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Colette Rose (she/her)

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COVID is airborne. Masking is community care. Health care is a human right. The climate crisis is here.

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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
More of this please! So that musicians can stay healthy and continue to make music! And fans can go to music shows without getting COVID! Radical!
Piece of paper taped to a door that says in the top left corner „Deerhof kindly asks everyone to….“. Below there is a black white image of a ghost wearing a face mask that says „Mask Up!“ The words Thank you are in the bottom right corner.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/02/2024
"The virus is rampant. We’re still in a pandemic. There’s a lot of complacency at the individual level, and more concerning to me is that at the government level." - Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO COVID response leader New piece in Scientific American
scientificamerican.com
Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic
“We’re still in a pandemic,” says a lead COVID official with the World Health Organization
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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
In Berlin musste ich mich heute entscheiden zwischen Anti-AfD Demo & Freiheit für Palästina Demo. Beide haben in vielerlei Hinsicht ähnliche Werte, aber in Deutschland gibt es immer noch nicht genug Proteste gegen den aktuellen Genozid in Gaza. Deswegen: Free Palestine! Ceasefire Now!
Foto einer Frau, die eine rote FFP3 Maske trägt vor einem grauen Himmel und 2 Palästina Flaggen im Hintergrund.
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Schubladentiger @schubladentiger.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
Vielen Dank euch allen für den Zuspruch, die beruhigenden Worte, den geistigen Beistand! Das hat mir Mut gemacht! ❤️ Und ich habe dabei auch wieder gesehen, wie viele von euch auf Solidarität und Masken angewiesen sind. Bin hin! Rote FFP2 und mit dem Schild auf dem Rücken! War mutig und laut. ☺️
Demoschild:

"Antifaschismus bedeutet Teilhabe und Solidarität für Vulnerable, Chronisch Kranke, Behinderte"

Dann das Logo der "Antieugenischen Aktion", das dem Antifa-Logo nachempfunden ist, aber anstelle der Flaggen eine weiße und eine rote FFP2-Maske beinhaltet.

Darunter steht dann noch: "Maske auf!"
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Albin Meyer @albinmeyer.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
Interview mit Uno-Sonder­berichterstatterin Francesca Albanese über Gaza: "1,7 Millionen Menschen wurden vertrieben, 360’000 Häuser wurden ganz oder teilweise zerstört. Universitäten wurden zerstört. Schulen wurden zerstört. Knapp hundert Professoren wurden getötet, Hunderte Ärzte und Pflegerinnen."
republik.ch
Francesca Albanese: «Nichts an diesem Krieg ist rechtmässig»
Die Uno-Sonder­berichterstatterin für Palästina über die Genozid­vorwürfe gegen Israel und die humanitäre Katastrophe in Gaza.
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Lyndon @iamlyndon.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Please stop using AI 🙏🏽 All of them are built off stolen works, be it literature, music, art. The only people who will profit in the end, will be the AI owners; while destroying the livelihoods of creators.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/01/2024
The next week will see the second-highest COVID levels of the pandemic so far. If you are sick, please stay home if you can. If you have to go into work, please wear an N95 mask to protect others. If you are an employer or political leader, please increase paid sick days.
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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
A few years late to this but wow what a fascinating (if depressing) read: www.wired.com/story/the-te...
wired.com
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.
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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
🍉 Crips for eSIMS for Gaza Update, co-organized by @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social & me Over $50k CAD raised will go to purchasing 800 eSIMs!!  🐲 Keep that energy going into the #YearofTheDragon y'all! Details here & in the QR code: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/c...
Graphic with a yellow background with a slice of watermelon on top. Text reads “Crips for eSims for Gaza Update 12/31/23, $50.8k CAD raised ($38.3k US)
which will purchase 800 eSims, 174 eSims sent, 17 eSims activated” On the lower left corner, “Thank you! Jane, Leah, and Alice.” On the lower right corner is a QR code
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
My politics is predicated upon a belief that every person has earned an automatic and irrevocable right to dignified housing, abundant food, and quality healthcare just by being alive, and it's hard for me to understand a worldview that doesn't hold those things as a north star.
