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  1. My past 1.5 hour with client for her 2 hospital appointments have basically been spent in hallways/waiting rooms & reminding staff they can't come near me or my client without wearing a mask. I've had to remind my client that she doesn't need to thank me, multiple times for being vigilant about keeping her safe. Just because some folks are terminally ill - it doesn't mean anyone has the right to rob them of living out the rest of their lives, as safely as possible. She's still has 1/4 of bucket list to check off & I'm helping her make that happen.

    Every one has the right to demand masking from health care staff. Don't let eugenics enablers convince you otherwise.

    #WearAMask #HealthCare #Medical #BeABetterHuman #CompassionMatters

  2. 2025-December-26

    The CDC has not updated their count of COVID 19 deaths

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    2025-December-19 Friday

    294 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19

    1,239,132 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total

    #AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask

  3. 2025-December-12 Friday

    After months, the CDC site has finally updated the count.

    On 2025-September-26
    1,235,651 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total

    On 2025-December-06
    1,238,872 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total

    #AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask

  4. #CovidIsNotOver

    "#Measles and #Polio Down in the Schoolyard" - #MarshFamily #music #parody of Paul Simon "Me and Julio"

    "We’ll see measles and polio down in the schoolyard
    We’ll see flu and rubella down in the schoolyard
    We’ll see varicella, down in the schoolyard
    We’ll see hepatitis, down in the schoolyard
    We’ll see parotitis, down in the schoolyard
    We’ll see coronavirus, down in the schoolyard"

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiXrd-R

    #COVIDisAirborne #MeaslesIsAirborne #Medical #PublicHealth #VaccinateYourKids #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #PreventableIllness #LongCovid #Covid #MoreThanAFluThing #NotJustACold #PutAMaskOn #StopDisablingKids

  5. OMG! We’re having a fire…sale…on kid-sized #masks!

    Catch it while it lasts and stock up for the school year at our charity fundraising store.

    buymask.ca

    Adult-sized masks and other clean air tools are also available!

    All proceeds from our charity fundraising store are used to support our Free Request Program–so your purchase will help us ship #masks to people across Canada!

    #WearAMask #YallMasking #CleanAirForAll #MaskUp

  6. Don’t forget to stock up on #masks and clean air tools before the start of the school year!

    You can do your back-to-school shopping at our charity fundraising store.

    buymask.ca

    All proceeds from our store support our Free Request Program. This means your purchase will keep you AND others safe!

    #MaskUp #YallMasking #CleanAirForAll #WearAMask

  7. Did you hear? We’re having a fire…sale…on kid-sized #masks! 😷

    Visit our charity fundraising store to stock up for the new school year. 🎒

    🛒 buymask.ca

    Adult-sized masks and other clean air tools are also available!

    All proceeds from our charity fundraising store are used to support our Free Request Program–so your purchase will help us ship #masks to people across Canada!

    #WearAMask #YallMasking #CleanAirForAll #MaskUp

  8. The medical establishment is resistant to change.

    Semmelweis, who discovered the benefits of hand washing for infection control, was fired & put in an insane asylum.

    Folks, doctors included, will deny reality as long as possible.

    Maskers need to stand strong, the tides will shift eventually.

    zeroes.ca/@nicktsergas/1143619

    #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #pandemic #cleanair #wearamask #infectioncontrol #keepmasksinhealthcare

  9. Huge cuts at NIOSH mean that those who reply on respirators to keep themselves safe will have less protection. This impacts firefighters, miners, healthcare workers and all manner of industries.

    It’s also devastating to the disability community.

    “You do you” Covid policies left many of us with N95s as our main line of defence against repeat infection.

    Respirators make public spaces accessible. They allow us to attend healthcare appointments without forced infection.

    Cutting the people who ensure their quality will endanger disabled lives.

    cnn.com/2025/04/06/health/cdc-

    #uspoli #fascism #maskswork #wearamask #niosh #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #disability

  10. This is mind boggling. Infection control literally becomes “infections welcome” if you refuse to follow the science.

    They should be emphatically supporting N95s in healthcare settings.

    Patients are being killed by hospital acquired COVID.

    It has a 10% fatality rate - and most healthcare facilities are refusing to even TRY to minimize it.

    No one should have to choose between care and Covid. While I will never agree it should be the patient’s responsibility to mitigate their own covid risk - until our institutions step up and do the right thing - here’s my guide to avoiding covid in hospital:

    disabledginger.com/p/how-to-st

    #covidisairborne #sarscov2 #infectioncontrol #nosocomial #covidisnotover #wearamask #keepmasksinhealthcare #eugenics #ableism #disability #pandemic #N95

  11. It’s POTS Awareness Day. I forgot because (ironically) I’m dealing with monster coat hanger pain… something common in POTS.

