#covid ppe

[feminist-space]

Tw for description of coercion, reference to rape culture, and exposing someone to illness.

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"One of Dawn's lungs collapsed when she was in her late fifties, so she was super cautious about covid-kept her face covered long after everyone else had returned to normal.

We were in Chicago together, at O'Hare, in the spring of 2022, when I told her she needed to take it off.

"But—" she said.

"Let it go," I told her. "Everyone else has."

I felt like a director coercing an actress to unhook her bra for a sex scene.

"Come on," I said. "You can do this. Start by just ... lowering it to your chin."

She took off her mask, and then of course immediately got covid—a bad case, too. All my fault, but she's never held it against me."

-David Sedaris, How to Eat a Tire in a Year, The New Yorker, January 22, 2024

#tw rape culture #tw coercion #health coercion #covid #covid 19 #covid PPE #david sedaris

[ohello0]

PPE link says thread not available when you go to expand it.

Hmmmmmm ok lemme go check or just like put the links in the post. Thanks for letting me know 🫡

#asks i answered #covid ppe #covid conscious

[captainpondlilly]

One of the things I really love about Dropout is when we see behind the scenes or the crew, because they show the crew and everyone else still masking (with kn95's!)

Ally also mentioned being able to get tests from dropout too.

I'm don't know a lot about the entertainment industry so I don't know how normal that is for other productions, but I see Dropout showing it when I don't see it from others.

#dropout #dimension 20 #d20 #brennan lee mulligan #masking #pandemic #covid #ppe #kn95 #n95 masks

[athelind]

PSA: Smoky? WEAR YOUR bleeping MASK!!

If you're in an area impacted by wildfire smoke -- and that's been most of North America at some point or another in this Summer of 2023 -- dig out that box of N95 masks that you stopped wearing when the Powers That Be proclaimed that the COVID Pandemic Emergency was "over."

Those things are designed to filter particulates -- yes, that includes potentially contagious virus-bearing particles, but it also includes smoke particles.

That "95" means it filters 95% of the particles out there, which means if there's 200 ppm in the air ("Unhealthy for Everyone"), those things can knock it down to around 10 ppm.

I was in Yosemite during the July fires there, and with my mask on, I couldn't even smell the smoke.

And don't think you can just ignore it if airnow.gov says it's only unhealthy for "Sensitive Groups." Smoke particles will do long-term damage, and the best way to delay becoming a member of those "Sensitive Groups" is to limit your exposure.

This only applies to N95 masks, properly fit and with elastic that goes behind your head, not those silly surgical masks that loop around your ears.

#smoke #wildfires #masks #mask up #covid isn't over #and neither is wildfire season #ppe works

[rikaklassen]

PDX Respirator Repository

Amanda Abbott created a spreadsheet with a lot of data on 60+ different elastomerics. There is no standardization as each manufacturer has their own sizing charts. So if you are looking for a new mask or looking to upgrade your PPE, there's now information on measurements.

There are even information on whether or you can create 3D-printed covers for the filters and paint the mask(s) to remain stylish during the creeping apocalypse.

If you live in or near Portland, Oregon, you can also contact Amanda for test-fits since she has most of the models. The only way to know if something is COVID-safe is to try the masks on, but they are non-returnable.

PDX Respirator Repository

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The website is not a store; just has store-like template.

Amanda Abbot's social media:

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#COVID is not over #COVID-19 #COVID-19 resources #pandemic is not over #mask up #wear a mask #wear your mask #SARS-CoV-2 #SARS-CoV-2 resources #We Keep Us Safe #mask library #mask repository #respirator repository #respirator library #PPE #respirators #elastomerics #COVID resources

[playingplayer2]

Ignoring the shit quality of the pictures, this is how I've repainted (5th time I think) my respirator. Heavily inspired by Kaveh (Genshin Impact) though the colours are limited BECAUSE I CANT FIND MY PAINTS AGAIN (⁠ ⁠⚈̥̥̥̥̥́⁠⌢⁠⚈̥̥̥̥̥̀⁠) (the paint does not effect the masks efficacy, just adds some colour and personality to an otherwise terribly bland item.) I think it took 4-5 hours overall, not counting the time I let it dry between coats of paint and whatnot.

I am a massive Kaveh fan, shamelessly so even. I he's my 3rd favourite (playable) character (4th favourite overall) and I have the most merch for him out of all the merch for any of my favourites.

#covid is airborne #covid isnt over #wear a fucking mask #(i'm very very tired of masking. it sucks. i hate it. but it also keeps me and my family and yee old fucking strangers idk safer. so.) #decorate your PPE

[phoenixonwheels]

Me: (talking to a friend in the UK) “So… I hear NHS doctors with Long Covid are suing the NHS. Does that mean they’re actually masking in medical facilities over there?”

