“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/
I came across this tool in which you can calculate your risk of going to the hospital or developing long(er) term symptoms due to your next Covid infection. It's not perfect (there are a couple of risk increasing illnesses missing in the list) but interesting nonetheless:
Community-building is also at the heart of WHN, offering support spaces for those navigating an increasingly hostile public health landscape.
Watch the full discussion: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1bYfMkso0Oc
Indoor Air Quality and it's regulation, and creating social norms of masking when ill and isolating when dangerously infectious are now looking even more essential.
Seems a far wider range of common respiratory infections than just COVID have severe, long term, multi-organ consequences.
#IAQ #MaskUp #RespiratoryInfections #COVID #PublicHealth #PublicHealthFailure #CommercialisedScience @jmcrookston
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s15010-025-02519-7
According to this data report the US is reporting 500 #covid deaths a week. So I guess we’re down to killing off a 9/11 amount of people every 4-6 weeks instead of every week, except you know it’s worse if they are admitting to 500 a week. What states are even reporting these things at this point?
@paul_denton
Un peu de revoyure des bases politiques concernant Ma**on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZK7U2w96Uo&t=15
Covid can shrink your brain.
#COVID https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192500148X
Aren't you tired of being sick and tired?
COVID-19 isn't just another cold. It can cause lasting harm even without symptoms. We have the power to break this cycle. Wearing a high-quality mask in public drastically reduces infections, protecting you and your community.
Together, we can stop the spread. Mask up, stay safe, and reclaim your health.
"Gov. Kathy Hochul’s push to crack down on face masks is dividing her fellow Democrats as they weigh concerns about pro-Palestinian demonstrators, aggressive policing and basic freedoms."
Today In Labor History April 7, 2020: Folk music legend, John Prine, died of Covid.
@maggiejk Since you’re curious about why people would go full hermit and since it’s pretty much my story too, but I do mask (n95).
TLDR: I have no desire to risk #COVID for small talk about vacationing with semi-hostile, perpetually sick and cognitively deteriorating “friends”.
Long version, I have 3 reasons. First is that catching covid even if you mask is possible. My sole infection came from my partner’s workplace where she masked but since nobody else does, she got infected. After 35 days fighting on my own, I got admitted and then spent 14 days in the hospital with doctors unable to say if I would make it out alive. 20 months later, I’m still not my full self and most probably never will.
Second, my friend circle has gone down to basically 0 because I now have nothing in common with those ancient friends. All they talked about was their last vacation or the last group dinner they had in between their recurring illness. But they don’t want to hear about masks, and some were even a bit hostile about it.
"The billionaires at Davos don’t accept continual Covid reinfection. They demand better. It’s time we demand better too."
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/billionaires-at-davos-dont-think
@ahimsa_pdx
Also courtesy of @ahimsa_pdx there is this #LongCovid specific virtual protest, join from anywhere for a #Covid safe way to express your #resistance!
"The number one lesson that Donald Trump took from the pandemic on his watch is that it was bad for him politically. For him, utter ignorance was preferable to public information panic and preparedness. Kennedy is the mad bad tool implementing that lesson now in his powerful position running the nation's health agencies right into the ground."
~ Nina Burleigh
#Trump #RFKJr #science #disinformation #healthcare #medicine #science #research #Covid #pandemic
posted by @thememeticist.bsky.social earlier today on Twitter, featuring #NeuroCovid images by @daniellebeckman.bsky.social
"We have actual photos of COVID eating brains but people will look you dead in the eye and says 'it's just a flu'."
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19082...
#Covid #Brain
BTW
am not going to tomorrow’s #protest.
am still in the post #chemo and #covid surveillance phase, which explains why am right now hobbling on one foot. after chemo and radiation my bones have felt fragile. had to wrap a foot because i have no idea how i bruised it.
feel no need to put my body on the line. did it for years and years and it cost me everything, almost my life.
let those columbusing American #fascism go out in force and flourish tommorrow.
i’ll be healing in #solidarity.
@bloomberg @business-bloomberg
It looks like we're going to get a reminder of what an exponential curve looks like — apparently our practical experience 5 years ago wasn't sufficient for it to imprint.
#Cancer, #Covid, & #Alzheimers #Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before #RFKJr announced that 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
#Trump #health #science #medicine #AntiIntellectualism #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
