#covid precautions

[rikaklassen]

CW: COVID-19

via @[email protected]

Yes, I wish the general public takes COVID more seriously.

Coronavirus is not like the flu nor RSV and we've known about that since MERS and the first SARS. Also, massively disappointed with queer assimilationists since COVID is quite similar to HIV/AIDS and given how the government's eugenicist policies and their anti-LGBT campaigns wiped out many of the people who would have been elders in our communities today. Let's alone the deaf communities with the older generations of sign language folks becoming deaf and multi-disabled because of rubella, which is much more infectious than COVID.

I encourage you to read what Augie has to say since the screenshot is a snapshot of a five-parts thread.

Here is the spreadsheet where Augie took the time to read over 1 500 studies and summarized the findings of about 500 of them: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VbMkvqUF9eSggJsdsFEjKs5x0ABxQJi5tvfzJIDd3U/

#COVD #COVID studies #COVID reports #COVID resources #COVID-19 #COVID-19 studies #COVID-19 reports #COVID-19 resources #SARS-CoV-2 #SARS-CoV-2 studies #SARS-CoV-2 reports #SARS-CoV-2 resources #SARS #coronavirus #coronavirus pandemic #pandemic is not over #COVID is not over #mask up #wear a mask #clean air for all #clean air revolution #we keep us safe #informed consent #community defense #community defence #COVID precautions #COVID conscious

[lovesomesys]

Guys I need more pretty masks. Over time my family kinda stopped masking and so we ended up losing most of them but I wanna start masking at work again because I feel like. Supremely unsafe with all the coughing and sneezing. Anyone have any recommendations that I can look at when I get home?

And like. I know it’s kinda shitty I stopped masking in the first place, if we could not point that out please I would be forever grateful

(I have my reasons but again, I recognise it’s shitty)

#masking #kn95 #covid19 #pandemic #covid precautions

[dikleyt]

It's easy to say "Well, we have to live our lives" when we're not the ones at risk. No one is asking at-risk people to make the decision; they're just making the decision themselves as not-at-risk people, and letting at-risk people deal with the consequences.

#covid #covid precautions

[mcatmemoranda]

#COVID #COVID precautions #precautions

[alexei-home-fromthewar-at-last]

Alone on Valentine’s Day. 😣

Not because I don’t have a romantic partner (I don’t), but because I was exposed to COVID and started social distancing today.

#I just wanna hang out with my friends 😣 #alexei’s silly little thoughts #valentines day #happy valentine’s day #COVID #COVID precautions #social distance #mask #wear a mask #aroace #aromantic #asexual

[ejbarnes]

Cambridge Arts Open Studios (CAOS) is this weekend, starting tomorrow -- Noon--6, 9--10 September. Last-minute info:

1. Forecast for Saturday and Sunday looks like significant chance of rain all afternoon both days. I'll be showing forCAOS INDOORS in my home studio at 18 Chalk  Street, Cambridge. Corsi-Rosenthal boxes will be running; masking  optional so feel free to do so. I know that means sneaking grapes and cheese under your mask, but we'll all manage somehow, I hope. 2. Resident permit parking enforcement on Chalk Street will be suspended on Saturday for CAOS. 3.  The Chalk Street block party planned for Sunday, 9/10, will likely be  cancelled due to weather, so those coming by car will not have to  contend with a blocked-off street. Check my location on the map, above.

#CAOS #Cambridge Arts Open Studios #parking #weather #COVID precautions

[submalevolentgrace]

From the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have raised concerns about the potential for long-term health problems linked to SARS-CoV-2 and warned repeated infections are likely to increase the risk. An association between COVID and cardiovascular disease emerged quickly. And now — almost exactly four years since the first case was discovered in Wuhan — a growing body of scientific research is cautiously linking the inflammation caused by a COVID infection to diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well as autoimmune conditions from bowel disease to rheumatoid arthritis. The virus has even been suggested to impact some pregnant women, associated with double the risk of premature delivery. As the eighth COVID wave hits Australia, experts are taking notice.

...

