Nadica The Barbarian

"During the pandemic" is right now btw

The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence As the sixth anniversary of the WHO pandemic declaration passes with total media silence, wastewater data, excess death estimates and new research on Long COVID reveal an ongoing public health catastr...

"The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence"

"The bipartisan acceptance of mass infection demonstrates that the capitalist system is fundamentally incompatible with the basic requirements of human health and well-being." 1/

#CovidIsntOver #MedSky #StillCoviding

Hi! I'm an activist in America working on a project to confirm that the clean air orgs listed on Covid Action Map and Maskbloc.org are still active and doing anti-covid actions. Just send me a DM or respond to this message if you are!

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#MedSky #PublicHealth

Long Covid rewires your brain, Degrades your quality of work, Increases your healthcare costs, and more Bonus Lots of people are still dying of Covid

Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter:

Long Covid rewires your brain, Degrades your quality of work, Increases your healthcare costs, and more

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New resources just dropped 👇
🔎 Debunking Long COVID myths:
shh-uk.org/debunking...
🏢 Workplace air quality guidance:
shh-uk.org/som-guida...
Facts matter. Clean air matters. Let’s protect everyone.
#SafeAir4All #CleanAir #LongCovid #PublicHealth #HealthAndSafety #EvidenceBased

Am I colorblind, or are "moderate" and "low" the same color?

Peace @Peace.Waters wearing a red KF94, with matching headwrap and top, holding a Zine called “Long COVlD Story Short” Peace and their mom Dimitrea @comix.dimitrea created together. Link to Chuffed for Peace: https://chuffed.org/project/121275-peace-urgent-medical-leave-and-recovery

“I wear a mask because countless studies have detailed the damaging cumulative effects of COVID.”—Peace is holding their “Long COVID Story Short”, a zine they and mom Dimitrea created as an autobiographical example of the urgency of care and attention needed for Long Haulers.🧵

Yeah, they bring a lot of doubt on their findings: "Although some symptoms exist more than one year after COVID-19 infection, they occur at similar rates in individuals who tested negative and are therefore not attributable to COVID-19 infection." Similar flawed logic as most "vax injury" studies.

COVID never went away. The pandemic is still raging.

Wear a mask don't spread covid

Wear a mask don't spread covid

Wear a mask don't spread covid

Wear a mask don't spread covid

Wear a mask don't spread covid

Wear a mask don't spread covid

Wear a mask don't spread covid

"During covid" is right now. Covid is still killing more Americans every year than prostate and breast cancer combined. If you're not taking covid precautions in public, you have more in common with these ghouls than you'd think.

You should upgrade from procedure masks (which are not classified as PPE) to a proper respirator! Some links to lower-cost options: linktr.ee/buymasks

A landscape drawing featuring a Black person with long pink hair. They are wearing a mask and have a bead necklace. Lilac text to the right of them reads: "masking doesn't ruin ur outfit babes!". Around the edges of the image are various brightly coloured flowers, stars, butterflies and dots. There are also black swirls interspersed in the design. The backdrop for the art is a mid-green colour.

Masking saves lives and you can look cute doing it!! 😷🩷

#covidconscious #covidcautious #art #disabledartist #madartist

Remember when she said Trump was "too far left" on immigration?

Congrats on participating in banal evil I suppose.

Just a note that the mask she's wearing is *not* PPE. While procedure masks can substantially reduce the spread of illness via source control, the gaps on the side mean you're breathing in lots of virions and other nasties that have aerosolized. Link for free/cheap respirators:
linktr.ee/buymasks

Graphic showing an old desktop computer with a pixelated red umbrella, an international symbol for sex worker rights, on the screen. The image’s background is black with white pixels. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Long COVID advocacy is incomplete without sex workers. Destigmatizing Black queer sex workers makes our movement stronger By Khalil (Kae) Dennis.”

There’s so much built into our identities [as sex workers] that makes navigating COVID easier. We’re just straightforward, because that’s what we do in sex work. - Raquel Savage Black queer sex worker, therapist, and founder of Zepp Wellness who has Long COVID

This week at The Sick Times, @khaoticaa.bsky.social writes that #LongCOVID advocacy is incomplete without sex workers, and that destigmatizing Black queer sex workers will make the movement stronger. bit.ly/4qfFyv4

Covid is still here, btw.

