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.
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.
“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.”
Omg. While our symptoms are different, SO MUCH of this woman’s story could’ve been mine. I was nodding my head the entire way through. She’s captured the essence of Long Covid perfectly.
Naomi Wu and NukitToBeSure have published an Open Air Purifier Laser Cut Enclosure Builder that lets you input the size of your filters and your fans etc. to generate a file for your laser cutter to help you build your own PC-fan #CorsiRosenthalBox . And the lovely person of Clean Air Carborro Chapel Hill futzed around to find the right dimensions for the IKEA Starkvind filters (unlike furnace filters these are easily sourced around the world) https://www.filterboxbuilder.com #IndoorAir#CovidIsNotOver
Clean Air Carborro Chapel Hill tweeted on May 21, 2024 Latest iteration of the 2xStarkvind / 4xP14 filter box using the @NukitToBeSure open source template. Updated fan grill for less resistance/ noise, thinner outer frame for more filter exposed, and new power supply w on/ off switch. filterboxbuilder.com they posted a picture of their filter box with a handle at the top, two Starkvind filters on the wide sides and two 14cm PC-fans on each of the narrow sides.
Send sick kids to school.
Send sick workers to work.
Mask the disease with pseudoephedrine
(no actual masks)
Reduce and remove vaccinations and testing.
Ignore air quality.
This is our covid non-response from July.
It's foolish and against the current scientific evidence.
It's going to hurt and kill so many people.
Everyone is vulnerable.
Rappel que vous pouvez vous faire vacciner en France contre le COVID jusqu'au 14 juin. C'est ouvert à toustes, on peut prendre rdv en pharmacie. #CovidIsNotOver #AutodefenseSanitaire
🇮🇪 Irish health chiefs sound alarm amid spike in Covid cases and hospitalisations.
"The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has confirmed an almost 20% rise in cases in a week up to May 25"
"Fatigue, a high temperature/having chills and a dry cough are the top three Covid symptoms, according to the HSE but there are others to be aware of."
This federal survey is a complete #farce. My Dad got covid in hospital. He died from long covid cardiac arrest. My Aunt got covid in hospital & now suffers from long covid.....
It occurred to me today that even though over 1 million Americans have died from Covid, we have no national memorial or national day day of mourning and how the powers that be have decided to memory hole the whole thing and how wrong this is.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Greene disgracefully disrespected Dr. Fauci during a hearing today: "Mr Fauci -- because you're not 'doctor' -- you're Mr. Fauci in my few minutes. No, I don't need your answer ... he belongs in prison"
For people who say #CovidIsNotOver, I agree with you. Also, the harassment of vilification of Dr. #Fauci is not over.
In this 6-4-2024 hearing #MTG attacks Dr. Fauci
"You know what this committee should be doing? We should writing a criminal referral because you should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. You belong in prison Dr. Fauci"
What I'd like to see are investigations & prosecutions of the people who threatened Dr. Fauci, like the person who sent white powder to his office.