With only a handful of fringe exceptions everyone I know or have seen who masks cares more about getting the COVID vaccine (and an expanded range of COVID vaccines) than the general public

Levi, ACIP working group chair, is saying with WG is concerned that vaccine is only mostly effective for some months. So, THAT'S THE NEED FOR MORE RESEARCH AND MORE WIDENED ACCESS TO BI-ANNUAL VACCINATIONS.

A 41-year-old immunocompromised man endured acute COVID-19 for 750+ days, with 5 hospitalisations and ongoing respiratory symptoms. Unlike long COVID, the infection never cleared. His extremely low T-cell count 35/µL, far below the healthy 500–1,500 range, allowed the virus to persist.

The fix is in. Get your COVID vax THIS WEEK, friends. Do not wait if you can avoid it.

my mom tried to give me all these tips when i became depressed from being exhausted and brain fogged in high school that i could hardly do my homework. all of her suggestions made me feel like a failure bc they didn’t work. i was diagnosed w/ a post-viral condition one year later.

A problem with most people thinking COVID-19 is no longer a threat is that I just had a weird loss prevention dude follow me around a grocery store (occasionally coughing) because he could not fathom that anyone wearing a face mask (despite me also using a cane)- wasn't nefarious. We're in a surge.

Covid has returned and it’s going to hurt. By Lesley-Ann Jones, Daily Express, Saturday September 13, 2025 Source: x.com/LAJwriter/st...

The IPC cell minutes revealed at the COVID inquiry exposed the main barrier. Saving face matters more than saving lives: "if you wanted to change the guidance itself, it would need a very careful narrative, otherwise it would be easy to give the impression that we got it wrong..."

COVID is literally stored in the balls and it’s damaging reproductive health Bobby, maybe try and support people not getting infected

I think I cracked how to make masking desirable, even hedonistic

Good luck to anyone in California and consider upgrading to a p100 mask for a little bit

Why is NACI allowing only 1 COVID vaccine per year for most Canadians, making many ineligible for the fall vaccine? Everyone should be eligible: 1. It’s an UPDATED vaccine. 2. COVID vaccines begin to wane at 4 months - it’s NOT a yearly vaccine. #Canada #COVID www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

A 32 year old man died of complications of COVID-19 while being held hostage by ICE goons. This isn’t tragic, it’s a crime azdailysun.com/news/local/c...

Cases of H5N1 in which the source of infection cannot be traced always unnerve me. One of the children in California - infected in Dec of last year - is now in that category . These cases always raise the suspicion of an as-yet unknown mode of transmission. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

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

but many folks are still shocked that you can even catch covid and die or become disabled from it, likely in part bc of phrases like “during covid,” which heavily implies an “after,” which you’re arguing there IS an after. after freezer trucks, sure. but not after it no longer kills. 2/2

it’s not pedantic, it shapes our reality. if everyone truly understood covid was very much still here, still killing people, still disabling people, then i don’t think we would say “during covid,” i think we would say “during the worst of covid” or “during the beginning” 1/2

New Brunswick's largest hospital network resumes mandatory masking as respiratory illnesses rise www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/c... This is mainly around Canadian working musicians, and fantastic

another week, another person i’ve known for years who stopped masking hitting me up for doctor recs. they’ve got longcovid. i always give as much as i can. illness is not punishment for not engaging in mitigation behavior in an environment lacking systemic safety, it is simple cause & effect.

I've seen many debating what to do if COVID vaccines truly disappear in the US & what they told me in Canada (as I can only safely receive a vaccine our government no longer buys)- is to "get infected to avoid infection" which is obviously bad advice. So, I wear an N95 everywhere in public instead.

I guess the cat's out of the bag! I've been beta testing the new COVID variant which should be hitting store shelves this holiday season. While my NDA prevents me from going into too many details here's what I can reveal: shit sucks I hate it

'The unexpected finding that vaccination-only participants showed superior cross-neutralization compared to individuals with hybrid immunity challenges conventional assumptions about hybrid immunity advantages'. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hearing accounts from Gaza talk about a COVID outbreak, though I assume the only thing that stops infectious disease in conditions that inhumane and crowded is temporary immunity post-infection following outbreaks

Kansas City: COVID-19 outbreak forces metro school to close until next week fox4kc.com/news/covid-1...

