This is the reality of the music industry under Covid now: Taylor Swift and Adele to this day still get a Covid safety bubble. Their fans? Ordinary musicians like klezmorim? No, you just get sick, repeatedly, forever. Nice. #Covid #Klezmer #music #livemusic
https://newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/covid-is-still-a-working-class-issue/
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I cosign all of this. To the best of my knowledge, I don't have a medical condition that makes me more "high risk" for Covid than anyone else.
And yet I understand that Covid destroys everyone's bodies and I don't want that to happen to me.
So I always wear respirators, etc.
I would love to live in a world where people resisted capitalist propaganda to protect the people around them and not be ableist... But we don't live in that world...
If you've been cruising the Fediverse recently, you've no doubt seen a number of amusing posts under the hashtag #CDCSays, about why the U.S. Center for Disease Control is probably trying to kill you for capitalism; in particular as that relates to their updated COVID isolation guidelines. While these posts are objectively hilarious, the simple truth is that these aren't really jokes, and pretty much everyone who understands this virus and how it works, thinks the CDC has sold us all down the river for capitalists, corporations, and the bosses, to keep the fuckbarrelTM churning.
Of course, there's only so much these folks can communicate in a joke on social media, so today I thought I'd share a recent article by Reina Sultan on Self.com. Inside, she talks to three medically qualified experts who work in this field about why the CDC's new guidelines, and the drastic reduction of the isolation period recommended if you've contracted COVID, are wishful thinking at best and quite possibly capitalist death cult propaganda:
https://www.self.com/story/cdc-new-covid-19-isolation-guidelines
Although it's definitely worth reading the entire short article, let's look at some important highlights here for folks who're absolutely not gonna click on a link about COVID because they'd rather pretend everything is fine:
- reducing COVID isolation recommendations from 5 days, to 24 hours "if you’ve been fever-free" and "your symptoms are improving" will "likely make more people sick—and this approach increasingly places the burden of public health on individual people, which is dangerous for everyone, but especially for those at a higher risk of complications from the virus."
- changing testing from a way to determine if you can leave isolation, to merely something you might want to use to "assist" your decision making, is a terrible idea.
- COVID is most certainly not over; "wastewater analysis data suggests there are still more than 760,000 new cases of COVID a day in the US—meaning roughly 1 in 63 people are actively infectious."
- Michael Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, says "There is no evidence to suggest that these waves (of COVID infections) are becoming smaller on average over time, or that we're having fewer waves.”
- Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH says "that the CDC’s messaging implicitly communicates two falsehoods: that COVID has “ceased to be a threat,” and that it “stops being transmitted when people stop having a fever.” According to Dr. Jirmanus, "infectiousness has little to do with specific symptoms, since you can be sick (and contagious) without a fever and with few, mild, or even no symptoms at all. And if you’re testing positive on rapid tests, you’re very likely still able to infect others, even if you feel fine."
- Shortening the isolation period "supports economic interests and is not in the interest of protecting health." Yes, this means that the bosses and capitalists are okay with making you sick and maybe even killing you, so they can keep extracting wealth from our labor.
- In fact, Kaitlin Sundling, MD, PhD says the CDC’s updated recommendations are moving in the wrong direction. “COVID isolation should be expanded, not reduced or eliminated. There is no change in the scientific evidence around COVID transmission that would support reducing the recommended isolation period below five days... Extending isolation beyond five days would be a safer approach, both to prevent viral spread and to allow people adequate time to recover.” Ideally, she recommends you isolate "for 10 to 14 days, if you have that option, and take two rapid tests with negative results at least 24 hours apart before going about your daily life as usual again" but acknowledges that without sick leave, this will be impossible for many workers, who she then advises to wear "a well-fitting respirator and limit in-person activities only to what is essential.”
