Hey all, we don't usually do such a call out but we're now on Open Collective and low on funds! Any and all donations add up and make a difference as we try and finish fulfilling the backlog of winter requests for masks and tests - and they can be one-off or recurring. Thanks in advance! https://opencollective.com/sheffieldmaskbloc #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #MaskBloc #Sheffield #Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

Hey all, we don't usually do such a call out but we're now on Open Collective and low on funds! Any and all donations add up and make a difference as we try and finish fulfilling the backlog of winter requests for masks and tests - and they can be one-off or recurring. Thanks in advance! https://opencollective.com/sheffieldmaskbloc #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #MaskBloc #Sheffield #Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

At parts of the Winter Olympics in Italy, COVID precautions remain, grounded in the reality that airborne infections are still circulating. When your body is your livelihood, prevention is part of performance.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention #Olympics #LongCOVID #MaskUp #N95

"Lawmakers in both Maryland’s House of Delegates and Senate are set to discuss the bill, called HB0027 in the House and SB0392 in the Senate, next week, with hearings scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday."

If you live in Maryland, be sure to call your representatives and let them know you want them to support this bill!

https://thesicktimes.org/2026/02/06/maryland-considers-long-covid-innovation-bill/

#covid #LongCovid #USPol #maryland #health #PublicHealth #HB0027 #SB0392

At parts of the Winter Olympics in Italy, COVID precautions remain, grounded in the reality that airborne infections are still circulating. When your body is your livelihood, prevention is part of performance.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention #Olympics #LongCOVID #MaskUp #N95

The excellent and freely distributable COVID Zine has been updated for 2026.
https://newlevant.com/COVIDzine

This is among the most concise and well cited sources for the current state of #Covid knowledge and tools. Even for well-informed people who already take strong precautions, there is still likely something new to be learned by giving it a read through.

#Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #LongCovid #WearAMask #MaskUp

RE: https://social.coop/@thepeoplestech/115972665171740828

I've been getting so much interest in this concept! I've even started tasters already. But I've called it The People's Tech not just because the people - and not governments and corporations - should have control over their own tech, but because I want it to be controlled by its workers and even members. I'm a graduate of the School for Social Entrepreneurs but I want to be part of a democratic #NonProfit organisation and that means a #cooperative model. I've facilitated tech workshops for years but finance/accounts is hardly my biggest strength. If you're in #England, have such skills, are passionate about alternatives to #BigTech, and would like to be part of a part-time, remote, #Covid safer, scaleable small tech co-op, let me know! I guess I ought to add #FediHire to this, even though I'm not technically "hiring" anyone! Feel free to boost.

Another vaccine approval and more in my latest next generation Covid vax update:

- Self-amplifying mRNA vax Kostaive approved in the UK

- New trial for a mucosal vax on the starting blocks in Finland

- Some results from AstraZeneca phase 1 trial for mRNA vax

- 11 preclinical reports, including 2 for mucosal pancoronavirus vaccines

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/01/31/another-approval-and-more-nextgen-covid-vax-news-update-no-37/

#Vaccines #Covid #Covid19

Yaneer Bar-Yam, founder of the so-called World Health Network which so many covid-aware people foolishly insisted on following, appears in the Epstein files.

Here's Bar-Yam asking Epstein, who four years earlier had pleaded guilty of child prostitution, if he wants to talk about science: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02025360.pdf

#Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid

Yaneer Bar-Yam, founder of the so-called World Health Network which so many covid-aware people foolishly insisted on following, appears in the Epstein files.

Here's Bar-Yam asking Epstein, who four years earlier had pleaded guilty of child prostitution, if he wants to talk about science: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02025360.pdf

#Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid

For those of you who think that Gates is a good guy:

"In 2020, researchers at Oxford University announced they'd developed a COVID vaccine that cost pennies to make, and that they were giving it away free to the world.

Gates immediately stepped in, using his financial might to pressure Oxford into privatizing the miraculous discovery.

As a result, the vaccine rollout was severely delayed. Nobody knows how many people died because of this."

https://www.mintpressnews.com/bill-gates-oxford-ditched-plans-open-source-covid-19-vaccine/274698/

#Covid

@fluconf The last FOSDEM I attended was 6 years ago. Just as we'd started to hear more about this thing called #Covid

I can honestly say that #FOSS attitudes to accessibility, politics and Public Health are a major factor in the existence of the cobbles blog.

I wrote this in 2023 about my experience of #LongCovid which I still have. I've just had to learn to work around it.

Meanwhile the rest of the world seems to move on.

It's why I am so thankful for #FluConf.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/im-not-going-to-get-better

Another vaccine approval and more in my latest next generation Covid vax update:

- Self-amplifying mRNA vax Kostaive approved in the UK

- New trial for a mucosal vax on the starting blocks in Finland

- Some results from AstraZeneca phase 1 trial for mRNA vax

- 11 preclinical reports, including 2 for mucosal pancoronavirus vaccines

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/01/31/another-approval-and-more-nextgen-covid-vax-news-update-no-37/

#Vaccines #Covid #Covid19