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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 18h

“Doing what you can to avoid spreading it to other people” is masking , until we have clean air - and in the meantime , you all need to be advocating for clean air, which none of you are showing the urgency around when you fail to mask.
40%+ of Covid cases are asymp and Covid disables people

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10h

There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 16h

"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Opinion | It's time for corporate America to end DEI and choose its leaders on the basis of merit alone.

by Barron Trump

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 12h

It’s time to be done with the phrase “mom and pop landlords”. Conjuring up a fictionalized image of grams and gramps scraping by on their meager rental income obscures the truth - these are real estate speculators from all walks of life who made high-risk investments on purpose.

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cchhccaa.bsky.social @cchhccaa.bsky.social · 9h

Faut un traumavertissement, christie

a woman in a fur coat is standing in front of a brick building and saying `` my eyes ! my eyes ! ''

Alt: Phoebe, de l'émission Friends, crie « my eyes! my eyes! ». C'est une femme blanche et blonde et elle porte un manteau en fausse fourrure orange.

media.tenor.com

cchhccaa.bsky.social @cchhccaa.bsky.social · 9h

—ATTENTION—

L'automne est fait pour écouter du jazz.

MERCI

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cchhccaa.bsky.social @cchhccaa.bsky.social · 10h

« Female- rather than male-based designs would probably boost women’s comfort, enhance injury prevention and improve their performance, the experts said. »

cchhccaa.bsky.social @cchhccaa.bsky.social · 10h

« Most sports footwear retailers use the same foot-shaped mould* for their entire range, and beyond making shoes smaller and changing the colour – a process known as ‘shrink it and pink it’ – only minimal modifications are made to create women’s shoes »

*moule du pied masculin, évidemment

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h

Ditch ‘shrink it and pink it’ women’s trainer design, say experts

Study of female runners in Canada highlights shortcomings of footwear traditionally based on male anatomy Sports footwear manufacturers are being urged to ditch the “shrink it and pink it” approach when it comes to women’s running shoes. Over the past five decades, brands have invested billions of dollars into the development trainers that prevent injury, maximise comfort and boost performance. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12h

This is a fantastic article I encourage everyone to read.

The damaging effects of COVID on our immune system are not up for debate.

It’s not hypothetical.

And it’s not limited to “only the vulnerable”.

This is why many of us mask. Respirators like an N95 do a great job preventing covid.

Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 14h

‘While SARS-CoV-2 does not cause HIV/AIDS, its ability to induce immune dysfunction—including T cell depletion & dysfunction, increased susceptibility to infection incl opportunistic, accelerated bio aging, neurological, & systemic damage provide parallels... .’
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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cchhccaa.bsky.social @cchhccaa.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 14h

It’s hard enough dealing with silent risks that take months or years to develop… such as a suboptimal diet… without the recent and deep trauma…

But the rational thing *is* to deal with it… and it’s just a matter of how much damage will come to pass before we do.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 14h

A bad thing happened. It was traumatic. People lost their lives and livelihoods for a while…

So we tried to bundle it into a box in the past like any other traumatic memory…

but the objective risk is still quite bad…

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cchhccaa.bsky.social @cchhccaa.bsky.social · 10h

🎯🎯🎯

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 13h

what nightmarish chain of events could you prevent by masking at the grocery store? the pharmacy? the hospital? ya know, the essential public spaces you share with even the highest risk folks in your community? you’ll never know, but you can make some educated guesses based on what we *do* know:

CIDRAP
Study details higher
COVID death risks in undocumented people
Lisa Schnirring, July 28, 2025
Topics: COVID-19
Undocumented group had 55% increase in death rate
For the study, the team examined death certificates for all California residents ages 25 and older who died from natural causes in the state between 2016 and
2023. The death certificates included birth country and whether decedents had a valid Social Security number, which allowed researchers to ascertain if people were documented or undocumented immigrants. They also included a range of other factors, including sex, age, race/ethnicity, educational attainment level, and occupation type.
Then the group looked for differences in pandemic-era survival outcomes, modeling absolute and relative excess mortality from March 2000 through May 2023, based on prepandemic mortality and other seasonal variables.
For potentially undocumented immigrants, researchers estimated a 55% increase in death rate above the prepandemic level, compared to 22% for immigrants who appeared to be documented and 12% for US-born citizens.

npr
White people feared COVID less after learning other races were hit hardest, data show
APRIL 4, 2022 • 4:23 PM ET

Adrian Florido

New research finds that white Americans made aware about COVID's racial disparities cared less about the virus themselves. The data have potential implications for public health

