Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wearamask, aggregated by home.social.
Thank you for continuing to highlight the importance of wearing a mask (respirator)
Masking was important to us when I was the only one with a chronic illness, but now that my husband also has a chronic illness (different diagnosis) it's doubly important!
Adding a selfie (from a few years ago) of how I'll be greeting the trick or treaters at the door - double masking! 😷
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@healthselfdefense/117387319052231206
Había 143 casos de COVID en los hospitales de Gales; 101 eran pacientes que no tenían la enfermedad al ser ingresados.
Lo repetimos:
Las mascarillas hoy son el lavado de manos de antes: progreso que salva vidas
En 1847, el obstetra húngaro Ignaz Semmelweis observó que las pacientes obstétricas morían de fiebre puerperal a una tasa mucho más alta que aquellas tratadas por parteras. Basado en observación e investigación, sugirió a sus colegas que se lavaran las manos con una solución de cal clorada antes de examinar a sus pacientes y nuevas madres. Su idea fue ridiculizada e ignorada. Las pacientes continuaron sufriendo enfermedades y muertes innecesarias hasta que la confirmación experimental de la teoría de los gérmenes de Louis Pasteur en 1861 fue difundida y aceptada en la comunidad médica. Hoy en día, el lavado de manos es un pilar de la protección médica y de la higiene básica, mucho más allá del ámbito médico. La historia se repitió con el médico John Snow, quién estudió cómo se infectaba la cólera y quien también fue rechazado e ignorado durante años.
Está claro que tanto Ignaz Semmelweis como John Snow son ejemplos de que existen dos tipos de sanitarios, los revolucionarios que hacen que la ciencia avance y los que se ríen de los primeros.
Las mascarillas ahora son el lavado de manos de la época de Ignaz Semmelweis y la limpieza de aguas de John Snow.
Mejora tus conocimientos + protocolos con el covid: un resumen accesible
https://autodefesasanitaria.substack.com/p/mejora-tus-conocimientos-protocolos
#AutoDefensaSanitaria #CovidPersistente #LlevaMascarilla #RealistaCovid #CovidSonAerosoles #birdflu #gripeaviar
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid
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This is a graph of mortality in England & Wales
Do you notice anything starting from 2020? It makes more sense in light of scientific reports on how COVID can cause strokes and heart attacks.
Improve your COVID knowledge and protocols: An accessible summary
https://healthselfdefense.substack.com/p/improve-your-covid-knowledge-and
Covid moves like invisible smoke
COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke. Think of the people around you and yourself as people who are smoking all day; it makes it easier to understand how COVID moves.
COVID aerosols can quickly fill any crowded, poorly ventilated space, moving invisibly to infect anyone in the room. These aerosols travel with air currents and remain airborne for hours after the infected person has left. COVID also spreads outdoors. You can become infected within seconds or minutes of exposure.
You don't need to have symptoms to spread COVID
At least 50% of all transmissions are asymptomatic (you have it and you don’t even feel ill). In those symptomatic infections, it takes a couple of days for symptoms to appear, which means that you are infecting others for at least a couple of days without knowing it. Since we cannot know for sure if we have COVID at any given time, universal masking is essential.
There is no mild COVID infection.
At least 10% of infections result in long COVID.
Reinfections are devastating. There's no way to "train" the immune system because it's not a muscle; the damage from infections is cumulative. Any propaganda that talks about "training" the immune system is just lying to make you feel safer when exposed to harmful infections.
To say that infections are good because they help our immune system is like saying that having car accidents are good because they strengthen our bones; it makes absolutely no sense. That’s not how our bodies work.
Masks matter, find one that fits your face!
Masks are incredibly effective. They work best when everyone wears them. FFP2, KN95, KF94, and N95 masks offer aerosol filtration and should be used whenever possible. Surgical and cloth masks are less effective and do not filter aerosols. Get free masks and testing at your local mask block (maskbloc.org for searching maskbloc worldwide and you can also email us at [email protected]; we ship masks worldwide).