Friend: “I spent the entire weekend at the hospital because (relative) had a stroke and I saw exactly one doctor wearing a mask.”

Me: . . .

#how ya gonna win a lawsuit claiming the NHS to blame for you getting Long Covid #because they didn’t provide you with proper PPE #when the rest of your former coworkers still aren’t masking #y’all so desperate to kill disabled people that you’re killing and disabling yourselves #long covid #covid #wear a fucking mask #eugenics #wear a mask

[liminalweirdo]

[image id: screenshot of two tweet by twitter user @ ReesiePeacie. The first says, "if you're going out for pride - remember that we're in an ongoing pandemic of an airborne virus causing a deadly disabling disease and you don't have to go to bars, attend concerts, etc.

are you gonna test before going? are you going to mask so you don't infect others?"

the second says, "yeah just keep ignoring disabled and immunocompromised queers tho! i see your [lateral] ableism! i hope the smoke keeps people inside and makes them wear masks, but they apparently have no sense of danger anymore

*screams*" end image id]

#pride without vulnerable queers is nothing to be proud of #the fact that you also cannot claim ppe on taxes is wild #covid isn't over #covid #ableism #disablism #the pandemic isn't over just because you're over it #not masking is eugenics #lgbtq+ #queer stuff

[yamameta-inc]

February COVID PPE deals (masks, tests, SIP valve, eye protection) (US only)

This person on Twitter makes a very helpful list of PPE sales from various brands each month. Check out her links! Some of these sales are pretty significant. I recognize almost all of the brands mentioned and they're trustworthy.

She also mails masks for free in the Mid-South region for those who can't afford any.

Thread linked in the image.

#covid #ppe

[girderednerve]

i have once more Read a Book !

the book was jim morris' cancer factory: industrial chemicals, corporate deception, & the hidden deaths of american workers. this book! is very good! it is primarily about the bladder cancer outbreak associated with the goodyear plant in niagara falls, new york, & which was caused by a chemical called orthotoluedine. goodyear itself is shielded by new york's workers' comp law from any real liability for these exposures & occupational illnesses; instead, a lot of the information that morris relies on comes from suits against dupont, which manufactured the orthotoluedine that goodyear used, & despite clear internal awareness of its carcinogenicity, did not inform its clients, who then failed to protect their workers. fuck dupont! morris also points out that goodyear manufactured polyvinyl chloride (PVC) at that plant, and, along with other PVC manufacturers, colluded to hide the cancer-causing effects of vinyl chloride, a primary ingredient in PVC & the chemical spilled in east palestine, ohio in 2023. the book also discusses other chemical threats to american workers, including, and this was exciting for me personally, silica; it mentions the hawks nest tunnel disaster (widely forgotten now despite being influential in the 30s, and, by some measures, the deadliest industrial disaster in US history) & spends some time on the outbreak of severe silicosis among southern california countertop fabricators, associated with high-silica 'engineered stone' or 'quartz' countertops. i shrieked about that, the coverage is really good although the treatment of hawks nest was very brief & neglected the racial dynamic at play (the workers exposed to silica at hawks nest were primarily migrant black workers from the deep south).

cancer factory spends a lot of time on the regulatory apparatus in place to respond to chemical threats in the workplace, & thoroughly lays out how inadequate they are. OSHA is responsible for setting exposure standards for workplace chemicals, but they have standards for only a tiny fraction—less than one percent!—of chemicals used in american industry, and issue standards extremely slowly. the two major issues it faces, outside of its pathetically tiny budget, are 1) the standard for demonstrating harm for workers is higher than it is for the general public, a problem substantially worsened during the reagan administration but not created by it, and 2) OSHA is obliged to regulate each individual chemical separately, rather than by functional groups, which, if you know anything at all about organic chemistry, is nonsensical on its face. morris spends a good amount of time on the tenure of eula bingham as the head of OSHA during the carter administration; she was the first woman to head the organization & made a lot of reasonable reforms (a cotton dust standard for textile workers!), but could not get a general chemical standard, allowing OSHA to regulate chemicals in blocks instead of individually, through, & then of course much of her good work was undone by reagan appointees.

the part of the book that made me most uncomfortable was morris' attempt to include birth defects in his analysis. i don't especially love the term 'birth defect'—it feels cruel & seems to me to openly devalue disabled people's lives, no?—but i did appreciate attention to women's experiences in the workplace, and i think workplace chemical exposure is an underdiscussed part of reproductive justice. cancer factory mentions women lead workers who were forced to undergo tubal ligations to retain their employment, supposedly because lead is a teratogen. morris points at workers in silicon valley's electronics industry; workers, most of them women, who made those early transistors were exposed to horrifying amounts of lead, benzene, and dangerous solvents, often with disabling effects for their children.

