#stop coronavirus

[macmanx]

The tests can be ordered on COVIDtests.gov and will start to ship the week of Dec. 19, a senior administration official told reporters on a conference call. The government is urging people to test themselves when they have symptoms, and before visiting with family.

#covid19 #coronavirus #get tested #stop the spread #usa

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

fauci saying “vulnerable people will fall by the wayside” and that some will die but that’s ok because we’re not going to see the “tsunami of cases” we’ve seen before is so dehumanising. so babies with no immune system, elderly people, disabled people, and people without adequate access to healthcare can all die of covid. but it’s ok guys because actually they’re just falling to the wayside and everyone else will go back to normal and be fine (sarcasm).

my death or the deaths of my family or friends wouldn’t be us “falling by the wayside”, it would be us being failed by our government, healthcare systems, and communities who have refused to take coronavirus seriously despite mounting anecdotal and scientific evidence of the harm this virus does. fact that people can accept the deaths of vulnerable groups just because they want to eat in a restaurant or don’t want to wear a mask is horrifying

#yall can reblog this #for those of you touting community care or progressive values or allyship to marginalised communities #i better see y’all masking #it goes without saying that if you can’t mask then my saying mask up does not apply to you #but for the people who can mask please do so to protect yourself and others #masking up also protects people who aren’t able to mask #I’m just so tired of being told that death to a virus that is preventable via masking and air filtration and proper testing availability to #prevent spread by allowing people to stop their chain of transmission #is just. fine. like all these people will die and apparently that’s fine and actually a great thing #also. with one or two covid infections formerly healthy people enter vulnerable groups. because the studies coming out right now and #what we know about long term sars1 effects (because covid is not a cold or flu. it’s sars2. it’s severe accuse respiratory syndrome) #are showing that the long term effects on the bodies of people who have had covid will be disasterous #and if covid had been properly felt with then maybe only some people would be facing that reality. but the amount of people who have been #infected not just once but multiple times. with some people having close to double digit numbers of infections. means that the amount of #people looking at sars2 long term symptoms could be quite a large group #coronavirus #my post

[coldhearthotlove]

COVID in 2020

“Wear a mask! Social Distance! No large gatherings! Quarantine! Sanitize your hands! Don’t touch your face! Cancel unnecessary events! Don’t go out if you don’t need to! Lockdowns! We’re all in this together!”

COVID in 2022

Everyone (while COVID killed more this year than 2020, and debilitated many more):

“I’m so glad COVID is over! I’m so glad I don’t have to wear a mask anymore, and everything is back to normal! I’ve had difficulty breathing and my memory isn’t the same since I was sick with COVID, but it’s probably just a coincidence! My neighbor also died right after he had COVID last week, but he was old and sick anyway! Anyway, I can’t wait to go to my friend’s 1,000-person party at her studio apartment this weekend!”

#nat speaks #coronavirus #covid19 #I’m not shutting up about COVID until people stop dying from it and everyone with long COVID completely recovers

[feralnumberfive]

Send help

#at least I can still smell and taste as of right now otherwise I've been having an on and off fever with severe chills and aches #and my nose is like a fucking faucet and it's sore from having to blow my nose every minute and my throat is sore from all the coughing #tmi but I have easily at least blown out a full cup of snot/mucus/phlegm from my body today and it just won't stop #I haven't been this sick since middle school but I trust that my fantastic immune system will kick Covid's ass 💪 #oh and I've veen very weak and also had vertigo but at least at the moment my breathing is also fine #coronavirus #covid #personal

[true-bluesargent]

girl accidentally reads some of her diary entries from when she was 17 and can only distantly remember being that person 636 dead 3727 injured

#it's also so weird because they were from right at the beginning of 2020 #and they stopped on the 20th of march that year. like i stopped doing it because of lockdown because 'everyday is the same now' #was writing stuff like 'this coronavirus stuff is kinda stressing me out it feels like the world is ending :///' yeah girl #it did end <3

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #coronavirus #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #I've been watching wayne's kingdom hearts charity stream all day #(I did already fall asleep once or twice cuz I am still sick) #if he'd just stop facetanking everything and play a little defensively he'd be fine! #favorites

[brostateexam]

Hope you still have 'em handy, folks

#long reads #*coronavirus #i never stopped wearing them cause bay area but as i understand it we are an outlier

[aembarcar]

#mendezilustracion #almeriaartistica #art #illustration #artists on tumblr #illustrator #ilustracion #illustrators on tumblr #dibujo #almeriaart #masoneria #masonería #covid #covid 19 #globalism #globalization #globalist #plandemia #plandemic #vacunas #vacuum #vaccine #coronavirus #covid isn't over #gobierno #stop censorship #blackrock #billgates

[putriddivine]

transmascpetewentz MUST be killed. throw us in a deep hole together and i'll handle it.

