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if yall want a general strike you’re gonna have to start masking up—protecting each others health matters regardless, but all the moreso when insurance is tied to employment; what effective resistance allows infection to spread?

I’ve said it before & will again: wasting editor & reviewer time by submitting egregiously plagiaristic uses of genAI w/o even fact-checking should be grounds for being barred from submitting articles to that journal for a period of time (1-2y for first offense?)

looking at you, folks who scoff at wearing masks in, at the very least, indoor public spaces even as we watch the wanton destruction of our public health system & collapse of healthcare infrastructure.

Reminder: you should absolutely start wearing the best mask you can find in public spaces, even if you stopped before. We have no public health at the top level & repeat infections have ravaged immune systems.

If someone gives you a hassle, say "even if it's just a cold, I DON'T WANT THAT EITHER!"

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1. They are eugenicists.
2. Viruses don't care about your daily step count.

I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.

Read this thread! 🧵 It’s been clarifying to witness just how fast workplaces went from “we’re all in this together” to “forced infection is a condition of employment”. No discussion about making in-person work safer. CBC’s COVID coverage leaves much to be desired and sadly, this experience tracks.

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but under no circumstances should we expect any common-sense mitigation practices beyond annual boosters for a vaccine the government is openly discouraging/preventing people from getting

wouldn’t want to seem ✨unreasonable✨

I know it's too much to dream that people would also wear masks in publicly funded buildings (like post offices, the DMV, libraries, schools) - but a world where people try harder not to spread illness *is within reach.*

No one I know wants "universal masking." We want people to wear masks at the grocery store, in hospitals and other healthcare settings like pharmacies, and on public transit. Places where people like me *sometimes have to be.* We're asking for the bare minimum and y'all still think we want too much!

Ignoring COVID-19, after all the research findings about it’s full body damage, is plain and simply another form of for profit collectively normalized self-harm.

Today is a great day to start masking in public again 💜

I haven't seen one single study that shows it's harmless to keep getting Covid again & again. But there are thousands of peer-reviewed studies that document long-term harms

Generally speaking, I have found that people who work in medicine and high profile public health do not follow Covid anywhere nearly as closely as those of us directly impacted by mass government abandonment do. And this is what happens.

Every time I attend an n95-required event, I cry afterward. We can have accessible, justice-oriented spaces. We can create new ways of organizing & connecting. We can enact disability justice. We can educate & protect each other. We can get free, if we do it together.

A better world is possible.

Masking EVERYWHERE INDOORS that isn’t your home is an act of resistance.

No one is coming to save us. We need to save each other by masking, getting vaxxed, and advocating for clean air

1 way masking is great, but 2 way masking (when EVERYONE PRESENT is masking) is best.

I wish my transplant doctors would mask without me asking. Shameful behavior from healthcare providers.

So by your inaction (or selfish decision) not to wear a mask, you’ve actually indirectly (maybe unknowingly) made a statement on who deserves to live and who doesn’t

This is #eugenics

This is #ableism

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Most people don’t realize this, but every time you enter a public space without wearing a mask, what that shows to an #immunocompromised person is:

Their life doesn’t matter to you

You don’t care if you spread COVID to them, which could 💀 them or cause further disability (LongCOVID)

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Former CDC leaders hand-wringing about the death of public health and how bad RFK Jr is like some of them in recent years did not pave and polish the way for this to happen by clinging to the nonsense of droplet dogma, going full anti-mask, and prioritizing profit at the expense of public health

COVID is a labor issue, it has always been a labor issue - no one should get sick at work! No one should be exposed to pathogens at work without adequate PPE. COVID hurts workers in the workplace and it does not have to be this way.

Drug company that sells my transplant drugs decided to take away copay cards for everyone starting Sept 1. Got the notice in the mail on Aug, 29, Friday of a holiday weekend. No time to make plans for accessing my transplant meds next month, which I've taken without fail for 29+ years. Heartless.

🎶the pandemic isn't over just because you're over it🎶

That COVID spike relative to other countries is especially insane. We produced the most effective vaccines in massive numbers and then let ourselves get into a ridiculous fight about whether to use them

Your public outreach on topics in archives, records management, and libraries - here and on other platforms - is excellent and is definitely a service to the profession.

From masks & wider public health to virtual meeting options, sure is hard to get square with how fully & fundamentally this society has toddler-screamed "NO!" at everything that made things even marginally more accessible in the early days of this pandemic because thinking about it makes them scared