Make sure the mask fits snugly against your face so that the air you breathe is filtered through it. Aerosols can leak through gaps. If you can't get a good seal, try a different brand or size.
Test frequently + understand the limitations
Rapid antigen tests produce many false negatives. A rapid antigen test only successfully detects 60% of early symptomatic infections and 22% of asymptomatic infections (OntarioHealth has a guide on how to get the most out of them, as they are the most affordable tests for the general population).
Rapid tests are much more reliable when performed repeatedly over several 48-hour periods. It can take between one week and 14 days to get a positive result, so a single negative result should not be relied upon. Molecular tests such as PCR or NAAT are much more reliable and are best performed between 3 and 5 days after exposure, although they are expensive and less accessible than rapid tests. As COVID-19 spreads, the virus mutates, and our tests become less reliable.
Vaccines cannot be an excuse for not preventing the virus.
Vaccines do not prevent infections, reinfections, or long COVID. SARS-CoV-2 infection weakens immune-cell response to vaccination, meaning that the more we are infected, the less effective the vaccines we receive will be.
They have been crucial in significantly reducing mortality and hospitalization rates from severe infections. However, antibody levels decrease significantly in the months following vaccination. Each infection leads to new mutations that make the virus more complex.
To honor the effectiveness of vaccines, we must prevent the creation of more variants. Vaccines are not an excuse not to wear a mask.
HIV and COVID: united by ignored pandemics
“The statement that SARS-CoV-2 is “airborne AIDS” may be an oversimplification, but it draws attention to emerging evidence showing that the virus induces a distinct form of acquired immunodeficiency (AID).
SARS-CoV-2 and HIV-1, though distinct, share parallels in their biochemical traits and mechanisms, long-term impacts and societal responses. Both can establish persistent infections in tissue reservoirs, immune dysfunction, vulnerability to other infections including opportunistic, systemic damage including hallmarks of accelerated biological aging, and premature neurocognitive disorders. HIV integrates into DNA, whereas SARS-CoV-2 and its parts persist in organs like the blood vessels, brain, heart, tonsils, and lungs.
As governments rolled back public health protections, leaving the public to navigate the uncontrolled spread on their own, stigma shifted to Long COVID patients and those advocating for continued precautions. These individuals are frequently dismissed as “fearmongers”, “anxious” or “overly cautious” despite the objective ongoing and significant harms caused by the pandemic. Meanwhile, Long COVID patients experience persistent gaslighting and ignorance from healthcare professionals, exacerbating their struggles to access appropriate care.
addressing SARS-CoV-2 as a systemic vascular infection with significant cumulative health impacts necessitates sustained public health measures and innovative strategies to mitigate its ongoing threat to individual and population health. It is essential to prioritize airborne infection prevention, especially while no causal therapies are available for the sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection.”
Right now, the disabled community is being targeted. Like HIV, COVID can affect anyone, but this time the state has chosen to use the word "vulnerable" to seek complicity in ignoring the ongoing pandemic. Just as HIV is linked to queer activism, COVID is linked to disability activism, because the state uses our identity to justify the social murder we experience due to ITS mismanagement.
Only the rich can afford to be sick: viruses are weapons of the oppressors.
Do you know any working-class person who can afford to be sick? Neither can we.
Who can afford to miss work?
Long COVID is a new disease that the system wants to portray as a disaster when it's actually the result of a lack of prevention. In capitalism, science is used to get us back to work tomorrow, but for more complex issues, doctors tend to deny you care and tell you it's all anxiety.
People with long COVID face enormous violence and medical neglect. Furthermore, COVID can literally cause strokes, heart attacks, and autoimmune diseases. And all of this is preventable with masks.
We, the workers, are the ones who create medicines, masks, houses, and all the basic necessities a person needs. Yet we don't have the right to access them. We have to spend our lives being exploited for something that couldn't be created without our labor.
Workers' power means workers' care. We want union strength, we want workers' power, we want workplace safety, we want prevention of death and disability.
