#maskmandates — Public Fediverse posts

This is my stitched #PSA for bringing back #MaskMandates in all #hospitals. Please boost/share on your other networks to try to support protecting vulnerable patients in hospitals.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/96WZ0BXFRxk

#PeopleWithDisabilities #BCHealth #BCMedical #HospitalER #HospitalSafety #CovidIsNotOver #Covid #MaskUp #BringBackMaskMandates #FireBonnieHenry #BCNDP #BCpoli #FailureToProtect #Eugenics #MasksSaveLives #LongCovidIsReal #Airborne #HealthCanada #CDNpoli #MedicalFails #BCNewDeathParty #SocialMurder #NewDeathParty #BonnieHenry #AdrianDix #DavidEby #BCNDPKillingPeople

@jaimeJ Thank you. I'm very stressed & worried. Really wish #MaskMandates were never removed from medical institutions - especially hospital ERs. I'm really angry at #BCgovernment / #BCNDP for #FailureToProtect when #CovidIsNotOver.

#BCpoli #HealthCanada #HighRisk #Covid

@rlstone4dems
We need #MaskMandates in all #hospitals - all the time. It's simply not safe without them. Patients need more protections than they're currently receiving.

#MasksSaveLives #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #PublicHealth #BCHealth #eugenics #BCMedical #BCpoli #COVIDisAirborne #BCNDP #FailureToProtect

#disabled #MutualAid #MaskUp #N95masks #fuckthemedicalsystem #MedicalIndustrialComplex #eugenics #covid #COVIDisAirborne #ableism #AbledSupremacy #doctorsarecops #DisabilityRights #disability #DisabilityJustice #stopeugenics #doctors #MaskUp #maskmandates #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #stillmasking

#FirstAmendment #advocates #fight growing number of #US #bookbans.

Many of the book bans started during the early days of the #pandemic, part of #frustration over #maskmandates and #onlinelearning that eventually led to the #politicization of #schoolboard #meetings.

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2023/10/09/first-amendment-advocates-fight-growing-number-of-u-s-book-bans/

#MomsforLiberty: ‘Joyful warriors’ or #antigovernment #conspiracists?
The rambunctious two-year-old group was founded in #BrevardCounty, #Florida, to resist #COVID19 #maskmandates.

https://www.alternet.org/moms-for-liberty-2665634455/

ACTION Alert: Please #oregon folx let’s not let more #disabled folx die. Flood the lines and emails of #MultnomahCounty health officials to insist #maskmandates must remain in healthcare settings. Contact information here: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PROVIDERPARTNERRESOURCES/LOCALHEALTHDEPARTMENTRESOURCES/Documents/Multnomah.pdf PLEASE share with any and all #MasksSaveLives #DisabilityJustice #CovidIsNotOver There is a small but mighty group fighting for this through the West Coast Solidarity

So, you remember that #BretStephens op-ed arguing that #MaskMandates don’t work and that it’s unscientific to claim otherwise? The one study it relied on, it turns out, was misrepresented both by Stephens and by one of its authors, writes @zeynep. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/opinion/masks-work-cochrane-study.html

We’re all guilty of confirmation bias, but #BretStephens really does take it to a new level, doesn’t he? His latest NYT column selectively reads a scientific paper on #MaskMandates. @kurteichenwald tweeted out some of errors. (I don’t normally cross-post from Twitter, but this seemed worthwhile.) https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1628427962243481601

So...1 in 24 Canadians has Covid, XBB1.5 (kraken) variant is projected to be at 22% in Ontario by the end of the week, people are still dying of Covid (279 in Canada in the first week of January), and though voluntary mask wearing is low, 69% of Canadians support mask mandates if necessary.

Public health in many regions recommends or strongly recommends mask wearing.

But no mask mandates?
Not even in education and the workplace?
Nothing?

Mandates would make it so much easier for the caring majority to normalize wearing a mask again. Many people understandably don't want to #WearAMask unless it is clearly necessary. #MaskMandates are necessary to get mask wearing in public up to >80%, which IHME estimates would halve deaths from covid with a month.

In the absence of clear direction from public health, #MaskUp and protect yourself and those around you as best you can.

https://maskevidence.org/why-masks-matter

#SystemsApproaches #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid #BetterMasks

Tara Moriarty's lab's estimates of current infections and risk: https://twitter.com/MoriartyLab/status/1614737208602230784

Incomplete count of deaths from Covid in Canada: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/current-situation.html?stat=num&measure=deaths_weekly&map=pt#a2

CTV/Nanos Nov 2022 poll of Canadians: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/majority-of-canadians-support-return-of-face-masks-in-indoor-public-spaces-if-deemed-necessary-survey-1.6144419

IHME projections: https://covid19.healthdata.org/canada?view=daily-deaths&tab=trend

@holmesr @Pat

Hi again. Thanks for the feedback and for engaging, much appreciated.

We think overhead elastic is critical to getting good fitted-filtration (ie, net filtration of a mask on a face). We summarize this here ⬇️

https://maskevidence.org/head-attachments

In North America, #N95s must have overhead elastic simplifying our advice in favour of these over #KN95 or #KF94

There are data on beards, too!

For a 10mm beard, an N95 is still more effective than all other masks.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-021-00337-1

If the stifling feeling is specifically associated with headstraps for you, they could be too tight. Aura 3M has simple band elastic straps that lengthen with a good hard tug. This is a pro in this situation for you.

For straps that don't lengthen so easily, consider an #N95 with braided elastic such as Vitacore's #Can99.

Vitacore's Can99 also has superb breathability so if the problem isn't the attachments, this might help.

Apologies for a N American reply to a European question.

Anyone curating info on #FFP2 or #FFP3 and suppliers please let me know: we would love to put this on our website.

#WearTheBestMaskAvailable

#COVID #BetterMasks #MaskUp #MaskMandates #Masks
#WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #BetterMasks #MaskUp #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid #Beards

➡️ I'm seeing a lot of "N95s work and other masks do not"

➡️ Filtration is relative, not absolute

➡️ Summary and infographic ⬇️
https://maskevidence.org/mask-types

⬇️%s are filtration percentages for submicron (less than 1 micron) particles - aerosol data - the relevant size because #CovidIsAirborne

90% N95s without fit testing
70% Level 1 medical with cotton overmask
50% Level 1 medical or well-fitting 2-layer cotton

What does it mean?

➡️ Wear the best mask available

If you have access to N95s or FFP3s with overhead elastic, wear them

Otherwise use what you have: any mask is better than no mask

A certified medical mask with a good-fitting cloth mask over the top to improve the edge seal is a great low-cost combo

Mask braces are a bit uncomfortable but is you are in a high-risk situation (eg health care worker not supplied with routine N95s) they greatly improve the filtration of medical masks

#WearTheBestMaskAvailable

#COVID #BetterMasks #MaskUp #MaskMandates #Masks
#WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #BetterMasks #MaskUp #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid

@RitchieTorres As a constituent I beg to differ. @DNC @GOP are united in #endlesswar, more #prisons, more #police. Ya'll refuse to give us voters what we want: #GND, #SinglePayer #UBI, #AffordableHousing, #COVIDfunding, #MaskMandates, #Reparations, #LandBack, #StrikeDebt, #FreeCollege, #EndPoverty. As @ggreenwald points out the anti-democratic House and Senate put all their power into leadership and the members end up having little power to make change. Use yours for good not @AIPAC & #Crypto.