When the first wave of COVID patients began reporting loss of smell and taste, Barnham's radar went up. "Any time you see olfactory impairment it tells you that there's going to be neurological impact," he says. "Loss of smell is a cardinal, pre-clinical symptom of Parkinson's disease and it's been implicated in Alzheimer's disease as well." The fact that COVID patients reported loss of smell not only during the active phase of the disease, but as a persistent symptom, suggested to Barnham that longer-term health consequences were likely. Loss of smell is associated with loss of brain volume.

#covid isnt over and can fuck you up for good #please wear a mask and take some basic precautions

[ttvomd]

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#covid test #covid precautions #ttvomd #family care

[rositxespinosa]

Out of curiosity, does anyone still wipe down their products when they get home from the store? I went to target and unless it’s in a box that I can throw away, I wipe it down with a Clorox wipe. Lotion, plastic bin, outside of candle and candle lid, anything that someone could have touched is wiped down. Same with clothes. Even before Covid I always wash new clothes from the store. I’m wondering if people do that still. Even if it’s not because of Covid, items from the store carry other germs that I don’t want to touch or have in my room.

#covid precautions #does anyone else do this?

[wild-neko]

This is the bar, this is the bare minimum.

#every lesbian who isn't taking any precautions needs to read this #butch #femme #wlw #butch lesbian #lesbian #long covid #nb lesbian #lgbtqia

[theofreakingbell]

forgive me if I'm a little late to this? but let me get this straight: 

Neil Gaiman asks for fans coming to his events to please mask for everyone's safety

when asked why he isn't mandating them he says he tried but the venues won't allow it

many people don't listen, or don't see the ask bc it isn't official from the venue, and show up maskless

Neil now has COVID (for a second time, which means his risk of complications is higher) along with anyone else who got infected at that event

I just. y'all. please. 

If you are going to a fan event, especially a big one like a con where there will be tons of people, you need to be wearing a mask right now. Actors and other people who work in entertainment who meet with many people and frequent large gatherings or are part of con staff for instance are at significant risk of COVID from the sheer amount they are being exposed to, not only from acute infection but cumulative damage from multiple infections or long COVID and post COVID complications. COVID levels are nearly as high as they were in the first wave in 2020 and being vaccinated does not guarantee u cannot catch and/or transmit it(this study from this year says it's around 1 in five). Please be excellent to each other and do your best to not get your faves, their staff, or other fans sick. 

why and how masks work and what types are the safest (you can get good masks in all sorts of colors now btw if u want to match ur cosplay or stuff, ProjectN95 is a good source, and Jelli has clear masks if u want to have ur face visible)

I wish Neil a speedy and full recovery, and I hope more people listen to him and others trying to keep fans and creators and staff safe right now ❤️

#FansMaskUp

#NYCC happening this week and I'm like 👀 good luck guys #neil gaiman #good omens #coronavirus #covid isn't over #covid cw #solidarity with neil here #comic con this year got a bunch of people sick too #this whole situation has me so angry. how many creators and fans have to be severely harmed or killed before the community reckons with #the fact that we still very much need safety precautions against COVID at these things #blurb

[palms-upturned]

Like three of my coworkers in the past month have tested positive for covid, every day I see new ppl on my dash mentioning that they’ve caught covid, every day I see and hear from ppl who have come down w something that looks like covid but the test came back negative but also they can only afford to test once bc tests aren’t free anymore and the more accurate tests are also more expensive so there’s no way to know if it was a false negative, and yet nobody masks anymore. hell world hell world

#meg talks #like i feel like im losing my mind. i will admit that ive probably gotten too bold abt going out in public #but at least i never go out without wearing a clean n95 #and then i immediately look around and see no one else is wearing one and im like well fuck me i guess. #i refuse to get on an airplane or have anyone come visit me via plane bc fucking every time someone ik gets on a plane #they come back with covid #and i just keep thinking back to the start of the pandemic and the efforts to flatten the curve #and how if we’d just fucking. done it. if the lockdown wasn’t lifted so fast. we could have killed covid #instead we’re going on four years of this. and ppl just act like life is normal again #well it’s not normal for me. catching covid could ruin my body and cost me my job and then what #but nobody cares bc most precautions protect other ppl around us more than they protect ourselves #and nobody gives a shit abt the disabled #nor do they want to think abt the fact that they are one covid infection away from being disabled themselves

