During the last year or so amid so many people and groups just completely dropping precautions and going back to "normal" - the most upsetting instances have been watching fellow activists and leftists do this.

I expected the ruling class and government to push us all back to "normal" - but what I didn't expect was so many folks who I watched be the first to initiate precautions at their events and pass out masks, saying they were standing in solidarity with workers and those most at risk (which to be blunt is all of us) for covid complications to just take the Biden administration's word that covid was "over".

These are the same people who helped radicalize me, who challenged me to expand my knowledge - who helped me understand that the ruling class has never had the poor and working classes best interests in mind. Who taught me how none of us are free until we are all free.

I am baffled because they are now seemingly taking the governments word for it and dropping all their precautions - even though we've all discussed over and over how our government exists to maintain a patriarchal, white supremacist capitalist state that benefits the ruling class via oppression and exploitation.

How can they possibly justify their abandonment of their fellow community members?

The ruling class makes their events #DavosSafe , they can afford to miss work while they recover from COVID, they can access the best doctors and the best treatments. The ruling class directly benefits from pretending COVID is over.

It justifies taking away increased food stamps, rental assistance, paid leave for COVID, access to testing, and so many other pandemic safety nets that made organizing among the poor and working class even easier.

Even more members of the poor and working class, being chronically ill and disabled directly benefits the ruling class because it is a barrier to organizing. Obviously, the disabled community has BEEN organizing for decades. But it does make it more difficult to organize if you barely have the energy to get out of bed.

The ruling class is banking on a mass disabling event amid the rise of organization across race, class, gender, and labor.

So, like I said: it is baffling to me to watch fellow activists and leftists playing into the #letitrip approach with COVID.

Not only are they pushing away folks who would otherwise love to be involved in their work by dropping protections like masks at events/meetings - they're also making their work harder by risking repeat COVID infection. They're also perpetuating abelism by not making their events and meetings accessible while claiming to be dismantling their internalized abelism.

How are we supposed to build in the shell of the old if we aren't even willing to see that the ruling class is up to their same old ablelist, racist, and classist tricks? How are we supposed to fight together for a better world when you won't wear a mask to protect yourself and others?

Anyway , this is my rant about covid and my frustrations around folks abandoning protocols that save lives and make events accessible to everyone.

I am deeply encouraged and excited by so many folks on here talking about this and working with others to help change things - even when my experiences since mask mandates started being dropped have been very isolating. As always, there is much work to do. ♡

You ever realize that the public are basically being involved in what amounts to a giant medical study without their fully-informed consent, because that is how the ultrarich -- who are still protecting themselves from covid (shoutout #DavosSafe) -- achieve the following simultaneously:

1. keep the economy going
2. learn about the virus' long-term effects from live subjects who have "volunteered" (i.e. been gaslit)

This is already being done for the wealthy, BTW. See hashtags like #DavosSafe and see what Wallensky and Jha of the CDC got installed at their kids' upscale school in Newton Mass.

So it's a class issue, too. Of course. Damn near everything is, little as anyone likes to talk about it.

So ask yourself, are you fine with this? Or are you gonna get mad and get loud?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/09/how-ashish-jha-rochelle-walensky-newton-ma-protect-their-children-from-covid-but-not-yours.html

@tantramar continuing to mask, advocate for air filtration so we can all be #DavosSafe , continue to test, advocate for continued monitoring of #WasteWater , vote in elections for continued investments in #HealthCare

We can make our communities safer and more accessible, saving quality of life, lives, and healthcare resources in the process.

"Fresh air has long been seen as important for our health, even if we haven’t always understood why."

Or to misquote Bill Clinton, it's the air, stupid.

In the fourth year of #Covid, we have failed to address the most important aspect of mitigating viral spread.

#IAQ #CleanAir #Filtration #Ventilation #Covid19 #DavosSafe

https://theconversation.com/fresh-air-has-long-been-seen-as-important-for-our-health-even-if-we-havent-always-understood-why-207879

Here's more information from Dr. Zoe Hyde, re the (in)accuracy rates of rapid #COVID tests for asymptomatic infections, which are really just incredibly, depressingly low unless you test multiple times and wait 48 hours in between tests.

And you should follow @DrZoeHyde!

#DavosSafe #COVID

https://progressives.social/@DrZoeHyde@mstdn.science/110685738718203162.

