You know how you can smell a cigarette from far away, across the room, or after they left, or outside across the yard, or up the sidewalk, or on a restaurant patio, or even not even know where it’s coming from, but you can smell it?
Covid is aerosolized, it spreads across distances like that too. But you can’t smell it.
Think about that next time you smell cigarette smoke. Think about it next time you get that “just a cold” again.
🇦🇺 "Australia is experiencing a “big wave” of Covid-19 infections that is coinciding with a rise in influenza and other winter illnesses, health authorities and experts are warning."
"Esterman said the current wave was “as bad as it was at the end of last year”. “And it’s still going up, so that’s a major concern especially since many hospitals have stopped mandatory face masks for their staff.”
“We’re looking at 6 to 10 times as many people actually infected as the case numbers are showing,” Esterman said.
“People think, oh, I’ve gotten COVID, so that should give me some immunity. That’s actually wrong. It turns out that having COVID once gives you a little bit of immunity to that variant, but it doesn’t really give you much immunity at all to the next variant. So with new variants emerging every month, you only have about four to six weeks of immunity, effectively, from catching COVID.”
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Me: cis, bi, geriatric-Zoomer girl in the SE US. I'll boost +post what I find humorous, beautiful, interesting, or inspiring. Different sides of me. We are all complex human beings after all. :)
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also like music, art, poetry, hiking, and maybe cooking. 🧡
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I'm happy with my Flo Mask—it's the most comfortable well-fitting mask for me as a glasses-wearer. Good protection with minimal fog. (I recommend getting the optional foam condensation insert, which also helps reduce fogging.)
I had to go to urgent care earlier today (nothing serious, needed antibiotics for infection).
I'm please to report that the nurse, the doctor, and all the patients I saw (about 8-9?) were wearing masks of some kind. I was pleasantly surprised! 😷😁
South Australia: "Patients who went to hospital for one thing, then died of COVID will never be known according to SA Health as records were never kept" By Brad Crouch
Gotta say, folks, I'm not liking the surge in COVID reported by wastewater numbers.
Especially with my husband flying up to Wellington on a business trip to Catalyst for the first time in ages. 😬
We have masks and Flo Travel spray and probiotic lozenges, but we don't have robust public health measures or clean air infrastructure, not even in hospitals.
"The results were striking: compared to staff wearing surgical masks and not screening patients on admission, the combination of wearing N95 masks and testing patients using RATs was the cheapest, saving an estimated $78.4 million and preventing 1,543 deaths statewide per year. Staff wearing N95s and screening patients with PCR tests was the most effective option, saving $62.6 million and preventing 1,684 deaths per year."
“I should have the freedom, my children should have the freedom and my husband should have the freedom to wear a mask in order to protect and save my life without fear of being arrested and charged with a class one misdemeanor, which is exactly what this bill would do.”
Es gibt ja nicht nur leichte Momente auf Reisen. Das National Covid Memorial hat mich sehr berührt und erschüttert. Bereits von weitem sieht man, dass die gesamte Wand des Ufers gegenüber des britischen Parlaments rot ist. Jedes dieser Herzen steht für einen Menschen, bei dem COVID auf der Sterbeurkunde vermerkt wurde. Die Zahl ist seit meinem Besuch weiter gestiegen.
Judge me if you want, but after five years of being tossed aside by most of the people we thought of as friends, of being forgotten and limited and thought of as the crazy ones about #Covid, we are entitled to some Schadenfreude. I have not a single fuck left to give for people who won’t mask.
I think it is really important we speak out against this bill as it could be copy-catted in other states, and its just messed up, so I started an email campaign: TIME-SENSITIVE!: Join the email campaign to stop HB 237 from passing in NC House of Representatives! If passed, this bill will make it illegal to wear a mask in public even for medical reasons, more info at https://the-maskers-comic.yolasite.com/stophb237 We need to send these emails out ASAP!
Update on Mask Ban in NC: Since this bill passed in the Senate, we now have to stop it from passing in the House: TIME-SENSITIVE!: Join the email campaign to stop HB 237 from passing in NC House of Representatives! If passed, this bill will make it illegal to wear a mask in public even for medical reasons, info here: https://the-maskers-comic.yolasite.com/stophb237
@whn just released this excellent 3 page flyer for #healthcare on the Airborne Paradigm Shift of disease, please share, there is a print-friendly version as well and many translations, at: