#cleartheair — Public Fediverse posts

I never did an #introduction post, so it looks like now is a good time.

Hi. I'm Rebecca.

I'm a #teacher, primarily high school English #literacy / #ELA with predominantly second-language speakers. #HabloEspañol. I work in #ChristianEd. I'm interested in everything #education and #pedagogy. Alumna of #ClearTheAir.

My formal training is in #linguistics. I know enough #ASL to get myself into trouble but not out of it. Sign name R-dimple in my local community.

I'm a misfit #Christian who grew up fundamentalist, went liberal Baptist for two years, became a classic case of Young, Restless, and #Reformed (but still Baptist), and am now learning to have no heroes but Jesus. The #Bible is good; #theology is not an intellectual exercise. Holding religious freedom and soul liberty together with a historically Christian sexual ethic. Miss the high church liturgy. #Monasticism-curious. Hate abuse, love survivors. #Missionary sent to the Dominican Republic.

I'm currently learning #photography and currently trying for a year of #WeeklyPhotoChallenge to practice my skills.

It's great to be a Michigan Wolverine. #GoBlue 〽️

(PS I manually approve follower requests for everybody's safety- it's a teacher thing - but the lock icon doesn't mean my account is private 😊)

easiest metaphor for understanding how to prevent #covid transmission: how would you adjust your behavior if instead of exhaling #virus, someone was exhaling #cigarette smoke?

(this won’t work if, for whatever reason, you don’t mind inhaling second smoke)

you know that the more smoke you inhale, the sicker you’re going to feel

so what would you do?

first things first, you might suggest the person smoking #isolate themselves by going to some kind of smoking room or area

barring that, you would adjust your behavior to protect yourself

if you were outside, you might take a step back

if a whole crowd of people were smoking, even outside, you might stand away from the crowd

if you were indoors, you would probably open some doors or windows if possible

maybe you’d turn on a fan or an air filtration system of some kind (like a #hepafilter )

if you were stuck in a situation where smoke was accumulating in the air (remember the haze in the air in bars in the 90s?) you might try doing what you could to cover your nose and mouth (like wearing a #mask or #respirator)

it’s possible that none of these methods on their own seem useful but if you picture COVID accumulating in the air like smoke, you can see how a combination of these methods might #cleartheair and make it easier to breathe

it’s unlikely that you would sit back watching the room fill with smoke and tell yourself there’s nothing to be done

not when there absolutely is

#publichealth #covid19 #covidisnotover #transmission #prevention #CleanTheAir