Additionally, these experts point out that long COVID is real, remains poorly understood, and is therefore something we should absolutely not be fucking around with as a society by continuing to "let er rip" and reducing protective measures; which is precisely what the CDC has done here with its joke ass updated isolation guidelines. Finally, all three experts also remind us that these policy updates all seem to be designed with non-disabled, non-immunocompromised people in mind; which is pretty alarming when you realize that roughly “4 out of 10 Americans have chronic diseases that put them at higher risk of COVID.” All of which just reinforces the argument I've been making for a while; rich people and their captured regulatory bodies will absolutely toss disabled people, sick people, and the elderly into the furnace for five points a share.
Look folks, I get that we're all tired of this virus and this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but these are highly qualified doctors telling you in so many words that "it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you." And the CDC at least, sure is.
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😷💉Forbes, not the CDC, warns us about #Covid & provides solutions:
Ppl are increasingly left to their own devices to protect themselves agst. infection. What to do: mask & improve ventilation. Top recom: wear a well-fitting, effective respirator. Ventilation: add a portable air cleaner to your workspace. Schools: 5 air changes per hour & use a MERV13 filter.
It’s advantageous to employers to make a safer work ENVIR -If their employees are out sick -lose productivity-. https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2024/03/22/ventilation-should-be-a-larger-focus-in-our-fight-against-covid-19/?sh=34f84b41529f
“This is really its own illness, lots of times affecting young, healthy people.”
Millions of Texans have already come down with long #COVID symptoms, and many more could be at risk in the future if we don't make changes. For this @TexasObserver magazine feature, I interviewed both sufferers and medical experts about solutions we can take: https://www.texasobserver.org/long-covid-texas-clearing-the-air/
#news #politics #USpol #healthcare #health #disability #HumanRights #Texas #Austin #pandemic #science
I cant believe this bill is about to get passed! https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/north-carolina-bill-curb-mask-wearing-protests-make-110230926
It would criminalize mask-wearing in public even for medical reasons ... It's just unacceptable.. there's a change petition https://chng.it/6kf5XTsv6t and people we need to email tonight/before 9am Wed morning (5-15), this endangers us / violates rights! George.Cleveland@ncleg.gov; chris.humphrey@ncleg.gov; bill.ward@ncleg.gov; harry.warren@ncleg.gov; David.Willis@ncleg.gov
I knew the CDC is no longer tracking Covid cases, but this still seems like an absurd state of affairs. "Most likely increasing"?
"Cases are most likely increasing in 39 states & aren’t declining anywhere in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
"The CDC no longer tracks Covid cases, but it estimates transmission based on emergency department visits."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-summer-wave-rcna158638
Also: Zero mention of masks in this article.
Wow. I didn't realize the Dept of Homeland Security released this #COVID report to public in Jan 2024 and... I'm impressed . It's a good breakdown of what they know and aren't acting on: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/24_0125_mql_sars_cov-2.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjL_ajYgt6GAxUESzABHZTYBM44ChAWegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw03-w8FIy5lBLvBj91cgs7n
Friends had a dinner for extended family last week. Every single person in attendance got infected with #COVID. That's from young children to grandparents. Yes, there is still a pandemic and this highly infectious disease can also result in incurable #LongCovid
Very excited to announce the debut of this new @whn kids page, with #covid conscious content for kids, teens, and young adults: https://whn.global/kids , including a free Kids Zone COVID-Conscious Magazine, as well as a place for adults to share their or their kids' art, writing, masked photos, magazine submissions, and content ideas. Please check it out and share!
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This account will not put up w/ name calling.
Anything to do with the other party, whichever that may be, can be left at the door as well.
Lectures will fall flat.
I will ask nicely for you to stop the above but if you push, my spoons run out quickly and I will likely lose my shit, which also uses up excess energy I don't have spare of. That just pisses me off more. *SIGH* #LongCovid has done this to me as pre #Covid, I could spar until you drop or run away. Now? *waves hand dismissively*
Triggered #Dems are blocking #history. When did #Biden end the #COVID emergency? 5 11 23. When most #democrat voters were vaxxed! Not that #republican #necropolitics were any better. Trump adopted anti-mask/anti-vax politics bc the first wave of COVID *decimated* Democrat constituencies. R instincts went rabidly anti-mask/anti-vax fast and wet-dreamy. Dems? Masked up and vaxxed! Uh oh, more dead Republicans by 2024! Both parties embraced death, one won. Biden isn't any less ghoulish than #Trump.
