If you care for each other, protect each other. Wear a well-fitting respirator every time you are in a public place/outside your home. KN95s, N95s, and other NIOSH-approved masks filter at least 95% of particles in the air when you have a proper fit. Wearing a mask helps prevent transmission of airborne viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, RSV, influenza, and more.

Despite profit-based claims otherwise, we are still in a global COVID pandemic. Covid vaccinations may help prevent some severe outcomes and death, but they do not prevent illness, transmission, or Long Covid. Mask up to protect yourself and others from illness, disability (Long Covid), and death.

The following groups are disproportionately affected by Long COVID and/or at greater risk of COVID infection, largely due to existing structures of oppression: disabled people, women, bisexual and trans people, Black people, Indigenous people, children, incarcerated people, people who are unhoused or living in poverty, elderly people, working class people, and immunocompromised people, including people undergoing cancer treatments and people who are HIV-positive.

If you claim to be an ally or accomplice to any marginalized community, you will put the mask back on. We must also demand access to clean, filtered air in schools, public transportation, hospitals, prisons. We must demand free pandemic resources from the government (respirators, rapid & PCR tests, treatments like Paxlovid and other antivirals).

For increased personal protection against COVID, take a layered approach: be diligent about wearing a respirator in all public places; avoid crowded places like restaurants, bars, and concerts; purchase or build a DIY air purifier for your home and advocate for clean air measures in shared spaces like offices or schools; take rapid antigen or PCR tests before gathering with friends or family.

For more information about (Long) COVID, masks/respirators, clean air, disability justice, and more, visit resistcovideugenics.carrd.co, linktr.ee/act_up_mask_up, covidtoolbox.com, covid.tips, and/or find a local mask bloc near you (maskbloc.org). #CovidIs Airborne #WearARespirator

Masks are community care❀️‍πŸ”₯😷 free masks: maskbloc.org

β€’ Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves.
β€’ There is no way to β€œtrain” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key.
β€’ Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
β€’ Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world.
β€’ Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.

β€œThe cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice

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Despite profit-based claims otherwise, we are still in a global COVID pandemic. Covid vaccinations may help prevent some severe outcomes and death, but they do not prevent illness, transmission, or Long Covid. Mask up to protect yourself and others from illness, disability (Long Covid), and death.

The following groups are disproportionately affected by Long COVID and/or at greater risk of COVID infection, largely due to existing structures of oppression: disabled people, women, bisexual and trans people, Black people, Indigenous people, children, incarcerated people, people who are unhoused or living in poverty, elderly people, working class people, and immunocompromised people, including people undergoing cancer treatments and people who are HIV-positive.

If you claim to be an ally or accomplice to any marginalized community, you will put the mask back on. We must also demand access to clean, filtered air in schools, public transportation, hospitals, prisons. We must demand free pandemic resources from the government (respirators, rapid & PCR tests, treatments like Paxlovid and other antivirals).

For increased personal protection against COVID, take a layered approach: be diligent about wearing a respirator in all public places; avoid crowded places like restaurants, bars, and concerts; purchase or build a DIY air purifier for your home and advocate for clean air measures in shared spaces like offices or schools; take rapid antigen or PCR tests before gathering with friends or family.

Ultimately, the system has failed us. However, we can still practice community care and solidarity by wearing a mask in public at all times. For more information about (Long) COVID, masks/respirators, clean air, disability justice, and more, visit resistcovideugenics.carrd.co, linktr.ee/act_up_mask_up, covidtoolbox.com, covid.tips, and/or find a local mask bloc near you (maskbloc.org). #CovidIs Airborne #WearARespirator

Despite profit-based claims otherwise, we are still in a global COVID pandemic. Covid vaccinations may help prevent some severe outcomes and death, but they do not prevent illness, transmission, or Long Covid. Mask up to protect yourself and others from illness, disability (Long Covid), and death.

The following groups are disproportionately affected by Long COVID and/or at greater risk of COVID infection, largely due to existing structures of oppression: disabled people, women, bisexual and trans people, Black people, Indigenous people, children, incarcerated people, people who are unhoused or living in poverty, elderly people, working class people, and immunocompromised people, including people undergoing cancer treatments and people who are HIV-positive.

If you claim to be an ally or accomplice to any marginalized community, you will put the mask back on. We must also demand access to clean, filtered air in schools, public transportation, hospitals, prisons. We must demand free pandemic resources from the government (respirators, rapid & PCR tests, treatments like Paxlovid and other antivirals).

For increased personal protection against COVID, take a layered approach: be diligent about wearing a respirator in all public places; avoid crowded places like restaurants, bars, and concerts; purchase or build a DIY air purifier for your home and advocate for clean air measures in shared spaces like offices or schools; take rapid antigen or PCR tests before gathering with friends or family.

Ultimately, the system has failed us. However, we can still practice community care and solidarity by wearing a mask in public at all times. For more information about (Long) COVID, masks/respirators, clean air, disability justice, and more, visit resistcovideugenics.carrd.co, linktr.ee/act_up_mask_up, covidtoolbox.com, covid.tips, and/or find a local mask bloc near you (maskbloc.org). #CovidIs Airborne #WearARespirator

Despite profit-based claims otherwise, we are still in a global COVID pandemic. Covid vaccinations may help prevent some severe outcomes and death, but they do not prevent illness, transmission, or Long Covid. Mask up to protect yourself and others from illness, disability (Long Covid), and death.

The following groups are disproportionately affected by Long COVID and/or at greater risk of COVID infection, largely due to existing structures of oppression: disabled people, women, bisexual and trans people, Black people, Indigenous people, children, incarcerated people, people who are unhoused or living in poverty, elderly people, working class people, and immunocompromised people, including people undergoing cancer treatments and people who are HIV-positive.

If you claim to be an ally or accomplice to any marginalized community, you will put the mask back on. We must also demand access to clean, filtered air in schools, public transportation, hospitals, prisons. We must demand free pandemic resources from the government (respirators, rapid & PCR tests, treatments like Paxlovid and other antivirals).

For increased personal protection against COVID, take a layered approach: be diligent about wearing a respirator in all public places; avoid crowded places like restaurants, bars, and concerts; purchase or build a DIY air purifier for your home and advocate for clean air measures in shared spaces like offices or schools; take rapid antigen or PCR tests before gathering with friends or family.

Ultimately, the system has failed us. However, we can still practice community care and solidarity by wearing a mask in public at all times. For more information about (Long) COVID, masks/respirators, clean air, disability justice, and more, visit resistcovideugenics.carrd.co, linktr.ee/act_up_mask_up, covidtoolbox.com, covid.tips, and/or find a local mask bloc near you (maskbloc.org). #CovidIs Airborne #WearARespirator

COVID-19 took a toll on heart health and doctors are still grappling with how to help

COVID-19 has taken a toll on the nation's heart health but how profound is only starting to emerge. Heart attack deaths spiked early in the pandemic, erasing years of progress in battling cardiovascular disease. Then research showed that for up to a year after a bout of COVID-19, some people can develop problems ranging from blood clots to irregular heartbeats to a heart attack. It's not clear why and doctors still are grappling with how to help.

AP News
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I feel for our health workers. #maskup #covidis