This is why respirators need to be mandatory in hospitals.

Babies, people with certain disabilities & some health conditions need others to mask to protect them.

This hospital shouldn’t be “scrambling”. Make masks mandatory & protect patients and staff.

Clean & ventilate the air too!

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-hospital-newborn-babies-exposed-rcna196519

Last night I went to an event at the venue where my local Queer Club takes place. I took CO2 readings with my #Aranet, did some estimates of the room volume, and measured the flow rate of the filter box they have there.

In terms of raw CO2 numbers (which ignore air filtration) and Air Changes Per Hour (which ignore room occupancy) the numbers were pretty dismal.

But I got enough data to try modelling the room using co2room, a Python script I wrote.

I worked out the natural ventilation rate of the building by tweaking until the resultant curve fit the readings from the Aranet.

At 40 people last night, the "effective CO2 rate" (i.e. the CO2 readings you'd get if you were ventilating rather than filtering) topped out around 1000ppm, which is above my risk threshold.

However, at my Queer Club event which has only about 20 people, even though it runs for longer it tops out at about 500ppm.

It’s International Long Covid Awareness Day, and my latest article looks at the reasons why people believe they don’t know anyone with Long Covid.

We desperately need increased visibility into this debilitating chronic illness so that we can raise awareness and fund treatments, mitigations and cures.

Anyone can get Long Covid. It’s not limited to ‘only the vulnerable’ or those who had a severe initial infection.

This disease does not discriminate. Even people with asymptomatic initial infections have found themselves disabled by Long Covid.

It’s time we start processing the trauma of the pandemic and stop living in denial.

We are in the middle of a mass disabling event, and the longer it takes us to admit that, the more people will be harmed.

Let’s spread the word that the only way to avoid Long Covid is to avoid getting Covid in the first place.

Wear a mask. Stay home when sick. Clean and ventilate the air.

When we all agree to care about the air we share, we can begin to bring about real change.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/i-dont-know-anyone-with-long-covid

#LongCovidAwarenessDay2025

"Reinfection can trigger de novo long COVID or exacerbate the severity of existing long COVID"

h/t Ziyad Al-Aly, MD

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03173-6 @longcovid

I don't know how to stop being jealous of the people who are unabashedly spending time in IRL communities, going on dates, etc. even as I know that they're both decimating their and others' bodies with repeated COVID infections, and setting themselves and others up for illness, disability or death when the H5N1 pandemic inevitably joins it.

kinda feels like I bit into the apple from the tree of knowledge and now there's no going back. and I don't wish I could go back, because hurting others in ignorance is still hurting others.

but I do wish we lived in a world where others had tasted that fruit, too - and then maybe I wouldn't be so isolated.

"Do not comply with fascism! Don't fall for misinformation!" shout all the people who complied when the government told them to infect their children with Covid before they'd been vaccinated, because it actually probably strengthened their immune system and cut down on all that Immunity Debt. #resist #WearAMask

I wrote a guest article for Healthy Debate that looks at why we need mandatory masks in healthcare, why surgical masks aren’t enough, and how the mounting threats to public health are putting lives at risk.

If you’re a healthcare worker, mask up.

Show us you take your oath to “do no harm” seriously

https://healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topic/wear-mask-plea-health-care-workers/

Things I learned about #measles, a thread:

I've never had or seen measles, I was born in the US after the measles vaccine but before antivaxxers went big, so I did some reading. In order of excitingness:

1) Measles is airborne, making this a great time to #WearAMask. IKR? looks like it would be a skin contact thing, but it's primarily airborne so it can linger in the air for hours after an infectious person exhales in a room. Familiar, no?

(1/4)

Perhaps it's over for you, but
#CovidIsNotOver for me
Today was a good day
Pain level only a three

After five years now
Yes, I know, it's a bore
But please #WearAMask
#LongCovid hurts more

Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks—Here’s Why: Common Questions Answered

h/t @whn

https://whn.global/yes-we-continue-wearing-masks/

For real. It’s infinitely frustrating and disappointing.

we take each other and our resistance seriously, right?

so for everyone's sake, when it comes to protests / demos / actions, please:

wear a mask (N95 or similar, with or without neck gaiter)

cover your face (forehead, eyes) and any identifying marks (hair color, tattoos, piercings, body mods, logos)

avoid arrest by any means necessary (so long as it doesn't jeopardize the safety of others)

don't discuss or post about your involvement with any related organizing or association with any organizations

never sign up for anything, ever (lists can be subpoenaed and used against us

scrub faces from imagery (stills, footage)

refuse to boost posts that include sensitive information about anyone involved (names, neighborhood, address, place of work), including visible identifying marks in imagery (faces, tattoos)

check
https://maskon.zone/
and
https://howtogetarrested.puter.site/
for more anti-repression and anti-doxxing strategies

"Even if certain types of immune damage following COVID did turn out to be transient, which is another line of argument taken up by minimizers, how would we know in a world plagued by never-ending reinfections? If damage lasts 7 or 8 months, and a child is reinfected with the KP.2 variant in the summer and the XEC variant in the winter, when is that child ever healthy? This type of debate becomes academic in a world without mitigations; the body would barely have time to recover from one infection before the next would be on deck."

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #LongCOVID #LongCovidKids #WearAMask

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-getting-sicker-as-evidence