    It’s a terrible headache that encompasses your neck and upper back - it basically forms the shape of a coat hanger!

    It took me years to realize the coat hanger pain was from my POTS. Years of suffering through debilitating headaches and back pain that painkillers couldn’t touch.

    I tried massage, heat, ice, stretches, laying in a dark room…
    Nothing worked.

    You know what DID work? IV saline. When I get IV fluids I can feel the pain start to melt away. Relief tends to start at the top of my head and slowly moves down to my shoulders and back - the pain is generally gone after 1-2L.

    It’s incredible just how much your body can be impacted by POTS. I’ve been dealing with this condition for years and I’m still learning new things every day.

    It’s also a common comorbid with Long Covid. If you’re new to POTS, think you might have POTS or just want to learn more - I wrote an intro guide linked below:

    disabledginger.com/p/living-li

    CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #keepmasksinhealthcare #DysautonomiaAwarenessMonth #POTSAwarenessDay

  12. U[pdate for 2/23/2024!

    Good Morning SARS2PAians! ❄️❄️❄️

    There's no new CDC stuff for today.

    VOCs

    JN.1 and its cousins/offspring continues to smash the leaderboard globally and in the US: ibb.co/xSW90JK

    And here in PA: ibb.co/FX4VJgb

    Lineage News

    JN.1.11 has totally fizzled out (that's the difference between how it looks in a lab compared to actual infectivity) but there is a new variant that is being VERY closely scoured for by geneticists: JN.1.23 (that's JN One Dot Twenty-Three.)

    This variant has an absolutely astounding ACE2Binding ability (which means it's easier to "stick" to lungs) + very good escape rate (which means it looks different than anything else before it and the body isn't sure how to react to it).: ibb.co/B45zX5B

    It is definitely way beyond "uh-oh" at this point.: ibb.co/9T5pv5z

    It has already been found on 3 continents (South America/Brazil, North America/California, and Asia/India) and also in Canada/Alberta. it's now being tracked on Rajnarayanan's Tableau chart for the US.: ibb.co/xMwRyyC

    This also has so much binding ability, it has the most potential to even "spend" some of its infectivity on other mutations that will benefit its children, sacrificing it for more severity or more innate infectivity....which would be very bad.

    The good news is that this variant has only 2 differences between it and what we're already dealing with. Despite the very good ACE2 binding, XBB.1.5 vaccines and prior infections with JN.1 should hold against it at least a little while.: ibb.co/42D30fZ

    (Note: don't get infected to prevent infection. That's silly. There's NO sure way to know if you were infected with JN.1 unless you get your case sequenced. Get vaccinated and use source control. That's smart and NOT silly.)

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    Wastewater

    Wastewater SARS2 material is rising in the US again. Not a good sign.: ibb.co/DGx889k

    Regionally, all regions except the West are starting to tick upwards again.: ibb.co/dtKpRsK

    In PA, the 5 stations that report to Biobot are showing very volatile elves, but Chester, Lackawanna, Luzerne, and MontCo are handling it. :canparrot: GOOD GOING. Source control keeps those numbers down!!!: ibb.co/JxZX7YC

    BucksCo is on an uptick, now above national averages. Please be cautious and keep working at it for Spring!!! 💐

    The PA DoH Wastewater dashboard reflects these rising levels, with levels especially rising in Monroe County. PLEASE USE SOURCE CONTROL. Wear a quality respirator, clean the air with MERV-13 or HEPA filters, and STAY HOME if you are sick!: ibb.co/DwtcNgd

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    Year-Over-Year

    Want to remind everyone that this year has the highest national wastewater numbers of all COVID years at this time.: ibb.co/WP98zxT

    (I changed the color of the 2024 year because the original color used to represent it was...pretty unseeable.)

    MORE people are getting infected/reinfected more quickly, and you can see the general trend is for the absolute baseline rising throughout the year.

    This is in addition to, on WastewaterSCAN, high levels of other respiratory pathogens like RSV, FluA and FluB and the gastro-disturbing (and just gross) Norovirus.: ibb.co/ggyxfBt

    Wash hands to prevent especially non SARS pathogens.
    🌊👍🌊

    Wash fruits and veg too before you eat them!
    🌊🍎🥒🌊

    Guys, this is us on our way to a high tide that will never drop IF we don't use source control.