Getting infected with COVID at work is another form of employer terrorism. Everywhere you go, there's a worker who has no choice but to be there. Let's wear masks for our collective health.
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice #HealthSelfDefense
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143 Covid cases in Wales hospitals, 101 were patients who didn’t have it when they were admitted. We need prevention.
If someone in Wales or any part of the world wants to do a campaign for mandatory masks in hospitals we can help
We have a mandatory mask campaign proposal
We can send masks worlwide
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice #HealthSelfDefense
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Lola Germs on youtube
The History of Airborne Illness and How Public Health Failed
1 Hour & 45 minutes
:flagDisabilityPride: English Captions.
#Illness #COVIDisAirborne #History #science #Medical #Chronicillness #n95 #StillMasking #COVID #WearAMask #physics #biology #Airborne #epidemiology #MaskUp
Anticapitalist Covid Conscious Reading Club
first Saturday of each month
access our TeamUp calendar or Discord to see the details!
https://healthselfdefense.cowsite.net/15218.html
• october
Structural Violence and the Pandemic: An Update on Our Collective Reality
https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/structural-violence-and-the-pandemic
• november
Voting is Not Harm Reduction – An Indigenous Perspective
https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/
• december
You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence
https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/
2027
• January
Beyond infighting: Cultivating movements driven by love for people rather than hatred for capitalism
https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/beyond-infighting-cultivating-movements
• February
The revolution starts by building with poor folks in your own backyard
https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/the-revolution-starts-by-building
• March
Sanism and the Psychologisation of Physical Illness
https://epistemologyoftheclinic.blogspot.com/2024/03/sanism-and-psychologisation-of-physical.html
• April
We must love the people more than we hate the systems oppressing us
https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/we-must-love-the-people-more-than
• May
Liberation Takes Work (Beyond Unions and Nonprofits)
https://medium.com/@prolematic/liberation-takes-work-beyond-unions-and-nonprofits-8cf6888131b1
• June
Supporting the Suicidal No Matter What
https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/supporting-the-suicidal-no-matter
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice #HealthSelfDefense
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This afternoon, at #Levenshulme Old Library, #Manchester 12;30-5:30pm (I'm not organising this, just promoting it)
Fat Positive Clothes Swap
Bring clothes you don't want and swap them for clothes you do, in an affirming space. No diet talk allowed!
This swap is for people of any gender, who wear a size 16/L+ in clothing.
We don't operate a token system because some folks bring more than they'd like to take away, and others bring nothing/very little and take away more.
£3-5 donation on the day (cash/card reader available) to cover the costs of putting on the event.
Covid-19 Harm Reduction
We ask ALL attendees to wear a mask at the swap. Spare masks will be available on the door!
We also encourage everyone to consider e.g. testing before attending, and obviously not attending if you have any symptoms.
#CovidIsNotOver #Covid19 #FatPositive #BodyPositive #PlusSize #ClothesSwap #WearAMask
Sometimes I can't stop thinking about things that I've experienced from my parents. I remind myself of these things whenever I feel bad about not visiting them.
I want to relate a time when we had one of my husband's relatives here at our house to care for them during their hospice. They had arrived at our house in 2019, and so they were luckily already here when Covid started, and avoided the severe sickness and death running through elder and long term care facilities at the time.
We felt very lucky. They lived with us for over 4 years, and when they needed to have hospice healthcare workers come here to our house, we were vigilant about running a Corsi-Rosenthal box plus multiple HEPA filters, and having everyone wear decent masks. Our relative never caught Covid, and died of their long term illness as unfortunately was expected.
But my own family became upset that I wasn't visiting them. Even when I tried to explain that we had a fragile person in our house, going through hospice. Members of my family seemed to think I should be visiting them anyway, even though they did not protect themselves from Covid and were catching Covid repeatedly.
