a friend and I were talking about COVID precautions and they just sent me this paper which appears to raise concerns about safety and efficacy of wearing masks for COVID - does anyone here know anything about this paper + what conclusions should be drawn from it? I feel like there's probably *something* wrong with it given it very much is the consensus in communities I'm in (that seem to pay lots of attention to the literature) that wearing masks is a good precaution to take against COVID, but I'm not sure how to respond. is there a good analysis of the paper somewhere or anything like that?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9981272/

#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #covid

Possible toxicity of chronic carbon dioxide exposure associated with face mask use, particularly in pregnant women, children and adolescents – A scoping review

During the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic, face masks have become one of the most important ubiquitous factors affecting human breathing. It increases the resistance and dead space volume leading to a re-breathing of CO[2] .

^{PubMed Central (PMC)}

Ich möchte auch einen umfassenden "gesellschaftlichen Aufarbeitungsprozess".

Warum wurden wir so inkonsequent geschützt? Warum wurde so konsequent aufgegeben? Warum wurde die Intensität der Forschung reduziert? Warum haben wir immernoch nichts gelernt für den Alltag? Warum kein Recht auf Schutz?

Ich bin wütend. Und ich vermute, keine dieser Fragen werden ernsthaft gestellt.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/virologe-drosten-fordert-gesellschaftlichen-aufarbeitungsprozess-der-pandemie-102.html

#covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #depol #drosten #lauterbach #dlf

Vier Jahre nach dem ersten Corona-Lockdown - Virologe Drosten fordert gesellschaftlichen Aufarbeitungsprozess der Pandemie

Vier Jahre nach dem ersten Corona-Lockdown hat der Virologe Christian Drosten einen umfassenden gesellschaftlichen Aufarbeitungsprozess gefordert.

^{Die Nachrichten}

There's laundry to do and a genocide to stop.

A #poem by Vinay Krishnan

#freePalestine #ceasefireNow #endTheOccupation #fromTheRiverToTheSea #CovidIsNotOver #Polycrisis

Julia Doubleday (The Gauntlet) takes on that horrendous article on NPR:

"NPR’s decision to platform a piece about the difficulty of navigating life with a spouse who can’t dine indoors, instead of a piece about the difficulty of navigating a society that has made dining indoors unsafe for vulnerable groups, is just that- a decision, and a political one. It is part of an ongoing effort to cast those who cannot play along with the “back to normal” fantasy- those who are being harmed and killed by it- as weird, paranoid, crazy, annoying, and “the problem.”

Long COVID is a major thorn in the side of the “back to normal” approach to COVID. While some people (appear) to recover well from COVID, many others suffer long-term post-COVID health problems."

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-peoples-exclusion-from-indoor

#LongCOVID #AntiAbleism #CovidIsNotOver

Hello fediverse.

Quick check in.

Going into year 5 of the age of SARS-CoV-2, to your knowledge you have been infected:

Please boost for larger sample size.
#CovidIsNotOver @novid #COVID19

• Zero times. (35%, 737 votes)
• Once. (39%, 804 votes)
• Twice. (18%, 388 votes)
• Three or more times. (6%, 124 votes)

Masking is the new #queer flagging.

I've never seen the idea articulated as well as @kaindeoanna / kain.deo.anna (Instagram/Threads) did.

#WearARespirator #N95 #COVIDIsNotOver #MaskBloc

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA that laid the foundation for vaccines against #Covid19, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine.

As this photo shows, both scientists are wearing masks and NOT relying on the "vax and relax".

#WearAMask #WearARespirator
#MaskUp #NobelPrize #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #SarsCov2 #COVIDisAirborne

FOSSY 2023 - The FOSS Community is Patched and Back in Service

https://blog.brettsheffield.com/fossy-2023

"Every picture of a masked face. Every negative COVID test. Every captioned picture from the event makes a difference. Every single one helps to normalize taking these basic precautions. Thank you. You are my tribe."

#FOSSY #FOSSY2023 #PublicHealthPledge #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

When you take a taxi in Tokyo, it's now pretty standard to have an air quality monitor inside.

The drivers all mask and there's plexiglass separating the driver and the passengers.

You may argue about the effectiveness of each of these measures, but it's clear that this is a society responding together and adapting to a new reality.

This is living with the virus: trying to mitigate it's harm. Instead of pretending it does not exist.

#CovidIsNotOver

Went to a donut shop in Japan today.

They had a CO2 monitor on the counter and a UV light on, plus circulating air through the ventilation system.

Also all the staff and most of the customers were masked. 😷

It's really not that hard and if a donut shop can do it we can certainly do it at least in schools and hospitals.

This is more what I'd think "Live with the virus" looks like. What we're doing feels more like "Pretend there is no virus".

#CovidIsNotOver

This is NOT an article from The Onion...

"Several people who attended the Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference have tested positive for COVID-19,” a CDC branch chief wrote in an email to staff on Friday.

#COVID19 #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #CDC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04/28/covid-cases-cdc-conference/