Day 3 of #12DaysOfMasks: On the Friendship Bench by Gille and Marc thinking about my brother-in-law, dad, uncle, friends lost in this pandemic, and new ones I made on the quest. #MaskTogetherAmerica is a strong community. Grateful for the love and support from all of you. 💛😷

#Colorado is having a record-setting #flu season, and yet some of the major hospitals have not reinstated universal masking! Please sign/share. Kids are dying preventable deaths, and we can and should do better. #MaskTogetherColorado #MaskTogetherAmerica actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

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Flu Tips: 👉Get a flu shot (if medically able) 👉Wear a well-fitted respirator 👉Wash your hands regularly 👉If sick, stay home, except to seek treatment. 👉Seeking treatment promptly may shorten the course of your illness and reduce the likelihood that you will spread the disease to anyone vulnerable.

Who is that sleepy monster masking up for the #12DaysOfMasks photo challenge from @togetherwemask.bsky.social ? It’s your favorite #SadSack on #Day1

🚨From Oct 1- Dec 27, 2025, CDC preliminary estimates for Flu: 11M - 20M lab-confirmed cases, 5.2M - 9M medical visits for flu-like illnesses, 120K - 260K hospitalizations, and 5K - 25K deaths, including children! #MaskTogetherAmerica please! See CDC Flu Burden: bit.ly/CDCFluBurden...

Looking back at my #LongCOVID journey from the labs at the Queens Hospital, Weill Cornell sleep study center and @CoRESinai.bsky.social to fight erasure of Long COVID and advocate for Long Haulers. #12DaysOfMasks Challenge FB www.facebook.com/masktogether... IG www.instagram.com/p/DTLLHMrkQf...

🚨CDC estimates that there have been at least 11M cases, 120K hospitalizations, 5K deaths (including 9 kids) from flu this season. ⚠️Get a flu shot. Avoid crowds. Wear a tight fitting N95. Stay home when having symptoms. Taking precautions protects each other! #MaskTogetherAmerica ‼️ #12DaysOfMasks

🚨The Death Toll is likely MUCH HIGHER! www.cdc.gov/flu-burden/p... Based on data from Oct 1- Dec 27, 2025, Illnesses estimates 11M-20M, Med Visits: 5.2M-9M, Hospitalization: 120K - 260K and Flu Deaths: 5K- 25K! The CDC only warns us about the minimum numbers in the preliminary estimates. #MaskUp!

Kasia @sadsackolympian.bsky.social invites you to take part in #12DaysOfMasks challenge starting Jan 5. “Not all people are able to wear a respirator (like newborns), so it’s incredibly important that the rest of us keep public spaces safe for them. Tag #MaskTogetherAmerica or me & add the hashtag.”

I gladly accept the challenge from Kasia Kowalczyk @sadsackolympian.bsky.social Here’s my first day of #12DaysOfMasks for #MaskTogetherAmerica Inviting @drjudystone.bsky.social @Michael-Hoerger.bsky.social @luckytran.com and everyone at @wemaskcolorado.bsky.social to participate!

Flu, COVID, RSV and many other pathogens are circulating. Mask Up like your life depends on it. You don't want to live with chronic illnesses that have no cures.

⚠️😷 The map is showing old data. What is in green might be orange by now. And, the map shows data for all respiratory viral infections, which includes flu, COVID and RSV. #MaskTogetherAmerica

LC Defense Series II, Jan 15, 2026, 5pm-8pm EST features: 🌟Sinéad O'Brien, co-founder @cleanairie.bsky.social 🌟Prof. Akiko Iwasaki @virusesimmunity.bsky.social @yalemedicine.bsky.social 🌟Betsy Ladyzhets & 🌟Miles W. Griffis, co-founders @thesicktimes.org Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Happy New Year to everyone!

UN-Infectious Love Documentary Photography by Julie Lam @msjulieslam.bsky.social #MaskTogetherAmerica - finding love everywhere… #OneOfTheTwo 💛😷

Sharing another interview with you! It was a highlight of my 2025 to meet @ScarletStitch.bsky.social (a super talented crocheter) in-person at the comic con. 💗😷 Let’s mask up while we have fun!

Tested and masked up before seeing friends from Breathe Easy London 💗😷 @togetherwemask.bsky.social

“An infection can change your life. I have rheumatic heart disease; my heart was damaged due to an autoimmune inflammatory response following a strep infection…” Cameron was interviewed by @msjulieslam.bsky.social at a mask-required Breathe Easy London event to support #MaskTogetherAmerica.

Every time I look at the Long COVID research index that dismisses my years of struggles with organ damage and immune dysfunction, I can’t hold back my tears. I started with eye pain and that’s not even on the list!

✈️ to UK on Christmas Day 🎄😷 Wish me luck! 🍀 @togetherwemask.bsky.social @wemaskcolorado.bsky.social #MaskTogetherAmerica

“It was hilarious how grumpy #Santa was in this picture!”— Ruth Sitts who had the updated shots, encourages everyone to support #MaskTogetherAmerica Many different viruses, including scary COVlD & #H3N2 (subclade K) flu, are spreading this winter, do what you can. #HappyHolidays

I’m sharing my lived experience. I have Long COVID pain due to organ damage, immune dysfunction and reactivation of VZV that causes Shingles, despite vaccination! COVlD also triggered autoimmune disorders and sleep apnea! I can attest. #MaskUp like your life depends on it! 🎄😘

“I mask to protect myself and to avoid being a part of the infection chain that takes another person's life, knowing that asymptomatic infection is incredibly common."—Venus Justice nearly lost their life to COVID near the end of 2021. www.instagram.com/p/DShzlzekZX... #MaskTogetherAmerica

Rare night out 🦉

“Hey! I’m traveling to a meeting for my company…as always with FFP2. I also tested myself for COVID in the morning and suggested that my colleagues do the same, and they did! Currently, COVID, flu and RSV are on the rise in Germany.”—Sebastian K on a train. #MaskTogetherAmerica

“While some liken it to the common cold, COVID-19 is still a lethal disease.”—Korin Miller, Prevention Magazine Both Dr. Russo & Dr. Schaffner recommend wearing a mask, especially to protect children, older adults and people with underlying conditions. www.facebook.com/masktogether...

