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A concerned parent living in a pandemic, scrolling Twitter, following doctors and scientists and academics.

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@ValerieJay16
Valerie Jay
6 months
Update/BLIS k12 🧵 My experience with BLIS k12 has been extremely positive & I feel important to share. My families symptoms (sore throat, cough etc - see original 🧵) resolved/mostly resolved within 24hrs & turned a corner within 48hrs.
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6 months
COVID or not COVID? 🧵 My Miss 17 felt quite fatigued Thursday evening Dec 21st, headache that quickly resolved w Motrin. Tested -ve, continued to test -ve am/pm for 5 days. Symptoms resolved, small infrequent cough.
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My babies that I breastfed, spent sleepless nights caring for, dressed, bathed, played, took them to the park, fought for a good pre-school, prepare healthy food and nurture - I SHOULD JUST LET THEM SIT IN A CLASSROOM WITH AN UNMITIGATED, BRAIN, HEART & IMMUNE DAMAGING VIRUS?
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5 months
Who made the decision in the 1800’s to have the engineers raise whole cities to put sewers in so people didn’t have to live with cholera, dysentery and typhoid? We need that person now to improve ventilation and add air filtration to buildings.
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5 months
This is just getting ridiculous. Paper after paper published showing the harm COVID does to the body. When cardiologists, nephrologists, pediatricians, neurologists & oncologists gather at their annual conventions - HOW ARE THEY IGNORING IT ALL?
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@ValerieJay16
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5 months
The children who are the sole maskers in a classroom are the real heroes of this pandemic. I hold them in extremely high regard.
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5 months
I’m at the point where I’m willing to MOVE to any town USA (or Canada if that were a possibility😁) just so that my kid won’t be the only one making in their class. Does anyone, literally anywhere, have a masking 5th grader? #CovidIsNotOver
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9 months
When a nurse/doctor works while sick in a surgical mask and then sees their patients contract COVID and some end up dying. Do they just shrug and carry on as normal because ‘they’re just following orders’? I really want to know.
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2 years
Wouldn’t it be interesting to know how many times your mask has saved you from a COVID infection?
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1 year
I am being completely serious: If you are aiming to be an active parent who lives to see your children grow up and get married -you should be N95 masking.
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8 months
‘COVID will evolve to become milder’ is the pandemic version of ‘trickle down economics’. It’s all a sham to con people.
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7 months
Why doesn’t this apply to classrooms with at least 30 children gathered daily in a small room?
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Improving ventilation can help reduce the risk of #COVID19 spreading at your holiday gatherings. You can keep windows open, use exhaust fans, and use air purifiers. A breath of fresh air for a safer celebration. Find more tips here:
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11 months
First day back at school today, my High School senior tells me her teacher made fun of her @flo_mask saying “that mask is big enough to protect you from the holocaust”. There’s so much wrong with this, I’m so angry and upset. How should I respond to the school?
@ValerieJay16
Valerie Jay
11 months
I’m the only SFUSD parent calling the school board today. San Francisco has the highest COVID ww levels in the state. We need mask mandates/improved ventilation/filtered air. SFUSD parents, please call 415 340 1716.
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6 months
How are the ‘back to normal’ crowd reconciling the 2nd largest wave of the pandemic with the ‘pandemic is over/herd immunity’?
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9 months
You know what - We could have the breath COVID tests in schools/hospitals now. We could have nasal vaccines now. We could have free N95 masks now. They just don’t want to do it.
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@ValerieJay16
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1 year
I’m happy crying. My daughters High School PTA President just invited me to accept a brand new post as ‘Health & Wellness’ chair. I get to speak for 5mins at every board & PTA meeting about COVID research/importance of masking/Long COVID etc 😭😭😭
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5 months
No one is talking about the R0 of COVID and how it keeps increasing. It is clearly the most infectious virus on the planet. If measles has an R0 of 18, where is COVID on that scale now?
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1 year
“Even a mild SARS-CoV-2 infection can cause inflammation that disrupts neural communication, says Stanford neurologist Michelle Monje. Her concern is that Covid-19 may leave millions dealing with cognitive problems, from a loss of mental sharpness to
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9 months
My God. Is there ANYONE sane in charge of ANYTHING?
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4 months
The next COVID wave is going to be the worst isn’t it? Little to no one testing/masking. New supercharged variant. Played down ++ bc of the upcoming election. No one will have any idea what’s going on.
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1 year
My daughter’s Chemistry teacher wore a mask for the first time last Thursday “because she was sick”. The next day, Friday, however no mask. Monday morning rolls round and my daughter tells me two thirds of the class are absent. My daughter wears a @flo_mask
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@ValerieJay16
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3 months
You mean like how they renamed SARS2 COVID19?