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Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
Reminder as we go into peak wellness industry messaging in January that REST is one of the best things you can do during/following a COVID infection (think 6 weeks), so if you were positive in December, please don’t dive into a workout regime in January.
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LangzeitC @langzeitc.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
Im Jahr 5 seine BürgerInnen nicht ausreichend über die Spätschäden und gesundheitlichen Konsequenzen einer COVID-19 Infektion informiert zu haben, ist ein mehr als schockierendes Versagen seitens des Bundesministeriums für Gesundheit. Das Beamtentum gehört dringend auf den Prüfstand gestellt.
Das Abwassermonitoring des Bundesministeriums für Gesundheit.
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Shira Lurie @shiralurie.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
My 2024 resolutions are the same as 2023, 2022, and 2021: Do my best not to contract any deadly and disabling viruses. Do my best not to infect anyone else with any deadly and disabling viruses.
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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
Was ich mir für 2024 wünsche: Maskenpflicht in allen gesundheitlichen Einrichtungen, Apotheken und Arztpraxen — das ganze Jahr lang. Mehr Masken im Alltag, mehr Public Health Leadership, mehr Bewusstsein & Infokampagnen über die Gesundheitsrisiken von COVID und über Long COVID.
Schild vor einem Krankenhaus Eingang mit einem Bild von blauen chirurgischen Masken auf dem „Maskenpflicht! Schützen sie sich und andere“ steht.
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taz @taz.de · 27/12/2023
Menschen mit Long Covid tauchen in Erhebungen zu Arbeitsausfällen in Deutschland bisher kaum auf. Weil es so wenige sind? So einfach ist es nicht.
taz.de
Corona-Langzeitfolgen: Die Statistik ist kurzatmig
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Mirja Nicolas @privilegienschreck.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Wünsche allen mit Krankheitssymptomen die Einsicht sich heute zurückzunehmen und zu Hause zu bleiben, allen ohne Krankheitssymptome das Verständnis sich präventiv auf Covid zu testen und insb. chronisch Kranken und Behinderten dementsprechend solidarische Familien und Freund*innen 🎄 #CovidIsNotOver
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Oxfam Deutschland @oxfam-de.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Das Leiden der Zivilbevölkerung in Gaza und Israel muss enden. Deshalb wenden wir uns heute gemeinsam mit Save the Children Deutschland und Amnesty Deutschland @amnesty-de.bsky.social an Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz und Außenministerin @abaerbock.diplo.de
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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Die gesellschaftliche Corona Verseuchung steigert sich seit Wochen, keiner kann es mehr leugnen. Selbst die Medien gestehen es. In meinem Umfeld erkrankt jede Woche mind. 1 Person an COVID. Und trotzdem war ich heute Abend die einzige Person im Supermarkt mit Maske. Heartbreaking.
Selfie foto zeigt eine Frau mit roter iMask, Brille, orangenem Schal und einer grünen Jacke
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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
Today & every day I stand in solidarity with the folks around the globe protesting & calling for an immediate permanent ceasefire in Gaza! The bombing, displacement & murder of Palestinian civilians must end now. I won’t be silent as Israel commits genocide against Palestinians.
Photo of a white hand holding a piece of paper that says ceasefire now above the logo of Doctors Without Borders
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Mirja Nicolas @privilegienschreck.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
Ich brauche keinen Gesang gegen meine Einsamkeit, sondern solidarischen Infektionsschutz und wirksame Medikamente
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
"It feels like a new McCarthyism, a repression of speech that we haven’t seen for a while. People are being sacked for calling for a ceasefire. The meaning of 'hate speech' has been expanded to include speech that is totally legitimate, and even pro-peace”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Solidarity with Palestinians is not hate speech, whatever would-be censors say | Kenan Malik
Freedom of expression is imperilled when speakers are cancelled, whether by the left or the right
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Initiative #ProtectTheKids @protectthekids.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Wir protestieren dagegen, dass im Regierungsbezirk Karlsruhe (Nordbaden) versucht wird, Schüler:innen und Lehrkräften das Tragen von Corona-Schutzmasken zu verbieten📢 Wir fordern die baden-württembergische Kultusministerin Theresa Schopper auf, hier einzugreifen❗ 1/
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/11/2023
Reminder: Encouraging people to get vaccinated does not mean discouraging people to wear a mask. And vice versa. As always with public health, the best way to protect our communities is with *layers* of protection.