morris points out again & again that we only know that there was an outbreak of bladder cancer & that it should be associated with o-toluedine because the goodyear plant workers were organized with the oil, chemical, & atomic workers (OCAW; now part of united steelworkers), and the union pursued NIOSH investigation and advocated for improved safety and monitoring for employees, present & former. even so, 78 workers got bladder cancer, 3 died of angiosarcoma, and goodyear workers' families experienced bladder cancer and miscarriage as a result of secondary exposure. i kept thinking about unorganized workers in the deep south, cancer alley in louisiana, miners & refinery workers; we don't have meaningful safety enforcement or monitoring for many of these workers. we simply do not know how many of them have been sickened & killed by their employers. there is no political will among people with power to count & prevent these deaths. labor protections for workers are better under the biden administration than the trump administration, but biden's last proposed budget leaves OSHA with a functional budget cut after inflation, and there is no federal heat safety standard for indoor workers. the best we get is marginal improvement, & workers die. i know you know! but it's too big to hold all the same.

anyway it's a good book, it's wide-ranging & interested in a lot of experiences of work in america, & morris presents an intimate (sometimes painfully so!) portrait of workers who were harmed by goodyear & dupont. would recommend

#if anyone knows about scholarship that addresses workplace chemical exposure #& children born with disabilities through a disability justice lens please recommend it to me! #booksbooksbooks #have reached the point in my Being Weird About Occupational Safety era where i cheered when familiar names came up #yay irving j. selikoff champion of workers exposed to asbestos! yay labor historians alan derickson & gerald markowitz! #morris points out the tension between workers - who want engineering controls of hazards (eg enclosed reactors) #& employers who want workers to wear cumbersome PPE #the PPE approach is cheaper & makes it even easier to lean on the old 'the worker was careless' canard when occupational disease occurs #i just cannot stop thinking about it in relation to covid. my florida library system declined to enforce masks for political reasons #& reassured us that PPE is much less important than safety improvements at the operational & engineering level #but they didn't do those things either! we opened no windows; upgraded no HVACs; we put plexi on the service desks & stickers on the floors #& just as we have seen covid dangers downplayed or misrepresented workers still do not receive useful information about chemical hazard #a bunch of those MSDS handouts leave out carcinogen status & workers had to fight like hell to even be told what they're handling #a bunch of them still do not know—consider agricultural workers & pesticide exposures. to choose an obvious & egregious example.

[fallofcorruptbritain]

Corruption, fraud, lies, Tory cronies, corrupt 'honours' system, government contracts to pals and Tory donors... it's just another average day for this Tory government of crooks and greedy chancers.

The Tories handing out taxpayer money and 'lordships' to their chums as always.

#britain #uk politics #british politics #uk #fuck the tories #conservative party #tory party #inequality #rich v poor #michelle mone #ppe scandal #tory covid disaster #tory corruption

[feminist-space]

World Health Organization

MEDIA ADVISORY

NEW: COVID19 variant of interest JN.1

Geneva, 19 December 2023 -- Due to its rapidly increasing spread, WHO is classifying the variant JN.1 as a separate variant of interest (VOl) from the parent lineage BA.2.86. It was previously classified as VOl as part of BA.2.86 sublineages.

WHO advises people to take measures to prevent infections and severe disease using all available tools. These include:

-Wear a mask when in crowded, enclosed, or poorly ventilated areas, and keep a safe distance from others, as feasible

-Improve ventilation

-Practise respiratory etiquette - covering coughs and sneezes

-Clean your hands regularly

-Stay up to date with vaccinations against COVID-19 and influenza, especially if you are at high risk for severe disease

-Stay home if you are sick

-Get tested if you have symptoms, or if you might have been exposed to someone with COVID-19 or influenza

For health workers and health facilities, WHO advises:

-Universal masking in health facilities, as well as appropriate masking, respirators and other PPE for health workers caring for suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients.

-Improve ventilation in health facilities

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#WHO #health advisory #December 2023 #pandemic is not over #covid #rsv #flu #please wear a mask #wear a mask #long covid #masks #ppe #n95 masks

[tweetingukpolitics]

#good law project #political twitter #ppe scandal #uk covid 19 response #uk politics #boris johnson #uk news #uk economy

[caramiaaddio]

Found out today that my entire past year of suffering is literally because my bedroom which shares a wall with the laundry room has been infested with mold for literally the entire year I lived there. All the times I randomly got sick, felt too exhausted to do basic tasks, and just generally felt like my mental health was falling into pieces — that’s all symptoms of mold toxicity. From the mold growing on the wall I put my face against in my sleep.

