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In the unlikely event anyone who has been protecting themselves from infection with respirator masks and is considering unmasking because “the risk is low now” I’m going to offer up a long thread on a kind of risk management I was trained in as it may help for decision making 🧵

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SARS2 has the following proven characteristics: it is persistent in the body (multi-systemic) after the acute phase of infection. “Recovery” therefore signals latency. That means the virus is still there but successfully suppressed by the immune system. For now. 9.

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There are no drug cocktails to lower viral load when latency fails. Most don’t experience any latency and develop a myriad chronic conditions requiring medical intervention and prescriptions to try to prop up the progressively more damaged living system. 10.

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If you’ve had Covid and “recovered” there’s even more urgency attached to not getting another strain. Seeding the body with more SARS2 will hasten deterioration and likely cut short the latency period you were experiencing. 11.

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If you’ve never had a chronic illness or witnessed someone you love with one, you also have the mistaken assumption that medical intervention will be a) available to you, and b) will allow you to maintain your ability and independence. 12

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Being disabled by the impacts of SARS2-generated chronic illness is a cascade of bad at a time when the medical industrial complex is failing and drug supplies are collapsing as well. 13.

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No one listens to the hordes of LC patients but they are the canaries in the coal mine. I have lost count of the number of posts saying “you do not want this.” The almost never event is utterly irrevocable. 14.

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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It’s not that the chance of getting a SARS2 infection is an almost never event in some circumstances, it has to be you shoot for zero because the cost of it happening is too high. End.

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Germany's covid RNA in wastewater continues to drop. Current level is about 10X lower than previous omicron-era lows. Also Netherlands and Denmark recorded omicron-era record-low wastewater covid RNA concentrations this week. 1/

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Matt Karolian @mkarolian.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It would appear Boston / Boston's North Shore has hit the lowest COVID-19 wastewater levels since July 2021 (the brief time between adults being fully vaccinated and the delta wave, then omicron)

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"Long COVID potentially affects nearly 6 million children in the US." 10–20% of children who contract COVID develop long COVID, which manifests differently than in adults. While vaccines lower risk, no single cure exists. Care is tailored to symptoms like fatigue, headaches, and brain fog.

The image shows a news article from The Boston Globe titled, "Long COVID potentially affects nearly 6 million children in the US. This South Shore teen is one of them."
Below the headline, a sub-headline explains that long COVID is diagnosed by a pattern of unexplained symptoms rather than a single test. The article is written by Aayushi Datta and was updated on April 23, 2026.
The main visual is a photograph of a teenage girl, Kaylee Joaquim, standing on a wooden staircase in a dimly lit home. She is leaning against the banister, looking directly at the camera. The caption notes that she has difficulty with stairs because of long COVID.

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The Safer Air Project @saferairproject.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Did you know that using an in-home HEPA purifier for one month spurs a small but significant improvement in brain function in adults age 40 and older? 🎉

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regmt.bsky.social @regmt.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Sick, well, old, young, healthy, unhealthy—-all people deserve our respect and our protections, perhaps even more so for those who aren't able to help themselves. Or at least that’s true in a civilized, humane society.

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Rufus @rufusleebodean.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

They found a way to make themselves believe that, if COVID-19 killed a person, that meant that person was sick. Then that structure justifies not even trying to mitigate the pandemic. Sociopathic nihilism as public health policy.

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lindanielsen.bsky.social @lindanielsen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I’m an ambivert who continues to take precautions. Do I miss socializing more casually, dining with friends, and so on? Yes. Will I keep on as I am? Also yes.

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World Health Network @thewhn.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Masks reduce that exposure, and when both people mask, protection compounds. So no, it’s not that “masks don’t work.” It’s that not all masks, or how they’re used, work the same. For more information, visit our “Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks” page: whn.global/yes-we-conti... #CleanAir #Masking

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Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks—Here’s Why: Common Questions Answered - WHN

Picture a typical family gathering today. Most people have moved on from masking: kids run around freely, aunts and uncles chat over snacks, and only a couple of family members still choose to wear we...

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 22/04/2026

Wastewater data report the lowest national averages of SARS-CoV-2 in sewage in a couple of years, and low levels across regions. Recent levels are still higher than the true lows we saw with widespread precautions earlier in the pandemic, but they are getting surprisingly close. bit.ly/48byxo8

Graphic from The Sick Times sharing the latest COVID-19 trends for April 21, 2026. The graphic presents trends for three metrics: WastewaterSCAN category for SARS-CoV-2, which is “medium” (represented with a dark yellow color) and slightly decreasing (represented with a diagonal down arrow); CDC wastewater viral activity level for SARS-Cov-2, which is “very low*” (lighter yellow) and slightly decreasing; and CDC COVID-19 test positivity, which is low (lighter yellow) and slightly decreasing. Text below these metrics reads: “*CDC wastewater viral activity levels are calculated based on measurements in the last two years only. They do not account for the lower spread that could be possible with more widespread precautions.”

Wastewater data from the CDC, WastewaterSCAN, and Biobot Analytics all report the lowest national averages of SARS-CoV-2 in sewage in a couple of years, and low levels across regions. For WWSCAN, which has the most reliable long-term data, this is the lowest national average since spring 2022. Recent levels are still higher than the true lows we saw with widespread precautions earlier in the pandemic, but they are getting surprisingly close.