One of my parents told me that I was selfish. I was selfish! For wanting to protect the person going through hospice in my home. Because I didn't want to go visit with this parent who could have given me Covid and caused the death of my relative in hospice. Not to mention what Covid could do to me or my husband.
I was selfish, they said.
No wonder I have not gone to visit them. But I wish I could really absorb that, and stop feeling bad about not seeing them.
I agree with his points with the exception of his remarks about #COVID19
For example, I don’t find it reassuring to read that 70% of young people recover within 2 YEARS! And what of the 30%?
Some may have a greater chance of contracting #LongCOVID than others but it’s not entirely predictable. Personally, I don’t want to play Russian roulette with my health. #WearAMask
Dugmore is a journalist and not qualified to make such a pronouncement.
https://www.who.int/europe/event/myth-busters--debunking-long-covid-myths-and-misconceptions
https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj.q2713
https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/news/new-findings-from-worlds-largest-study-on-children-with-long-covid/
I regret to inform you that 6 people died of #COVID in #NYC the week ending September 26. They're the first deaths since the beginning of May, but six is still too many.
Fortunately, #COVID19 cases and hospitalizations aren't rising as fast as before, so I'm hoping the wave is cresting, still below the threshold I set for going into Outbreak Mode. #Flu and #RSV cases continue to rise, but are still very low.
#COVIDIsNotOver - I #WearAMask in doctors' offices and I'm going to #GetVaxxed soon!
Being hailed as a newer article that actually connects Covid-19 with chronic illness:
"Chronic illness cases surge post-covid, leaving young patients searching for answers"
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/chronic-illness-cases-surge-post-covid-pots-5HjdjGf_2/
#Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #PublicHealth #GetVaccinated #WearAMask
RE: https://zeroes.ca/@camaradademian/117354878220124768
You can't "boost" your immune system to fight off the common cold or the flu. The supplements you see, like vitamin C, zinc, or elderberry, don't actually help with the common cold. In fact, elderberry has been found to be detrimental to your recovery when you get a cold. There's no such thing as "boosting your immune system," because if you did, you'd have what we call in the medical field an autoimmune disease.
Your immune system is a highly regulated machine that works inside your body; it controls how you respond, how much you respond, when you respond, and when it comes to infection. And don't forget that the supplement industry has lobbied the federal government so that they don't have to provide evidence for their claims. So if they say it "supports immune function," that literally means it has an ingredient that has some evidence that it might help, and those studies they mention don't even have to be in humans. So, if you do get sick with a cold or the flu, make sure to wear a mask and do whatever makes you feel comfortable. You don't need to take supplements to "boost your immune system" - it's not going to help or do anything.
#HeatlhSelfDefence#DisabledLiberation #NoLessThanLiberationForAll #DisabledRefletions #DisabledRevolution #JusticeIsNotEnoughWeWantLiberation #COVIDconscious #MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone
RE: https://zeroes.ca/@camaradademian/117354848581966915
The risk-benefit ratio of covid for capitalism is simple: they are willing to risk as many poor lives as possible in order to return to the wage labor machine!
#YallMasking #StillCoviding #MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #HeatlhSelfDefence #LongCOVID #LongCOVID
La relación riesgo-beneficio del COVID para el capitalismo es simple: ¡están dispuestos a arriesgar la vida de tantas personas pobres como sea posible con tal de volver a la maquinaria del trabajo asalariado!
#YallMasking #StillCoviding #MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #HeatlhSelfDefence #LongCOVID #LongCOVID
RE: https://zeroes.ca/@camaradademian/117354847681947436
The process of being able to investigate whether you have long COVID is not only hard and ableist in itself like other processes, but it also carries the stigma and oppression of the system itself of not wanting to see the consequences of being infected with a virus that destroys you and that leads to more violence and gaslighting.
#YallMasking #StillCoviding #MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #HeatlhSelfDefence #LongCOVID #LongCOVID
RE: https://zeroes.ca/@camaradademian/117354845931766825
Smoke isn't going anywhere, we can't eliminate it from the Earth, so I guess we have to let people smoke in schools, daycares, long-term care, and hospitals, right? Because if we can't eliminate something completely, we make sure it's everywhere. That's how absurd it sounds when people say that nothing can be done about COVID.