So hey, good time for a reminder for y’all: are you getting sick for no reason? Do you feel constantly fatigued? Is your mental health suffering? CHECK FOR MOLD DEAR GOD DO NOT IGNORE IT

Check under your bed and in your closets and behind everything you have shoved up against the wall. Find a random wet spot? DON’T IGNORE IT. Smell something musty? DON’T IGNORE IT. Even if you can’t see any mold, if it smells off CHECK IT OUT because as I have so helpfully learned: sometimes landlords will just paint over mold! That doesn’t do anything but make it look nice!

Here are some things I ignored over this past year that if I had paid attention to could have saved me both physical and neurological suffering:

- Apartment smelled odd when I moved in

- at one point, a pile of my dirty laundry was damp for no conceivable reason

- at one point, my bedroom floor had a damp spot for no conceivable reason

- every time I came back from staying somewhere else, the smell would hit harder

- the smell did not dissipate when I did the dishes or took out the trash

- I smelled something almost unbearably musty while lying in bed

- the laundry room next to my apartment was constantly wet

- the laundry room next to my apartment had large black stains on the walls

- there was some strange white stain on the foot of my bed

I pushed all of that aside for a full year, and it was hands down the worst year of my life. Don’t ignore signs of mold.

#my plumber brother walked in to help me move out and he immediately was like uhhhhh #cause he knows how it smells #and also that apparently it was also in the carpet #so yay to me for now having to heal from this #which is a trip because for some reason there’s no like…mainstream treatment? #like the epa will say you need to wear heavy ppe to handle mold #and then the medical establishment is like ‘it just causes allergies you’re fine’ #like I’m not gonna listen to the essential oil people but like #literally nobody else has a treatment despite the fact that there are a ton of studies documenting the link between mold #and physical/mental health issues mostly because of a fucked up immune response long covid style #like I’d be okay even if the treatment was like ‘wait it out and take some ibuprofen’ but none at all is uhhhhh #moral of the story is don’t trust landlords

[makingcontact]

No, COVID Isn’t “Over,” and the Need for Continued Community

On an orange background, six black line illustrations depicting: a COVID-19 virus, a face mask, a lung filled with COVID viruses, a person’s head tilted back with a nose swab, a swab in a test tube, and a rapid antigen test. In between these illustrations is the text: “Why we still need pandemic solidarity.” Credit: Original image by jKartak from Pixabay. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang. March…

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#Auntie Sewing Squad #BBIAPI #capitalism #coronavirus #COVID #COVID cautious #COVID conscious #COVID-19 #disability justice #health care #immunocompromised #Kristina Wong #long COVID #mask bloc #masks #Mutual Aid #pandemic #pandemic solidarity #Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future #PPE #public health #QTPOC #racial justice #racial solidarity #sewing #Sweatshop Overlord #theater #trans justice #vaccines

[yooniesim]

Collective and final post should've just been an apology and a promise to do better. But I guess that's just too much to hope for.

#ceci speaks #nonsims #text #delete later #definitely shouldnt have had more lies and easily disproven claims in it tsk tsk #and continuing to insult the people triggered #shows absolutely 0 remorse not that i expected any better #you didnt say one damn thing you did wrong not one #you couldnt even admit or say sorry for ONE thing #i said sorry for my stupid ass meme reference joke which was dumb of me and was the only leg u had to stand on #which ur tryin to spin as me being anti asian with covid which is fucking stupid considering #i am asian too u stupid fuck and i had patients calling me corona and ch**nk and not wanting me to tend to them before they fucking died #i know about covid racism against us very fucking well #i dont need a statistic to tell me about it bc i was knee deep in ppe trying to get blood from ppl that blamed me for it existing #i watched people die from covid for three years straight i know it all fucking well #and yet i still apologized bc the joke was in poor taste and i feel bad it was misconstrued and hurt others #you cant even apologize to the people you hurt bc youre too focused on not being wrong about anything #you can delete the posts if u wanna theyre already there #in screenshots #i tried to get you to stop for over a week and you wouldnt leave me alone #i refused to mention your name for days and you kept insulting me and mentioning me over and over again #and you had the nerve to call other ppl stalkers just because they shared ur cc in a cc finds channel #now you're trying to talk nice #or nice enough that someone might feel sorry for you after you showed your entire ass for a week #i dont feel sorry for you one bit #not after all the bullshit you said that youre trying to delete now that ppl found it #too late #eat shit #negative #im done for the night goodnight and sorry everyone