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If your space doesn't require masks, it's not diverse.
If your space doesn't require masks, it not equitable.
If your space doesn't require masks, it's not inclusive.
#CovidIsAirborne
If you know COVID mostly spreads asymptomatically, and you're going around unmasked (despite being able), can you really call yourself progressive? Or anti-racist? Or anti-oppressive? Or a feminist? Or an abolitionist? Or empathetic? Or community minded?
I don't think I could...
A lot of COVID transmission is asymptomatic. If you stopped masking but support bodily autonomy (pro-choice, in support of trans rights, etc.), does it align with your values to infect people with COVID w/o their consent? It's not too late to course correct and live your values.
Before I found the
#CovidConscious
community, I had to constantly remind myself that I'm not alone. But now, I know for certain I am not.
You are the most empathetic people I know. Your determination to protect others and to make the world better is really something else
@wrath_776
Yes, they've regressed to toddler behaviour. But me saying that is an insult to toddlers because they don't know better. Adults should know better!
One thing
#COVID
taught me is some folks don't actually want to do better when they know better - not if it inconveniences them.
Anecdotally, folks who are able* to mask will choose not to, inspite of me constantly sharing facts and statistics.
*Financially, physically, etc.
I'm child free by choice; some think that's selfish.
B/c I'm not a parent, I "don't have the right to comment" on how educated/well-resourced folks are endangering their kids by exposing them to COVID.
Um, I literally care more about your kids than you do. Be better.
Why aren't more folks with formal education credentials masking? Wasn't the point of college to develop critical thinking skills? It's not too late to start using them again.
#COVIDisAirborne
#MaskUp
If anyone in Houston, TX is comfortable using expired N95's, a public agency is auctioning off 53 pallets of 3M respirators, approx. 375,000 masks Bid price rn is only $200 USD. Please reshare! Hoping this reaches a mask bloc over there 🤞🏽
Anybody else worry they're receiving subpar treatment or services because almost everyone has brain damage due to
#COVID
(myself included, got it once thus far)?
Like are HCWs just fucking up procedures and treatments? And not just them, I'm sure it's across industries
Maybe it's COVID related, maybe it's not. But COVID does increase children's risk of developing Type 1 diabetes.
Another reason for parents to advocate for masking and cleaner air in classrooms
What stops people, with the ability and resources, from living their values?
Here are some famous feminists, engaging in the possible (and most likely, probable) asymptomatic spread of SARS2
Gay deleted my comment, too 😔
Shouldn't feminism include
#DisabilityJustice
praxis?
Why am I supposed to have empathy for anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers when they're so fucking cruel?
Had a shitty encounter on the bus with two Yt women. I hate it here.
To their credit, they stopped trying to make fetch happen. My sharpened politic about COVID, disability, fascism, about centering marginalized people naturally put me at odds with even others who look like me. And it’s nothing aggressive, just largely disinterest. It hurts tho.
Hi. I’m Keith. I live in Canada and I refuse to accept that infections and reinfections are inevitable - I will continue do my utmost to break chains of transmission. What about you?
Both my boss and father-in-law tested positive for COVID yesterday
They do not mask. Thank goodness they at least tested and are isolating. I hope they didn't infect anyone tho.
We are in a surge. Wear the best mask you can.
#CovidIsNotOver
#CovidIsAirborne
#MaskUp
Anybody else have difficulty enjoying art from artists who don't protect their fans from COVID and/or are silent on genocide?
Or is it just my autism? 🫠
Maybe when people's celebrity heroes inevitably get Long COVID, they'll wake up. But it'll be too late.
For all the folks who say they can't work out in a disposable respirator, Kyle here is wearing an elastomeric one. Love to see it!
#CovidIsAirborne
#CovidIsntOver
Had a wave of grief wash over me yesterday, while waiting for the SkyTrain. Wished I could've eaten my chicken tawouk wrap on the platform, without the threat of SARS2 infection.
Such an odd thing to miss, I know.
#COVIDisAirborne
@JohnHolder64994
My cousin was on an ECMO machine for a month. The day after they took him off, he died of a heart attack. 40ish, no pre-existing conditions. This was before vaccines were available, unfortunately. Our family will never be the same.
