“Happy to report that one week after traveling on an 11 hr flight to visit my elderly grandparents during a bad flu season, our masks kept us safe and helped us avoid spreading any airborne viruses to them, and we are able to enjoy Christmas together!”—Sinead O’Brien, @cleanairie.bsky.social

COVID & Health News, 10/5/25 open.substack.com/pub/drruth/p...

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

As grievously bad as the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 is now, the worst is yet to come. The complete lack of essential safety measures in public spaces means that current conditions will inevitably get much worse. #COVID19

New Substack post about HEPA air purifiers. They're good, but not quite as good as the advertising might lead you to expect. mecfs.substack.com/p/do-hepa-ai...

Many of us with complex chronic illness learn a ton over years of neglect in healthcare settings. We learn by painful trial and error and become confident about when to speak up. But someone who’s never been sick? Someone who doesn’t speak the language or is critically ill?

My friend the optimist insists that at core most people are basically good. My friend the pessimist insists that at core most people are basically bad. I worry, my friends, that at core most people are basically unwilling to be inconvenienced.

This is how I make a seal cut at the nose on my kid's Zimi mask so that it fits better around her nose bridge, thus eliminating gaps around each side of her nose. The fit factor went way up on fit testing with this hack!

Remote teaching in 2020 launched my interest in high quality virtual mathematics presentation. Just today I completed this playlist for undergraduate combinatorics, the result of years of learning and a semester of hard work: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

As I enter the copy room my colleague tells me she is feeling sick, she is really feeling very sick, and she is worried she will need to leave early, and though I want to note that we’ve already been in two meetings together, instead I just say: I’ll make my copies later.

I beg of you, please stop asking chronically ill people if we’re “better yet”. We aren’t getting better. That’s the nature of chronic illness. We may have good days & bad days… but we will always be sick. Its unrelenting. Always there. Ready to flare at any time.

New York Times: “30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed…in March 2020” “The number of people reporting a disability soared. Many Americans struggled with long Covid and reported cognitive issues like “brain fog” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We’re still in a global pandemic. The threat of Covid has not passed. We’re seeing an increase in bird flu, measles, TB & more. Public health has been dying a slow & painful death for years. We are on our own. The good news? Masks work for more than just Covid! My complete guide to respirators 👇🏼

Our 13-year-old crawled into our room 2 weeks after having a mild case of Covid & woke us in a panic because they felt like “their legs had been dipped in acid & set on fire.” It’s been 3 years & while the pain has decreased a bit, it’s still there every day + chronic fatigue and more. It’s brutal.

BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

"Most non disabled people are unable to face the fact that health is temporary. That all it takes is one virus, accident or stroke of bad luck to leave you permanently disabled. They don’t want to face it, so they blame us for our illnesses and tell themselves it can’t possibly happen to them."

Exactly 3 years on 👇 I've still not felt 'breathless', but as for 'some kind of impairment or difficulty in functioning'... Yes - that still sums it up 🙏 And as #COVIDisNotOver the number of people affected is growing! #COVID19 #BloodClots #PulmonaryEmbolism #LongCovid

"The data demonstrates little or no improvement over 16 weeks, while the frequency of contact throughout the study demonstrates the episodic and relapsing nature of long COVID." #LongCovid #PASC

More than 300 FAA employees have been dismissed.

Massive covidization and subsequent decovidization of the scientific literature involved 2 million authors - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Why did we spend so much effort in 2020 mitigating against the wrong routes for COVID spread? Really interesting background on the history and culture of science and medicine for airborne diseases.

Meanwhile, back in the USA, 'flu is breaking records, other infectious diseases spreading, like measles and 2 severe human cases of H5N1', @kkjetelina.bsky.social. And there are a lot of sick people in the UK too! 🤦By the way, measles is the most infectious virus known! substack.com/home/post/p-...

A webinar discussing practical solutions 👏🏼🙏🏻 @henryburridge.bsky.social #SafeAirSchools events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7d54c6...