@CoronaHeadsUp
CoronaHeadsUp
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H5N1 in cattle renamed to Bovine Influenza A Virus (BIAV) "Because this infection in cattle is not the same as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), ... the AABP will now refer to this as Bovine Influenza A Virus (BIAV)," Bovine Veterinarian
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JN1 is the second largest wave so far. What happens when schools open at the peak of this wave with zero mitigations?
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@1goodtern I find this interesting: Is the anger bc he didn’t want it to be COVID? Or he didn’t want to know he had COVID? Or bc now he should isolate/mask and doesn’t want to? Or anger which is really fear of repercussions of infection?
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2 years
SARSCov2: The biggest heist ever pulled - near global acceptance that a BioSafety Level 3 pathogen is ‘mild’.
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1 year
The CDC recently recommended school children should mask bc “COVID can cause serious health problems, so it’s more important than ever to protect your child’s health”. How does that jive with hospitals dropping mask mandates, you know, the places where all the sick people are?
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My daughters middle school has a COVID outbreak. Two friends from her table have COVID, I know of one child from another of her classes that has COVID. My daughter has stayed safe wearing a @flo_mask , personal hepa, Enovid, home lunch.
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@ValerieJay16
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1 year
For all those holding on by their fingertips in this pandemic. Find the strength to persevere. The main stream media cannot hold much longer against the dam that is about to break over the next year.
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1 year
I’d like to make a speech: ✅We’re still in an ongoing pandemic, wear an N95 mask ✅Mandate masks in hospitals/schools/public transport ✅WFH doesn’t hurt anyone but office real estate tycoons ✅Repeat COVID infections are seriously bad for your health Thanks very much.
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5 months
Half of my daughter’s Bay Area high school teachers were out today. It’s 48hrs after the Super Bowl.
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9 months
Current pandemic assessment: The virus is mutating completely unabated There is no treatment for children There is no treatment for Long COVID There is no neutralizing vaccine I do not plan to carry on as ‘normal’
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I’ve had enough. I am calling my school district office first thing Monday morning to DEMAND a mask mandate. I had the thought maybe they think they can get away with disabling/killing children because no one is complaining/making demands. Parents-who’s with me? #BringBackMasks
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1 year
People appear to have been ‘programmed’ to switch off. At a PTA meeting I asked if anyone had seen a video from the SCHOOL DISTRICT about ‘long term health impacts of COVID for children’ - instead of curiosity I was met with an long awkward deadly silence. Still can’t believe it.
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1 year
How can hospitals not mitigate against the 3rd leading cause of death?
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4 months
You don’t need to be Einstein to know what happens next: Measles will be duped as ‘droplet transmission’ instead of airborne, schools will not close, measles will romp through the pediatric population causing misery, disablement and death & then years later, more deferred death.
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@ValerieJay16
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5 months
Chess and tennis champions failing. Top performers cancelling shows. Can people really not see that the dominos are starting to fall? #MaskUp
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3 months
Remember the COVID saliva PCR test they had at Davos more than an year ago? WHERE ARE THEY?
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1 year
The Southern hemisphere currently in Winter is getting hammered by COVID. That is foreboding for the Northern hemisphere. Athletes are setting the pace with mask mandates, they have no career without their health. Reinfections are spiraling out of control. Act now. #maskup
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10 months
My teen daughter talking of my school COVID activism: “You’re like Dumbledore when he was trying to tell everyone Voldemort was back and no one believed him.”
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11 months
Can someone explain to me how people are ok with losing two of their five senses?
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11 months
Do you think that a government that allows this really cares if you live or die during a global pandemic?
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Welcome to the USA where disabled patients are wheeled out to the street corner and discarded like trash.
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9 months
Isn’t it odd that no A list celebrities are speaking out about COVID (mask, IAQ, booster)? Or they have and I missed it?
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1 year
Imagine you wanted to get rid of a few billion people off the planet in a relatively short space of time without causing panic…
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8 months
Can someone make a movie about trying to avoid infection in a global pandemic while the whole world tries to pretend it’s over?
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1 year
You know that feeling from the movie ‘Don’t Look Up’, where life threatening events are happening but the people in charge are so narcissistically blasé and refuse to take things seriously? Yeah, that’s where we are with the pandemic and climate change.
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I broke my glasses and am out of contacts so took advantage of the ‘lower’ amount of circulating 🦠 and went for an eye test. JC what a tragedy of events: I’d scheduled the first appt and was told the optometrist would mask if requested.
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How are people squaring ‘the pandemic is over’ message with ‘here’s a second batch of free government home tests’ within two months? 🧐
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5 months
Where’s the scoop on the Davos layered COVID mitigations happening right now. We know they are using them but it’s being kept very quiet this time. Anyone have info?
