iAmSkwij #stillMasking🇨🇦

Anyone else wondering how many of this generation of kids (1-20 Yr old) are going to have problems conceiving and carrying their own children after being (re)infected w/covid? Yeah, this stuff keeps me awake some nights 🤦🏼‍♀️ #COVIDIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #cleantheair #MaskUp

The reason they raise pheasants for this is because *they're really easy to shoot*. It's not even a challenge. They're big, slow, and they fly in a straight line. Hitting them with a shotgun is like hitting a post with a pillow. It's just murder, not sport.

Actually, 'Bonnie Henry' is the word we all dread.

This right here. C19 causes "pre-existing conditions" and immune dysfunction. We need to STOP getting and spreading it.

If you dread PPE, you have no business in medicine or public health. You don’t hear people speak this way about helmets, seatbelts or condoms. It’s only PPE for airborne viruses that folks take an issue with. Their unwillingness to promote the right tools will kill people.

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

Don’t just wear a mask again because Hantavirus is in the news, it might not be for long, and you need to protect yourself after the media moves on from it. Wear a mask because Covid destroys the immune system, attacks the heart, damages the brain, and compounds the damage to your body with each infection. Wear a mask because you want to be healthy and live longer, and because the last few years you and most of the people you know have been the sickest you’ve ever been in your life. Wear a mask again because there was no reason to stop in the first place.

“Look we could have avoided a public health disaster if we acted earlier, but that would have entailed having to tell a handful of spoiled rich people to do stuff they don’t like, and like if rich people can’t treat this world like a theme park, what’s the point?”

There is no 'severe form' of the Andes Hantavirus. It has a 30-40% fatality rate, and like Ebola which its symptoms are almost identical to it leaves almost everyone who 'survive' it severely disabled and most will die within 5 years. It is ALWAYS extremely severe.

Absolutely this right here

One of the worst things society has ever done is discussing infectious disease in binary terms: “you either die or you survive” This implies survival = full recovery. Surviving viral illness can often mean never returning to baseline health. And people need to remember this.

There are now more than half a million scientific publications related to COVID-19 and a rapidly growing body of evidence linking SARS-CoV-2 infection to immune dysregulation, microvascular injury, autonomic dysfunction, clotting abnormalities, viral persistence, and measurable cognitive changes. And to the people constantly sick, exhausted, dizzy, forgetful, exercise intolerant, waking up to feeling like you got hit by a truck on the daily or suddenly developing strange inflammation, heart issues, GI problems, or “mystery” symptoms after repeated infections… At some point you and society as a whole must confront the reality that repeated infection with a vascular and neurotropic virus was never as harmless as everyone wanted it to be. I choose to live in reality. That virus is still here. It is still spreading through the air. And it is still associated with long-term vascular, immune, and neurological consequences for many people. Protecting yourself from that threat — through cleaner air, better ventilation, filtration, vaccination, and high-quality masks in high-risk settings — also reduces your risk from many of the other respiratory pathogens constantly circulating around us. And if you are tired of watching people suffer while being told this is “normal,” then start demanding urgency. Ask why Long Covid clinics are closing instead of expanding. Ask why immunologists, virologists, neurologists, vascular scientists, and pathologists are not being funded at Manhattan Project scale to investigate viral persistence, immune dysfunction, clotting, mitochondrial damage, and cognitive impairment. Ask why billions can appear overnight for almost anything else, but millions living with chronic illness are told to “pace themselves” and move on. Support researchers (the ones who are still focused on Long Covid that don’t conflate the disease) Support clean air initiatives (two strong efforts happening in Illinois right now! Help us!!). Support disability advocacy. Pressure institutions to improve indoor air quality. Stop mocking people for protecting themselves. And stop accepting “everyone is sick all the time now” as a normal feature of modern life.

When it comes to preventing a disease of high consequence from spreading There is no such thing as "over reacting" If you fully understand the mechanism of transmission And your actions specifically target the measures necessary to interrupt them

When you avoid the WORD Covid like the plague, instead of the Covid plague like the plague, you get MORE PLAGUES. Enjoy

Just a couple of weeks ago I was thinking to myself that we'd be really screwed by a serious virus that was airborne with a long incubation. That people just wouldn't be able to get their heads round it. Well, here we are.

This isn’t “people aren’t being told”. People didn’t reject information because it was unavailable, but because fully accepting it would have conflicted with the life they wanted to resume. That’s why curiosity vanished the moment the threat became psychologically inconvenient.

@whereyoubeany @lgoshen @Oldboatie This right here. Why do people still think that coughing is the only bad aerosol? Breathing is far more than enough to spread whatever you're infectious with

@lgoshen @Oldboatie They don't have to cough. Breathing is enough. We exhale 11,000-12, 000 litres (2,000-2,400) gallons of air mixed with moisture and some virus if present, every day.

They are sending the ship to the Canaries. For 8 wk quarantine? No. “After arriving at the Canary Islands, crew and passengers would be examined, given whatever care was needed and would then be able to begin their journeys back home, Spain's health ministry said in a statement.”

Slowly people are beginning to understand that "The Vulnerable" isn't a fixed group of people. It's all of us. You're one more infection away from the wayside.

It’s so fucking crazy that everyone literally has l0ng c0v1d and we’re just supposed to pretend that chronic fatigue and memory loss and cancer and strokes and heart attacks are just part of being in your 30s like girl

This is the part people don’t understand. Those of us trying to avoid covid aren’t “afraid of a cold.” It’s the downstream heart problems, immune and cognitive dysfunction, cancers, etc. we don’t want.

In case you're not aware: "acute" covid is the initial stage, the bit that might feel "like a cold". Long-covid is not simply more aches and sniffles. The damage Covid does can manifest later as hearing loss, a heart attack, kidney failure, brain damage, lung damage and much more