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Clean Air Club

@cleanairclub.bsky.social

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Providing free air purifiers to Chicago artists, organizers, and touring musicians. linktr.ee/cleanairclub

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Dec 6

We have tons of resources in the link in our bio, including:

-discount codes
-guides
-Artist Connect
-link to request purifiers
-map of clean air orgs around the world

As always, we appreciate any donation you can give us! We're entirely volunteer-run.

www.gofundme.com/f/clean-air-...

Donate to Clean Air Club: Growing our clean air library!, organized by Emily Dupree

Hello all! My name is Emily Dupree and I founded Clean Air Club, an organi… Emily Dupree needs your support for Clean Air Club: Growing our clean air library!

www.gofundme.com

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Jul 15

Link below to venmo us. Make sure to include your name and address in the venmo details so we know where to send it :)

linktr.ee/cleanairclub

@cleanairclub | Linktree

Ensuring cleaner air for Chicago artists and organizers

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Jul 15

We're sending this cute sticker sheet to anyone who sends us $15 or more!

A sticker fundraiser showing the sticker sheet available. It includes 5 anthropomorphic PPE stickers, including a mask, saline rinse, rapid test, uvc light, and air purifier.

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Smart Air @smartairfilters.bsky.social · Jul 7

This is what community care looks like! Our purifier is helping @cleanairclub.bsky.social keep the air clean for artists and organizers across Chicago.

Three masked volunteers pose next to a white boxy air purifier in an outdoor courtyard with a brick wall behind them.

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Jun 4

🩵 Support request! 🩵

Our lending library has outgrown what our volunteers can do in their free time. Please help us hire someone who can improve library logistics and communication. Borrowers deserve a smooth experience and we want to make that happen!

gofund.me/48d53453

Donate to Fund the Next Step for Our Free Purifier Lending Library, organized by Emily Dupree

Hello! We are Clean Air Club, an organization dedicated to prov… Emily Dupree needs your support for Fund the Next Step for Our Free Purifier Lending Library

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Mar 20

“…in the most pronounced part of my vocal loss…I could not listen to beautiful voices. The ache that I felt listening to singers sing was…it felt like having my heart shattered over & over, every day.”

as someone who also lost musical ability to chronic illness, this pain is why i center mitigation

It was unlike any flu I've ever had. It was unlike anything else I had ever experienced. And in the weeks that followed, there was this external chaos of all of us trying to understand what was happening with the pandemic, and externally, our world was becoming very strange to us. And within my own body, that experience of strangeness was also very present. My voice changed dramatically. It started to shake. The top half of my range became inaccessible, and I began to feel like a stranger in my own body as well.

Greta Morgan was a touring member of Vampire Weekend. | Amy
Harris/Invision/AP

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Apr 8

This annual event is essential for replacing HEPA filters and making sure our purifiers stay in good condition for use at events across Chicago!

Whether you can help for 20 minutes or the whole time, we’d love to see you there 🩵

Masks required.

Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Apr 8

It’s time for purifier maintenance!

Come help us care for the purifiers that keep our community gatherings safer 🩵

📍 Where: Chicago Tool Library (4015 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60624)
🗓️ When: Saturday, April 12
⏰ Time: Drop in anytime between 12–3PM

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Apr 7

Air purifiers become less effective the more their filters become clogged with the crap they pull out of the air.

We highly recommend reading up on the signs that it's time to replace the interior filters ⬇️

SmarterHEPA @smarterhepa.bsky.social · Apr 7

📓 A guide to replacing your HEPA filters

What to look out for, tips for extending the life of your filters, and suggested timelines for our entire lineup of air purifiers. Knowledge is power! 🌬️

A HEPA purifier is pictured with the title "A guide to replacing your HEPA filters: what to look for, how-to, and recommended timing."

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Apr 3

Every time we change the filters on our machines we're reminded EXACTLY why we do this!!

SmarterHEPA @smarterhepa.bsky.social · Apr 3

This is why we clean the air! 😮

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Apr 3

As a reminder, we also redistribute 10% of our monthly donations to LC/ME mutual aid fundraisers. To submit yours, click the link in bio 💙

Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Apr 3

We're giving away a @visible_health wearable arm band plus a full year membership to their app!!

Head over to our IG to enter 💙

www.instagram.com/p/DH_bRqGpmj6/

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Apr 2

The idea that acknowledging a threat automatically makes you "afraid" is one of the most annoying conflations that "Covid is over" people make.

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Mar 25

. @juliadoubleday.bsky.social is one of the best writers today documenting the politics Covid and Long Covid 🩵

Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Mar 25

"It’s clear that not all of us are paying equally for the risks taken by some; those of us with Long COVID have to pay with our health, bodies, careers, dreams, savings, and futures for the nights out and indoor dining of those who are still abled."

www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-great-...

The Great Abandonment

What's worse: Long COVID or the isolation?

www.thegauntlet.news

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Mar 23

Good point, thank you!

Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Mar 22

Re mask bans: sunglasses conceal people's identity more effectively than masks do, but everyone would object to a sunglasses ban.

The difference is that sunglasses are completely normalized accessibility devices, while masks have been pathologized as part of the total erasure of the pandemic.

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Mar 22

Re. the Columbia mask ban: imagine how absurd it would be for them to ban sunglasses worn "to conceal identity" but not "for medical reasons."

How could that even be enforceable? Who determines intent? What would count as a medical reason?

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Mar 21

It's so important to prioritize schools that have poor air quality due to environmental racism!

The closer schools are to highways, which historically run through neighborhoods of color, the worse the air. Air purifiers are a racial equity issue.

SmarterHEPA @smarterhepa.bsky.social · Mar 21

🚌 The schools that we prioritize getting air purifiers to are ones that are disproportionately impacted by pollution, usually due to proximity to highways or air-polluting industry. But we believe that every kid deserves clean air at school, no matter where they live!

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Mar 21

We're loving this recent article on the Covid-cautious ecosystem in Chicago!

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

With long COVID health risks, Chicago organizations create safe spaces, events for vulnerable communities

Five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, people who are still vulnerable to the virus have found safe ways to be in community.

www.cbsnews.com

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Mar 17

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(designed by @_copy_of_a_copy on X)

Bold font that reads, "The pandemic isn't over just because you're over it." Below we can see a graph of wastewater data for Covid from 2020 to the present day, with fluctuating levels. Most of the post 2021 peaks exceed the peaks of 2020 and 2021.

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Mar 15

🌏 Listening to the many voices of people with Long Covid is essential to understanding the ways that LC can impact every facet of a life.

Here's a database of global LC orgs, podcasts, influencers, & support groups so you can diversify your feed:

bit.ly/LCvoices

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Mar 12

Kids deserve clean air at school!

SmarterHEPA @smarterhepa.bsky.social · Mar 12

We're fans of addressing student health from a holistic perspective, and that includes making sure the air is clean.

Our purifiers scrub classroom air of the viruses and bacteria that lead to student illness and absenteeism. They're *proactive* solutions in a reactive world.

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Mar 7

As always, the best solution for the pandemic is collective. Our physical spaces, laws, and social norms need to be built to ensure our safety. Individual solutions aren't going to fix this. But they do help a bit in the meantime and it's worth finding a cheap way to access them.

Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Mar 7

For those who find cutting the mask hole difficult, we recommend using either an X-acto knife or a 0.625" craft hole punch.

Sip valve recommends using scissors and it's really hard to get a precise circle cut with them.

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · Mar 7

With this source, you can buy one official Sip Valve (for the ring that creates the seal) and then identical but cheaper replacement valves. It lowers the per-use cost dramatically

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