[i-still-mask-because]

the reasons i still mask are numerous and interconnected:

because my grandmother is in hospice and i’ll be damned if i’m the one to kill her by getting her sick, i want her to live the rest of her life as healthy as she can be with cancer and dementia

because my mother works with covid+ patients every shift and i don’t want to spread a hospital-borne infection into the public, or get my mother sick and have her bring something into work or further disable her

because my city website lied about there being no covid+ patients in hospitals or ICUs, meaning that their statements about why they relax covid precautions cannot be trusted

to demonstrate to unmasked people around me that they can (and should) choose to resume masking at any point, though the sooner the better

because part of being queer for me is caring about others around me even when it goes against the status quo or “common sense”, knowing that the societal conventions of heterosexuality/cisgenderism/able-bodiedness do more harm than good

because i enjoy the fact that wearing a mask makes me look mysterious and frees me from having to care about controlling social cues for the bottom half of my face

😷

#ALL of this!!!!!!!! #that fifth point about embracing queerness and the queerness of being different as we choose to mask up!!! #EXACTLY!!!!!! #we HAVE to embrace the fact our survival depends on us not fitting in right now. we HAVE to. #our survival and the survival of marginalized folks depends on us rejecting the temptation of giving into eugenics in order to fit in #we have to ACTIVELY reject participating in the normalization of eugenics in order to save & protect each other #and 110% none of their statements about relaxing covid precautions can be trusted. #i recently found out the WHO straight up lied about covid not being airborne BACK IN MARCH 2020. #SINCE DAY 1. #i DO NOT trust these people with my life and the lives of the marginalized & vulnerable #thank you for sharing 😷💛 #covid #i still mask because #covid is airborne #covid isn't over #covid pandemic #covid awareness #ask queue

[geometricfractal]

Had another “are you sick? Why are you wearing a mask?” question today and realized that it feels really weird and isolating to live in a society where the answer to that that people will actually understand is “I don’t like getting sick”, rather than “I was barely able to move even around my house for a month the one time I’ve had Covid and I am afraid that a second time would permanently damage my functioning even further than it already is”.

They’re both true, it’s just somewhat different levels of severity, y’know?

#Covid #fractalsays #and like the thing is #I’m not even considered extra likely to get long Covid or something #I do not take maximum precautions #because I have that option #but it statistically and based on my experience entirely possible for Covid to fuck me up #and I have the ability to lower that chance #why is that not the easiest reason to understand??

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

our health is important! and precarious! let’s keep masking in public and not going out to spread germs when we’re sick! please!!!!!

#this post brought to you by: #had some relatives knowingly come over sick last weekend and now our entire extended family is crumbing into coughs and fever and vomiting #(i tried to fight for sick people not coming over. it was overruled. don’t you know it’s 2024 and people don’t get really sick anymore? 😩) #i haven’t gotten sick yet but there’s no way i am not gonna #and i am not looking forward to my impending long dark night of the soul; it sounds so so bad. #anyway: wish I could say this to my extended family but I’m too conflict-avoidant! #so I’m saying it to the blue abyss instead! #😷😷😷😷😷😷 #MASK UP! TAKE PRECAUTIONS! NURTURE YOUR HEALTH! IT’S NEVER GUARANTEED! #dollsome's deep thoughts #and now to try to put all of next week’s work online because no way am i spreading this evil … #idk if this is covid but like. you can actually mask to help avoid all contagious illnesses! 🤯 #god i really struggle with coexisting w/ my fellow humans sometimes #why does everyone else so consistently not give a crap

[striving-artist]

My measure of whether I’ll unfollow you for your political posting is this: did I have to pause to check if it’s psyops?

If no, proceed and disagree.

If yes, unfollow.

For particularly egregious cases, block.

#seriously that was a terrible take #‘’’biden said he’d follow the science’’’ #‘’’and then he lifted the Covid precautions and it’s his fault 23k people are dead’’’ #nah man #we fucked up early and often #science said Covid is endemic same as flu #he did follow science #and the idea that he can just force another government #to do exactly what he wants #is both naïve and imperialistic af #which makes the combo pack with progressive freedom #all the more glaring #like I said #ice cold takes #and one less follow for me