#that tweet thats like some guy implying he is personally going to stop coronavirus #clutter

[haintxblue]

i try not to post about covid at all as i find the entire topic incredibly frustrating to discuss online but genuinely distressed by how many people in the comments of that poll think that they are going to avoid covid forever or are mad at the "yet" when the mainstream view of basically every epidemiologist by spring of 2020 was that we were all eventually going to get covid and the best we could do was hope to delay it til after we were vaccinated. i remember having arguments with people irl that early that "flatten the curve" meant that the area under the curve was *still the same* and was just spread out further and being told that i was wrong.

you are going to get covid, statistically speaking; if you don't you'll be a statistical outlier. that's the nature of an endemic universal virus, especially one with a million animal reservoirs. you may have already had it and dismissed it as allergies. it's better to go ahead and make peace with that than be in denial about it. it's genuinely distressing how many people think that they can avoid this forever, it's not good for you to have that belief and you should confront it.

and before you start yelling at me, i am chronically ill and possibly mildly immunocompromized myself and the person i live with and love most in the world is a two-time cancer survivor with COPD and heart problems. i spent the worst phase of the pandemic living with a man dying of stage IV cancer and taking scrupulous pains to remain covid-free for his sake and mine. i am not saying it is GOOD that we all have another virus to worry about on top of all the others. I am saying that it's just a fact of life, unfortunately.

#covid #covid tw #coronavirus #the reason people have stopped posting every time they have a positive test is because it's no longer remarkable to have covid #most of the people in the world have had it #and pretty much all of us will

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The White House on Monday blasted comments made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about COVID-19 as “vile” amid broader condemnation of the Democratic presidential candidate’s claim that the virus was manipulated to target white and Black people.

The firestorm began after The New York Post reported Kennedy Jr.’s comments, in which he said during an event last week that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to attack those groups of people while avoiding Chinese people and Ashkenazi Jews.

“The claims made on that tape is false, it is vile, and they put our fellow Americans in danger,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing with reporters. “If you think about the racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories that come out of saying those types of things. It is an attack on our fellow citizens, our fellow Americans. And so it is important that we essentially speak out when we hear those claims made more broadly.”

Democratic officials and anti-discrimination leaders immediately challenged the veracity of Kennedy’s claims, which he sought to backtrack by saying in part he didn’t think the virus was “deliberately engineered.”

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released a statement saying the environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist should be prevented from serving as an elected official.

Jaime Harrison, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, also called the comments “deeply troubling,” tweeting that “they do not represent the views of the Democratic Party.”

#us politics #news #the hill #2023 #Democrats #president joe biden #biden administration #Robert F. Kennedy Jr. #covidー19 #coronavirus #coronavirus pandemic #xenophobia #stop aapi hate #antisemitism #The New York Post #Karine Jean-Pierre #Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee #Democratic National Committee #Jaime Harrison

[elftwink]

just saw a tweet that was like "imagine if 9/11 happened 2 mos earlier and 7/11 had the worst PR crisis ever" like that wasn't basically what happened to corona beer in 2020

#granted. pandemic obviously not the same impact as terrorism #& also we stopped calling it coronavirus or varients of that by like 2021 iirc #the switch to covid-19 was like. not smooth by any means but it did happen #but i do recall in 2020 when liquor stores were one of the only operating businesses #everyone being like damn... sucks to be corona rn #havent looked at the data though so idk if their bottom line or pr was impacted that bad #anecdotally i think the people i knew ended up drinking more corona that year. for the bit #alcohol / #also i forget who it was but to whoever rb'd that tweet to my dash #im not vagueing you i didnt rb it because i dont have the energy for an ID rn lmao #good idea generator #also circling back to my first tag. want to re-muddy the waters actually pandemic and 9/11 very similar #with perhaps the most major difference between the two being government willingness to do anything about it #or arguably controversially their willingness to pretend to do something about it in order to use it as a cudgel on the international stage #but we dont have time to get into All That with any sort of nuance #esp not in the tags of a one sentence post about corona's pr problems

[phoenixfeathersinfall]

I CAN RETURN TO CLASSES IN PERSON AS TOLERATED!!! 🎉

#I miss my friends! #and hopefully my professors will stop harassing me! #life update #long covid #tw coronavirus #spoonie life #dove talks

[kiilonova]

someone get me the 'dont get wine drunk without a man to feel up' post. thats me on cbd

#cro zone #can we obliterate the coronavirus already so i can hook up with guys without getting scared #the second thats true i will stop making posts like this

[i-amusemyself]

Masterpost on Mask Efficacy Reseach in Covid-19

Sick of hearing that masks don’t work? Me too :)))) here’s some research studies showing that they do for next time Karen starts Karening.