BA.3.2 (“Cicada”) remains a damper on this good news. The variant continues to grow globally, and children continue to be overrepresented in publicly-shared sequences, suggesting that they could be more susceptible. But it’s not a huge presence in U.S. data yet — in part because the CDC’s variant pages are now only updated once a month.
JAMA’s medical news vertical published a helpful explainer about Cicada this week, reinforcing that experts are concerned about the variant but having a hard time following it.

Meanwhile, there are other causes for illness going around right now, even as we have passed the end of flu season. CDC testing data, as well as wastewater data from WWSCAN and Biobot, warn of higher levels of the respiratory pathogens human metapneumovirus (HMPV), rhinovirus, enterovirus and the gastrointestinal pathogens norovirus and rotavirus.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Couchella 2026 🎶 🛋️ All the best music, none of the SARS-CoV2, at a ticket price that's affordable to all!

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

From the US School Difficulties and Long COVID in Children and Adolescents www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S187... Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update #LongCovid #LongCovidKids

School Difficulties and Long COVID in Children and Adolescents — Harrison T. Reeder et al
"These findings also provide evidence of a key disruption of functional status at critical points in the life course, which have profound implications both for the future health of this generation and for public policy."

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HOOGS (Hoarder Of Old Game Stuff). @psychosisfuzzball.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

You are born with all the brain cells you'll ever have. As you learn, these cells are knitted into neural pathways. Covid eats these cells. Loss of smell? That's brain damage, bringing dementia and parkinson's closer. Yours multiple times a year, unless wearing a respirator. #CovidIsNotOver

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

How To Prevent Heatstroke

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Join the Mass Infection Resistance @spiritsofland.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

You think too much anyway.

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Lady DEADtera, Wee Ghostie Edition 👻🍁😷 @ladylettera32.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

So HEPA filters in all schools and remote class until then??

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"It's just a flu." "COVID doesn't affect kids." We're into year 7 of this mess and there are still those who refuse to believe. Rolling the dice with kids' health is unconscionable. #longCOVID #pediatrics #childhealth #disability #maskup

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Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I like my tomatoes with a polio vaccine! It limbers me up. Also, tastes great!

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Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

"The anti-vaccination movement is a particularly bitter issue for me because it doesn’t just dehumanize me as an autistic person; it also sets off two of my biggest triggers. Like many people on the spectrum, I don’t handle it well when people are 1) wrong, and 2) unfair."

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Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

"I’ve always struggled to be patient with people who are clearly and obstinately wrong. Most of my elementary school report cards contained some variation of 'Sarah does not suffer fools gladly' and I can’t honestly say that I’ve made significant improvements in that arena since then."

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"And people who refuse to vaccinate their children because they believe that vaccines cause autism are wrong. Andrew Wakefield’s infamous study that linked autism to the MMR vaccine, which first sparked anti-vax panic in 1998, was called into question in 2004 and fully retracted in 2010."

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"Wakefield, who misrepresented or altered the subjects’ medical histories over the course of his research, lost his license that same year. No scientist has been able to reproduce his results. [...] This should be more than enough to persuade a rational person that vaccines are safe—or at least...

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"...at least as safe as any other simple medical procedure—but there is nothing even remotely rational about the anti-vaccination movement. It’s a dangerous and infuriating melange: poorly articulated fears of 'toxins,' a failure to understand the difference between correlation and causation..."

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"...misleading articles on truther websites, and conspiracy theories [...] I can’t even begin to wrap my head around anti-vaxxers’ reasoning. How can you find fault with every single bit of evidence that we have, from every single source, about the safety of vaccines?"

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"How can you continuously misread every single fact about their contents? How can you disregard the efficacy of vaccines in the fight against deadly and debilitating illnesses across the globe? If you can’t disregard it, how can you not care?"

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"If there really is a connection between autism and vaccines—which there’s not—and Big Pharma and/or The Man really are causing autism through vaccinations, what on earth do you think the end game of this conspiracy is?"

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"What upsets me more than the wrongness, though, is the dangerously unfair behavior that results from it. When someone believes asinine things about vaccines, it hurts humanity on an intellectual level."

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"When they put those beliefs into action and refuse to vaccinate their children, it puts all of us at risk of serious illness and death. The 2025 measles outbreak, which as of publication has reached 17 states and Washington DC, is a glaring example of what can happen when people..."

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"put their (ignorant) personal whims against the well-being of their community. Through no fault of their own, unvaccinated children, immunocompromised people, babies too young to receive the vaccination and the occasional vaccinated person (no vaccine is 100 percent because science is not magic)...

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"are suffering from an infection that was essentially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000. All because [...] privileged parents have decided reviving a group of life-threatening diseases & potentially inflicting them on their loved ones & neighbors is infinitely preferable to having an autistic child."

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"I’ve been told by some anti-vaxxers that they don’t mean my brand of autism; they mean non-verbal autism, or as they are so fond of calling it, 'profound autism.'"

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"I’m not about to take any solace in the idea that they’re willing to make exceptions for autistic people who can perform as neurotypical, or at least pose as little annoyance to neurotypicals as possible."

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"That just means that I will cease to be of any value to these people if I am no longer able to pass as one of them, and that they see no value and no humanity in anyone who communicates or behaves differently from them. Tell me again who has the empathy problem?"

Магдалена Хорват 😷 @magdalenahorvat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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"We work together to bridge our differences in communication, sensitivities, attributes, and detriments to go about our lives in a way that expands far beyond the moment-to-moment. We’re no more or less imperfect or tragic than the average family. We don’t even have measles."