#YallMasking #StillCoviding #MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #HeatlhSelfDefence #LongCOVID #LongCOVID
RE: https://zeroes.ca/@camaradademian/117354843750170130
Many of you feel solidarity with me for the pain and new disabilities that I have. What if I told you that you can make there be less disability and death in your community? That you can prevent someone else or yourself from having the same thing that I have?
#YallMasking #StillCoviding #MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #HeatlhSelfDefence #LongCOVID #LongCOVID
Do I want to #WearAMask forever? I never wanted to wear one.
What specifically has happened that suggests I should stop? The vaccine wasn’t what we hoped for. There’s no real treatment for the acute illness part of #COVID. There’s no clear explanation or treatment for everything classified as #LongCOVID.
Meanwhile you’re all running around everywhere with your summer flus and your winter allergies…
You want to believe that you endured for X amount of time so you paid your dues and now it’s fine, but that’s not how anything works.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@histoftech/117334396698185569
Compare this with the Netherlands policy to only vaccinate people over 70 and people in very selected at risk groups:
Gráficos de mortalidad
¿notáis algo a partir de 2020? se entiende mejor con las noticias científicas de cómo el COVID puede crear ictus y ataques del corazón
Pide mascarillas a [email protected] (hacemos envíos internacionales)
Mejora tus conocimientos + protocolos con el covid: un resumen accesible
https://autodefesasanitaria.substack.com/p/mejora-tus-conocimientos-protocolos
❤️🔥😷mascarilla es cuidado comunitario
El COVID no ha terminado:
• El 50% de las infecciones son asintomáticas.
• Mínimo 10% de las infecciones acaban en COVID persistente.
• Las vacunas no evitan ni reinfecciones, ni el contagio, ni las secuelas persistentes del COVID.
• Las reinfecciones nos destrozan. No hay forma de “entrenar” el sistema inmunológico porque no es un músculo. La realidad es que no construyes tu inmunidad con infecciones repetidas, las vacunas fortalecen el sistema inmunológico enseñándole a reconocer los patógenos sin todos los riesgos. Centrarnos en la prevención de las infecciones es clave.
• Los test de antígenos dan muchos falsos negativos. Los PCR y test moleculares son los test con más precisión.
• El COVID se propaga y mueve como el humo de un cigarro, piensa en las personas de tu alrededor y en ti como personas que están todo el día fumando, se hace más visual entender cómo se mueve el COVID.
• En las infecciones con síntomas se tarda un par de días en dar los síntomas lo que quiere decir que estás por lo menos un par de días infectando sin saberlo. Eres infeccioso de COVID por lo menos 10 días.
"resolver la pandemia nunca estuvo en los planes del mundo capitalista, el objetivo explícito de la clase dominante ha sido hacer que la pandemia simplemente desaparezca de la percepción pública.” Let Them Eat Plague! – The Red Clarion (unity-struggle-unity.org)
#AutoDefensaSanitaria #CovidPersistente #LlevaMascarilla #RealistaCovid #CovidSonAerosoles #birdflu #gripeaviar
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid
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Graphs of mortality.
Do you notice anything starting from 2020? It makes more sense in light of scientific reports on how COVID can cause strokes and heart attacks.
Free masks: maskbloc.org (if there is no maskbloc in your are please email [email protected] and we will try to get you mask!)
Masks are community care❤️🔥😷
• Remember: covid is not over, 50% of infections are asymptomatic, minimum 10% of infections end up in long COVID, re-infections wreck us, COVID spreads and moves like cigarette smoke, think of the people around you and you as people who are all day smoking, it becomes more visual to understand how COVID moves.
