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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · Nov 20

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 9h

"They're doing eugenics! We must fight back!"
"Then you'll wear a respirator, right? Advocate for clean air? Keep abreast of any developments in the ongoing pandemic and vaccinate yourselves with every new iteration? Do your part not to worsen any disabled person's burden?"

"No not like that."

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 21h

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 1d

Liberals clutching their pearls on this site when told that not masking to protect others in essential public spaces is ableist. Instead of getting angry, they should reflect on how they can do better

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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 21h

Our new review article examines the parallels between COVID and AIDS, including the social impacts

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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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 1d

#H5N1 confirmed
British Columbia
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Commercial Poultry

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 15h

Least unhinged coofmonger.

Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social · 15h

Jimmy Dore hates when his waiter at a restaurant wears a mask. He says he'll walk out of the restaurant next time it happens.

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 15h

You don't understand. When I recover from these 3rd degree burns, my fingers will be made of callouses. I will be able to touch the surface of the sun. My skin, like my immune system, needs to be barraged with insults. Wouldn't want my hands to develop burn debt, now would I?

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 18h

Speak for yourself, liberal, but I'm rawdogging that hot oven tray with my fing-- OW OW OW

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20h

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

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Michael Girard, CA, PAA-NCGR @michaelmgirard.bsky.social · 18h

Tomorrow would have been my mother's 74th birthday. She did not mask, and whoever gave COVID to her was likely unmasked, and may not have known that they had it.

She's dead, along with millions of others.

Don't rationalize preventable deaths.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 18h

Are you cumming uncontrollably 24/7? Just firehosing spooge into the world? Do you have no refractory period at all? If not, then why would you propose that people wear a condom 24/7?

People ARE, however, breathing out aerosols uncontrollably 24/7. Therefore, masking.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 22h

perhaps you too will come to see a mask as an antidote, however small, to so many of the societal ills preventing us from movin the needle as we could; to mask, i'd argue, is directly counter to that cynicism. it is an action imbued with hope—backed up by real physical prevention—for a better world.

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Feb 1

a mask is the thing you’re looking for. it is the visible reminder of how things have changed, that you acknowledge we are not coveted “normal” times—but unlike donation-earned tote bags or symbolic beaded bracelets, the mask is community care in both form & immediate function.

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 19h

Behaving a lot like the Hong Kong Police Force.

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 19h

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10... Oh cute, the Neoliberal Death Party really IS taking all of the shit we need to manage this ongoing pandemic behind the shed and shooting each of them like dogs. Free RAT kits -- who needs them? Funding for LC clinics? Fuck that! Thanks, BCNDP!

Long-Term Care Funding Cuts Will Hurt Seniors, Providers Warn | The Tyee

Operators say they rely on the pandemic supports the government is cutting.

thetyee.ca

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 21h

It's a good thing, then, that the BCCDC just slashed wastewater monitoring to 1 day of sampling per week (from 3) at 8 WWTPs (from 12). Who needs better monitoring when you can just hide the next pandemic.

Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 21h

www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

Report proposes new framework to prepare for future pandemics

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 2d

Dear liberals,

If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 3d

Can you please check your DMs? I need help with something important.

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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 4d

It’s communication like this that leaves nurses with the impression that masks are meant to stop us from touching our faces (actual thing someone said to me last year) instead of filtering air

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 4d

Mask mandates return to health care facilities in parts of California.

The mandate goes from Nov. 1 to March 31, 2026. Someone tell Covid it needs to be over by then

www.newsweek.com/mask-mandate...

Mask mandate returns to parts of California

The order in Sonoma County is designed to protect the "most vulnerable populations" in health care facilities during fall and winter.

www.newsweek.com

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 4d

What the FUCK?

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jeremy Faust: BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

open.substack.com

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 4d

God that is the most random thing to remove. At this point I don't know if I even trust people to figure out the inhalation part.

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 4d

Guys they changed what the NS says about airborne transmission AGAIN. They removed the part about inhalation. Absolutely fuck this.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 4d

Striking Canada Post workers will move to rotating strikes as of tomorrow — but they’re still fighting the uphill battle for both Canada Post and their labour rights.

For @parismarx.com, the Carney government continuing to chip away at this essential service is the last straw:

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

Great piece from @brucearthur.bsky.social @thestar.com about the bird flu ostrich circus.

The economic and scientific issues concern me a lot, but for me, it all comes back to this: the US is where it is now because public health was politicized & exploited to undermine democracy & the rule of law.

“I mean, the economic security issues that it would create in terms of potentially s——canning our entire poultry export market would be devastating for Canada. But the real underlying issue is this anti-government belief that these public health orders are optional, and we don’t want government regulation.

“That is why they have so much attention, and why Rebel News and this entire far-right media ecosystem is involved ... is to weaken, basically, government sovereignty. And this is exactly the kind of thing that happened in the U.S.”

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 4d

The cost of doing nothing☠️‼️

@binitakane.bsky.social 🙏🏻

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

jamanetwork.com

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