Quick Note: Sorry we've been away! Our team (again, very small) experienced an unfortunately simultaneous series of minor to moderate personal crises in our respective lives. We appreciate your patience as we work to catch up on correspondence, map updates, and more. 💚🗺💚

It doesn’t matter if you have all the covid tests you need or if you are somehow magically rich enough to not care about free ones If you’re in the USA, request your 4 from the government NOW. Don’t wait. They need to see there’s public desire for them to do more

A link to this page also has been added to our Linktree (in bio) for easy remembering and locating.

We would also like to not let it pass that, in addition to the 4 tests per household being flatly insulting, to open the ordering on Yom Kippur—the most important holiday of the Jewish year and a day when many Jewish USians will be at services and offline—is flatly antisemitic.

ORDERING IS NOW OPEN!!! (Link below and on our Linktree in bio.) Please order your tests, whether you "have enough" or can afford to purchase them yourself. Demanding the tests already set aside for you by the federal government proves we still care about the ongoing pandemic.

USian followers: Mark your calendars for Sept 25, and make sure to get your tests! Sign up here (also on our Linktree): www.covid.gov/tests

Now on our Linktree (in bio)!!! Very proud to know everyone involved in this effort, of the mask bloc work being done in communities around the world, and of the commitment to making this zine a reality. Looking forward to everyone's feedback before the print version!

Exciting!

Now on our Linktree (in bio)!!! Very proud to know everyone involved in this effort, of the mask bloc work being done in communities around the world, and of the commitment to making this zine a reality. Looking forward to everyone's feedback before the print version!

We know you're probably almost as antsy to see the map as we are to show it off. But we still need a lot of approvals before it's much worth seeing. (Hint hint: If your group wants a pin, hit our DMs!) So today, an explainer about one of our favorite features: The Blobs! 🧵🧵

This person is looking for C19 info resources in languages other than English: www.tiktok.com/@flowerfulfr... And so are we! If you have a zine, flyer, guide, or anything else you love (including orgs and groups!) in a non-English language, send it our way and also to her!

Found this image again late last night, and we're reminded all over again why we feel so called to this project. It's not only that everyone needs to mask. It's that not everyone can access the mask they need. Merci à l'Association Winslow Santé Publique, c'est vraiment un graphisme merveilleux.

Huge thank you to everyone who's reached out so far! (Especially the ones who saved us a cold DM. 😅) We've received consent to be on the public map from several collectives already known to us and learned about a heap of new ones, including our first in PR! Short 🧵👇

One of our team members just enrolled in this to test the system. Their tests shipped in <3 hrs & arrived the next day. One nice thing: You do NOT need to use the provided tests to access telehealth/antivirals. You can use ANY approved test & still qualify for the program, running thru April 2024.

I need people who haven't been masking to understand that 60% of Covid transmission is asymptomatic, and that y'all have likely had infections you don't know about. Your body is more compromised than you know. You need to protect yourself now.

Everyone deserves access. Everyone deserves protection. Everyone deserves safety. Everyone deserves support. Everyone can help.

We know every face is unique, and it can take experimentation to find that comfortable fit that also gives a good seal. We also know different masks are great in different situations. But if you had to pick just one, which mask are you wearing? And why do you love it so much???

Probably the most frequent conversation we have about this project (besides the project itself) is how much we all despise the fact it's necessary. Community care is and will always be essential. But regular folks should never have to spend their labor compensating for total public abandonment.

Now that we have the socials up and functional, time for a little introduction, and then it's back to work for us! We're excitingly close to soft launching our project, but that just means it's crunch time for all the remaining work! But what exactly are we doing? Well... 👇

Do we know exactly how soon "coming soon" is yet? Absolutely not. (We REALLY hope to have that answer, erm, pretty soon now, tho.) But do we know how you can be sure not to miss when the map link drops? ABSOLUTELY YES! Subscribe to our Linktree below to get notified as soon as the link goes live!

Do we know exactly how soon "coming soon" is yet? Absolutely not. (We REALLY hope to have that answer, erm, pretty soon now, tho.) But do we know how you can be sure not to miss when the map link drops? ABSOLUTELY YES! Subscribe to our Linktree below to get notified as soon as the link goes live!

Now that we have the socials up and functional, time for a little introduction, and then it's back to work for us! We're excitingly close to soft launching our project, but that just means it's crunch time for all the remaining work! But what exactly are we doing? Well... 👇

Doing good work in your corner of the covid-aware community? We can put you on the map! (And we'd really love to!) 😷 💚 For more information about the project, how it works, and how it might help, read on below! 🧵🧵

Everyone deserves access. Everyone deserves protection. Everyone deserves safety. Everyone deserves support. Everyone can help.

Watch this space. 📍 🗺 👀 [red pin emoji over a map emoji with the eyes emoji looking on with interest from the side]

mask blocs should be rolling with bsky and mastodon from here on out 😷🐮 #maskbloc