Since it’s hungry ghost festival this weekend:
(Burning paper effigies of stuff you want your dead relatives to have is a very common Taoist practice. I was really tickled to see that they have a Covid vaccine paper effigy, too)
(Story from 2021)
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😷💉 “FDA on Thursday approved the latest slate of annual #Covid #vaccines, clearing the way for Americans 6 months & older to receive updated shots in midst of prolonged summer surge of the virus.
Pfizer & Moderna are expected to begin shipping vaccines to pharmacies and doctors’ offices within days. The shots are tailored to a version of the virus that took off this spring before giving way to closely related variants, all of which appear to spread faster”
For those of you who missed it, HICPAC meeting with public comments were today, check them out!: https://youtu.be/eY50YQhEJz8?t=16484
some HICPAC info is at: https://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/php/upcoming-meeting/index.html for their next meeting in November, which will likely discuss or even vote on draft guidance for masking in healthcare / updating infection control
‘A ton of #Covid out there’: US summer wave not taken seriously enough – experts
Epidemiologists push newly approved booster vaccines as current virus strain threatens at-risk groups
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/covid-19-summer-wave
I finally got around to reading this and it's the perfect #covid #CovidIsNotOver #LongCOVID #COVIDisAirborne synopsis, #VioletAffleck blows me away again this year piece published at #Yale global health review , worth the read!!!! https://yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a-chronically-ill-earth-covid-organizing-as-a-model-climate-response-in-los-angeles/
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Mucosal ("sterilizing") Covid vaccine trials are kicking into high gear.
Tens of thousands of next generation trial volunteers will be needed in the US soon. And we've got the first details for a Project NextGen "mini-efficacy" trial...
The first step for human challenge trials of intranasal etc vaxes is underway in the UK...
All this & more in my latest nextgen vax update @PLOS ...1/2
If you haven't checked it out yet @whn 's new Kids' Zone #COVID Conscious Magazine is a great resource for kids of all ages, please read it, share it, engage with it. The September edition is now out and free to download at https://WHN.global/kidszone
Here is one of my favorite sections that relates the story of the Elephant and the Blind Men to Covid, and talks about how to deal with differences and set boundaries:
Americans can once again order 4 free at-home #COVID tests from the federal government - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/Health/americans-order-4-free-home-covid-tests-federal/story?id=114179632
@whn ’s October Issue of Kids’ Zone Magazine: Halloween Edition is out now! Featuring spooktacular #COVID -conscious activities, fun fall field trips, freaky fit tests, and MORE it is great for kids, teens, and young adults of all ages! Available for free download at https://whn.global/kidszone
#covid19 #StillCOVIDing #COVIDconscious #MaskUp #Respirator #LongCovidKids #LongCovid #CovidCautious
I'm very excited that a #covid -conscious article I wrote "The Mosaic of Covid-Consciousness" got published in the British publication, the Psychologist, here in 2024! I think it is so important in spreading awareness to a wider audience. The field of psychology has an important place in our ongoing COVID-19 and #longCovid crises, and we all are a part of the solution. Please share it with your circles!
https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/mosaic-covid-consciousness
Want to see what we have been up to at Air Support Project? Check out our Quarter 3 update to learn more about our milestones in creating an affordable high efficiency fan-and-filter air cleaner, an airwareness support app, and our release of educational #COVID-19, #wildfire, and #hurricane blogs, again with thanks to our Balvi grantor and those who are fanning the movement to #KnowBetterBreatheBetter
https://airsupportproject.com/air-support-projects-2024-quarter-3-update/
November is here! And so is the next issue of Kids' Zone Covid-Conscious magazine made by @whn volunteers, for digesting #covid info and putting it into action, and sharing stories from others who are doing the same. Although it's geared toward kids, I've heard a lot of adults enjoy reading it too! And we are largely submission based, which helps bring a variety of perspectives and builds community, so feel free to download and to send us submissions at