• There is no way to “train” the immune system because it is not a muscle. there is a common misconception that exposure to harmful germs strengthens the immune system. viral diseases like COVID, flu, measles weaken the immune system, leaving the possibility of lasting damage. The reality is that you don't build your immunity with repeated infections, vaccines strengthen the immune system by teaching it to recognize pathogens without all the risks. Focusing on infection prevention is key.
• Rapid antigen tests give many false negatives.
• Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world.
• Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception. Any reminder of the existence of a highly-transmissible, highly-dangerous, mass-disabling disease could trigger panic, or worse: organized, militant labor action. Averting this crisis required a careful campaign of culture-crafting; the people themselves needed to become convinced that there was no reason to fight. Consent for protracted mass infection needed to be manufactured.
“The cold truth of the matter is that the motive behind COVID minimization is greed and social control. (…) Solving the pandemic was never in the cards for the capitalist world. Instead, the explicit goal of the ruling class has been to make the pandemic simply disappear from public perception.” Let Them Eat Plague! http://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/
#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice #HealthSelfDefense
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Es un mito que se pueda sacrificar la seguridad de un grupo marginado para liberar a otro. Al negociar la muerte de otro pueblo, se sientan las bases para la propia.
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It is a myth that the safety of one marginalized group can be sacrificed to liberate another. As you negotiate the death of another people, you are laying the groundwork for your own.
#YallMasking #StillCoviding #MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #HeatlhSelfDefence #LongCOVID #LongCOVID
RE: https://zeroes.ca/@camaradademian/117330271798176775
You don't have to wait for Covid to make you disabled to worry about it. Don't let normalization make you put your body in danger again and again. You and your community deserve care. Let's wear masks. Let's fight eugenics.
#YallMasking #StillCoviding #MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #HeatlhSelfDefence #LongCOVID #LongCOVID
RE: https://zeroes.ca/@camaradademian/117330271798176775
You don't need to give up part of your life, but rather value the lives the state says are lesser. You need to rethink what life means to you and whether it relates to the vision the system tells you you should have of freedom and life. Wearing a mask is valuing life, it is hope, it is caring.
#YallMasking #StillCoviding #MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #HeatlhSelfDefence
I skipped a week of posting #NYC #COVID stats because it was the same: case counts and hospitalizations rising but still relatively low, no #COVID19 deaths since the beginning of May. This week, the case count was just below last summer's peak. Hospitalizations are rising a little slower, and may be tapering off.
#Flu and #RSV cases are rising, but still very low.
Still no sign of wastewater in the open data.
I #WearAMask in doctors' offices and when sick people are around!
Tired of my family sounding surprised at all of their new health problems.
Back in early 2023, I had to go stay with a relative to support them when their spouse needed serious surgery. At that time, I had a meltdown about how family members are not protecting themselves and their kids from Covid.
I reminded this relative today about that meltdown, when they wondered about a bunch of new health problems in the family. Like hello, I told you years ago that this would happen, and now it is happening. Don't expect me to act like it's surprising or was unavoidable.
COVID en madrid
Barras en color azul: casos COVID 2024/2025
Línea de color rojo: casos de COVID 2025-2026
https://www.comunidad.madrid/salud/vigilancia-epidemiologica
Mejora tus conocimientos + protocolos con el covid: un resumen accesible
https://autodefesasanitaria.substack.com/p/mejora-tus-conocimientos-protocolos
Covid se mueve como el humo invisible
El COVID se propaga y mueve como el humo de un cigarro, piensa en las personas de tu alrededor y en ti como personas que están todo el día fumando, se hace más visual entender cómo se mueve el COVID.
Los aerosoles del COVID pueden llenar rápidamente cualquier espacio abarrotado y mal ventilado, moviéndose de forma invisible para infectar a cualquiera que se encuentre en la habitación. Los aerosoles viajan con las corrientes de aire y permanecen en el aire durante horas después de que la persona infectada se haya marchado.