My great grandma who died when I was 26, she was born in 1899 & lived to 113, she lived through the Spanish flu epidemic. People masked. The community value of protecting each other had dissolved into individualism by COVID when Americans felt the minimum effort would infringe on their privilege.

just realized that list of conditions for “severe covid risk” is now another source of grief. according to science, that means if you’re on that list, you should be masking. but folks who consider themselves healthy enough are only thinking about it in terms of vaccines

Without ACIP endorsement, pharmacists cannot administer (and thus will not schedule) covid19 vax in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia & DC.

Ukraine reinstates face mask mandates, recommends mask wearing to public zamin.uz/en/world/158...

COVID or not, I highly recommend considering masking right now especially if you are at risk. I know of 4 confirmed pneumonia cases across the country, in 3 states, 1 fatal. And a fifth suspected. And that’s just in *my circle.* But since the CDC has been gutted, who would tell us? Be careful.

Well, a CBC journalist just said live on air that they were surprised people are still catching Covid.

I wear a Stealth Lite-Pro, which barely muffles my voice at all.

If people can get away with them I really feel like industrial p100s are gonna be the solution to go for wrt one way masking- cost effective, easier to seal check with confidence, more comfortable if people get the right one. The big problem is the social friction

If you're looking for masking resources, or even extra masks, just let me know. We gotta take care of each other

I was at a doctor’s office last week discussing preventative care. She ended with “and, of course, get the flu and Covid vaccines in the fall,” and I was like “do you still think we’ll be able to?” Her response was “what do you mean?” Like, she was genuinely surprised why I would ask that.

1) The COVID vaccine doesn’t reliably stop every infection and doesn’t stop transmission 2) It reduces transmission to some degree 3) 20% of Americans are believed to have gotten a booster last year, 4% or less mask 4) COVID transmission rates will increase and probably increase globally

They’re going to ban the COVID vaccine in America www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

@doublehelix.bsky.social oh hey I got one of the extra large Zimis! It kind of cups around my face a bit vs how the large was a quarter mask, so I really want to do a diy fit test first, but it seems really nice!

Covid Is a labour issue and will increasingly impact workforce on a population level as people get reinfected -> long covid/disability. Yet mitigation is perceived as hurting the economy....

Finding the pandemic particularly exhausting tonight for no clear reason

One dangerous thing about gov’ts + institutions falsely insisting COVID’s over: blame for its ongoing impacts, like more people becoming chronically ill, gets shifted. It’s been shifted by some onto COVID vaccines, increasing antivax sentiment. This hospital association’s shifting it to immigrants.

A week ago, I lost 900 followers for posting a picture wearing a mask. Today, there are more than 10,000 new followers. I’m grateful you’re here. Let’s keep building a community that values curiosity, evidence, and compassion over fear and noise.

Researchers told me that, compared with pre-pandemic times, people are living with more inflammation and immune disruption now, whether they have long COVID or not. Months later, Akiko Iwasaki's final line still echoes in my head: “the entire world is pretty much the convalescent control.” (2/5)

"people who are still concerned about covid are so unreasonable, they just want us all to go into lockdown again!" literally nobody is asking for that. what people are asking for is stuff like universal masking in healthcare settings and investment in indoor air filtration/clean air infrastructure

The most important part of this article, to me, is the end. It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.” Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5) www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Never stopped taking strict precautions but don’t like this

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2 www.bmj.com/content/390/... @nicktsergas.ca @bmj.com 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

The grief you are feeling for things that could’ve been and what might have been if we had just done something another way is normal. The sadness you feel knowing that things things are absolutely not OK and there’s nothing you can do but continue going to work is normal.

This party had Zero COVID levels of PCR testing, air purification and far-UVC. It was a huge error not to discuss that or to mask in photos. This popular kid dunking on someone with an immune disorder asking people to mask is just tedious bullying though. You won! No mask mandates for you :)