I have to say that believing any sort of official downturn in cases on a local or national level is a heavy, heavy cope. The ghouls in charge have told us in the most upfront way possible to anyone paying attention for the last two years (at least!) that they have no intention of being honest about this data and will sabotage any effort to do so. There is a collective amnesia about this entire situation, what we have been living through and responding to, even in activist circles, and it is immensely draining. Kill the liberalism in your head that wants there to be an arc of justice in the world and realize: there is no such arc, and you will not be saved by the same ones trying to kill you on the daily. Act accordingly. This is not it.

Happy 4/20. Reminder that covid can do more damage to your lungs than first hand smoking during the period of infection

I'm still pissed off that most countries make it impossible for people to get COVID-19 vaccines even annually, let alone twice a year — or, for economic reasons, literally can't afford to.

We've been producing these shots for years! We should scale production up!

And you're also not immune to Symptoms That Totally Aren't Long COVID, It's Whatever, It's Subclinical, But It Started After I Got COVID The Most Recent Time.

If anyone's got links handy to good resources on COVID safety measures, probably share this post with them? I don't have any handy right this second.

hi!! some quick links i found for covid safety measure resources:

• clean air crew has a super in-depth guide on masks as well as a vast array of other resources for staying covid safe
• clean air stars has a very cool air purifier recommendation tool
• mask bloc dot org has a growing directory around the world for free & accessible masks in your area
• covid toolbox also has a ton of resources and information

i couldn't find a good universal resource to share on getting vaccinated/boosted or on getting paxlovid in my very precursory search, but i believe both topics can be found in the above links, whether from those sites or other resources that they link to!

also! some links i came across for talking about covid to people who are no longer being covid realistic/good resources to have in general:

• easy to understand primer from the john snow project
• news and research articles organized under common rebuttals that people have about the pandemic, for the people who wouldn't take social media posts/screenshots/anecdotes/etc seriously
• a wealth of information from the memorial sloan kettering library, specifically has a lot of info on long covid categorized under different organ systems, with many links to supporting research articles

if anyone has any additional resources to share, please do so! <3

Not always up to date, and only updated in order to close tabs in my browsers. For instance, I still need to add a lot of the book recommendations and resources listed by @X/@_copy_of_a_copy. And I need to get around to separating art directories from web resources.

From my GitHub:

Videos

• Embodi3D. "DIY UV disinfection box for N95 masks and other equipment, fight coronavirus video!" YouTube video, April 9, 2020. Retrieved February 16, 2024. Archived from the original on October 25, 2022 via Wayback Machine.
• Untitled Anarchist Seagull Channel. "A 'superhuman' speaks: How my family and I have avoided getting COVID for 2 1/2 years (and counting)." YouTube video, June 30, 2022. Retrieved February 16, 2024. Archiving pending via Wayback Machine.
• Watson, Rebecca. "Study: Why You Should Avoid COVID Even if You’re “Healthy”. YouTube video, August 30, 2023. Retrieved February 16, 2024. Archiving pending from the original via Wayback Machine.
• Wu, Naomi. "Best Aranet4 CO2 Meter Alternatives Under $100?." YouTube video, August 11, 2022. Retrieved January 9, 2024. Archived from the original on October 3, 2023 via Wayback Machine.

Blog Posts

• Doubleday, Julia. "One little COVID infection is no reason to miss work, says Biden's very science-believing CDC". The Gauntlet. Substack. February 15, 2024. Retrieved February 16, 2024. Archived from the original on February 16, 2024 via Wayback Machine.¹
• Fox, Joey. "Clean Air Delivery Rate Is All That Matters!" Airborne. Medium. February 4, 2024. Retrieved February 16, 2024. Archived from the original via Wayback Machine.

Websites

• Clean Air Club
• Clean Air Crew
• Clean Air Kits
• COVID Action Map
• COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Studies
• COVID Wiki
• Disability Visibility Project
• It's Airborne
• MaskBloc.org
• MASK UP! Poster print pack
• PDX Respirator Respository
• People's CDC
• Project N95 (being discontinued, backed up via Notion)
• r/Masks4All
• Resist COVID Eugenics
• ResTestThePlanet
• The Sick Times
• zeroes.ca

1. Not an endorsement of Substack, which the platform has problems with fascists and transphobia. Please use the archived link to boycott the platform (not the author).