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Do the dentec n95 masks also filter out smoke from wildfires?

Particulate: Yes. Organic vapors: No. If you're going to be very close to a wildfire or out in the smoke for a long time, you need specific anti-vapor cartridges with n95 or better filters.

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If this isn't overstepping, do you have any advice for not falling into defeatism? You seem good at having hope.

I channel my rage into spite lmao. I live to rub the noses of those who think I'm an idiot into the mud of proof. Basically just live life like this

Defeatism and despair only do your enemy's work for them. Make them do the work, and make it hard for them. Live well. Enjoy your life. Take joy in being right, even if others think it's stupid or useless or "virtue signaling" to make life changes based upon new data.

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The arbitrary cutoff of Jan 6, 2024 is killing me. Long covid stopped being real last year?!?! what?!?!?!

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MASK SALE!!!

Enter SPRING25 at checkout for 25% off your purchase

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Mask Sale!

Spring Cleaning! Breathe Easier & Get The Job Done Right! 25% OFF ALL ENVO PRODUCTS (Up to $250 OFF) USE CODE: SPRINGCLEAN25 April 8th - May 31st (or while supplies last)

Envo is a high-quality N95 elastomeric format. This discount makes the basic kit just $33 with shipping.

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A high quality air purifier, refurbished for just $70. Get yourself stocked up for wildfire and disease season.

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Mask sale!

20% off with the checkout code SUMMER2025

They're also having some clearance sales on older stock in large quantities, perfect for mask bloc or other distro activities!

They also have tie-die pattern masks back in stock!

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If you appreciate the daily covid info and such I post here on tumblr (or over at our archive), I'd really appreciate a tip! My Name is Nadica, and I run the Covidsafehotties community and archives. I'm a transfem living in the South, and I've been struggling to find steady, wage and/or benefits paying work since Covid hit in 2020. Medically transitioning has made that even harder. If you have a buck to spare, I'd really appreciate your support. If you have more than a buck to spare, maybe think about signing up to support me monthly on Patreon. I'm not expecting to earn a living wage on the kindness of strangers or something like that, but I know the work I do helps people, and it would help me out a lot if I didn't have to worry so much about how to stretch the last writing project check until the next one or how I'm going to pay off my credit card when I get my HRT bloodwork bill. I give two or three hours every day to this work, and I want to keep doing it for as long as it's necessary. Please help keep me covid safe while I continue the struggle to find covid-safe, trans-friendly work in my area.

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Are you or a loved one HIGH RISK for COVID?

Have you faced resistance to covid mitigations at HOSPITALS or OTHER HEALTHCARE FACILITES?

Are you sick and tired of risking POTENTIALLY DEADLY ILLNESS from an AIRBORNE VIRUS while seeking HEALTHCARE?

Submit your story here and help build the case for clean air in ALL medical facilities.

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Your weekly reminder that (especially with the end of mandated reporting for covid info) that these are absolutely incomplete numbers. For more complete estimates, check out the Pandemic Mitigation Collective, the most comprehensive wastewater analysis in the US.

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By Jason Gale

Hi, it’s Jason in Melbourne. Almost five years after Covid‑19 broke out, scientists are still unraveling its pathological modus operandi. Before I get into that...

Toxic blood effects Clotting disorders in Covid patients were spotted by researchers in China in early 2020, but the true extent of the risk only became clear when even patients with mild respiratory symptoms began experiencing strokes.

At first, doctors suspected these clots might result from a “cytokine storm” — an intense immune response releasing a surge of inflammation-signaling proteins. Others noted that the virus could directly damage blood vessel linings.

But Katerina Akassoglou, a neurovascular brain immunologist at the Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco, wasn’t convinced that the virus itself wasn’t a cause.

Navigating social distancing requirements that complicated lab work, Akassoglou and her collaborators conducted a series of experiments in mice to explore the pernicious role of the coronavirus’s spike protein.

They discovered that beyond serving as the virus’s “key” to enter cells, spike binds with a blood clotting factor called fibrinogen, creating structurally abnormal, inflammation-promoting clumps of fibrin — the insoluble material that forms the mesh-like structures essential for wound healing.

High levels of these abnormal clots not only push the body’s clotting system into overdrive, increasing clot formation and inflammation, but also suppress natural killer cells — the immune system’s virus-clearing soldiers.

When this damaging cycle occurs alongside a breakdown in the protective layer of cells around the brain’s blood vessels, toxins and bloodborne proteins, including fibrin, can seep into the body’s most vital organ. Once there, these substances activate microglia — the brain’s immune cells —which begin attacking healthy brain cells, contributing to the neurological symptoms of long Covid.

Akassoglou had been studying this damaging cascade for decades in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Still, until SARS-CoV-2 came along, she had no idea it could be triggered by a viral infection.

“For some reason, this virus has evolved to interfere with the coagulation system in a way that other viruses do not,” she told me. Fibrin’s role in driving toxic inflammation is common in many diseases, but “in the presence of spike, it gets a lot worse.”

In experiments with mice lacking fibrinogen, Covid leads to much less inflammation, and the infection clears faster. “Studies suggest that if you deplete fibrin, inflammation improves, no matter what initially triggers it.”

Although Akassoglou’s focus has been on the brain, she’s hopeful this research will be expanded to understand the effects on the heart, liver, kidneys, and gastrointestinal tract.

In the meantime, she’s developing a way to halt this damaging reaction. A first-in-class antibody treatment designed to specifically block fibrin’s toxic effects entered early-stage patient studies in May, with no reported safety concerns so far.

Results are expected next year and could lead to more advanced clinical trials to test the immunotherapy’s potential to treat not only long Covid but also other serious diseases like multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.

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Abstract Introduction With the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple studies described a significant drop in common respiratory viruses in children with the lockdown and restrictions. With the lifting of pandemic precautions, we had the ability to observe new patterns of respiratory illnesses in children and emergency department visits.

Materials and methods We studied all respiratory nucleic acid amplification test results in emergency patients from a large metropolitan children's hospital from the years 2018 to 2023. The test included adenovirus, coronaviruses HKU1, NL63, 229E, OC43, metapneumovirus, rhinovirus or enterovirus, influenza A and B, parainfluenza virus types 1-4, respiratory syncytial virus, Bordetella pertussis, Bordetella parapertussis, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, and Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Coronavirus SARS CoV-2 became part of the respiratory panel in November of 2020. We reviewed pediatric emergency department census data to describe the trends before, during, and after COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.

Results and conclusions Prior to 2020, there was a median of 1080 tests performed per week with an average positivity rate of 3.7-4.1%. During 2020, this dropped to 486 tests per week with a positivity rate of 1.74%. In 2021, after schools reopened, the median number of tests was 589 per week, with a positivity rate of 4.07%. After schools reopened without masks, the median tests per week were 817, with a positivity rate of 4.71%. Emergency department census data showed a large rebound in 2021 and 2022, with significantly earlier census peaks in these years. Common pediatric respiratory illnesses had an early seasonal spike in the years after the restrictions were lifted, with the most significant being the year in which local schools stopped wearing masks.