Use tools to protect everyone:
😷 Wear a fitting N95
🛑 Test before gathering. Don’t gather if symptoms show even if testing negative
🛌 Stay Home when symptomatic
💉Boost your immune system if you can
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Thank you!

⚠️ Get the flu shot to prevent seasonal flu to reduce the risk of co-infection with a human and #BirdFlu virus, which could lead to the creation of a more transmissible virus through reassortment. Also, mask up please!
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⚠️ People who have contact with birds, cattle, domestic or wild animals should take precautions, including wearing gloves, N95 respirators, eye protection, and fluid-resistant coveralls or other outerwear.
 
⚠️ Do not eat raw food or feed pets with raw food, unpasteurized milk or cheese.

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R.I.P. Alice. We will carry on as your light shines above us. We won’t give up. ✍️ Writer: @msjulieslam.bsky.social Editor: Kathleen Downes. #MaskTogetherAmerica

Her horrific hospital stays in January 2024 served as a call to action shared through her #N95s4UCSF campaign (bit.ly/AliceWong_N9...), and her blogs for @teenvogue.com galvanized community support for implementation of airborne precautions and safer healthcare environments.

Unable to wear an N95 mask, the San Francisco resident was dependent on the masking of others. But despite being high risk and disabled, Wong struggled with safe access to care and barriers to accommodation in our eroding healthcare system.

Her determination to demand equity, access, and opportunity improved society for disabled people and their allies worldwide.

Her rage and struggles from combatting discrimination since her childhood growing up in Indiana were channeled to defend the rights of disabled people to be seen as valuable members of society, whose lives are inherently worthy whether they can take part in the traditional labor force or not.

A self-described “Medicaid welfare queen”, Wong never stopped fighting for Americans who need medical coverage and resources to lead a fulfilled life.

“Being disabled in a nondisabled world is precarious, one of constant adaptation. I remade myself into a new cyborg form that still has a voice, a breath, and a will to live.”—Alice Wong
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The world listened to Wong’s powerful voice–first from behind a BiPap mask– and eventually from a communication device that generated her words when placement of a tracheostomy and ventilator left her unable to speak in 2022.

The late disability rights activist and author was born with muscular dystrophy to immigrant parents from Hong Kong. Despite being told that she wouldn’t live to become an adult, she did and left an incredible legacy behind.