No se necesitan síntomas para propagar el covid
El 50% de todas las transmisiones se producen de forma asintomática, en las infecciones con síntomas se tarda un par de días en dar los síntomas lo que quiere decir que estás por lo menos un par de días infectando sin saberlo. Dado que no podemos saber con certeza si tenemos Covid en cualquier momento, uso universal de máscaras y las pruebas frecuentes son fundamentales.
No existe infección de covid que sea buena
Mínimo 10% de las infecciones acaban en COVID persistente.
Las reinfecciones nos destrozan. No hay forma de ‘entrenar’ el sistema inmunitario porque no es un músculo, el daño de las infecciones es acumulativo. Toda propaganda que te hable de ‘entrenar’ el sistema inmune lo que hace es mentirte para hacerte sentir más tranquilo al estar expuesto a infecciones que hacen daño.
Decir que las infecciones de COVID fortalecen el sistema inmune es como decir que los accidentes de coches fortalecen nuestros huesos. Así no es como funciona el cuerpo.
Las mascarillas importan, encuentra una que se ajuste a tu cara!
Las mascarillas son increíblemente eficaces. Funcionan mejor cuando todo el mundo las lleva. Las mascarillas FFP2, KN95, KF94 y N95 ofrecen filtración de aerosoles y deben utilizarse siempre que sea posible. Las mascarillas quirúrgicas y de tela son menos eficaces y no filtran los aerosoles. Consigue mascarillas y pruebas gratuitas en tu bloque de mascarillas local (escríbenos un correo a [email protected], enviamos mascarillas de forma mundial)
Asegúrate de que la mascarilla te quede bien ajustada a la cara para que el aire que respiras se filtre a través de ella. Los aerosoles pueden colarse por las rendijas. Si no consigues un buen sellado, prueba con otra marca o talla.
Test con frecuencia + entiende las limitaciones
Los tests de antígenos rápidos dan muchos falsos negativos. Un test de antígeno rápido solo logra detectar con éxito 60% de las infecciones tempranas sintomáticas y el 22% de las infecciones asintomáticas (ontariohealth tiene una guía de cómo poder sacarles el mejor partido ya que son los test más asequibles para la población general).
Las pruebas rápidas son mucho más fiables cuando se realizan sucesivamente durante varios periodos de 48 horas. Se puede tardar entre una semana y 14 días en obtener un positivo, por lo que no hay que fiarse de un único resultado negativo. Las pruebas moleculares como la PCR o la NAAT son mucho más fiables y es mejor realizarlas entre 3 y 5 días después de la exposición, aunque son caras y de más difícil acceso que las rápidas. A medida que Covid se extiende, el virus muta y nuestras pruebas pierden fiabilidad.
Las vacunas no pueden ser una excusa para no usar mascarilla
Las vacunas no previenen infecciones, reinfecciones ni la COVID persistente. La infección por SARS-CoV-2 debilita la respuesta de las células inmunitarias a la vacunación, lo que quiere decir que cuanto más nos infectemos, menos funcionarán las vacunas que nos pongamos.
Han sido cruciales para reducir significativamente las tasas de mortalidad y hospitalización por infecciones graves. Sin embargo, los niveles de anticuerpos producidos disminuyen significativamente en los meses posteriores a la vacunación. Cada infección conlleva nuevas mutaciones que hacen que el virus sea más complejo.
Para honrar la labor de las vacunas, debemos evitar la creación de más variantes. Las vacunas no son excusa para no usar mascarilla.
VIH y COVID: unidos por pandemias ignoradas
“La afirmación de que el SARS-CoV-2 es un “SIDA transmitido por el aire” puede ser una simplificación excesiva, pero llama la atención sobre la evidencia emergente que demuestra que el virus induce una forma distinta de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (IAD).
El SARS-CoV-2 y el VIH-1, aunque distintos, comparten paralelismos en sus características y mecanismos bioquímicos, sus impactos a largo plazo y sus respuestas sociales. Ambos pueden generar infecciones persistentes en reservorios tisulares, disfunción inmunitaria, vulnerabilidad a otras infecciones, incluyendo infecciones oportunistas, daño sistémico con características distintivas de envejecimiento biológico acelerado y trastornos neurocognitivos prematuros. El VIH se integra en el ADN, mientras que el SARS-CoV-2 y sus componentes persisten en órganos como los vasos sanguíneos, el cerebro, el corazón, las amígdalas y los pulmones.