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
So many folks are sick again so I share this with love: you must rest. Rest won’t guarantee you don’t get long covid but it’s a huge mitigator. Even if you have an accute mild case. Even if you don’t feel it at all. Send this to your boss. Make your partner clean or use disposable dishes etc.
time.com
Why You Should Rest—a Lot—If You Have COVID-19
It could help prevent Long COVID
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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
German media: yes, there are many respiratory infections going around, but it’s totally normal & COVID rates are low, so no worries. Reality: My mother has COVID, my neighbors have COVID, my coworkers are getting COVID one by one. First COVID winter without widespread masking & testing going 👌
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
“…there can now be no doubt. COVID-19 damages the heart, brain, kidneys, gut, lungs, liver–in fact there is no organ or system that is untouched by this virus. Not that there ever was real doubt…documented during the original SARS outbreak in 2002-2004…some of the damage from SARS was irreversible.”
johnsnowproject.org
Where are our leaders?
The social, economic and public health costs of pretending we can live normally by ignoring COVID-19 are not sustainable.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
My aunt, the doctor, told me a joke: What do you call a pandemic that people pretend is over? I told her I did not know. And so she said: You call it a pandemic. And then neither of us laughed.
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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Truly. A family member recently told me they avoid sitting next to people wearing masks on public transit because they assume those people have COVID... meanwhile no concern sitting around maskless people who are visibly and audibly sick?! Truly bananas.
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Berlin-Institut @berlininstitute.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Heute hat Oxfam einen neuen #Bericht zur #Klimagerechtigkeit veröffentlicht. 📄 Eins der erschreckenden Ergebnisse: klimaschädliche #Konsumweisen der reichsten 1% der Weltbevölkerung könnten in den nächsten Jahrzehnten bis zu 1,3 Mio. Hitzetote fordern - vor allem in Ländern mit niedrigem #Einkommen.
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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
#LoneMasker on the train heading to work this morning. Lots of uncovered wet coughing around me. Two coworkers currently out sick with COVID. Not a fan of this new normal. #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp
Selfie of woman wearing a black FFP3 mask on a train with a train window in the background.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/11/2023
"Biden did an amazing job with the pandemic" -More people died from COVID under Biden than Trump reuters.com/world/us/bid... -Biden has only mentioned #LongCOVID a few times cnn.com/2023/02/25/b... -White House policies have excluded higher risk people from society for years archive.ph/fxcRQ
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Sarah Oestreich @sarahoestreich.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on climate doomerism: “People assume you can’t be hopeful and heartbroken at the same time, and of course you can… Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace; it’s a commitment to search for possibilities.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They’re surrendering in advance and inspiring others to do the same. If you announce that the outcome has already been decided and we’ve already lost, you strip away the motivation to participate – and of course if we do nothing we settle for the worst outcome. It often seems that people are searching harder for evidence we’re defeated than that we can win. Warnings are a valuable thing, given with the sense that there’s something we can do to prevent the anticipated outcome; prophesies assume the future is settled and there’s nothing we can do. But the defeatists often describe a present they assert are locking in the worst outcomes.I don’t know why so many people seem to think it’s their job to spread discouragement, but it seems to be a muddle about the relationship between facts and feelings. I keep saying I respect despair as an emotion, but not as an analysis. You can feel absolutely devastated about the situation and not assume this predicts outcome; you can have your feelings and can still chase down facts from reliable sources, and the facts tell us that the general public is not the problem; the fossil fuel industry and other vested interests are; that we have the solutions, that we know what to do, and that the obstacles are political; that when we fight we sometimes win; and that we are deciding the future now.I wonder sometimes if it’s because people assume you can’t be hopeful and heartbroken at the same time, and of course you can. In times when everything is fine hope is unnecessary. Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace; it’s a commitment to search for possibilities. Feelings deserve full respect as feelings, but all they inform you about is you. History is full of people who continued to struggle in desperate and grim circumstances, and so is the news from Ukraine to the Philippines. Some lived to see those circumstances change because of that struggle. Maybe this is what Antonio Gramsci meant with his famous phrase “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will”. Some days I think that if we lose the climate battle, it’ll be due in no small part to this defeatism among the comfortable in the global north, while people in frontline communities continue to fight like hell for survival. Which is why fighting defeatism is also climate work.
