Thank you for this. I've spent all of 2023 with my late wife as we fought cancer…usually the only people in a respirator. You would think medical professionals would know to protect themselves. @flomask.bsky.social is my favorite respirator. Use code FAMILYFIRST for 25% off.

By the way, I modified our Flomasks with the @sipmask.bsky.social port so we could drink. I highly recommend this modification if you have to fly. When I had to acknowledge that Vickie was never leaving the hospital, I gave her mask to, Sarah, my favorite of her nurses.

Nurse Sarah is a genuine angel of mercy, exactly the person you would most wish was caring for your loved one. She was the first person in Kansas City to get the covid vaccine, and had to delete all for social media accounts due to abuse. youtu.be/mtggyV8qleo?...

Getting medical care in KC, i know how rare medical pros like her are.

Thank you for all this truth and also for emphasizing respirators. (I don't say masks, so there's no confusion with baggy blue surgical masks, not fit for anything airborne). I'm sick and fucking tired of messages that are like "New wave, get your boosters!" 😖

Sadly we won’t even have boosters moving forward in the states.

My last Covid vaxx was in 2023 because it isn't worth it to have to go out into plague spreading world into a clinic full of maskless nurses for an ineffective, strain outdated vaccine that doesn't stop infection or transmission. I have completely avoided Covid by not inhaling it. Respirators, home

Staying home. Not fucking eating inside of restaurants. Wearing my airtight elastomeric respirator at all times in public, whether indoors or outdoors, whether "crowded" or "empty." My bulletproof Covid avoidance strategy. 🔥🔥🔥 When my parents were youth, smallpox, polio vaccines actually worked! 🧵

They did what vaccines were always intended to do... Prevent infection and transmission, eradicate the virus. MMR and hepatitis vaccines I got were similarly effective. Flu is tricky, but at least most years the strain the vaxx is for is for a strain that is circulating. But Covid vaxx...

Has been sold with lies and gaslighting. Biden: "If you get vaccinated, you can take off your masks!" "Covid is over!" Meanwhile, immunologists as early as 2020 warned that Covid would be near impossible to stop with vaccines. Coronoaviruses mutate way too quickly. 🧵

Even whenever the latest "booster" is deployed, it's at least 1.5 years behind currently circulating strains. A vaccine that doesn't stop infection or transmission at all is insulting. People got vaxxed and then got Covid over and over again. So enter gaslighting. "Vaccines were always meant 🧵

to just reduce symptoms, not eliminate disease!" 🙃🙃🙃 My parents were around since the mid 20th century and I've been around since the last quarter of the 20th century and I say that's bull-fucking-shit. And to this day, fools react to Covid "waves" with "get your boosters!" 🙃 rather than 🧵

WEAR A GODDAMN RESPIRATOR. So no. I have no tears to shed for those boo hooing RJK keeping your vaxx away. Your masklessness and Covid past tensing language empowered RFK to take your vaxx away in the first place.

I do wear a respirator every day. I have for the last five years. I work in healthcare with children. I take their health and my health very seriously. Even if the vaccine does not entirely prevent C19 infection, it’s protective in other ways. I would rather have the option.

Thank you for the master class in 11 simple comments.

Well said. The way that I see it is that even delaying those infections and the frequency of them--that actually probably does have some benefit & when it's once in 5 years as opposed to 1-2 times a year, that's a lot less rolls of the dice & time to heal between.