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#MasksWork

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Another reminder that words matter.

There’s an increasing and concerning push to label maskers as “bad”

We keep hearing that “only criminals wear masks”

Now ICE agents are “wearing masks” while kidnapping and disappearing people.

The result is that “masks” takes on a negative connotation in the public sphere, which makes surviving as a high risk disabled person so much harder.

We already have mask bans in some States and counties. More bills are on the table.

We need to normalize masking as a public health tool now, before it’s too late.

Please wear a respirator like an N95.

It’s a symbol of resistance and you need your health to fight the fascists!

Please stop saying ICE agents are “wearing masks”

They’re wearing face coverings. Gaitors.

The anti-mask rhetoric has caused untold harm to disabled people.

Mask bans have already been enacted in many places.

We must fight for our right to continue wearing medical masks & respirators.

For those who says this isn’t the right time because there’s a “crisis”, understand that disabled people are often the first targets under fascism.

Some places have already criminalized masking.

We need to keep each other as healthy as possible. It’s hard to fight with Long Covid

#uspol#n95#ice

The masks ICE agents wear aren’t masks. They’re face coverings designed to hide their identity.

The masks disabled people have been pleading to normalize are KN95s, N95s and other respirators. Which will help protect you from COVID & other airborne threats!

Normalize masking for public health.

#uspol#fascism#ice

“China noted a rise in outpatient cases from 7.5% to 16.2% and severe hospitalized cases from 3.3% to 6.3%”

The latest COVID variant is sweeping across Asia, causing “razor blade throat” and other concerning symptoms.

The US dismantles reporting, remove access to testing & may restrict vaccines.

Wear a well fitted respirator, it could save a life.

greekcitytimes.com/2025/05/24/

Greek City Times · China Grapples with COVID-19 Surge Marked by Severe “Razor Blade Throat” SymptomBy Bill Giannopoulos

I need to celebrate this win somewhere and none of my friends care about this stuff, but I FINALLY got maintenance at this apartment complex to understand and accept that they will not be allowed in my apartment without masks, no exceptions.

It only took five years, me buying signs to put on both doors (they have been there since the summer of 2021), and me slamming the door in their face and locking it before they finally realized this is not negotiable.

I’m a little nervous that the two guys coming tomorrow will take their masks off as soon as I go in my bedroom and shut the door leaving them to do their thing, but my plan is to look like crap & cough a lot so I scare them. I know that’s not nice but you gotta do what you gotta do.

#MasksWork #ActuallyWinning 🎉🎈👏🏻🎊

In light of tariffs and the rumor that #NOISH is shutting down, may I recommend Envo Masks from NH should we be unable to get masks we know are real?

They impressed me when they started offering the plug for the exhale valve and I didn’t want to buy a whole pack of them, so I wrote to them and asked them if I could purchase just one or two since the early versions didn’t have them, and they sent me a couple for free.

Oh and we don’t have sales tax here (NH USA). I don’t remember if they have to charge you if you do.

Envo Mask – envo mask envomask.com

envo maskEnvo MaskBreathe easier. Envo® respirators combine respiratory protection with superior comfort. Shop Respirators Our reusable N95 and N99 respirators are NIOSH-approved, comfortable, secure, and designed for long-term wear.

Huge cuts at NIOSH mean that those who reply on respirators to keep themselves safe will have less protection. This impacts firefighters, miners, healthcare workers and all manner of industries.

It’s also devastating to the disability community.

“You do you” Covid policies left many of us with N95s as our main line of defence against repeat infection.

Respirators make public spaces accessible. They allow us to attend healthcare appointments without forced infection.

Cutting the people who ensure their quality will endanger disabled lives.

cnn.com/2025/04/06/health/cdc-

CNN · ‘A huge impact on worker safety’: Protection for miners, firefighters in jeopardy after CDC cutsBy Meg Tirrell

the thing about echo chambers, is they reflect back what is put into them, "with character" - think of how a choir sounds in a cathedral, versus outside

nonsense in, nonsense with character out

BUT

glorious, coordinated, beautiful voices in? Reverberating, amplified, beauty out!

what I'm getting at is: yeah, places within Mastodon & Fediverse are clearly echo chambers

but the voices in this concert hall are beautiful singly, and in harmony, and in dissonance. Songs that reflect the human condition, and broader reality.

It's not misleading to be in an echo chamber where "2+2=4"[*] and "what does the evidence say" are mantras.

I'm sure this is not an original thought, thanks to whoever (in this echo chamber!) planted it in my brain however long ago.

[*] #masksWork and #CovidIsNotOver !

@raymondpert “The letter also demands that Columbia ban masks on campus meant to conceal the wearer’s identity ‘or intimidate others,’ adopt a new definition of antisemitism, abolish its current process for discipliningstudents and deliver a plan to ‘reform undergraduate admissions, international recruiting, and graduate admissions practices.’”

Ew. Just in time for them all to get measles.

But back to the topic at hand, this is a great way to ruin people’s lives. Anyone in those programs is not matriculated if those programs end, meaning their student loan grace period or repayment starts. And if they’re on a student visa . . . idk but this is life ruining for people who have invested years working towards these degrees.

I've been back home a couple of days, but I'm isolating from the Little One and my partner until we know for sure that I didn't bring any unwanted viral stowaways with me.

So far, still feeling fine and testing negative. #MasksWork

It's tough, but it's the right thing to do because #CovidIsNotOver.

A few more days to go. 😷✊🏽❤️