The Guardian US

'Petri dish for disease': attorney raises alarm of possible Covid outbreak at
'Alligator Alcatraz'
A respiratory disease is running rampant through Florida immigration jail, according to attorney of a detained person
Richard Luscombe in Miami
Tue 12. Aug 2025 09.00 EDT

He added: "Based on what multiple detainees have told me, in the last 72 to 100 hours, there is some respiratory disease which has made the majority, or I would even say vast majority of detainees, sick in some form.
"There are people who are losing breath. There are people who are walking around coughing on one another. Their requests for masks from the guards are denied, and they only are allowed to shower once or maybe twice a week.
"I said to Luis, 'pass the phone. Let me hear it from somebody else. I just want to make sure that people's stories are straight? And unfortunately they very much are."
The development follows a claim by a woman, a state licensed corrections officer, who said she contracted Covid-19 after working at the camp in unsanitary conditions for about a week last month, and was subsequently fired.
"We had to use the porta-johns. We didn't have hot water half the time. Our bathrooms were backed up," the woman told NBC6 News after being granted anonymity to discuss conditions there.
"[The detainees) have no sunlight. There's no clock in there. They don't even know what time of the day it is.
The bathrooms are backed up because so many people [are] using them."

Penn Medicine
COVID-19
Research funding
Second infection in kids doubles long COVID risk
Pediatric data show that the increase in long COVID risk was also accompanied by the increased chance of developing a number of other related conditions.
October 1, 2025
The more often someone is infected with COVID, the more likely they are to develop "long COVID," according to a new pediatric study. Young people and children infected with the COVID virus for a second time were twice as likely to develop long COVID than their peers who were infected just once.
Long COVID from the second infection coincided with higher risks for heart disease, damaged kidneys, cognitive issues, and more, according to analysis published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Analysis of data from roughly 407,000 patients across 40 pediatric hospitals, showed that among patients with just one documented COVID infection, there was a population-level rate of 904 cases of long COVID per million people every six months. But when the researchers crunched the numbers for those who experienced a second COVID infection, the rate more than doubled to 1,884 cases per million.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 14h

we’re in an extraordinary time that calls for extraordinary action. wearing a respirator may not feel extraordinary, but when masks are stigmatized if not criminalized, it becomes so.

it’s a helluva lot harder to #Resist without your health—preserve what you & your community have. mask up.

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Jul 10

last night, someone on tiktok asked
me how wearing a mask is antifascist, so i answered: unfortunately, even passive, austere eugenics works faster if YOU participate.

so step up: stand out, mask up, and take care take care take care for yourself & others—before those who seek to harm stop you.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 14h

respirators are means of liberation; maintaining health by protecting our lungs from airborne irritants, be they allergens, smoke, pathogens.

this modern, multi-use tool is the thing you’re looking for. it shows others, as we go about our days, that things are not normal, that they could be better.

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Jun 14

normalize respirators in your daily life. when you do, when you see the choice to use a personal air filter as more akin to sunglasses (worn by all, often for fashion regardless of ocular welfare) than, say, a cast (indicative of active health concerns, often not a choice), all around you benefit.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 14h

even the smartest folks whose takes i otherwise appreciate, who otherwise want to resist fascism themselves & encourage others to, find wearing a mask in, at least, public indoor spaces—to prevent the harms of this administration from impacting others—to be a bridge too far; it’s shameful, frankly.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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cchhccaa.bsky.social @cchhccaa.bsky.social · 10h

because it is evidence of solidarity and care

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cchhccaa.bsky.social @cchhccaa.bsky.social · 10h

what a dumb fucking take lmao

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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 11h

Bingo.

“We don’t mind if you mask if you feel the need to” …(but we‘re still going to judge you).

Just more barriers for people who already have to navigate a lot.

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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 13h

the danger of covid remains high and the cost of masking is practically zero. doing the easy thing that protects everyone around you seems a lot more rational to me than not

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cchhccaa.bsky.social @cchhccaa.bsky.social · 10h

That first image... Jesus fucking Christ.

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Fran Win 🇨🇦 @franfrog.bsky.social · 19h

Do you know how Covid is spread in the environment? If you did, you would come to the conclusions it's a rational assessment, along with air purifiers, ventilation and other layers of protection. I expect clean air, just like I expect clean water out of my water tap.

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cchhccaa.bsky.social @cchhccaa.bsky.social · 10h

If I hear a single other person say they have "allergies," it's going to be really hard not to punch them in the face. People have never had as many "allergies" as they have this year. I'm going fucking crazy.

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Michael Coyle @oplopanax.ca · 18h

any "rational assessment of the threat environment" is that a single infection could be devastating for anyone, and you could spread it to someone else with the same potential for harm.

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