#Criminalizing #Masks at #Protests is Wrong

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/criminalizing-masks-protests-wrong

Trump Calls for Arrest of Masked Protesters, Orders Military Response - MeidasTouch News - https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-calls-for-arrest-of-masked-protesters-orders-military-response-

I wasn't planning on wearing a mask to No Kings events. Changed my mind. #nokingsday #nokings #masks

How do you store your masks and respirators when you're not wearing them?

I'd love to know what best practices / standards are, which I assume exist because pandemic PPE come out of healthcare and industrial settings.

2025-June-06 Friday

480 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19

1,228,873 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total

The NB.1.8.1 variant of COVID-19 — dubbed "razor-blade throat" — is circulating. Julia Doubleday has broken down the most important information you need to know about mitigating its spread this summer, from the proportion of infections that are asymptomatic to the accuracy rate of rapid antigen tests.

https://flip.it/WFlFjP

Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-05/study-finds-that-removing-school-mask-mandates-contributed-to-22-000-u-s-covid-deaths-in-just-one-year

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A newly published study from data scientists at Michigan State University knocks one pillar out from under this claim. It finds that the abrupt removal in 2022 of mandates that children wear #masks in school contributed to an estimated 21,800 #COVID deaths that year — a shocking 9% of the total COVID deaths in the U.S. that year. “ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-05/study-finds-that-removing-school-mask-mandates-contributed-to-22-000-u-s-covid-deaths-in-just-one-year

Wearing a mask at work today because AQI is 150 indoors (250 outside!). My 2 month old is HOPEFULLY breathing okay with grandma at our house with our MERV 13 furnace filter and our 3 air purifiers. Not much we can do beyond that. The world is on fucking fire and half the population either doesn't care, doesn't believe it, or has an ethos of "get cancer or suffocate and die to trigger the libs". I'm fucking tired. #mn #mnstadon #twincities #wildfires #smoke #masks

2025-May-30 Friday

218 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19

1,228,393 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total

"According to this paper, the removal ofmask mandates in schools in early 2022 is responsible, through spillover infections, for nearly 22,000 deaths that year alone—9 percent of all American COVID mortality in 2022."
-D Wallace-Wells

#Covid #Masks #PublicHealth #Health #Science #HHS #CDC #USPol https://www.nber.org/papers/w33849

#Respirator #masks come in all shapes and styles, free download issue 9 for this image + more great masking resources with workable links, from @whn kids zone magazine at https://WHN.global/KidsZone , and find a respirator mask that u like

"The World Health Organization announced last week that it was monitoring the variant, NB.1.8.1, following a rise in cases in several parts of the world, including Europe, Southeast Asia and North and South America.

The variant appears to be more transmissible than the dominant strain worldwide, LP.8.1, meaning it has the potential to drive up cases this summer."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/new-covid-variant-nb181-vaccines-cases-what-know-rcna209465

Leaving for a doctor's appointment in a few minutes. I hope I won't be the only person masked there (that office has a spotty record on masking, sometimes the majority of staff masks, sometimes the majority doesn't).