One of our team members just enrolled in this to test out the system. Their tests shipped in under 3 hours and arrived the next day. 🤯 [head exploding emoji]

🧐 Please note:
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The signup has a few nosy questions, which are mandatory. One was about whether you identify as a marginalized gender. Another asked whether you have avoided healthcare recently and why. (Incredibly "covid" wasn't an option? Nevermind "covid expsosure risk in unmasked healthcare settings." Okay! 🫠)

We presume from the phrasing that these are for demographic research purposes.

🤩 One nice thing:
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You do NOT need to use the provided tests to access telehealth support or antivirals, so no need to save them for a special occasion.

You can use ANY FDA-approved covid test and still qualify for all features of the program, running thru April 2024.

Enrollment and more info here:

https://www.Test2Treat.org

#CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne
#BringBackMasks #MutualAid #MappingMasking #TestToTreat

Now that we're all here, how about a little ice breaker?

We know every face is unique, and it can take experimentation to find that comfortable fit that also gives a good seal.

We also know different masks are often great in different situations, even for the same face.

But if you had to pick just one mask, which mask are you wearing?

And why do you love it so much???

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Are you a 3M Aura trifold baby, classic yet flexible? We'd definitely understand that.

Maybe you like an expansive life that really makes you sing and prefer a Gerson 3230 duckbill. Plenty of room here for that, too.

Or do you prefer the solidity and less wastefulness of an elastomeric life? Eco conscious AND a tight seal??? Kinda hot tbh.

There's almost as many reasons to love a great mask as there are great mask options to love.

Let us know your go-to (and what makes it so great) in the replies!

#CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne
#BringBackMasks #MutualAid #MappingMasking

Probably the most frequent conversation we have about this project (besides the project itself) is how much we all despise the fact it's necessary in the first place.

Community care is and will always be essential. But regular folks should never have to spend their valuable labor compensating for total public abandonment.

#CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne
#BringBackMasks #MutualAid #MappingMasking #StopCopCity

ID: Screenshot of a tweet by Muting/Blocking Self Care (@ QueeringPsych) that reads:

I hate having to put so much of my brain energy towards avoiding & surviving COVID

I really resent the gov abandoning us so my household has to do so much to make for that lack of support

I'd rather COVID survival care packages or stipends from the gov instead of cop cities

15:06 10 Sep 23 7,779 Views

@Ralph @LightFIAR 🙌😍🤩😲 Holy cow I LOVE IT! I want it!

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsntOver #Covidcautious #CovidConscious #Covid #PrecautionaryPrinciple #PPE #personalprotectiveequipment

One thing that never stops baffling me, now that the policy with masks in #Japan is basically YOLO, is people who still wear a mask under their nose... Why?
But let's be positive, in the supermarket I'm currently in, mask wearing is about 80% (near 100% for women, 60% for men - is mask wearing gendered too in other countries?)
Glad to see that despite the govt efforts at covidiocy, most people understand that #CovidIsntOver

#Covid

Eugenics in action:

"Health-care workers at a hospital on Vancouver Island are sounding the alarm about the fast spread of COVID-19 at the facility in the last few weeks, after public health officials said they would not declare it an outbreak because of "negative connotations." 

#covidisntover #bcpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-vancouver-island-no-outbreak-1.6959369

Oh jeesh, deadline is today (9-7) on the CDC allowing public comment on wastewater collection. You can tell them we need wastewater collection expanded so we can better keep track of COVID: https://peoplescdc.substack.com/p/we-must-expand-covid-wastewater-collection?r=2ita9c&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
#CovidIsntOver #covid19 #wastewater #tracking

@detachedspork I understand, I get regular frights over every little sniffle from disabled daughter - no masks now in her day service but #CovidIsntOver

I am glad to see some schools taking action to stop infections

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/mask-mandates-return-for-maryland-elementary-school/ar-AA1ghV61?ocid=socialshare

#MaskUp #N95 #covid #covid19 #CovidIsntOver

A new Nature study out yesterday on viral persistence and how it wreaks havoc on the immune system: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-023-01601-2#MOESM1

#CovidIsntOver #LongCOVID #LongCovidKids #covid19 #MaskUp

Well…shit…our guitar player’s got COVID. Be careful out there.
#covidisntover

I have to laugh at the people offering outdoor dining as a way to still interact with them.

Sure, even outside, sitting cheek by jowl with 7 other shouting people for two hours, surrounded by other shouting people, feels super safe to me.

#CovidIsntOver

#Facebook coddling #Covidiots • #PublicHealth #CovidIsntOver

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/us-sees-covid-19-cases-rise-ahead-labor-day-weekend/

@rchusid

Republicans are dying at twice the rate of Democrats in the US because of much lower vaccination and masking rates. We are literally watching natural selection in real time.

"I'm not going to argue with strangers on the internet who claim that vaccines and masks don't work. Besides knowing the facts about Covid prevention, I know how Covid reduces sperm count and I understand natural selection."

#covidisntover

@chargrille No one knows. I wrote its Wikipedia article yesterday (BA.2.86), and there have been all of 24 cases.

#Eris #Pirola #COVIDIsntOver

LOL my neuro-spicy brain is demanding an immediate retreat from Medical-Industry World, after just two days of navigating my clinic's inconsistent masking policies. So that VM about scheduling a follow-up referral is just going to have to stew in my phone one more day, while I indulge my brain in some of my usual modes of therapeutic online goofing-off 😸

#neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #Covid #CovidIsntOver #WearAMask

Quick reminder...

The JustAFlu killed over 100,000 people in #California alone.

#Covid #Covid19 #CoronaVirus #CovidIsntOver

Welp...#CDC put the #HICPACmeeting video back to #public on #youtube. Guess who now has an mp4 copy 😎

Just in case they take it down again we have multiple avenues to access now.

#HICPAC #PowerToThePeople #COVID19 #CovidIsntOver #COVIDConscious #Healthcare #HealthcareSafety #InfectionPreventionAndControl #PublicHealth #PatientsRights #WorkersRights #HealthcareIsAHumanRight

Found another option to view the #HICPACmeeting in full! #CDC #HICPAC #InfectionPreventionAndControl #PublicHealth #HICPACcommittee #COVID19 #COVIDconscious #COVIDsafety #HealthcareSafety #SafeHealthcare #BringMasksBackInHealthcare #Nosocomial #HAI #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirForAll #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #recording #YouTube
cc: @GeorgiaOnMyMind @toba

https://youtu.be/IQTQc7Lu4Vk

6. Favorite game you NEVER get to play.

Cheating a bit on this one to say: any larp.

I miss larp bad, but I'm a #covidisntover person, so larp is something I'm not doing right now. Heartbreaking.