I know SARS-CoV-2 can cause worse outcomes, but why aren't more people afraid of losing the ability to taste food?!
I can't imagine being unable to taste sinigang or kare kare 😩
#COVIDIsAirborne
THIS. There's nothing stopping her from protecting her fans. She could make masks mandatory AND provide high quality ones for all concertgoers. I doubt it would make a dent in her revenue.
But that's too much to expect from Yt feminist who took forever to denounce the far-right
Perhaps if our society wasn't so averse to grief (thanks again, Yt supremacy), we could properly mourn the loss of our pre-COVID lives, move on, and do what we need to do to stop (further) disabling and killing people.
I can only hope this happened in a different timeline...
Thanks to everyone who is still trying to protect others and themselves from SARS2 (among other things). Every chain of transmission you break could prevent someone's death or (further) disablement 🫶🏽✊🏽😷
Life would be so much easier if I didn't care about my health or infecting strangers with a disabling and deadly virus.
Ignorance and selfishness really is bliss.
Want me to shop local? Then have your business require masks.
I'm sorry it will be another expenditure, but take it up with the government 🤷🏽♀️. They're responsible for corporate greed causing inflation, and they should be providing respirators for all
#COVIDisAirborne
@pot8um
Also very surprising as this person doesn't seem to fuck with billionaires...but guess what billionaires are doing? Protecting themselves from SARS-CoV-2 🫠
How are we supposed to have faith in these people to lead us through an emergency when there is not a mask in sigh? We're in a global pandemic, and these people are spreading SARS2.
What a fucking farce.
Three days down, two more to go! It's been a fantastic
#UBCM23
so far, discussing the future of emergency management in British Columbia and connecting with local leaders from all over the province.
So if protection from the vaccine decreases, but masks help us protect each other from COVID infections, why on earth did you remove the mask mandate hospitals?
Why do mediocre Yt men get paid so much money to make things worse?
#bcpoli
While the peak of the respiratory illness season has passed, the SARS CoV-2 virus continues to circulate at lower levels. As the protection from infection that COVID-19 vaccines provide decreases over time, it’s a good idea to get your spring booster
#BC
.
If I understand the research correctly, we're disabling kids by letting them get Long COVID. Then we're going to leave them w/o one or both parents b/c SARS-CoV-2 infections increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, and death
This isn't a crisis at all 🫠
If we want to decrease commercial farming as a way to slow zoonotic spillover, we should be fighting to return stewardship of the land to Indigenous people.
Fighting against climate change must also mean fighting for
#LANDBACK
Today, we granted emergency use authorization for an updated Novavax COVID-19 vaccine that more closely targets currently circulating variants to provide better protection against serious consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death.
@chantz_y
I hate that trolls will respond by telling you to move to Japan if you hate this country so much, instead of acknowledging that Japanese kids protecting each other from sickness is a positive thing. And their actions are good for attendance. This timeline is the pits 🫠
Real question.
How did COVID become decoupled from social justice?
The leftists won’t mask.
Activist working for racial justice WON‘T MASK.
All those ppl with Black Lives Matter signs in their yards WILL NOT MASK.
@PunchUpPod
any ideas?
Need Yt women to understand this. People do not lead single-issue lives.
The pandemic and the genocide are connected.
Being uncomfortable is not the same as being unsafe. Learn the difference.
Yt ppl: tell me how to be more anti-racist and intersectional!
PoGM: wear a mask and act like we're still in a pandemic...because we are
Yt ppl: nah, it's too inconvenient
When the Freedom Convoy happened, so many supposedly progressive ppl were outraged at those folks for spreading COVID and harassing HCW's. But now the majority of liberals don't care about spreading COVID, and most HCW's don't mask anymore.
We're in the fucking upsidedown
Need the Yt feminists who keep saying the Handmaid's Tale is becoming reality to a) start masking and b) fight these mask bans.
Disabled, immunocompromised, and chronically ill PoGM told us this would happen.
