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Covid is highly contagious.
It’s airborne. Floats in the air & hangs for hours, like measles. You can show up later & get infected.
It’s incredibly damaging to the human body. Especially if you are infected over & over.
The vaccines are amazing. And yet, they do not prevent vaccinated people from being infected & contagious.
Many infectious people have no symptoms at all.
The rapid home tests have an incredibly high rate of false negatives. A negative test does NOT mean you don't have it.
The rapid home tests have an incredibly high rate of false negatives. A negative test does NOT mean you don't have it.
Thank you Jen, too many people say I tested, after retesting done correctly are positive.
Many infectious people have no symptoms at all.
Very common, I never had covid, blood test tells a different story
The end results can be horrific, I know, long covid taught me
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Waste water data from cities in the United States are showing a massive outbreak in many places right now. I'm watching one person after another get it. While almost no one is taking precautions.
The information we were told at the beginning about it not infecting or affecting kids much turned out to be proven by scientists to be wrong. Kids do suffer horrible consequences.
Masks make a massive difference. You need masks that seal, KN95 or N95. Covid is airborne. It floats far.
We know a lot about this virus. We know how to take care of ourselves & each other.
You just have to decide that you want to.
It was incredible in 2020 to see how much people cared, & how far they were willing to go to help their neighbors, friends & family.
It was devastating to watch in 2022 as 98% of people decided that they were done caring. And instead choose delusion. To intentionally infect others rather than experience more inconvenience.
It's not too late to start caring again.
In 2020-21, I acted as a public health liaison. People came to me personally with #Covid related questions.
It burned me out, but I kept masking, carried an #Aranet4, and kept educating. In 2022, I was in a room with my friend counting donation money. They kept using hand sanitizer while remarking (maskless) how badly they wanted to avoid Covid.
Then it hit me. Their brains were full. Some couldn't understand and some were so stressed by pandemic complexity that they fell back to Airborne, hand sanitizer, and positive vibes for mental health reasons.
My friends had been repeatedly asking the same questions with different words as if it were our first conversation. They retained nothing after 2020.
I still mask, but gave up educating... for now. I will return to doing that if the opportunity arises, but I fear it would take a wave even more dire than the initial ones.
But these days I gotten selfish, too. I will protect me and my partner by almost any means possible, even if this means missing out on things or disappointing others. They might be disappointed, but at least I did not give them a potentially life-altering illness.
I learned about Covid in Jan 2020, and looked up a LOT of information in Feb. What I learned alarmed me, so I prepared (long before most people in the U.S. did) and then I spread the news on Twitter. [RIP, I miss Twitter.]
I wrote a lot about Covid in 2020 and 2021 on Twitter.
And then I gave up. I realized the people around me did not care. And I was screaming into the wind.
But sadly Covid did not let go of me. I'm still disabled by it. Every day.
So, I'll just post this one thread. Because it's everywhere right now.
Do I dare beg you to care again? Quote the science / find all the links to proof? I don't know. I need to sleep & probably it won't matter. The facts are easily found. Most are already known by most people.
This is a problem of empathy now. To wake up (yes) and recognize that "but I'm a good person, so I don't have to worry, it won't get me, I have good health/genes/morality" is eugenics.
Choose another path.
Please?
I've been fortunate to not get it, as far as I know.
I rarely go out and only to places that have outdoor seating.
It's a bit tough on the family since they don't mask.
I would rather not find out what COVID would do to me
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