The White House stays #DavosSafe, while abandoning your family to a #CovidThunderdome

Tweet by @RealGayArbys
Wouldn't it be wild if corporations and the US government were blatantly, openly admitting to using a fancy Covid prevention services company for their big fancy parties? And if they were all listed as clients on said company's site? Wouldn't that be WILD

[QTs screenshot from event-scan.us website with logos for Mastercard, #SpaceX, UPS, Pepsi, Samsung, & The White House]

RT @StephTaitWrites@twitter.com

There’s a reason that the White House still requires testing and upgraded ventilation to get anywhere near the President. There’s a reason economic/financial outlets like Bloomberg are seemingly the only ones still truly reporting on Covid. There is a reason #DavosSafe is a thing

https://twitter.com/StephTaitWrites/status/1660713369681403905?s=20

Feeling like I'm going to need goggles as well as an N95 next time I risk a flight. I've heard of stoggles; any others?

#LongCovid #WearAMask #DavosSafe

My folks went to a fancy people's arts and letters event in Santa Fe, NM, recently. 100% masks required for indoor events with proof of vax+boosters, surgicals provided for those who didn't have their own mask (most had their own respirators). #DavosSafe

"The super rich have abandoned us. That doesn’t mean we have to abandon each other. We can look out for each other. We can clean the air. We can wear N95 masks. We can make schools safe. We can adapt to climate change. We can stop letting billionaires divide us. We can take care of each other.

Yes, they’ve left you to die.

We haven’t."

#WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver #DisasterCapitalism #capitalism #pandemic #covid #DavosSafe #WeKeepUsSafe #solidarity

https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/yes-theyve-left-you-to-die?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

"The super rich have abandoned us. That doesn’t mean we have to abandon each other. We can look out for each other. We can clean the air. We can wear N95 masks. We can make schools safe. We can adapt to climate change. We can stop letting billionaires divide us. We can take care of each other.

Yes, they’ve left you to die.

We haven’t."

#WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver #DisasterCapitalism #capitalism #pandemic #covid #DavosSafe

https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/yes-theyve-left-you-to-die?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

@TheMemeticist my pet theory is that the ownership class saw unrest as inevitable anyway, and a mass disabling event is an effective way to hamstring it, so long as they can stay #DavosSafe

5 ACH is not enough, but in most places will be an improvement.

Also interesting this comes out 5/11/23, the day the pandemic emergency officially ends.

#CovidIsNotOver
#DavosSafe
#Ventilation

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/Improving-Ventilation-in-buildings.html

If you’re in the Seattle area and want to treat yourself or a loved one to a delightful #DavosSafe afternoon at the spa, I heartily recommend #ElaiaSpa at the Hyatt Olive 8. Excellent services and facilities, in the best-ventilated business I’ve ever measured.

Full review: https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/@47.6137543,-122.334102,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!14m5!1m4!2m3!1sChZDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0FnSURSNzVtTU5REAE!2m1!1s0x0:0x3caa84aeb686d429?hl=en-US

If you’re in the Seattle area and want to treat yourself or a loved one to a delightful #DavosSafe afternoon at the spa, I heartily recommend #ElaiaSpa at the Hyatt Olive 8. Excellent services and facilities, in the best-ventilated business I’ve ever measured.

Full review: https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/@47.6137543,-122.334102,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!14m5!1m4!2m3!1sChZDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0FnSURSNzVtTU5REAE!2m1!1s0x0:0x3caa84aeb686d429?hl=en-US

my challenge is to figure out how to translate these points into counter-propaganda to at least attempt to counter-radicalize the population

i refuse to accept mass death and disability

i refuse to allow the most powerful to be #DavosSafe while leaving the rest of us to rot

i will do whatever i can to warn people

silence = murder and i will not be silent

#CovidIsNotOver

(brilliant thread stolen and reproduced from @dirrhope@twitter.com)

@dean @libroraptor I also know little about it, but I remember them being part of the #DavosSafe protocols.

I've read they're helpful although probably need a more strategic placement.

I wonder about the effectiveness of this one lamp just standing in the corner of the room, but I guess it can't be worse than not having it.

"Volgens het onderzoek hadden kinderen en jongeren die het virus opliepen in de 1e coronagolf 30% meer kans om langdurige gezondheidsproblemen te krijgen."
Noch politici, noch de media hebben campagne gevoerd voor kinderen” - Kinderen!!! #ScholenVeilig #DavosSafe
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RT @LangzeitC
"Kinder und Jugendliche, die in der 1 Corona-Welle am Virus erkrankten, hatten laut Studie eine 30% höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit, längerfristig an gesundheitliche…
https://twitter.com/LangzeitC/status/1647184479763529729

RT @alisagrossutti
Clean Air @ Work infographic complete! I’ll let everyone know when I’ve updated the website: http://www.itsairborne.weebly.com where there will be a free download of the printable PDF and PNG. ⁦@joeyfox85⁩ #itsairborne #cleantheair #corsirosenthal #DavosSafe