The subsequent consequences of COVID, in terms of Long COVID, is much more significant than it is for influenza.” Dr. Thomas A. Russo warns about “Stratus” in Prevention Mag. “You can’t count on avoiding severe illness,” even if you’re not in the high-risk group. www.prevention.com/health/healt...

See interview of Christine by @msjulieslam.bsky.social on Facebook www.facebook.com/masktogether...

A tight fitting N95 respirator provides good protection against airborne transmission and infection. It’s also critical to stay home when having symptoms. Taking precautions protects each other. 💛😷 #MaskTogetherAmerica

“No one is safe from the damage that COVID does. Both my mom and my uncle had post-COVID complications; my mom now has #LongCOVID. Everyone is at risk of Long COVID and I can tell you: you don’t want it.”— Christine, founder of ThingsDoctorsSay. Interview: www.instagram.com/p/DSYLEZHkWHR/

We have the rights to speak and demonstrate, wearing our masks to stay safe! 😷🪧 We need vaccines to be free for all! Prevention is best with the layered approach. Equality means accessibility! Thank you @raginggrannies.bsky.social and @scienceandsanity.bsky.social for speaking out on behalf of us!

Read full story on Instagram and Facebook: www.instagram.com/p/DSP9ch5ES8...

Please support patients who bravely stepped up to raise awareness to support normalization of prevention: www.facebook.com/masktogether... www.instagram.com/p/DSP9ch5ES8... Thank you. 💜

“Due to the reinfection in 2024, I’m no longer able to sit out in the garden - a pleasure that took me two and a half years to build to, and only one reinfection took away from me again." Lydia Fischer Dooley, disabled by #LongCOVID triggered by a 2nd COVID in 2022. www.instagram.com/p/DSP9ch5ES8...

It can be done! I hope @safehourberlin.bsky.social will inspire more people to have preventive protocols in gatherings, meetings and conferences and start a movement to normalize prevention! So proud to be the PSA editor of @togetherwemask.bsky.social 🎬🎞️👩🏻‍💻

It’s highly recommended to #MaskUp against airborne diseases on @MTA.info buses and trains. @NYCHealth.bsky.social and @togetherwemask.bsky.social are promoting the layered approach for prevention! Protect yourself from #LongCOVID and other post viral diseases!

Thanks to COVID, I am immune deficient, struggling with pain when lying down, daily episodic blood pressure issues and have to see over 30 specialists. A mask is your best friend! Choose wisely. Wear properly. Protect yourself and others from #LongCOVID. @togetherwemask.bsky.social

Lymphopenia after Omicron is dangerous! A study shows significant/lasting drops in major immune cells (T cells, B cells, NK cells) for >20 months in adult patients exposed during the Omicron variant’s “Mass Infection” from Dec 2022 to Feb 2023 in China. www.instagram.com/p/DSEctsTEXT...

😭❤️‍🩹 so scary.

"Too many to count," I told the reporter who doesn’t wear masks. "I'm surrounded by love. I am so sick...not much left of me any way. AND I am too busy working for the campaign I initiated for MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social." I told him as much as I can about #LongCOVID.

Free Masks Save Lives! @nychealthy.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Basic facts

I don't have Long COVID, but a household member does. We can't find a medical office that will honor our request for everyone we interact with during the appt to wear a mask (including receptionist, nurse or medical assistant, physician or provider). He masks but 2-way masking is safer. #MedSky

A college student told Irish Country Living how contracting COVID in 2021 damaged her heart, immune system & nervous system, and Long COVID shattered every single aspect of her life. Farmers Journal article by Rosalind Skillen reveals how >200 LC symptoms impact those living with it.

Let’s stay vigilant together! #MaskTogetherAmerica

“I've been disabled by COVID. In 2024, I got it a 2nd time and I got POTS... I now see two cardiologists. I wear my mask to protect myself and my community.”— Elena Isabel, interviewed by @MsJulieSLam.bsky.social at a mask-required Breathe Easy London event to support #MaskTogetherAmerica.

Manchester Evening News @manchestereveningnews.co.uk warns about the surges of flu, COVID, RSV and Norovirus as a reason why Dr. Alex Allen, Consultant Epidemiologist at @ukhsa.bsky.social asks people to #MaskUp to stop the chain of transmission. www.instagram.com/p/DRs45MukR5...

We are grateful to Becky Ancira Robertson @ancirabecky.bsky.social #MaskTogetherAmerica founding member, and @thewhn.bsky.social #LongCOVID advocate, researcher, and rep., for sharing her lived experience during our LC Defense Series I. See full presentation: masktogetheramerica.org/blog/masktog...

“Besides COVlD, Flu is getting serious this holiday season because H3N2 (subclade K) can evade protection of immunization and causes severe sickness.“— Behind the KN95 is a member of @raginggrannies.bsky.social urging everyone to take precautions this season.  www.instagram.com/p/DRpHSZ2ETc...