(Correct as of August 2022)

A general respiratory viruses review (there are many more but that’s a post for another day):

A review of studies showing mask wearing prevents respiratory virus transmission including SARS, influenza, bird flu and Covid-19.

Wang et al., 2021 doi: 10.1002/mds3.10163

Animal models and masks with Covid-19

This study placed hamsters in separate cages and measured transmission of Covid-19 from an infected hamster to a healthy one. Surgical masks were shown to decrease infection rates.

Chan et al., 2020 doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa644

Mathematical models/simulations and masks with Covid-19

Mathematical modeling demonstrates mask ability to reduce transmission and mortality. It shows even masks of low efficacy can do this transmission rate is low or decreasing.

Eikenberry et al., 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.idm.2020.04.001

Mathematical modelling shows that higher quality face masks can protect the wearer from Covid-19, but two-way masking is better than one-way masking.

Bagheri et al., 2021 doi: 10.1073/pnas.2110117118

Researchers made a cough aerosol simulator to test how well different masks blocked the aerosol. N95 masks blocked 99%, surgical masks blocked 59%, cloth masks blocked 51% and face shields blocked only 2%.

Lindsly et al., 2021 doi: 10.1080/02786826.2020.1862409

Medical grade respirator masks are able to filter particles the size of Covid-19, while poorer quality masks are still able to filter larger aerosol particles which likely contain the virus.

Robinson et al., 2022 doi: 10.1080/02786826.2022.2042467

A model based on close-contact behaviour on the Subway showed that virus exposure could be reduced by 82% if all passengers wore surgical masks.

Liu et al, 2022 doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129233

Community settings and masks with Covid-19

A study looking back at 124 households in Beijing found that when one family member had Covid-19, risk of secondary infections within the household decreased by 79% if the infected member started masking before symptoms.

Wang et al., 2020 doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-00279

In Hong Kong, in the period studied, masking compliance was 96.6% and Covid-19 incidence was significantly lower per million people than in countries with less mask compliance.

Cheng et al., 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.04.024

A study of 211 Covid-19 cases and 839 controls in Thailand showed that consistent mask wearing was independently associated with reduced risk of Covid-19 infection.

Doung-ngern et al., 2020 doi: 10.3201/eid2611.203003

Introduction of mask mandates in states across the US was associated with a decline in Covid-19 infection growth rates.

Lyu and Wehby doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00818

A randomised trial in nearly 350,000 people in Bangladesh found that mask wearing significantly reduced symptomatic Covid-19 infections.

Abaluck et al., 2021

In US counties with masking mandates, daily case incidence declined by 35% in 6 weeks compared to matched counties without masking mandates.

Huang et al., 2022 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01072

An outbreak of Covid-19 on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which carried 382 men, showed that those that wore face coverings were 70% less likely to become infected.

Payne et al., 2020 doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6923e4    

A study of mask wearing in 20 million people, alongside Covid-19 infection data from 92 regions showed that mask wearing corresponds to a 19% reduction in Covid-19 reproductive number, R.

Leech et al., 2022 doi: 10.1073/pnas.2119266119

Young children wearing masks was associated with a 13% reduction in risk of childcare program closure due to Covid-19, meaning more in-person education.

Murray et al., 2022 doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.41227

Healthcare settings and masks with Covid-19

A hospital in Massachusetts managed to decrease rates of Covid-19 infection amongst 10,000 staff with universal masking, despite increasing rates of infection in the community.

Wang et al., 2020 doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.12897

A North Carolina health provider showed that epidemiological curve of healthcare-aquired Covid-19 infections was flattened in healthcare workers following a universal masking policy. This was despite increasing community incidence.

Seidelman et al., 2020 doi: 0.1017/ice.2020.313

A study of 29 general hospitals in Israel found that hospital-acquired Covid-19 infections among healthcare workers only started to decline following a universal masking mandate for all staff, patients and visitors.

Temkin et al., 2021 doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.207.Epub

A systematic review of 13 studies in healthcare and the community found that probability of Covid-19 infection for mask wearers was 7%, compared with 52% for non-mask wearers.

Alihsan et al., 2022 doi: 10.1101/2022.07.28.22278153

Properly fitted N95 masks alongside high quality air filtration can protect from Covid-19 infection for long periods, even with high viral loads at close range.

Landry et al., 2022 doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiac195

This study shows masks were able to block the exhalation of virus particles by individuals infected by Covid-19 in Brazil.

