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Dräger X-plore 1950 N95 respirator (small): 10/10 would wear again 😀

Great for long indoor days, flights, and medical settings.

Nose foam, soft stretchy headband (all one piece), and crisp comfortable structure.

Available in the US through Amazon 🥲

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Yo dude why are you on *checks notes* bluesky...?

This is a site that supports science, facts, and reality.

Just because you didn't die from one case of covid, doesn't mean that's true for anyone else, or that the vaccines are experimental. It still took you 10 days to recover.

Are these bots?

It's a great day to get vaccinated 💪 against diseases that are airborne, preventable, disabling and/or deadly.*

*please wear a high-quality mask like a KN95 or N95 to your appointment.

Shirt by Raygun (they should bring it back!!). Glasses are Stoggles and mask is a Vitacore Can99.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

"...a series of safety reforms meant to improve conditions for firefighters. In its reversal, the agency said it has now stockpiled some 80,000 N95 masks and will include them in standard equipment packs for all large fires."

🔥😷🔥😷🔥

"...allowing only bandannas that offer no protection against toxins in wildfire smoke. But the Forest Service proposed new guidance Monday acknowledging for the first time that masks can protect firefighters against harmful particles in the smoke, The NYT reported. The move came as part of..."

U.S. Wildfire Fighters to Mask Up After Decades-Long Ban on Smoke Protections

This is awesome news!!!

From @heatmap.news newsletter: Forest Service reverses decades-old ban on firefighting masks

"For decades, the U.S. government banned wildfire fighters from wearing masks that officials deemed too cumbersome..."

🔥😷🔥😷🔥

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

Just here to say it's a beautiful color! 😍

Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.

Holy shit:

Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.

www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

I'm starting to look into how inflammation is being misused by MAHA types in a way that very much distracts from chronic illness-inflammation problems people actually have. If you're an academic, doctor, immunologist etc with thoughts on this, please be in touch at jmetraux@motherjones.com

We have policies/laws/regulations to ensure that our food and water are clean and safe. Why not for air, too?

Typical amounts taken in per day:
food = 4 lb
water = 3 lb
air = 30 lb

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Mandating Indoor Air Quality in Public Buildings.

Our paper in Science.

🧪 #healthpolicy

No offense, but things should get better, instead of constantly worse

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But how will people know I'm ___________ , if I wear a mask on my face during a massive surge of airborne infections, to help prevent further illness, disability and death from covid?? 😩

...Smiling at them
...Fashionable
...Professional
...Attractive
...Flirting

Oh honey, they'll know 😎😘

Sam Altman’s Younger Sister Files Lawsuit Claiming He Sexually Abused Her

It’s amazing how quickly people stopped mentioning that Sam Altman’s sister sued him for sexual abuse.

Treasury, IRS issue FAQs to address the accelerated termination of several energy provisions under OBBBA | Internal Revenue Service IR-2025-86, Aug. 21, 2025 — The Internal Revenue Service today issued frequently asked questions (FAQs) in Fact Sheet 2025-05 relating to the modification of sections 25C, 25D, 25E, 30C, 30D, 45L, 45W...

Huge news out of IRS today.

If you acquire an EV by September 30 - a written binding contract and make a payment (i.e., down payment or a trade-in) - you can take delivery *through the end of 2026.*

45W and 30D will keep on giving into next year.

🔌💡🔌🚗

www.irs.gov/newsroom/tre...

Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying

Banning masks in the workplace hurts everyone.

Particularly when you are a firefighter who rushes into toxic smoke-filled spaces.

You can perform just fine, even exercising intensely, in N95 masks.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

The FDA is expected to license the new Covid-19 booster on Friday -- reportedly only for adults 65+ and people at high risk.

Important

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

Covid-19 seems to age blood vessels - but only among women Women's arteries seem to be stiffer if they have had covid-19, with the same effect not being found among men

New Scientist: 'Covid-19 seems to age blood vessels - but only among women'

'“Here we have demonstrated there is something measurable in the blood vessels that corresponds to the symptoms of long-covid patients,” says Rosa Maria Bruno at Université Paris Cité

www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

If you're not willing to mask up in public during a huge surge of *airborne* covid (which includes many asymptomatic infections)...

A vascular illness that binds with ACE2 receptors throughout your ENTIRE BODY and wakes up CANCER CELLS...

✨️I don't want to see you in person right now✨️

k thx bye 😘

‘Sleeping’ cancer cells in the lungs can be roused by COVID and flu Inflammation from the respiratory infections seems to be the culprit, study in mice finds.

A striking new study showing that #virus infection can awaken dormant #cancer cells 🦠🧪

"Increased risk of cancer-related death in COVID+ individuals was most pronounced in the months immediately following infection, mirroring the rapid proliferation of reawakened cancer cells observed in the mice"

Kaiser Permanente Southern California studied over 19,000 adults and found that each additional COVID vaccine dose lowered long COVID risk, and antiviral treatments like Paxlovid cut risk by up to 95% beyond six months.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

People Are Sharing Sneaky Health Threats That Are Literally Destroying Your Body "Long COVID is the largest mass disabling event in human history, and it is still ongoing."

2025… when you have to rely on buzzfeed for accurate health information.

At least someone is calling Covid what it actually is: “The largest mass disabling event in human history”

Consider this your reminder to wear a mask (ideally an N95 or better), clean the air and get your vaccines!

State lawmaker, Paralympian enters the growing field of U.S. Senate candidates The number of candidates who want to replace Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst continues to grow. Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek from Council Bluffs says he knows how to win, even when Republicans out...

In disability politics news, Iowa state rep Josh Turek, who has spina bifida, has entered the Iowa Senate race. www.iowapublicradio.org/political-ne...

The Politics of Hysterectomy—and the Normalization of Women’s Pain Why are we still in the "dark ages" when it comes to treating endometriosis, debilitating periods, and chronic pelvic pain?

I was told to get pregnant to cure my endometriosis.

I was denied surgery by the leading expert because he only operated on women who were trying to conceive.

My hysterectomy was denied for five years because I might “meet a man who has kids”

This is a must read:

Post-acute infection syndrome (PAIS) This Collection welcomes studies into improving diagnostics and tools to determine disease progression, pathways affected, and clinical interventions, both ...

Scientists are calling for studies on post acute infection syndrome, where illnesses like long COVID, Lyme, and Q fever leave lasting fatigue, breathlessness, and cognitive issues long after the infection is gone.

www.nature.com/collections/...