Here's a very interesting respirator -- essential a breathable N99. It is available in the U.S. from Family Masks.
https://www.savewo.com/healthcare/en/products/3dmask-extreme-pro
Hospital wait for Steven's eye surgery to be over.
To pass the time I walk. But to take a break from the mask I go outside and there I have to dance to keep warm.
Patient is out ready to go back to where we're staying.
#danceLikeNobodysWatching #yallmasking #YallStillMasking
#EllieKPosts
"We chat with Jim Donaghey, editor of Fight For a New Normal? Anarchism & Mutual Aid in the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis (Freedom Press: 2024), about anarchism and mutual aid during the Covid-19 pandemic and the lessons learnt."
Little | Bigger | Anarchism - Anarchism & Mutual Aid in the Covid-19 Pandemic
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/little-bigger-anarchism/episodes/Anarchism--Mutual-Aid-in-the-Covid-19-Pandemic-Crisis-with-Jim-Donaghey-e2r5et3
This is heart-rending but I relate on so many levels. I am not a musician, nor do I suffer from long covid. I have pre-existing health conditions that make me want not to get sick with something potentially worse. I guess I'm just a ghost. And you can't count ghosts.
"When your subculture leaves you behind with Long COVID"
"Friends texted their fears to me frantically: “Is music over? Are shows done?” I thought back to informal and unconventional gigs, the freedom and potentiality those moments held, and reassured my friends, sequestered in our separate biomes. I said and believed: “Music always finds a way, youth culture always finds a way, underground culture always finds a way.”
https://thesicktimes.org/2024/11/15/missing-the-gig-when-your-subculture-leaves-you-behind-with-long-covid/
@askazero
@auscovid19
#Covid #covidIsNotOver #YallStillMasking #EllieKPosts
Canadians! Interested in helping out? (It's super quick)
COVID and flu monitoring
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I just answered this week's FluWatchers survey! My weekly responses contribute to monitoring flu-like illness in my community. Help out by becoming a FluWatcher today! https://cnphi.canada.ca/fluWatcher/register #FluWatchers
#COVID #covisIsNotOver #YallStillMasking @auscovid19 @askazero
A big thank you to healthcare professionals who don't make us feel awkward taking precautions to protect our health!
Last night, biting on a piece of particularly delicious crisp apple (Honeycrisp, since you ask) I did something to my jaw and dislocated it, I guess.
I couldn't chew, yawn etc. It was very painful. (I have loose joints, and while I can keep my muscles strong to hold myself together, there's nothing I can do for my jaw, but chew lots of delicious food.)
Anyway, I called and got a cancellation appointment with my osteopath today. I was really nervous, thinking I would have to remove my N95 mask for the lengthy treatment. He was wearing a mask at my request (only a baggy blue, but at least that) and said he could - and did - treat me with mine still in place.
That was such a relief, in more ways than one. It's just a little thing, but it made all the difference to my stress levels.
@auscovid19
#YallStillMasking #EllieKPosts #COVID #covidIsNotOver
I was at a masked meetup in Golden Gate Park today, enjoying the company of fellow #CovidIsNotOver peeps. There's a discord server that we use to coordinate, and it's usually just an informal hang. We're not completely off the beaten path, but let's just say parking isn't a problem.
Guy (properly masked) walks up to us and asks us if we're a #CovidConsious group. He'd never heard of us, and thought he and his wife were the only ones.
Visibility matters, y'all.
4 years ago. When I had white & blue hair. Wearing N95 mask under sequin fabric mask.
My vivid hair colours were done by a friend, Kate, who works at The Old Hat Hair Shoppe, in downtown #VictoriaBC :
https://theoldhat.ca/team/kate/
@augieray
Yup. Still masking. But we are alone doing it around here.
#YallStillMasking
I am glad someone else has thought to say this too.
From experience – "Drug resistant TB" works better :-)
Pandemicene Day 1691: sorry been traveling #YallMasking #YallStillMasking
Pandemicene Day 1689: continuing to model masking #YallStillMasking