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Tove Harris @toveharris.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Informativ. Respekt. #LongCovid: #Corona-Infektion beeinträchtigt die Energiespeicher im Körper www.mdr.de/wissen/news/... "Das SARS-CoV-2-Virus verändert unsere Mitochondrien - die Kraftwerke unserer Zellen - auf genetischer Ebene." #COVID #CovidIsNotOver #COVID19 #TeamVorsicht
mdr.de
Long Covid: Corona-Infektion beeinträchtigt die Energiespeicher im Körper | MDR.DE
Ein internationales Forschungsteam konnte zeigen, dass das Corona-Virus "Energieausfälle" in wichtigen Organen verursacht. Das könnte die Schwäche von Long-Covid-Betroffenen erklären und neue Beha...
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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Yet more evidence that the US is utterly failing as a democracy: can‘t foresee a realistic near-term scenario where Americans get a choice of presidential candidates they actually *want* to vote for www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
theguardian.com
With the US election a year away, most Americans don’t want Biden or Trump
Polls continue to show both presidential frontrunners ‘as tied as tied can be’, with third-party candidates tying for a distant third
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/11/2023
*raises hand* because our education standards suck, our health care system has long been corrupted by unchecked corporate power, and a coalition of right wing propagandists exploited an historic health crisis to encourage strife and division for political gain?
newscientist.com
Face masks ward off covid-19, so why are we still arguing about it?
The most recent review into the effectiveness of face masks has confirmed that they do help to prevent covid-19, but the intervention remains a controversial issue
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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Geheimtipp: FFP2 Masken schützen vor COVID! #MaskUp
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Emily @imjustchillin.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
People talk about women and children a lot, but men deserve to live in peace too. Men are also soft and fragile and shouldn't be hurt. Men are not unthinking war machines. Men and boys deserve love and peace
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Crissi Strange 😷🌱🕊🇺🇦 💉💚 @crissistrange.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
179 Corona Tote in der letzten Woche! Dafür, dass das es nur noch eine "Atemwegserkrankung" ist, sind das ganz schön viele. Tendenz steigend. #CovidIsNotOver #TeamVorsicht
Corona Pandemie Radar.
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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
How‘s the #COVID booster rollout going in Germany, you ask? Well aside from the German vaccine authorities restricting eligibility to very limited pop groups, when I called my primary care doc today to schedule an appt for my booster, they said earliest possible appt is available in FEBRUARY 2024 🤯
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/10/2023
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Literally nothing is 'carbon neutral'. It is a physical impossibility. If someone's telling you their product has zero climate impact, they're actively deciding to lie to you.
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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
As a COVID-cautious person, this truly feels like the darkest eve of fall/winter since the start of the pandemic. It feels like most of my formerly cautious loved ones have dropped masking & other precautions. The burden of having conversations about boundaries feels overwhelming. #CovidIsNotOver
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/10/2023
"Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and injured" Link to full World Health Organization statement:
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Evacuation orders by Israel to hospitals in northern Gaza are a death sentence for the sick and inju...
As the United Nation’s agency responsible for public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemns Israel's repeated orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating more than 2000...
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Colette Rose (she/her) @coletterose.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
“There’s plenty of masking going on, but not the kind that prevents infection. The govt is masking its failure to get to grips with this virus. … thanks to three years of such failures, Covid-19 is now a constantly evolving endemic infection likely to kill or disable many thousands every winter.”
theguardian.com
Covid deaths are on the rise again, so what happens? Mask-wearing in hospitals is scrapped | George ...
The only masking that’s going on is that of the government’s continued failure to get to grips with the virus, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/10/2023
Some universities are not allowing climate scientists to avoid plane travel, and others are preventing public health academics from enacting COVID precautions in their classes. If scientists are not allowed to act on the implications of their own research, what's the point?
Refusing to fly has lost me my job as a climate researcher. It’s a price worth paying
Gianluca Grimalda

My company in Germany has demanded my swift return from climate-change fieldwork near Papua New Guinea. I can’t do it
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