#CovidIsAirborne
Yt COVID Conscious folks, pls don't ask BIPOC why their events don't require masks, esp if you don't have a relationship with them.
It's paternalistic and perpetuates Yt internalized superiority.
Put that energy towards calling in/out other Yt folks.
Canadian friends, is clearing out the CSA-certified CANADAMASQ Q100 in XS. $1 for a pack of 10 masks. Shipping is $10. You can order a maximum of 6 packs.
Liberation praxis must include disability justice.
Disability justice must include protecting each other from SARS-COV-2.
Why?
Because if we can agree that the state doesn't take care of us, then we need to take care of each other.
In Canada, we get a rapid test supplier that edited their results to qualify for gov't pandemic contracts.
And this is what Mongolia gets. Le sigh 🙃🫠🤦🏽♀️
#bcpoli
#CovidIsAirborne
I want to live in a world led by those at the margins of society.
Because that world might actually be post-COVID. It might be tackling climate change in a meaningful way. It might be more free and equitable and compassionate.
Centering the most impacted benefits all of us.
According to them, Long COVID exists, and they infer we'll all get COVID.
Instead of holding Henry accountable and urging her to bring back masks, we get this BS.
FYI if you don't get COVID, you can't develop Long COVID.
Yt women really are the foot soldiers of yt supremacy
Hear ye, hear ye, King Dustin has decrees that if something doesn't provide 100% protection, we should just stop using it.
So, let's get rid of seatbelts, condoms, airbags! What else?!
Westerners - Wanna know how we can help prevent death, grief, and intergenerational trauma?
Wear a mask
Asymptomatic transmission of SARS2 kills. If we're gonna condemn murder, perhaps we should do our part to decrease the spread of SARS2
#COVIDIsAirborne
#FreePalestine
It's a shame immunocompromised & chronically ill folks can't attend the
@Beyonce
show at
@bcplace
. She and
@taylorswift13
could have made masks mandatory and provided KN95s. Some fans would've fussed but most would comply.
Capitalism kills. Divest from celebrity culture.
In the ideal world, gov't would provide free N95s, KN95's, or KF94's. N95's may not fit the faces of people from the global majority. Pls continue to wear the best fitting mask you can afford.
This is so frustrating. In BC, public health manufactured low demand by not sending out vaccination invitations, not advertising Novavax availability, and not informing people about the benefits of Novavax over mRNA
#bcpoli
Canada will not provide Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine this respiratory virus season, citing ‘low demand.’
COVID isn’t a seasonal respiratory virus and the Government has an obligation to protect its citizens, not big Pharma.
My partner plays music at a senior care home, and this just happened. It's impt to note the majority of residents at this facility are Asian.
This is why more folks need to mask - so less ppl are emboldened to do cowardly shit like this
#CovidIsAirborne
If you're getting sick regularly, and you have very few paid sick days, wouldn't you want to protect your earning potential?
I have been sick once since the start of the pandemic because of consistent mask usage. Iunno how people afford being sick all the time 🤷🏽♀️
It's really hard being someone who does not want to be infected by SARS-COV-2 over and over while also being surrounded by people who are fine with it and therefore don't care about infecting you.
It's really, really hard.
Yt women are quick to remind men that men don't get to decide what behaviour is sexist or misogynistic.
So why can't Yt ppl understand that they don't get to decide when their behaviour is Sinophobic?
And follow Asians, we don't get to decide when our behaviour is anti-Black.
Canadian friends, please sign this petition demanding evidence-based, COVID public policy. Don't forget to check your email for the verification link.
#CovidIsNotOver
#CovidIsAirborne
#MaskUp
It could take decades for us to get a handle on COVID, but I look forward to the day I can meet some of you in-person and share a meal (or several). If you ever make it to the Pacific Northwest, I would be happy to be your tour guide.
Thank you, truly 🫶🏽
The clerk at
#BCLiquor
asked me to remove my mask to verify my photo ID. I AM ALMOST 40. They made a stink when I wouldn't comply. So much for a business respecting my personal choice to avoid spreading and/or contracting a dangerous virus. 🖕🏽
@bcndp
#CovidIsAirborne
#NorthVan
Had a convo with a lovely elderly person while waiting for the bus (in my mask, of course)
Them: is there still COVID?
