We have the power to stop pretending.

It's time to put the sign back in the window.

#CovidIsNotOver #WearARespirator

I went to one of Sen Merkley's town halls, and more than what was said (though some good things were discussed), the most amazing thing to me was that 2-4 people in each 80 person seating block were wearing respirators (high quality masks).

That is a TON of folks for where I live. I cried happy tears. It wasn't the Senator or most of the staff (yet?), but it was still beautiful.

#WearARespirator #WearAMask
#ProtectEachOther
#WeKeepEachOtherSafe #CovidIsNotOver
#CovidCompetent #CovidSafeScouts

Never thought I’d see the day

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/09/health-professionals-respirator-grade-masks-who-advise

#WearARespirator #CovidIsAirborne

I always forget about the PADM Precision Air

// backstory: the 3M 7500 series is [for me] the most comfortable+well-sealing half-face elastomeric respirator I've tried; it comes in three sizes to fit many faces and has a very soft silicon seal. The closest approximation to its shape+fit I've found is the Precision Air, a made-for-healthcare N95 respirator from a 🇨🇦 company called PADM.

It has a nice design with non-industrial looking colours, is about 10g lighter than the 3M, uses easy-to-change filters (though not cheap), and doesn't have a valve (ie has source control).

Due to the Canadian government and various healthcare authorities giving many of the long-term contracts for respiratory PPE to US companies like 3M, PADM and many other local manufacturers got out of the respiratory PPE business.

However, the Precision Air is still available from at least one reseller in two sizes: M/L (white & blue and S/M (white & purple). I got my hands on them a couple years ago (they come without filters, which have to be ordered separately 🤦) and was pleasantly surprised.

@maskup

#MaskUp #WearARespirator #N95 #ElastoLeagueUnite

Ah Dr Ruth Ann’s Covid Newsletter is here!

Time to trade deep psychic damage for the cause 😫✊🏻

#wearAMask #wearARespirator #covidIsNotOver

@Soniop happy coronaversary to this post: https://eldritch.cafe/@Soniop/113252843701653204

#covid #CovidIsNotOver #LongCOVID #WearARespirator

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❤️‍🔥😷 free masks: maskbloc.org

• 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.
• There is no way to “train” 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.
• Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
• 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. 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.

“The 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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