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2024-06-13 22:11:39

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Really depends on where you go in Canada, imo. I've been all over, 100% masked.
In Ontario, Ottawa has the most masking. In Toronto you won't see masks outside of the Asian areas like Markham and Oakville. Quebec is Zero Masks but people have been kind.
Northern Ontario (Where I live) = No Masks whatsoever and you're gonna roll the dice. People scream at or threaten my family about once a year right now.
Have not been West of here since I moved here, so can't tell you. I would expect AB is rough and coastal BC is casually mean about it. (Because they're casually mean about everything.)

2024-06-13 03:01:37

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https://media.zeroes.ca/media_attachments/files/112/606/609/096/230/156/original/730bb241cd15ad25.jpg

2024-06-13 03:01:19

Upside down KN95 photoshopped onto patient along with "N95" photoshopped onto it upside down.
I think the CDC is just fucked now.
(from Lazarus Long on Twixter)
https://media.zeroes.ca/media_attachments/files/112/606/604/063/430/490/original/ddd372b146881573.jpg

2024-06-09 01:25:35

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I use an earloop with an "ear saver" band on the back because up until now, black masks were less likely to get me physically attacked. 😆
The seal is quite good, tbh. I can't smell paint or soap with it on. Even in a closed room for 2 hrs.
On an airplane or in prolonged bad ventilation, I would go with the duckbill, which doesn't look like a duckbill on me because I am related to the Rammstein lead singer (literally). (tldr Huge Face)

2024-06-07 06:12:01

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I would expect what they mean by "medical grade mask" is one that includes N95s, etc.
I've been considering switching to an obviously medical mask (like an Aura) because of these issues. My black KN95 looks too much like the ones shoplifters and political people are using...

2024-06-04 06:03:17

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The Foo Fighters got away with this garbage, too.
https://medium.com/the-monthly/the-foo-fighters-aids-denialism-should-be-on-the-record-6e33666fdc3c

2024-05-24 21:20:36

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I think the darkest part is the animal population tbh. You could eradicate it in humans (maybe, depending on antivirals to destroy reservoirs, fingers crossed)
But it's in the deer here. It's in all kinds of animals. How're we gonna even try that one? My damn dog is sniffing shit the moment I turn my head.
I honestly don't know how to put this djinn back in the bottle.

2024-05-24 05:51:48

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Yeah tbh I'm not much of an optimist about Clean The Air and all that.
We've never succeeded at doing that. We've literally never beaten an airborne virus by Cleaning the Air. They're too infections.
So I can't sit with someone outdoors and talk without a mask on. I will suck in their plumes. There's just no way I won't. no amount of ventilation at close range for extended periods would achieve that...

2024-05-20 04:26:48

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Yeah some people are born to be leaders and other people seem born to be Cassandras.💀 😆
I think the "Plume" dynamics upset Covid Aware people because it sounds like droplets to them. It sort of is and it sort of isn't. I think, in the early days at least "airborne" meant "Spreads everywhere in the air" and "droplets" meant it "falls out of the air eventually."
Plumes are kind of like some of one and some of the other.

2024-05-20 04:20:06

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There's a good ted talk on plumes and transmission of disease (2018ish). I posted it awhile back (forget when). Related to your post here.🥳
The best way to understand Covid transmission imo is plumes. It's not popular with the Zero Covid crowd, I guess(?), but idgaf. :catjam:

2024-05-20 01:09:13

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Typically amygdala problems show up as an inability to recognize threats. USUALLY this produces psychotic behavior where the person is unable to interpret someone as non-threatening.
I guess it's possible damage could also suppress threat awareness? I don't know of lit on that tbh. I'd have to dig around...