Mello et al., 2022 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264389

“But masks can harbour bacteria and fungi and give you pneumonia”

This is most likely referring to the study by Park et al., 2022 doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-15409-x 

However, if they actually read the paper they would find that:

Most fungi found were on the outside of the mask. Most fungi were opportunistic pathogens (only a danger to immunocompromised), rather than pathogenic.

Most bacteria were non-pathogenic in humans. Of the bacteria that were potentially pathogenic, most were commensal (normally found within the body) or opportunistic (don’t cause harm unless immunocompromised).

The article does not recommend against mask use, only repeated use of the same mask in immunocompromised individuals.

The paper points out that masks reduce transmission of Covid-19.

The paper points out that pathogenic bacteria and fungi are detectable on many materials we use in daily life.

And if you’re really worried about what’s on your mask:

Masks can be sterilized with steam or hot water without compromising their efficacy.

Rahman et al., 2022 doi: 10.3390/polym14071296

“But studies show that masks don’t work”

The most commonly cited evidence of this is a Danish study on the effectiveness of adding a mask mandate.

Bundgaard et al., 2021 doi: 10.7326/M20-6817

This study found that there was no significant difference in infection rates in 4000 Danes, between those recommended masks and those not recommended masks.

However, the study has many limitations which may explain why results differ from the majority of mask studies:

Infection rates reported in the study were not comparable with rates reported in the Danish population at the time.

Fewer people were infected in the masked group, but not to a level of statistical significance. The authors state that results are inconclusive, as opposed to concluding that masks provide no protection.

Only surgical masks were given to participants, which have a limited ability to protect the wearer from airborne viruses vs aerosolised viruses due to their loose fit.

The study only assessed how effectively the masks protected the wearer, not how well it reduced transmission to others.

In the group where masks were recommended, only 46% reported wearing their masks completely as recommended. I.e. more than half of this group did not always wear a mask.

The authors themselves state that the findings should not be used to conclude that mask recommendations in the community would not be effective in controlling Covid-19 spread.

“But masks make it hard to communicate!”

Data is mixed on expression recognition, but some studies show masks have no detrimental effect. Also, context and additional non-verbal cues are often not considered in studies.

A study of children aged 7-13 found that face masks did not impair ability to infer emotions.

Ruba and Pollack, 2020 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243708

Also, clear face masks are available, including clear surgical masks and clear respirators.

“But masks reduce oxygenation”

Wearing a face mask does not cause low O2 nor high CO2 at rest or during activity.

Shein et al., 2021 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247414

Gas exchange is not significantly affected by the use of surgical mask, even in subjects with severe lung impairment.

Samannan et al., 2020 doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202007-812RL                                

THAT graph that anti-maskers love to show

“Fig. 3. Correlation between Infection Rate and Annual Mask Usage generated from discarded face masks. (USA: United States of America; UK: United Kingdom)”

This graph actually comes from a paper on microplastics from face mask disposal, as opposed to anything epidemiological.

Shukla et al., 2022 doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134805

This graph does not accurately show the Annual Mask Usage (AMU) of each country to an accuracy that could ever be used in a paper with an epidemiological focus.

The authors did not account for variable mask usage in different countries and they use no real world data used on this. Instead, variation in Annual Mask Usage (AMU) is estimated by considering the population of each country in rural vs urban areas, and the presumed acceptance of masks in each area, which is constant for each country (10% in rural areas vs 80% in urban). Basically, this graph shows no accurate data on mask wearing in each country.

The authors also state that there is a correlation between AMU and infection rate. However, the country with the greatest population in the world, China, counters this trend. Equally, the data for India and Brazil, which also have a large proportion of the global population, also contradict this conclusion. This would explain why the authors never attempted to provide statistical tests to prove the correlation that they have supposedly found.

I think that about sums it up, but feel free to add more!

#at some point ill get around to a post about why you should give a fuck about not getting covid in the first place #but not rn lol #masks #mask wearing #wear a mask #masks stop covid #mask research #anti maskers #mask hesitant #antimask #antimaskers #mask masterpost #masterpost #research masterpost #information masterpost #public health #pandemic #covid-19 #coronavirus #sarscov2 #sars-cov-2 #covid pandemic #global health #long covid #psa #covid19 #covid #surgical mask #ffp2 #ffp3

[cesium-sheep]

plainly difficult productions going out of his way to say he put on his mask and get footage of grabbing his mask before even filming the exterior of a location, we love to see it. (he is in england and I don’t think they’ve reinstated mask requirements but jessica is traveling internationally this month and her channel is usually how I would know)

#coronavirus #yeah hey remember that fucking thing #since it stopped killing the able bodied the able bodied stopped caring #even though it is still disabling them #and further disabling and killing us (the disabled)