Anonymous Masking Collective
@anonmaskzine.bsky.social
We want to talk about how treating COVID-19 as normal hurts working class and marginalised people, we want to talk about the ways the right mask can protect them and make you happier #maskup
Kinda want King Mob’s X-COM 2 PAPR deal
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Kinda want King Mob’s X-COM 2 PAPR deal
I think I cracked how to make masking desirable, even hedonistic
September 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I think I cracked how to make masking desirable, even hedonistic
Scottish Wastewater: after restrictions were lifted there’s been much more COVID. It’s been eerily quiet all this year which worries me: the only slowing mechanism left is transient immunity from massive waves:
September 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Scottish Wastewater: after restrictions were lifted there’s been much more COVID. It’s been eerily quiet all this year which worries me: the only slowing mechanism left is transient immunity from massive waves:
This is a person who talks about “COVID Doomers” btw.
Actual “COVID doom” is assuming we’re all fated to catch COVID over and over (it still isn’t endemic), doom meaning an inevitable and terrible fate
Actual “COVID doom” is assuming we’re all fated to catch COVID over and over (it still isn’t endemic), doom meaning an inevitable and terrible fate
September 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is a person who talks about “COVID Doomers” btw.
Actual “COVID doom” is assuming we’re all fated to catch COVID over and over (it still isn’t endemic), doom meaning an inevitable and terrible fate
Actual “COVID doom” is assuming we’re all fated to catch COVID over and over (it still isn’t endemic), doom meaning an inevitable and terrible fate
3m secure click: looks very sci fi. Uses secure click filters. The versions with “SD” in the product code have a speech diaphragm built in that helps you be understood but you’ll still need to project your voice a bit
August 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
3m secure click: looks very sci fi. Uses secure click filters. The versions with “SD” in the product code have a speech diaphragm built in that helps you be understood but you’ll still need to project your voice a bit
3m 7500 series: uses silicone which is more comfortable. Will muffle your voice. Takes the same kind of filters as the 6000 series. You need particulate filters - in America, usually p100
August 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
3m 7500 series: uses silicone which is more comfortable. Will muffle your voice. Takes the same kind of filters as the 6000 series. You need particulate filters - in America, usually p100
3m 6000 series: the cheapest entry level mask with a good rep, comes in different sizes, takes 3m bayonet cartridges. Unless you have the 604 this is not a source control mask - it protects you, not other people. Uses elastomer for the sealing surface. Will muffle you some
August 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
3m 6000 series: the cheapest entry level mask with a good rep, comes in different sizes, takes 3m bayonet cartridges. Unless you have the 604 this is not a source control mask - it protects you, not other people. Uses elastomer for the sealing surface. Will muffle you some
America - emergency admissions for 0-11 year olds, which are usually in line with other age groups spiked up around June. Other age groups are rising more gradually but consistent with each other :(
August 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
America - emergency admissions for 0-11 year olds, which are usually in line with other age groups spiked up around June. Other age groups are rising more gradually but consistent with each other :(
Wrestler Jon Gresham has had a terrifying experience with strokes at 37, suspected to be linked to a recent severe COVID infection. Very worried he’s going to rush back to training and the ring: wrestlers are incredibly exposed to COVID
August 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Wrestler Jon Gresham has had a terrifying experience with strokes at 37, suspected to be linked to a recent severe COVID infection. Very worried he’s going to rush back to training and the ring: wrestlers are incredibly exposed to COVID
They haven’t actually gotten savvy (no air purifiers, no consistent masking for an airborne disease)
July 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
They haven’t actually gotten savvy (no air purifiers, no consistent masking for an airborne disease)
When someone tells you we’re not in the same place with COVID as 2020
July 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
When someone tells you we’re not in the same place with COVID as 2020
If you want to shit yourself a bit do Google Trends searches for “COVID” vs “brain fog” and remember a recent metastudy had almost a third of COVID survivors (not just hospitalised patients!) down as suffering neurological post COVID conditions
July 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If you want to shit yourself a bit do Google Trends searches for “COVID” vs “brain fog” and remember a recent metastudy had almost a third of COVID survivors (not just hospitalised patients!) down as suffering neurological post COVID conditions
No, this isn’t a winter virus. In 2024 Scottish Wastewater we saw the virus trend up in early summer and peak in the middle of it, then stick around above baseline until autumn. We have not achieved seasonality and it is still being driven by different international outbreaks interacting.
