Hi, we're Vote Out Covid! We know that #CovidIsntOver and we want #UK#GeneralElection candidates to sign up to three low-cost, non-intrusive health pledges to help reduce risk and harms from #LongCovid and other conditions.
We're still getting set up but please do follow us and boost this toot to encourage others to join in. We'll let you know here when our campaign fully launches, hopefully by 10th June.
I have been fortunate enough to be one of the 10% of the population to not have had COVID-19, but today that changed. I have now been infected, despite my best efforts to protect myself and my loved ones. I have lived a life of isolation for the past 4 years, unable to live a participatory life, because our governments, including our Councils, refuse to take precautions to protect disabled people.
Not only do I have COVID, my parents, including my Mum who has cancer, have both got it. Mum will now miss this weeks round of chemo, all because selfish people refuse to wear a mask in public and stay at home when they are sick.
Tell me, should I now walk into our Council offices, community houses, libraries, etc. without a mask, so our bureaucrats can understand the fear I have experienced every day for the past 4 years? Should I be as selfish as they have been and put their health and lives at risk? No, because unlike them, I have a heart and actually care about our community; the very community they are paid to care about and to ensure the safety of!
I feel like death, but the fight is not over - I will be back soon to fight for the community I love. Godspeed everyone.
"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."
North Carolina bans medical masks (seriously), US/UK/NZ surging, covid 60% deadlier than influenza, weird new variant symptoms, US: no fall vax for uninsured, covid ripping through New Zealand schools, rAW MiLk eNTHusIaSTs, masking on the Fallout set, and more.
New: Cases surging globally (again), KP.2 FLiRT variant dominant in US “defies vaccines,” FDA postpones vaccine meeting, Moderna warns LC risk rises w/each infection, tests rated from best to worst, WHO knew it was airborne, hospital acquired infection = nearly 1 death/day in AU, and more.
"A sudden rise in long COVID in January has persisted into a second month. About 17.6% of those surveyed by the Census Bureau in January said they have experienced long COVID. The number for February was 17.4.
Compare these new numbers to October 2023 and earlier, when long COVID numbers hovered between 14% and 15% of the US adult population as far back as June 2022." #COVID#COVID19#CovidIsntOver#LongCovid
@violetblue 's Pandemic Roundup this week documents rising covid infections, the CDC no longer requiring hospitals to report covid admissions, asymptomatic kids increase household covid spread, and the ravages of Long Covid on teachers, healthcare workers, and the UN relief czar.
Practical tips on how to make your N95/KN95 masks last longer:
#CovidConscious crowd: I’m sure I saw some discussion of techniques for stapling excess #respirator material together under chin to improve fit on small faces …
But I can’t find it now and I don’t want to just start stapling willy-nilly!
The most useful invention I've ever run across... Corsi-Rosenthal box.
I have used this so far for:
Wildfire smoke
COVID-19
Bacon smoke (on Saturdays, LOL)
General improvement of AQI
Pet related allergies (hay and dander)
Ragweed/pollen heavy days
Dust from Santa Ana winds
Dust from construction/remodeling
Paint fumes (only partially useful, doesn't absorb gases, but helps somewhat) -- plus it sucks all the dust from the air, so it doesn't stick to your paint
Definitely looking like my wife and I are the last mask holdouts for our entire extended family. I guess it had to happen sometime. Lonely. #Covid#COVIDcautious#LongCovid#CovidIsntOver
Question: Anyone who specializes in indoor air quality able to take a look at something? Used @cleanairstars tool to ask for filters for a classroom and was told it's not needed bc HVAC is ASHRAE 62.1. Thanks!
The #NPR article reminds me of how some thrive in a new country while others pine.
Those who despair miss the life they used to have. The childhood friends, familiar food, ease of speech, etc.
Those who thrive build new social networks, embrace new activities, new foods. They may miss things about the old country, but don’t pine for the day they’ll return.
Maybe a lesson for how to thrive together in the pandemic.
There is a fantastic presentation on covid-19 highlighted in @violetblue 's Pandemic Roundup this week. It was written for heath care professionals but is relevant for anyone looking for a cogent summary of what covid really does, how it can potentially adversely effect any part of one's life, and strategies for helping those suffering from it.
As always, these Roundups are free and well worth supporting:
-CDC to end 5-day isolation
-US: 6th week of 2000+ deaths,1.2M infections/day
-Best of the #CDCsays meme
-Japan, New Zealand surges increase
-Covid pregnant: 1 in 10 get long covid
-John Turturro infected Donald Glover on Mr. and Mrs. Smith
– Disability communities grapple with tsunami of Covid’s newly-disabled
-Nicotine patches and long covid
-Global #MaskBloc Directory
"The CDC does not serve us, and other countries who follow its guidance and advice about Covid-19 will only destabilize, become divided, slip rapidly into recession, and enter an era of disease and disability ..."
"... the CDC has behaved as a threat to global public health nearly every step of the entire, ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. And -- I can't emphasize this enough -- they do not care.
@violetblue cares -- support her Pandemic Roundups:
CDC may be changing it's 5-day isolation guidelines in favor of a "symptom-based" one like CA & OR; many infectious disease experts are encouraging this ("Public health recommendations have to be practical").
Public health used to be about eliminating disease (smallpox, polio). Now it's about expediency.
Institutional covid denial has abandoned us to fend for ourselves. Start with @violetblue 's Huge FREE covid safety resource list:
Building on their presentation last Fall, abolitionist organizer Moss Williams is returning with another virtual event on antifascism and disability! On Sunday the 25th, Moss will weave together history and theory to explore the relationship between fascism and ableism—and how both are driving attacks on our bodily autonomy.
Register for this free event at https://firestorm.coop/events/3145-antifascism-disability-part-ii.html. Not sure if you can make the event? Sign up anyway and you'll receive a link to the recorded conversation when we post it! Moss's recorded September presentation is available from the link above.