Covid is still spreading, and year round too. If you aren't keeping others safe by keeping track of levels in your area and masking in public, you're not too different from the far-right fuckers you decry.

Graphic from The Sick Times sharing the latest COVID-19 trends for January 6, 2026. The graphic presents trends for three metrics: WastewaterSCAN category for SARS-CoV-2, which is "high" (represented with a red color) and reports a significant increase (represented with an up arrow); CDC wastewater viral activity level for SARS-Cov-2, which is "moderate*" (orange) and reports a slight increase (diagonal up arrow), and CDC COVID-19 test positivity, which is moderate (darker yellow) and stable (side to side arrow). Text below these metrics reads: "* CDC wastewater viral activity levels are calculated based on measurements in the last two years only. They do not account for the lower spread that could be possible with more widespread precautions."

COVID-19 levels are increasing across most of the U.S. as of late December. But flu is overshadowing COVID-19 in healthcare system impacts and headlines.

For both viruses, similar precautions (like high-quality masks and improving air quality) work to reduce your risk of infection. bit.ly/3LhxKd2

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And further obfuscation:

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Hospitals are No Longer Required to Submit COVID-19 Hospital Data—No Change to Nursing Home Reporting Requirements Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report Hospital Respiratory Pathogen, Bed Capacity, and Supply Data (commonly referred to as ‘COVID-19 Hospital’ data) to the Department of H...

www.ahcancal.org/News-and-Com...

This lack of information tinges the data too: can't confirm a covid death if your respiratory failure cases aren't being tested/their specific data is being obscured behind voluntary reporting (read: non-reporting)

A public health perspective of SARS-CoV-2 evolution and surveillance strategies in Germany from 2020 to 2023 - Communications Medicine Oh, Hölzer et al., discuss the multidisciplinary approach used for monitoring the genomic and virological evolution of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications on public health in Germany. They emphasize the need for continuous surveillance and adaptation of public health strategies to address evolving viral threats.

New review highlights #SARS-CoV-2 evolution and longstanding #GenomicSurveillance in Germany, emphasising the need for adaptive #PublicHealth strategies for pandemic preparedness.
📄 https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-01093-1 
👤 EVBC members: Max von Kleist, Thorsten Wolff

Identification and genomic characterisation of BA.3.2: a highly divergent BA.3-related SARS-CoV-2 lineage from southern Africa In November 2024, a highly divergent BA.3-related SARS-CoV-2 lineage, designated BA.3.2, was detected in South Africa, marking the first appearance of a BA.3-derived lineage in over two years. Phyloge...

SARS-CoV-2 continue to surprise us with evolutionary jumps. In this pre-print, we describe the Identification and genomic characterisation of BA.3.2: a highly divergent BA.3-related SARS-CoV-2 lineage from southern Africa. A thread 🧵 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Also, deaths have never been correctly tallied and they are woefully uncounted now as the overwhelming majority of hospitals no longer test for covid on emergency intake. Notice the uptick of especially older celebrities dying suddenly after a short illness in the past couple years?

I run a little archive of covid information. It's a one woman show, so it's a bit disorganized at the moment, but I update every day. If you're looking for the latest covid news and science and updates on emerging health threats like measles and H5N1, check it out!
covidsafehotties.boards.net

I am so sick of wading through COVID research as someone trying to prevent spread. I am now tired of saying to comrades: "What would Alice Wong have wanted?" I am weary from even thinking about trying to approach medical providers about taking basic precautions.

Please, step up & do better.

Chart titled “SARS-CoV-2 New Daily Infections, Wastewater-Derived Estimates (U.S.)” showing estimated daily COVID-19 infections from 2020 to December 15, 2025. Multiple waves are visible, with a very large peak in early 2022 and smaller recurring peaks afterward. A value near late 2025 is highlighted at approximately 772,000 estimated daily infections. Text at the bottom states, “The 12th COVID wave has begun.”

Most people still say “during covid” although there are more people infected with covid now than in 2020. 😭