May 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
No, this isn’t a winter virus. In 2024 Scottish Wastewater we saw the virus trend up in early summer and peak in the middle of it, then stick around above baseline until autumn. We have not achieved seasonality and it is still being driven by different international outbreaks interacting.
Every lone masker at a convention selfie looks like this
May 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Every lone masker at a convention selfie looks like this
Not quite wilderness but nice to not have to think/explain the mask on a 4am park stroll:
May 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Not quite wilderness but nice to not have to think/explain the mask on a 4am park stroll:
It’s really cool when people decide to call people who don’t want to get a virus doomers, write fanfiction about them, then hit block. It suggests that the user is completely unphased, calm, and not mad, actually
May 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It’s really cool when people decide to call people who don’t want to get a virus doomers, write fanfiction about them, then hit block. It suggests that the user is completely unphased, calm, and not mad, actually
Adam Finn mentioned here. On the 9th of March this year he was quoted as saying kids weren’t COVID spreaders in the Guardian, which wasn’t true after the virus began to mutate:
!["In terms of public health decisions, the main lesson we learned in 2020 is straightforward: when you get a pandemic, don't assume it's going to be like the last one. Five years ago, everyone expected the next pandemic would be flu, and so models assumed we had to shut down schools and keep children at home because they would be the ones spreading disease.
"That would have been true for flu but it wasn't for Covid. Young people were not disease spreaders and, wrongly, were kept apart. They paid an unnecessary price because we had made false assumptions."
It was a key lesson but [Adam] Finn said he now worried the nation was already forgetting what it had learned during Covid. "It's already beginning to happen, not just in the minds of the public, but also in the minds of the scientific community. The memories and lessons - such as the mistake of the prolonged closure of schools - are being lost. We actually need to record what happened with care so that our past experiences can guide us when this happens again. Merely holding inquiries in order to castigate people for getting things wrong is not enough."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cbmyvkigzbwhpqryxdmyris7/bafkreicfijr55or4xeg3potf5qfltwtqznk76foulcqb4u2rb4uqiowaay@jpeg)
May 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Adam Finn mentioned here. On the 9th of March this year he was quoted as saying kids weren’t COVID spreaders in the Guardian, which wasn’t true after the virus began to mutate:
Dana - people already get a lot of shit for taking precautions against respiratory disease (which we do for good reasons). When you bring this up publicly as a political strategy against candidates you don’t like you make us *all* look disingenuous. Particularly when you *do* do lunch
May 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Dana - people already get a lot of shit for taking precautions against respiratory disease (which we do for good reasons). When you bring this up publicly as a political strategy against candidates you don’t like you make us *all* look disingenuous. Particularly when you *do* do lunch
“Hi Grok, can you please show me a picture of a waxwork Elvis full of HGH?”
May 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“Hi Grok, can you please show me a picture of a waxwork Elvis full of HGH?”
Oh, of course
May 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Oh, of course
May 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
BTW, that Polio data
![Outcomes of poliovirus infection in children
Outcome
Proportion of cases 1]
No symptoms
72%
Minor illness
24%
Nonparalytic aseptic meningitis
1-5%
Paralytic poliomyelitis
0.1-0.5%
— Spinal polio
79% of paralytic cases
- Bulbospinal polio
19% of paralytic cases
- Bulbar polio
2% of paralytic cases](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cbmyvkigzbwhpqryxdmyris7/bafkreifmvozyz6x3vogzp5r3kyb76melt7puvzi2ifkibp2zpyomqfnvyq@jpeg)
May 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
BTW, that Polio data