    But if we do, we can prevent life, learning, and financial loss going into spring and have a LOVELY and healthy new season soon! 💐

    #covid #Covid19 #SARS2PA #CDC #CovidIsNotOver #Pennsylvania #PA #JN1 #JN1TwentyThree #JN123 #Norovirus #Influenza #InfluenzaB #Flu #FluB #WearAMask #CleanTheAir #VaccinesSaveLives #Wastewater #StayHomeIfSick #SourceControl #USESourceControl #COVIDSourceControl

  13. Good Morning SARS2PAians!!

    Thankfully, there is not a whole lot new going on with COVID. There are still no upcoming variants that will overtake JN.1.x.y yet.

    No new CDC maps.

    The most important thing is some non-SARS2 wastewater stuff.

    For SARS2/COVID, national wastewater is starting to level out after a (worrying for me) uptick at the beginning of the month.: ibb.co/8dt7jGg

    Regionally, the Northeast still has by far the highest concentration but is clearly levelling off from a small uptick. Other regions are ever so slightly rising but are mostly steady.: ibb.co/DKqYBzm

    In PA, some increases in Bucks which is making the levels go above national average. PLEASE use source control to keep this from getting worse.: ibb.co/M7mnNJ5

    Also in ChesterCo, all systems I'm watching clearly shows a strong increase there. PLEASE practice SOURCE CONTROL.

    You can see on the most recent PA Wastewater Dashboard that levels are increasing in major areas in PA (Pittsburgh, Chester, Monroe Cos.).: ibb.co/9tkbxnJ

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    Non-COVID Pathogens

    WastewaterSCAN currently shows the levels for ALL respiratory pathogens (SARS2, RSV, FluA, FluB) as HIGH in our region and also for Norovorus (the "24-hour stomach bug") as HIGH.: ibb.co/1nPBsBp

    Looks like University Park's levels of RSV are almost going vertical.: ibb.co/jZCxwvR

    ChesterCo is having strong increases of Influenza B.: ibb.co/TBMVhMD

    Norovirus in ChesterCo is already crazy high AND on a VERY strong increase. (What's going on over there and in UPark?? College kiddos? Please tell your college kiddos to practice source control!): ibb.co/fFkbFMS

    You can see there that the left vertical axis the numbers for Noro are bonkers (RSV range is from 0 to 280, Noro goes from 10,000 to 110,000 😳)

    Read about Norovirus from the Cleveland Clinic: my.clevelandclinic.org/health/

    Norovirus is primarily a SANITARY but also CLOSE CONTACT issue.

    WASH YOUR HANDS.

    Do not eat off unclean dinnerware. Avoid oysters and other seafood during high outbreaks.

    Wash off fruits and veggies before you eat them.

    Do NOT prepare food if you are sick.

    STAY HOME. The CDC is wrong.: mstdn.social/@erictopol/111924

    STAY HOME.

    Wear a quality respirator in large crowds!

    If we can keep this stuff under control through the rest of the winter, first of all it will be a MUCH more pleasant Spring. Secondly, if a new COVID variant appears and is fast enough to go worldwide, we won't be worrying about five other pathogens.

    I hope we can work together to make a FANTASTIC and healthy Spring!! 💐

    #covid #Covid19 #SARS2PA #CDC #CovidIsNotOver #Pennsylvania #PA #JN1 #Norovirus #Influenza #InfluenzaB #Flu #FluB #WearAMask #CleanTheAir #VaccinesSaveLives #Wastewater #StayHomeIfSick

  14. "HEPA filtration is beneficial in reducing bioaerosols, including SARS-CoV-2, as well as other respiratory pathogens in the hospital environment. It should be used in combination with other prevention strategies, including improved ventilation; appropriate isolation; and, during periods of high community transmission, widespread testing and N95 masking...

    In BC, public health policies such as universal masking and universal admission testing are no longer in effect. We know from other jurisdictions that discontinuation of universal admission testing was associated with a significant increase in hospital SARS-CoV-2 transmission and that nosocomial transmission remains common in the Omicron era, with infections that carry a 3% to 13% mortality risk. Updated, evidence-based, and precautionary provincial guidance is urgently needed to improve indoor air quality..."

    bcmj.org/premise/hepa-filtrati

    #COVIDisOngoing #COVIDisNOTover #COVIDisAirborne #Mask #Masks #Masking #WearAMask #MaskUp #COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2

  15. I requested respirator test data from NIOSH through the Freedom of Information Act. NIOSH censored it.

    NIOSH wants you to think all approved respirators are the same. They are not. Breathability and filtration levels vary significantly, especially N95s.

    youtu.be/sMtCOQMz5OU

    #NIOSH #N95 #WearAMask #FOIA

  16. The past week, #NYC #MTA buses have been consistently packed with maskless people, including many small children with wet coughs. Truly an unfortunate time to have no other options besides public transit 😖

    #CovidIsAirborne #RSV #Flu #PedsInCrisis #CleanAir #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver #CO2Warrior #CleanAirCrew #CovidDispatch