Kind of like “weird I thought Covid was over but everyone I know keeps getting Covid”

’Unacceptable’: Doctors raise alarm as COVID runs rampant in Aussie aged care facilities. "The COVID death rate of our elderly in residential care is double that of the pandemic peak. Experts are blaming poor vaccination rates." @AnikaWells @healthgovau Source: archive.md/k2w7n

COVID-19 deaths in aged care are now double what they were at the peak of pandemic. 🔹During the height of the pandemic, 18 Feb 2020 to 19 May 2022 - 2,415 COVID deaths 🔹Between 27 May 2022 to 16 Jan 2025, that number surged to 4,778 deaths hellocare.com.au/covid-19-dea...

COVID deaths in aged care are now double what they were in the peak of the pandemic. hellocare.com.au/covid-19-dea... Does anybody CARE? If not, why not? This is shameful. #auspol

Good news: The Covid Safety Handbook is now at more retailers including Bookshop (indie, direct)! Our project is going places! linktr.ee/covidbook * Covid, TB, influenza, and bird flu are spread through inhalation. Our book is a one-stop prevention, relationship, and health boundary tool for all.

And “during Covid” is right now!

This looks like a useful hack. A bit expensive, though, to acquire all the parts but it could be worth it.

Great 🧵👇 especially for anyone in the teaching profession. 👏👏👏 Prof Gillespie

♻️ 1.5 days left! ⌛️(ends Thursday afternoon) 💙💜💗 Please help if you can 🙏 💕 Thank you to all those who have kindly helped so far. Your support is very much appreciated! 💕 Please help to share even if you cannot donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/clinically...

Masks, sound, speech, and accessibility, a thread! 🧵 I'm a professor. I teach in a mask. I do math with researchers and students with hearing and auditory processing disabilities. This is a thread on my solution for lip reading and audio quality all in one.

Fixing mask gaps with a chin staple increases protection, the angled pleat is better for narrow or angular faces

As expected, Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the World Health Organization.

Whatever your next adventure May your journey bring joy And your mask stay sealed!

New Year's Kid Zone is up! whn.global/kidszone/

If you have resolved to try your best to be kinder in this new year, and are looking for something to do, for something small to do, for something tangible to do, consider wearing a mask, there is still more you can do there is still more you must do but a mask is a start.

It's 2025, and kids are heading back to school amid a winter covid/flu/RSV season. In Shine!, Ellison McWellison shows that wearing a mask can keep you and others safe and healthy as you follow your heart and pursue your dreams! 😷❤️🎶 t.co/ep4z2agj8V 1/3

Remember to change out your air filters when they get gross!

It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this. 🪪 (we’ve added a printable membership card to aspiration.church) #CleanAir #MaskUp #Covid #LongCovid

Quick update from @michael-hoerger.bsky.social on Twitter about WW levels for the US Midwest: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18645...

Suzi, Dawson & I shuffled off to Buffalo yesterday for another Novavax shot Our last shots were Sept 15th We would have waited until the New Year but available shots expire Dec 31 The pharmacist didn't know if they would be getting any Novavax shots in for January or not 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Remember to change out your air filters when they get gross! Air filters can remove viruses like COVID from the air, which is an important one to avoid because it damages your brain.

#maskup #covidisairborne

📣 I'm demonstrating virtually with others outside the 🇸🇪,🇨🇦,🇬🇧 + 🇩🇪 @bundestag.de parliaments for #cleanair, vaccines, evidence-based infection control, public education on C19, and care + biomedical research for #PostCovid + #MEcfs! Day 7️⃣5️⃣ #CallForPublicHealthAction Support us with reskeet + like.

This article from September resonates “What’s at stake is we are reverting back to a system where a person’s financial ability to be able to pay will determine their ability to be healthy,” Washington said." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

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From @VicGovDH on Twitter, now that's much clearer messaging than most other PH msgs: Src: x.com/VicGovDH/sta... #Covid #PublicHealth