@Paulatics

>Perhaps my mask isn’t protecting me as much as I think it is.

It is! Especially the one you wear. 3M Auras are a great choice because they punch way above their weight. @masknerd measured a sub-micron filtration efficiency of 99.7% with one.

In 2016, researchers from NIOSH and Nelson Laboratory measured bacterial and viral filtration efficiencies of 99.62 to 99.9% and 99.8 to 99.9%, respectively, with N95s from 3M, Moldex, Kimberly-Clark, Sperian-Willson, and US Safety.

[An Ounce of Prevention]

Respirators are masks, but not all masks are respirators.

[Open-Source Eschaton] (blog.open-source-eschaton.net)

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In the US, there's been a sharp rise in the amount of people who report having a disability. The clinically vulnerable have been abandoned by those with the means and social leverage to act differently – and more importantly, to model an alternative – who are fine with enabling the silent spread of a virus only considered dangerous to some.

With no support given to those 'some,' they become expendable. As Anthony Fauci put it, "you'll find the vulnerable will fall by the wayside," a shameless admission of the eugenic attitude at the center of the desire to return to a mythic state of Normal. An admission that when neoliberalism holds the world (and our imaginations) hostage, eugenics is actually the norm.

https://blog.open-source-eschaton.net/thats-sars-cov-2

Don't forget that #LongCovid, and disease generally, is a spectrum. For those of us who don't show the brunt of the damage right away, it starts with issues that you brush off and power through, until you are so damaged that you can no longer deny it