As true today as it was in 2023:

'Removal of masking directives in healthcare settings does not uphold a human rights centered approach to public health.' -Kasari Govender, BC Human Rights Commissioner

#bcpoli #cdnpoli #covid19bc #KeepMasksinHealthcare #Accessibility #SARSCoV2

people need to be alive and well enough to do the things that foster connections. if OP was trying to make the point that children cannot consent to repeated exposures to viruses, this was not the best way to frame it

We're not even dealing with the current pandemic

Most of “hustle culture” is just y’all performing ability you either don’t have or won’t have for long.

I wrote about NPR 's decision to frame disabled people's ongoing exclusion from all public spaces as an annoyance to be navigated by individuals, rather than a massive civil rights violation to be challenged by the collective.

thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-peo…

So high risk folks are just expected to what, stay home forever (not possible for many), constantly negotiate (often unsuccessfully) to exist in public spaces like everyone else, and bear the burden in protecting ourselves & others, right?

We're not exactly people in your eyes

Many folks are pushing to go “back to normal” because they’re upset that their lives were upended in early days of Covid pandemic. I get it. My life was upended when I became disabled. But here’s the thing - “normal” isn’t working. It’s a mirage. 🧵 on denial & false ‘normal’ /1

Institutional #COVID19 denial has killed public health as we knew it. Prepare to lose several centuries of progress. Abandoning collective approaches to disease mitigation is a recipe for disaster, by Julia Marie thegauntlet.news/p/institutiona…

Nondisabled people will straight up tell you that they know repeated c0vid infections are dangerous to everyone and that they should be taking precautions to protect themselves and their communities, but they simply don't want to

i want to emphasize that any mitigation strategies are better than none.
i also want to emphasize that any infection prevented is good- it is not too late to take precautions if you have had COVID or if you haven’t been taking precautions

“I wish we lived in a world where getting repeat infections doesn’t matter — but reality is that‘s not the case.'

“Reinfection remains consequential”

“Just because you did okay with it last year doesn’t mean you’ll do okay with it this year” #LongCovid time.com/6553340/covid-…

The use of high-quality masks (like N95/KN95 respirators) by patients, compared with surgical masks, substantially reduced Covid infections among nearly 4,000 health care workers
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… JAMA Network Open

Area man thinks one’s entire life revolves around whether you go to a restaurant or not