emma 🇵🇸
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emma 🇵🇸
@emmadotcafe
cute little weirdo ෴ designer ❦ software eng @webrecorder_io ⚙︎ noisemaker ﹆ @parentcompanyc, prev @stripe & @openpitpresents ⏏︎ no i didn’t pay for twitter dw
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Don’t get tickets to see Gaga in Montreal or Miami. Especially if she’s days away from releasing a new song and about to go to New York!
For many disabled people, the only way they can go out in a eugenic society that will not mask, is with a fit-tested N95 or FFP2 respirator. Those offer a huge margin of safety that no other mitigation can match. Fit testing is incredibly difficult to access. New machines cost $15,000 to $20,000, and rent for $400 a day and up. The COVID-Aware and Disability Advocate community have a small number of refurbished models that cost around $500-$1000 if you can find them and fix them yourself, but are in very, very short supply. Nevertheless, I tried to donate several of these testing machines, specifically to orgs in the US that served the Black community, because they have the least access to fit testing- and the least information on mask fit. I was called a racist for donating the same refurbished machines I use, which we all make do with, instead of brand new $20,000 machines. Once you have the Portacount machine, you need sampling ports- a steel connector that attaches the mask to the plastic tubes through which air is sampled. There is one source for these- TSI, and they charge 50¢ each for them. If you are testing dozens of people, each in multiple masks, as many fit-testing volunteers do, it quickly becomes prohibitively expensive. So, I had a local factory clone and fabricate the sampling ports- tens of thousands of them. I then sent sacks of these to anyone in the world who asked at no charge. I didn't make a big deal about it; I just made sure that for anyone doing the lifesaving work of fit testing in their community, the cost of consumables was on me. I didn't have a grant for this; there was no publicity in it. I don't make or sell masks- in fact, I am the only Far-UVC company that constantly undermines their own product by fanatically pushing masking OVER my own products. I am incredibly proud to have helped @eddericu in a very, very small way by supplying several thousand sampling ports. With the measurements he took, and the app he built, every single fit test and each sampling port used benefits thousands of people, not just the wearer, by giving them access to better-fitting masks and a higher degree of protection- even if they don't have access to a portacount machine.
Issue 087 re:grow, a @tennysonmusic moment A new cycle for the internet music virtuoso, these atmospheric music beds & percussion textures are seeds planted in hopes of future blooms, continuing to honor the push and the pull. Cover shot by @emilefortunee Out now on @splice ↓