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1 year
Does it alarm anyone else that there are ZERO officials/depts of public health pushing back against: 🔵 Dropping hospital mask mandates 🔵 Data blackouts 🔵 Booster waning for 50-64yr olds with incoming new variants 🔵 PHE ending May 11th - disenfranchising the poor/uninsured
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JN1 second largest COVID wave. @CDCgov director MIA. This is Don’t Look Up level of incompetence, washing hands of any responsibility.
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If we don’t push back now, governments will continue to normalize continuous sickness and everyone will forget what it was like to be healthy, everyone will be trying to figure out their illness and forget to look up.
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Valerie Jay
6 months
Bob, your chart says at peak surge you would nix indoor dining. Where does that leave school children essentially ‘indoor dining’ with no mask mandates for 6.5hrs/day, five days a week?
@Bob_Wachter
Bob Wachter
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Excellent @TIME piece by @Jamie_Ducharme on how to think about the current #Covid surge. Yes, it's probably our "new normal," with upticks a few times a year, including each winter. Quotes by @ashishkjha , @dr_kkjetelina , @ahandvanish , @PeterHotez , & me.
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Parents are expected to send their children to sit in a classroom with @ 30 other children for 6hrs/day during a surge of the most transmissible virus known that is proven to damage the heart, brain & immune system ❌mask mandates ❌ventilation guidelines ❌CO2 monitoring
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I’m sick of trying not to die.
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1 year
Why are the conscientious Public Health people not forming a Pandemic Resistance?? They could sign up parents (🙋‍♀️), engineers, epidemiologists etc For God’s sake will someone with a platform push back against this complete insanity.
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We’re dying off aren’t we?
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1 year
Masking (N95 or better) in company outside of your household is the highest form of respect.
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11 months
Do people realize by letting COVID rip they are not only letting a wrecking ball loose on their good health but demolishing healthcare for themselves and their children?
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1 year
My daughter in middle school: sub teacher moved all their desks as far away from her as possible bc ‘last time she subbed she got sick’. An unmasked student said she should mask, her answer was ‘that’s not how it works’. There’s so much wrong w this I don’t know where to begin.
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@emilyesfraser Incubation can be up to 21 days:
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1 year
The data are in. Huge high powered studies proving major health issues at population level. Avoid COVID. #MaskUp
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1 year
A friend got COVID, had no clue about Paxlovid, told them to request from doc since prev smoker, O2 sat ⬇️ 85 intermittently. They felt immediately better. Took them bottle of Enovid. Now they ask me ‘when will I get over my fear of COVID’.
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At the beginning of the pandemic if someone had said ‘don’t worry, in a few years the virus will still be circulating but it will have free rein everywhere- even in hospitals and schools!’ ‘Oh and we’ll have the technology to update the vaccine but won’t use it.’ 🤔
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to have the information. @SF_DPH WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO INFORM PEOPLE OF THE BASICS TO PROTECT THEIR HEALTH??
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lapses in memory, that prevent them from returning to their previous level of function.“
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1 year
Does everyone realize you can now potentially get reinfected with COVID every couple of months?
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🐘 in the room: How on earth are schools going to manage transmission when students return to class around the peak of the surge with zero mitigations? Parents should be in contact with their school boards/school Principals now.
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1 year
I was just elected Communications chair of my daughters high school PTA board - on agreement that I can disseminate COVID guidance issued from local, state and global agencies.
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9 months
Is anyone looking at children’s lymphocyte panels post COVID? Anybody???
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2 years
Built my first Corsi-Rosenthal box! I’m working with parent/teacher boards to get them into my daughters classrooms, will present to school board in couple of weeks. Hope they are amenable. Thanks @JimRosenthal4 !
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I will engage in reasonable discourse, but people who state COVID mitigations are harmful will be blocked. I’m not on here for a jolly. I’m here to learn how to protect the health & lives of my family.
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You know how a lot of people have ‘dry January’? We should have ‘masked January’. And Feb. And March. And April. And May. And June. And July. And August. And September. And Oct. And Nov. And Dec. Actually, we’d only need masked Jan/Feb/Mar if everyone participated.
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Was this the plan? Let COVID rip around the world and then privatize every major national healthcare system (UK, Australia, Canada)?
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I mentioned how the vaccine was not neutralizing but kept people out of hospital and from dying. I talked about the importance of a well fitting N95 mask and how about half of people infected w COVID are asymptomatic. It was all news to them, but they listened and were happy
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The longer people are left suffering with hypo-perfusion caused by micro clotting at capillary bed level (where gas/nutrient x change occurs) the more organ damage there will be.
