Update for my loves

As a chronically ill disabled person, a common cold or flu can knock me out for weeks/months. I have 3 autoimmune diseases, and EDS, which makes me high risk for complications with Covid and other airborne viruses.

This update is not meant to scare you. It’s meant to encourage you to participate in community care and public health safety, in spite of a massive amount of propaganda telling you you’re safe and don’t need to mask anymore.

Use a good quality n95 or kn94, whatever you have access to. Cloth and surgical masks do not provide enough protection. Image description: half Indian person with short hair wearing a 3m v flex n95 mask and cool glasses.

What you might not be aware of is that each covid infection weakens everyone’s Immune system. Everyone is vulnerable when it comes to long COVID, and every other long term illness covid can cause (it has been found to be able to affect nearly every system in the body.

This new strain NB.1.8.1, dubbed “razor blade throat,” is nasty and has caused an uptick in hospitalizations in the places it’s spreading. It will likely cause a summer wave soon.

Anti-vax folks have bright back measles, whooping cough (pertussis), and bird flu is mere steps away from being able to transmit from human to human. There are a lot of reasons to keep masking, and not very many good ones to stop.

Beyond that, many states are imposing mask bans, which is extremely dangerous for disabled and immune compromised folks. Mask, if nothing else four solidarity with society’s most vulnerable.

Leaders across the globe have done an incredible job politicizing masking 😷, but it’s ridiculous to politicize a public health measure.

You are more vulnerable than you think, and in a collapsing health system, I promise you don’t want to become disabled earlier than necessary (EVERYONE becomes disabled if they live long enough). It really sucks to be disabled in the “USA.”

Please read this article, inform yourselves, protect yourselves.

READ THIS PLZ

Sincerely,

The friend you never see anymore because I’m too sick to be around people who won’t mask or take precautions (and I can count on one hand the friends that are willing to do this for me).