#mask mandate

[hatchpaper]

Hamtaro - Stay Safe By Corbin Leach | June 8, 2020 (Age 27) This was on display at my job for a while. 

#2020 #drawing #art #sketch #pen drawing #reciept drawing #hamtaro #hamster #hamsters #hamham #mask #masks #pandemic #coronavirus #covid-19 #covid #stay safe #lockdown #mask mandate

[azahar]

masks are back!

As of Wednesday this week there is a return of the national mandate requiring the use of masks in all hospitals and health centres in Spain. THANK FUCKING GOD (or what/whoever). And about time. Though of course once governments make these decisions it’s always way past the time they were actually needed. Still I guess… better late than never? We are still not being given accurate information…

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#covid #mask mandate #spain

[offscreendeath]

#covid 19 #coronavirus #uploads #offscreendeathshots #masks #face masks #p valley #i love this show lmao #its so ridiculous #starz #film blog #mask mandate

[gwydionmisha]

#Security Guard #School District #Mask Mandate #New York #Ken Mancini #News

[postcardsfromspace]

Open Letter to Anyone in NY Government Who’s Listening

(Originally emailed to Representative Grace Meng. Feel free to borrow/adapt language as you see fit.)

I'm writing to express my horror at Governor Hochul's decision to lift the mask mandate on public transportation.

The current administration seems determined to pretend that the pandemic is over when two days ago, there were 7500 new Covid cases in New York--more than there were when the mask mandate first went into effect. The more we understand about Covid's long-term effects, the more dangerous even mild cases appear.

My wife and I both have respiratory disabilities, putting us at high risk for severe Covid complications. My wife is also currently six months pregnant, and our only way of getting to her prenatal appointments in midtown is the subway. The paradox of putting both our and our child-to-be's health and lives at risk to get essential healthcare is profoundly disheartening. We've looked into other options, but all are either prohibitively expensive, or--like paratransit--currently mask-optional.

This policy doesn't just put New Yorkers at large at risk; it effectively communicates that disabled and immunocompromised New Yorkers have no place in public life. It puts our lives at risk and cuts us off from our work, our school, our healthcare, our friends, our families; with no viable or accessible alternatives. The framing of the change--of public language that has literally gone from "we take care of each other" to "you do you"--only emphasizes that disregard for the lives of those of us who depend on that mutual care to survive.

Please, hear us; and please, to whatever extent is in your power, act. We're struggling to survive and live our lives, and our ability to do that depends on effective policy, not just gambling on the goodwill of every individual on any given train.

Sincerely, Jay Edidin

#covid #mask #mask mandate #New York #NY #NYC #disabled rights #disability #politics

[etakeh]

As you may know, Oregon just dropped the mask mandate, completely.

Someone on twitter is taking input on care facilities that still require them, so people who are at risk can still get care.

Link to the post, with all the responses, here.

If there's any interest, I'll go back and get the info to post here. Just let me know.

#oregon #portland #health care #covid #mask mandate #medical care

[mediaexposed]

We need oxygen. There’s oxygen therapy which is so good for blood. Wearing masks make people sicker.

#illuminati #Covid #Covid scam #masks #mask mandate

[levinletlive]

I want to be a nice person, but y'all just keep on testing me.

#face masks #anti maskers #anti mask #mask mandate #plague rat #4th of july #july 4 celebrations #freedumb

[missroserose]

I've seen a lot of posts from people who're salty about flight staff celebrating the suspension of the mask mandate, and I get it—there's still a pandemic out there, many of us are still vulnerable, so seeing someone celebrating not having to wear a mask totally feels like they don't give a shit about our health.

That said, I'd urge you to consider it from their perspective: they've been having to enforce this highly politicized rule, among a population of increasingly obstreperous passengers, for a year and a half now. Most of them have been verbally harassed, hit, spat on, or otherwise assaulted at least once. Many of them have had to physically restrain a passenger mid-flight, often more than once.

And all of this is against the background of pandemic-era air travel, which has been worse than usual by orders of magnitude—pent-up demand, a populace that's growing more badly behaved by the day, terrible weather on holiday travel weekends, flights constantly having to be canceled or juggled due to staff members coming down sick, and the associated frustration among the passengers (many of whom, yes, take it out on the crew).

Add to this the fact that flight crew make ridiculously tiny salaries (they're paid by time actually in the air, so all those massive flight delays and cancellations? All those snarled schedules? That's lost income for them too), and frankly, yeah. I can see why they're celebrating, they're literally not paid enough for this shit. It's not the end of the pandemic, but it's the end of a huge source of friction with their passengers, and also a symbol that things might be returning to normal (whether or not that's actually the case). I'd probably be happy about it too.

By all means, reassess whether you want to take future trips—everyone's risk calculus is different. And please, please wear a mask when you travel even if people around you don't; a well-fitting mask is absolutely protective to you as well as others! And let's remember that flight crews are human, and have some compassion for the increasingly untenable position they've had to deal with for well over a year now.

#air travel #covid-19 #mask mandate #compassion #customer service

[dialogue-queered]

Comment:

Remaining mask mandates - on public transport - are lifted in Australia - late September 2022.