Me: yes, a lot. I seem fine, but what if I have COVID? 59% of transmission is asymptomatic. Should I give it to strangers?
Them: ...No. You should be a lawyer!
Grateful for engineers like
@OhCasavant
who correctly believe
#CovidisAirborne
. My MLA
@BowinnMa
says she's "more of an engineer than a politician" but prefers to tow the party line instead of following science. So much for Bowinn protecting her constituents
#bcpoli
#NorthVan
I wonder how many ppl defending NW lend out their Nukit devices to less-resourced folks.
Some CC folks are only concerned with protecting themselves from infection and not really concerned about how they're spreading COVID. Qwhite interesting
I was excited about returning to the gym (masked, of course) after a long hiatus but immediately felt apprehension about sharing. Then I realized that's yt supremacy demanding perfection. No, gracias
Kudos to everyone still trying their best to keep themselves and others safe
Where are all the pro-life people at? Shouldn't you be calling for a ceasefire to stop the Israeli government from murdering Palestinian babies, children, and pregnant people? Actually, if you believe in the sanctity of life, you'd want them to stop killing people in general...
As someone who lost their Mom at the age of 11, I can't help but worry about ppl w/ young kids.
How many of those parents will drop dead within the next decade?
Call me alarmist or fear-mongering, but the data on repeat COVID infections is grim
#COVIDisAirborne
Yt people, if you're shocked then you may be in disbelief, which means you haven't been listening to what the People of the Global Majority have repeatedly told you. This is our normal.
@haziethompson
💯. Ppl tell me that b/c I'm not a parent, I'll never know what it actually takes to raise a child, so I could never care more about their health than they do.
You know what it takes to raise a child? Living parents.
How do I know that? My Mom died when I was 11.
An Asian person is being anti-Black and a Yt person is being Sinophobic. Neither wants to reflect and determine if they caused harm (they did).
The CC community feels like a minefield at times.
Since governments and public health don't care about protecting children from COVID, we should allow teachers to smoke cigarettes in classrooms. Oh, and we should allow kids to bring food that contains peanuts.
Trying to understand how some folks* can be disgusted at the colonizers for spreading smallpox and decimating Indigenous populations yet they won't wear a mask to decrease the spread of SARS2 🤔
*who can afford and are medically able to mask
#CovidIsAirborne
#MaskUp
Can someone explain to Dustin that when I wear a mask, it decreases the chances of me giving them COVID? If I supposedly wanted them to die, why am I choosing to protect them? Especially when 59% of COVID transmission is asymptomatic.
I guess next time someone tells me to go back to where I came from, I can say, "yes, I fucking wish I could"...except I was born here in Vancouver 😅🤦🏽♀️
An exploited country (the Philippines) gets it, and an exploitative country (Canada) doesn't 🫠
#COVIDisAirborne
In the Philippines, the sight of rows of air purifiers at the grocery store and UV-C disinfection in restaurants + cafes tells me that even in this country it's recognized that
#COVIDisAirborne
.
I am proud to say that this is my country of birth! 🇵🇭
#CovidIsNotOver
#covid19bc
I'm pro-Palestinian liberation 🇵🇸. My frustration is with the hypocrisy of Western folks who won't protect their kids from SARS2 but are outraged about murdered Israeli children (and when the same atrocities happen to Palestinian children, they're silent 🙄)
@rg224
Also don’t put a sign on your door forbidding masking or give your customers lectures about how you have improved Covid immunity after multiple infections because you “did your research”.
I’m at the point where I hope some businesses fail.
The way some non-Black people are replying to @/ravenscimaven needs to stop. I understand the anger and disappointment. But it's okay to stay silent sometimes.
i really wish white ppl would understand that they can’t just talk to black ppl like this without people taking it some type of way, esp online, where it it costs zero dollars to just end the conversation before you dig yourself even deeper.
Tour de France reintroduces mask mandate as Carlos Rodriguez describes Covid as "invisible rival" after teammates Tom Pidcock and Geraint Thomas test positive