#intersectionality or gtfo

[spacedadsupport]

26/05/2026 Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Incoming Transmission…

Nothing is safe if only the needs of the privileged are considered.

[kimberlychapman]

SciShow new video: Does Covid Cause Cancer?

Short answer: probably.

Long answer with tons of very current info and addressing the semantic issues with the question: see video link below.

It hasn't gone away and other very recent studies have shown that subsequent infections do indeed increase risk factors for other diseases including long covid and susceptibility to further covid infections. There is no current vaccine for covid that reduces spread, just impact, and even then new variants evade some vaccines. So it's worth getting the vaccine and being as boosted as possible, but you're still getting it, spreading it, and possibly suffering the long-term effects of it even while vaccinated.

So mask up, outdoors and indoors, anywhere where there's other people around. A crowded beer garden or concert is not safe. It lingers in the air for about two hours, so if you go into an empty restaurant you might still be sitting in the previous diner's breath cloud. Lifting your mask for photos, drinking, eating, etc. allows the air around you into the mask, and the places where people lift their mask "for just a second" are where everyone does that and more likely to have more covid in the air.

Masks are variant proof. A well-fitting N95/KN95/FFP2 or higher at all times around other people is how you protect yourself and others.

Not masking = not intersectional. And quite possibly increasing your risk factors for a pile of cancers over the next couple of decades.

Spread the word, not the germ.

[spacedadsupport]

Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport It is good to build up a stronger community in the face of unpleasant political news, but it won't work unless you make sure to include all vulnerable populations. 5:47 PM · Nov 7, 2024

[kimberlychapman]

MASKS WORK

Flawed studies based on self-reported mask-wearing data only indicate otherwise because of foolish people who take their masks off and on in an infectious environment, or imagine that viruses play dice, and then those people are shocked that they got the virus when "I was wearing a mask the whole time" but they weren't."

I've seen so many folks post how they masked "the whole time" at a Star Trek convention but then they also post the maskless photos of themselves with celebs, other cosplayers, and at the bar/dinner party that night. They seem actually confused how they could possibly get the virus while being unmasked in the very places everyone else is unmasked!

So here below we have a better meta-study that shows that masks work, especially when they are properly fitted respirator style masks. As in, two layer cloth was never going to do much, and ill-fitting surgicals don't do much either. Yes, if you well-fit a surgical or use cloth with a meltblown layer, you do get some benefit, but nothing close to a fitted N95/FFP2/KN95 or higher.

I will never, ever shame someone for using a surgical or cloth because I can see they are trying but probably just don't know. And I know respirators aren't easy to find in every country, and can be really pricey, and even then they're harder to fit for smaller faces. So yes, a surgical is better than nothing. Cloth with no meltblown layer...sorry, it's pretty much nothing. But I at least appreciate someone *trying*.

Kvd is not over. Even WHO says so...they ended the "emergency" phase but fully say routinely that the pndmc is not over. And with H5N1, we might be on the cusp of another one. Or if not that, probably something else down the road.

So mask up. Properly. Including outdoors...anywhere there's anyone else around. But definitely indoors, especially especially in medical facilities where other people's lives depend on it.

You cannot claim to be a leftist, anti-capitalist, or that you believe any lives matter if you are not masking regularly. Intersectionality or GFTO.

Masks work, our comprehensive review has found

A previous review suggested that masks don’t work. We can assure you – they do.

[shamelesslymkp]

xkit's mute function is the best thing ever invented, because one of the kink blogs I follow posts amazing pics, but the blogger tends to post the most problematic, offensively entitled bullshit in all of her replies.  whenever I see one before xkit hides it I feel guilty again for following her, because jfc.  you call yourself a feminist?

[biryani-barbie]

A Harvard University study found that about 2.3 million African American and Latino children attend "apartheid" schools, where virtually all students are minorities. Similarly, some neighborhoods are segregated by age. Some retirement communities, for example, limit their inhabitants to persons over 55 and those without minor children. Some 6 million households are in neighborhoods that have controlled-entry systems with guards and electric gates. These gated communities wall the residents off physically and socially from "others." Regarding this exclusiveness, sociologist Philip Slater said that we need heterogeneous neighborhoods: "A community that does not have old people and children, white-collar and blue-collar, eccentric and conventional, and so on, is not a community at all, but [a] kind of truncated and deformed monstrosity..."

D. Stanley Eitzen, The Atrophy of Social Life [x]