seeing a lot of posts by strangers & friends about how they let their guard down once in the past few weeks over COVID and they almost immediately got infected COVID has never stopped spreading through communities, has never gone below the levels that used to trigger mandatory isolations & business shut downs It's more infectious than ever, half of all hospital admissions are multiple vaccinated, as are good percentage of the dead. Vaccination doesn't stop the damage COVID does (which is what becomes Long Covid) nor does it prevent transmission & they used to significantly reduce chances of severe COVID/death in most people but that's not true anymore. We have very few therapeutics left that have to be used for longer & for less benefit. Vaccine immune resistance lasts for at best 4-6 months but begins waning after 1 month. If you're immunocompromised, the vaccines may not be providing any meaningful benefit. If you get COVID, you're immunocompromised for at least a year. If you get it 2-3 times, you're permanently immunocompromised.
You literally cannot drop your guard once in public. You have to stay masked the entire time you're out of your home, you have to continue to quarantine before unmasking around people (and testing but good luck affording those), you have to continue to act like march 2020 happened and that that's where we're back to because we've spent 3 years breeding strains of COVID that produce more viral particles, stay in the air longer, infect with fewer particles, evade our immune systems better, resist our few remaining treatments, & it regularly infects via the eyes now. At minimum, wear an n95 respirator (like the 3M aura) but preferably a p100 (like the GVS Elipse or FloMask). Anything less does not provide adequate protection. If you're inside, you should wear glasses or goggles, too. avoid indoor spaces as much as possible. This is for the duration of the pandemic. We have years, possibly decades left. COVID begins killing "healthy" athletes after 3-5 infections. Every infection, regardless of symptom severity (40% of infections are asymptomatic), does damage to your brain, heart, lungs, kidneys, & immune system, as well as all your blood vessels. COVID infects blood vessels & t-cells. It can set up deep in tissue for months or years & while we don't know that it's still as readily infectious that way, rest assured, the people who have COVID replication in their GI tracts are suffering immensely & we can track their viral shed in wastewater, which is our last indirect measure of tracking COVID & lags two weeks. COVID never went away, the danger never ended, & most of y'all have disabled or killed people by spreading it. It will disable you, it will kill you, too. You are not immune to COVID or propaganda. Your government & the news have lied to you about COVID while simultaneously medical journals & independent experts & us disabled have tried to warn you that we know from SARS1, which is 99% identical to covid, that after 15-20 years, we still don't see recovery in patients & that COVID will only continue to become more dangerous the longer we continue to mandate its spread for capitalism. Nothing about COVID has changed for the better & we were at our safest before vaccination when everyone was still expected to mask & people understood that refusing to mask was eugenics. The way society has abandoned the disabled to COVID is the way it is abandoning trans people, is the way that it will eventually abandon everyone. Over a thousand people at MINIMUM are dying of COVID a week in the US & during "waves," which never reduce to a baseline zero but whose peaks are normalized as new baselines, that becomes tens of thousands. Sometimes tens of thousands die a day. If you want to survive the pandemic, you must wear masks in public & you must do everything in your power to pressure those around you to mask & to give up this fascist back-to-2019 fantasy that is killing people. You must center your life around stopping the spread of COVID & organizing people to mask, to distribute masks, to install HEPA filters & air purifiers, to refuse to comply with orders to return to the office & refuse pressure to participate in superspreader events. If an event, org, or institution isn't requiring masks, tell them to do so. Get other people to join you. If they refuse, boycott & protest, or take some direct action. We don't need schools, restaurants, office buildings, concert halls, arenas, bars, or any other plague pit. We need our communities to survive, for people to live. Every unmasked face in public able to wear a mask & refusing is a fascist eugenicist, regardless of what aesthetics they adopt, regardless of their purported ideology. Every single plague rat deserves a lead injection. You want to survive? Fix your hearts or die.
