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A virus that damages every organ system is not “endemic.” It is unaddressed. There is a difference. Words matter when they’re being used to lie to you.

“A mask won’t work unless it’s a respirator worn correctly” YES. THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT, BITCH. FUCK.

@TdotMum @BarryHunt008 I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that HCW dealing with potential Ebola wear less PPE than I wear to the grocery store....

We just witnessed people's immune systems all over the world be significantly disrupted by SARS2. Why on earth would you not expect Ebola transmission to be higher now?

Why can't we just get rid of surgical masks? Apart from a little more effort to fit & a bit more cost (def recouped by less sick leave), why don't we just make respirators the only type of face covering in healthcare? Removes all ridiculous debate about 'close contact' or droplet

We don't need to worry about individual viruses when we can implement measures to reduce risk against all airborne biopathogens. Air filters, mechanical ventilation, UVC, N95s. The deployment of all of these tools makes us safe against an entire class of threats.

@Biff234523 "the world" is big and isn't really even coherent as a concept (thinking of philosopher Markus Gabriel). In contrast I am small and actually very important, but not to "the world"

Some very deep thoughts for 3 AM… This is just a random poll I came across from a center-right YouTuber, but wow, these results aren’t what I would’ve expected to see and seem indicative of a huge problem. Personally, I would say that I don’t have all that much going for me most of the time…probably meet clinical depression criteria, as well. But even then, and before I started COVID-related advocacy (which is likely my biggest impact), I still can’t remember a time where I ever walked around thinking that my life wasn’t important. Beyond my personal feelings about myself, I also just think that every human’s life is inherently important just by virtue of existing. If it’s your mindset that your life isn’t important (and maybe someone can truthfully answer, because 70% is a lot), how do you even begin to try and have a positive impact on the world when you wake up in the morning? I imagine that I would find it much more difficult to motivate myself to even try if I felt that myself and my efforts weren’t important. In that way, maybe this does help explain why most people tend to be a bunch of selfish assholes that don’t ever attempt to something for the collective good.

I was absolutely appalled to hear Bonnie Henry say "Personal Protective Equipment, the word we all dread". You may have had an instant visceral reaction to that yourself, but here are the eleven things wrong with what she said:

We don't all dread PPE. She's projecting her own irrational phobia onto us. No. We don't have dread of it. Actually, it's the opposite. Some of us are *in awe* of the incredible ways in which humans have created protective devices to enable us to do dangerous things.

To be cultivating and institutionalising a dread of PPE is just mind boggling.

@KCooperHinton i know you get it!!! just made me think of those kinds of ppl who say "well ok mask up if it makes you FEEL safer" with no regard to the reality of it all 🙄

@astralopithekos Well, yes; it's the being safer that makes me feel safer. 😜

PPE makes ME feel safer around all the idiots who refuse to understand it and have gone all head-up-ass about reality.

@InspiredAquaCA @BarryHunt008 Bonnie Henry's "dread" at the mention of PPE, and resulting stigmatization of it, is a big part of the reason my mom is dead now. If Henry hadn't removed masking requirements in mom's LTC facility while covid was still raging, my mom would likely still be here.

Canada Tracking Sharp And Disturbing Rise In Personal Protective Equipment

Just take a minute to think about why the thought of drinking contaminated water is disgusting, but the thought of breathing contaminated air is not. It hardly even registers with most people. Air in public indoor spaces should be cleaned, as public water is

Covid infections impair your ability to fight other infections. It's so flipping simple.

Your immune system is not like a muscle, it is like an airbag. It gets hit, it gets shot. 👇

If surgical masks had never been invented, if we had just skipped over them, society would have defaulted to respirators when the COVID pandemic began. We would have obliterated waves instead of "flattening the curve", and everyone would understand the value.

Btw COVID was proven to be airborne bc of THIS WOMAN’s research and the WHO had to completely revise decades of science, she is a HERO, EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW HER NAME!!! She will be remembered by history and in the future so much about our infrastructure will change bc of her.

This!! The attitude that since numbers are low we should all unmask to get those numbers back UP! -- an attitude that eg many hospitals etc have modeled for us -- is a big part of the problem. x.com/i/status/20555…