Extract 1

Chief Health Officer [of Victoria] Brett Sutton said the country needed to learn from parts of Asia where it was more socially accepted and common for people to wear face coverings when they were sick or during virus seasons.

“I think the easy bit about mandates is that they create an instant social norm,” Sutton said.

“People are given explicit permission to wear them and they see everyone else doing it and they feel much more comfortable and motivated to do so as a result.

Extract 2

Tasmania dropped its mask mandates for public transport, including on the Spirit of Tasmania in June, along with most other locations. NSW and Victoria followed suit this week. Sutton’s most recent publicly available advice, provided on September 8, recommended the mandate remain.

#covid-19 #omricon #2022 #masks #mask mandate #australia #auspol

[akonoadham]

#uploads #videos #mask mandates #mask mandate

[winter-tospring]

Anybody else out there living with at least one person who "doesn't want to live in fear" of covid and is very cavalier with masking and covid precautions?

#and therefore going insane tracking about their every move :) #I think I need a support group chat god #Covid #Covid 19 #Mask mandate #Masks #Masking #covid19

[lejacquelope]

I'm definitely against legal abortion but I ain't got shit for this Supreme Court. These same 'pro-life' boneheads granted 'bodily autonomy' for anti-vaxxers, remember?

Even if this decision is overturned and Thanos came and fingersnapped away the states that legalized abortion on their own, so what? Great, so if you're pre-born, you're safe, but these same fucknards who are all about saving life before birth are happy to allow all kinds of fourth trimester (aka the rest of your life) abortions. They'll shrug when some crazed gunman mows down a school full of ex-fetuses or cheer when cops shoot an unarmed black former fetus. And don't even talk to them about how this capitalist system fundamentally and economically penalizes motherhood, these "pro-life" dirtbags actually like that side effect. They want women back in the home serving them. They don't stop to think that this dystopian religio-fascist tradcon worldview of women is exactly what makes abortion so fucking popular.

Anyone who really feels overturning Roe vs Wade is about saving lives isn't going to be rubbing their hands with glee about this hypocrisy that's unfolding. No, they're going to be looking at the "pro-lifers" of today and they're going to cringe at the same cold, evil heartlessness and callous disregard for life ("Blue Lives Matter" goons I'm also talking about you) that pro-choicers showed back in the 1990s when this debate first spiraled out of control.

Anyone who really cares about life would have been a Democrat. They would have seen that ending police brutality, a social safety net and free contraception was also a pro-life solution. They would be all for mandatory vaccinations and mask mandates to arrest the spread of a pandemic that has killed 1 million Americans. Because, well, those are all just as pro-life as stopping abortions.

If the SCOTUS does gut Roe this fight has only finished Chapter 1 of a very long novel. And that chapter will have finished on a very hypocritical and disgraceful note.

#pro-life #sanctity of life #supreme court #roe vs wade #abortion #black lives matter #gun control #free contraception #contraception #vaccines #covid #covid control #vaccine mandate #mask mandate #police brutality #social safety net #tradcons #religious fascism #theocracy

[gwydionmisha]

#The Justice Department #Mask Mandate #News

[nathanarcher]

Archer, Nathan. “School Security.” Tallahassee Democrat, February 20, 2022. https://on.tdo.com/2nUeq7o.

#florida #DeSantis #mask mandate #gun violence #editorial cartoon #cartoon

[levinletlive]

Not going to bother to keep arguing with antimaskers and transphobes. My reply wasn't for you, or even for OP. It was for the people who saw that garbage post and wanted to clap back, but didn't because of their own mental health. I'm high as fuck on post-surgery pain meds and have no inhibitions right now, so I'm just going to come right out and say it.

I don't care if you think I'm a coward or subhuman. I'd rather be both of those things than so far up my own ass that I think I know better about as broad a subject as disease transmission than doctors and researchers who specialize in the subject.

I'm not here to engage in bad faith discourse with people whose moral fiber is about as cohesive as used toilet paper. I said what I said because I wanted to, and that in no way obligates me to entertain whatever bullshit responses a bunch of morally bankrupt ignoramuses deign to flame me with. I'm not holier-than-thou, clapbacks and creative insults are not beneath me. You're not going to get a "gotcha" by telling me about myself.

I blocked the person so I wouldn't have to deal with their baseless vitriol clogging my feed. I did the same to multiple people. My comments don't obligate me to sit around and get flogged by people whose opinions and talking points have been repeatedly debunked, and I'm wildly uninterested in the approval of science-denying, community-abusing, murdering shitgibbons. Better a coward than a piece of shit. Better to be lazy than waste my time.

If you're pressed because you can't have the last word, go cry about it to somebody who cares. I've got no interest in sharing my sandbox with a bunch of trolls and troglodytes.

I'd tell y'all to suck my dick, but even that privilege is reserved for those with some class.

#bad faith #anti maskers #anti mask #trolls #freedumb #mask mandate #also #i am gay #bi actually #that's not the insult you think it is #transphobia #transphobes #homophobia #die mad about it #this is not a discourse blog #plague rat #yall dont even know what fascism is #but ill tell you what it aint #fascism #right wing idiots #misogyny #transmisogny tw #calling it a woman take is not an insult #women are intelligent #women are emotionally intelligent #i cant say the same for yall