of the world. But there’s the occasional:
1) good faith actor,
2) whom we are attached to or love or are stuck with or multiple,
3) who thinks we are crazy,
4) but we aren’t because we’re objectively correct because facts are things,
5) but the surrounding circumstances and/or groupthink make us look aberrent,
6) and we’ve already burned our credibility by prior arguments and/or failing to empty the dishwasher last Tuesday,
7) and we don’t have the personality to give and they don’t have the personality to receive those mealy-mouthed and unrealistic psychobabble “when you say x I feel y and please help me understand z and can you tell me what you would do in my circumstance if you assumed L, M, and N” and take all history, emotions, and embarrassment out of the situation, because we are human and to some small degree adult and can’t just set all that shit aside,
8) and we need to reset back to “but look at this as if you hadn’t heard all the experts and were just building up from some 9th grade biology and physics and your memory of how you’ve seen things like smoke happen in the real world”,
9) and we don’t want to be dicks and humiliate anyone but want to give them a way to walk it back without being totally humiliated themselves,
10) and want to still live in a society,
11) and want to admit all the horrible negatives that will come with changing your mind, such as the facts that:
A) masks are somewhat uncomfortable,
B) and they’re unpleasant,
C) and they make you look like a weirdo but-jet-fuel-can’t-melt-steel! theorist,
D) and they’re ugly,
E) and they constrain your lifestyle and your social life,
F) and they’re not 100% effective,
G) and you have to be super diligent all the time about fit and use, and the slightest infraction will invalidate all your points with all your friends because they’ll be like “aha! See, you’re not perfect either with this so why would I do anything if I can’t be assured of not getting Covid!”,
H) and you can’t actually SEE any of this anyway and it gets super tiring and you will daily wonder if maybe you ARE crazy because most people seem fine and even happier not worrying about this shit,
I) and the humidity!
12) but they’re not crazy and you’re not crazy and the people who actually have the time and energy to think about these things on a policy level are just straight up fucking us over,
13) …and you just want this close person to be able to see that, in whatever way is easiest for them to do it, that gets you back on the same page about this culture-defining thing
#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
Anyone have good ideas for the straightforward problem I’ve described above?
Jimmy Kimmel tests positive for Covid, cancels ‘Strike Force Three’ live show with Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert.
#COVID19 @jimmykimmel #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/20/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-covid/index.html
Steve Martin Postpones Upcoming Vegas Shows Due to COVID Outbreak.
The performances have been rescheduled for December.
#COVID19 @SteveMartinToGo #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAIrborne @auscovid19
Source: https://www.thewrap.com/steve-martin-postpones-upcoming-vegas-shows-due-to-covid-outbreak/