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To the person who cut me off at PTA meeting tonight: I know you’d rather not hear about the novel vasculopathic virus that has killed 1.1mn Americans and hangs over each of our heads with organ damage, immune dysfunction & cognitive deficits. I sit here at 7:30pm bc I care
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1 year
It’s no accident that there is no definitive, updated, truthful, honest, straightforward pandemic news source easily accessible to the public.
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1 year
What happens this Winter in US/UK when COVID comes back with a vengeance? No easy access testing, no monitoring, no mask mandates in hospitals or schools. Unreal.
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@1goodtern It’s a viral disease that causes brain, heart injury, vascular and immune system damage. First site of infection is nose and mouth, that’s why it’s so important to wear a mask. Louder for those in the back of the room: wear a mask to protect your brain.
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I hope people realize we’re suffering now from this COVID wave because the government didn’t want to spend the money vaccinating everyone every six months.
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Q: XBB1.6 (Arcturus) is causing conjunctivitis - is this the route of infection, through the eyes? All the reports make it out to be a symptom but don’t clarify if this is how some people are getting infected.
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Consider adding to your COVID 🛡 1. Mouthwash w CPC “Cetylpyridinium Chloride (CPC) inactivate viruses by breaking their lipid envelope..this would help reduce the salivary viral load-risk of transmission would be ⬇️ severity of the disease would be ⬇️“
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If COVID is ‘just a cold’ then why are so many people being hospitalized for it?
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1 year
Mild initial cold symptoms. Sub clinical effects that may not show up for years in many. Causes top two leading causes of death. How is this not striking fear into every parent?
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1 year
The planet is in a COVID induced death spiral. Except Cuba, they’re doing great.
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1 year
@ShazHaitch In 2023, this is pure negligence. I’m so sorry.
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2 months
I talked about the importance of IAQ using air filtration and ventilation to remove airborne pathogens. I mentioned the school project I’m involved with and wrote down the website, they eagerly wrote it down.
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When I asked them to mask they said they didn’t do that anymore bc their voice is muffled and it’s important for pts hard of hearing (not me) to be able to mask. Then they said they were fully vaccinated and ‘couldn’t afford to get sick’. I said I would prefer they mask
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What makes the majority of people believe everything’s hunky dory with COVID now? Do we have a neutralizing vaccine - no. Do we have a cure for Long COVID - no. Do we have herd immunity- you cannot be serious.
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Something is terribly wrong. Why do I have to keep asking my school board/principals to keep windows open/hepa filters turned on during schools hrs. During an airborne pandemic surge. With no mask mandate. With known detrimental health impacts. PARENTS, CONTACT YOUR SCHOOL BOARDS
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Where’s the uproar over children missing school for the next several weeks while sewage filled flood water is cleaned up from NY schools? 🦗
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Anyone else noticed the number of people with the COVID affected voice: a broken up, undulating, painful to listen to sound?
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they said they didn’t know where any masks were, went to find one and came back in a surgical mask. I thanked them for masking (me in my Flo mask). They told me I may need to remove my mask for testing, I said I would not be able to remove my mask, it turned out I didn’t need to.
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Suddenly, masks work 🤔
@GovKathyHochul
Governor Kathy Hochul
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Tomorrow morning, one million N95 masks will be made available at state facilities. 400,000 will be distributed to New Yorkers at @MTA stations, @PABusTerminal , @NYStateParks & @Javitscenter . 600,000 will be available from @NYSDHSES stockpiles for local governments to pick up.
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The room was felt airless, there was a vent in the ceiling but no air was coming out of it, the door was left open. I saw what looked like a QT3 on the floor (it was a brown/gold color but almost exact same design), I asked about it and they proceeded to plug it in & turn on.
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Children, completely unaware that they are risking their long term health from COVID every time they step inside a classroom. I will stand up for them, I will speak up for them every opportunity I get - and make my own opportunities to raise awareness. I hope you will do the same
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I’m the only SFUSD parent calling the school board today. San Francisco has the highest COVID ww levels in the state. We need mask mandates/improved ventilation/filtered air. SFUSD parents, please call 415 340 1716.
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@Valtex7B @flo_mask Just so happens I’m married to an attorney.
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@ElaineCarol3 I’ll have a go: 1. Normalcy bias. 2. Denial, because if they accepted the truth it means accepting they have willingly sacrificed their health. 3. Purposefully turning away from the facts because they can’t handle the truth. 4. Unwilling to give up their trust in the government.
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@Songstress28 Please ask Chief Adam set up a go fund me to help him and his community, I’m sure I’m not the only person willing to give financial help.
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2020: “There are simply too many asymptomatic people with COVID, and without robust testing, our hospitals will remain centers for spreading the disease instead of centers of healing as they should be,” Zenei Triunfo-Cortez, president CA Nurses Association
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