Free masks for all should be included in state budgets, not mask bans. Shame on New York Governor Kathy Hochul for pushing the latter, which will make us all more vulnerable to multiple health threats including airborne viruses and climate change.
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🎯 "You think viruses stop after 3 feet and drop to the ground?" Tang said of the classical notion of distance. "That is absurd."
"Airborne viruses travel much like cigarette smoke, he explained. The scent will be strongest beside a smoker, but those farther away will inhale more and more smoke 🧵
if they remain in the room, especially when there’s no ventilation."
"...fresh emphasis on the need to improve ventilation indoors and stockpile quality face masks before the next airborne disease explodes. Far from a remote possibility, measles is on the rise this year and the H5N1 bird flu is 🧵
spreading among cattle in several states. Scientists worry that as the H5N1 virus spends more time in mammals, it could evolve to more easily infect people and spread among them through the air." April, 2024.
@governor.ny.gov I am curious what is your plan to manage ALL the people you disable by banning masks and exposing people to COVID which in turns exposes them to Long COVID/strokes/heart attacks? So you have a plan right to support people when they can’t work? When they need enhanced medical care?
…and since you *might* read this, what about other airborne infections like measles, H5N1 (CFR around 50%) or H5N9 (same CFR, novel in humans, no vax) if they evolve human transmission, TB, etc.? What about wildfire smoke & other pollutants?
This dumbass governor needs to ban swastikas and nazis,not medical masks. I'm still masking. Immuno-compromised. Taking my mask is an assault on my person. Can I stand my ground? @marcelias.bsky.social
Maybe there shouldn’t be mask bans or mask mandates in public but private companies should be able to make whatever rules they want to see in their establishments regarding masks?
Maybe we should stop having the government rule is and remind them that they are our representatives, not leaders
Take action to stop anti-mask laws from being passed in New York State. The budget is imminent, so please call the Governor and your NYS Senator and Assemblymember NOW!
I left a message on my State Senator's voicemail, then called my State Assemblymember and got an actual person who picked up and they told me to send an email, so I did so!
There is no sensible excuse for mask bans. If someone has health issues and needs to wear one for their own protection that is not a decision the government needs to be making.
Ok she can ban anything she wants but Ima wear a mask if I need to. I’m a healthcare professional and my health is all I have. That’s a horseshit policy.
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Good luck NY.
"Airborne viruses travel much like cigarette smoke, he explained. The scent will be strongest beside a smoker, but those farther away will inhale more and more smoke 🧵
"...fresh emphasis on the need to improve ventilation indoors and stockpile quality face masks before the next airborne disease explodes. Far from a remote possibility, measles is on the rise this year and the H5N1 bird flu is 🧵
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/who-airborne-disease-cdc-updated-guidelines-rcna149843
But BANNED? Do you not have immunocompromised people in the USA? And wait til measles hit NYC yikes
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Do you have any sense of responsibility?
Legitimate health concerns, like the need for continued funding for vaccines, childcare, & food banks, don't exist because the "COVID-era" is over.
Everyone can see we have completely bounced back.
amerikka is fucked
thanks cult
Maybe we should stop having the government rule is and remind them that they are our representatives, not leaders
it's all fucking bullshit
schoolhouse rock needs to be rewritten
dark style
thank goodness she didn't write the constitution