A medida que los gobiernos redujeron las protecciones de salud pública, dejando a la población a su suerte ante la propagación descontrolada, el estigma se trasladó a los pacientes con COVID persistente y a quienes abogaban por precauciones continuas. A estas personas se las suele tachar de “infundidoras de miedo”, “ansiosas” o “excesivamente cautelosas”, a pesar de los daños objetivos, continuos y significativos, causados por la pandemia. Mientras tanto, los pacientes con COVID persistente sufren una constante manipulación psicológica y la ignorancia de los profesionales de la salud, lo que agrava sus dificultades para acceder a la atención médica adecuada.
abordar el SARS-CoV-2 como una infección vascular sistémica con importantes impactos acumulativos en la salud requiere medidas sostenidas de salud pública y estrategias innovadoras para mitigar su amenaza continua para la salud individual y de la población. Es fundamental priorizar la prevención de infecciones transmitidas por el aire, especialmente mientras no se disponga de terapias causales para las secuelas de la infección por SARS-CoV-2.”
Ahora mismo es el colectivo disca el que se usado como diana, como el VIH, el COVID puede afectar a cualquiera, pero esta vez el estado ha decidido usar la palabra ‘vulnerable’ para buscar la complicidad en ignorar la pandemia que aún continúa. Igual que el VIH tiene que ver con lucha queer, el COVID tiene que ver con lucha disca, porque el estado utiliza nuestra identidad para justificar el asesinato social que vivimos por SU mala gestión.
Solo los ricos se pueden permitir estar enfermos: los virus son armas de los opresores
¿Conoces a alguna persona de clase obrera que puede permitirse estar enfermo? Nosotres tampoco.
¿Quién puede permitirse faltar al trabajo?
El COVID persistente es una enfermedad nueva que el sistema quiere poner como un desastre cuando es responsabilidad de la falta de prevención, en el capitalismo la ciencia se usa para que volvamos a trabajar mañana pero en cuestiones más complejas los médicos tienden a negarte atención y decirte que todo es ansiedad.
Las personas con COVID persistente reciben enorme violencia y negligencia médica, además el COVID puede literalmente crear ictus, ataques al corazón y enfermedades autoinmunes. Y todo esto es prevenible con mascarillas.
Los trabajadores somos quienes creamos los medicamentos, mascarillas, casas y todas las necesidades básicas que necesita una persona, sin embargo no tenemos el derecho a acceder a ellas, tenemos que pasar nuestra vida explotados por algo que no podría crearse sin nuestro esfuerzo.
Poder obrero significa cuidado obrero. Queremos fuerza sindical, queremos fuerza obrera, queremos prevención laboral, queremos prevención de muerte y discapacidad.
Infectarte de COVID en el trabajo es otra forma de terrorismo patronal. A cada lugar que vas, hay un trabajador que no tiene otra opción que estar ahí. Usemos mascarillas para nuestra salud colectiva.
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Spielberg is demonstrating he understands airborne infection and how to mitigate it!
He's outside at the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and he's wearing a KN95!
A good respirator protects you and those around you.
Covid is not over and a mask is a great way to stay healthy.
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Thanks to the many minimizers, antivaxxers, and government-assisted destruction of Public Health, the everyday person has no idea what the current potential consequences of repeat COVID-19 infections are, despite the hundreds of peer-reviewed studies.
"Today, 6 years after the identification of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that brought much of the world to a near standstill — fear of infection seems to have all but disappeared. Although various aspects of the pandemic continue to be debated, COVID has largely faded from public consciousness as a potentially severe illness."
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/covid-6-years-pandemics-long-clinical-shadow-2026a1000yan
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