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@mariagillespie.bsky.social
Mathematician, covid safe, loving life
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who masked up for any reason, and to those who signed the petition this winter! We got the attention of the hospitals and the media and will continue to fight for the safety of all Coloradans and the right to breathe clean air. 1/3
Colorado has sadly just recorded another pediatric flu death, bringing the total to 8 in this record-setting flu season. We need to continue to fight for mask protection and access to vaccines and clean air to help prevent these tragedies from happening in future years. 2/3
Math Prof. @mariagillespie.bsky.social, founder of MaskTogetherColorado ( @wemaskcolorado.bsky.social), was interviewed by Óscar Contreras, @denver7.bsky.social for advocating for universal masking in Colorado hospitals to combat the unprecedented surge in flu cases. bit.ly/Denver7_on_MTC 🧵
How do you drink safely while wearing a mask? Start with a SIP valve from sipmask.com, and then check out these tips I learned from the Fit Testing for Everyone community:
“Happy to report that one week after traveling on an 11 hr flight to visit my elderly grandparents during a bad flu season, our masks kept us safe and helped us avoid spreading any airborne viruses to them, and we are able to enjoy Christmas together!”—Sinead O’Brien, @cleanairie.bsky.social
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
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New Substack post about HEPA air purifiers. They're good, but not quite as good as the advertising might lead you to expect. mecfs.substack.com/p/do-hepa-ai...
Do HEPA air purifiers really remove 99.95% of dangerous particles from the air?
The 99.95% claim is technically true, but misleading. HEPA air purifiers are good! But not that good.
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Many of us with complex chronic illness learn a ton over years of neglect in healthcare settings. We learn by painful trial and error and become confident about when to speak up. But someone who’s never been sick? Someone who doesn’t speak the language or is critically ill?
My friend the optimist insists that at core most people are basically good. My friend the pessimist insists that at core most people are basically bad. I worry, my friends, that at core most people are basically unwilling to be inconvenienced.
This is how I make a seal cut at the nose on my kid's Zimi mask so that it fits better around her nose bridge, thus eliminating gaps around each side of her nose. The fit factor went way up on fit testing with this hack!
Remote teaching in 2020 launched my interest in high quality virtual mathematics presentation. Just today I completed this playlist for undergraduate combinatorics, the result of years of learning and a semester of hard work: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Counting Rocks! An Introduction to Combinatorics - YouTube
This playlist features the re-created videos for the Open Educational Resource "Counting Rocks! An Introduction to Combinatorics" created at Colorado State U...
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As I enter the copy room my colleague tells me she is feeling sick, she is really feeling very sick, and she is worried she will need to leave early, and though I want to note that we’ve already been in two meetings together, instead I just say: I’ll make my copies later.
I beg of you, please stop asking chronically ill people if we’re “better yet”. We aren’t getting better. That’s the nature of chronic illness. We may have good days & bad days… but we will always be sick. Its unrelenting. Always there. Ready to flare at any time.
New York Times: “30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed…in March 2020” “The number of people reporting a disability soared. Many Americans struggled with long Covid and reported cognitive issues like “brain fog” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
We’re still in a global pandemic. The threat of Covid has not passed. We’re seeing an increase in bird flu, measles, TB & more. Public health has been dying a slow & painful death for years. We are on our own. The good news? Masks work for more than just Covid! My complete guide to respirators 👇🏼
We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask
Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!
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Our 13-year-old crawled into our room 2 weeks after having a mild case of Covid & woke us in a panic because they felt like “their legs had been dipped in acid & set on fire.” It’s been 3 years & while the pain has decreased a bit, it’s still there every day + chronic fatigue and more. It’s brutal.
BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
HPAI Confirmed Cases in Livestock | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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"Most non disabled people are unable to face the fact that health is temporary. That all it takes is one virus, accident or stroke of bad luck to leave you permanently disabled. They don’t want to face it, so they blame us for our illnesses and tell themselves it can’t possibly happen to them."
Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · last yr.We’re still in a global pandemic. The threat of Covid has not passed. We’re seeing an increase in bird flu, measles, TB & more. Public health has been dying a slow & painful death for years. We are on our own. The good news? Masks work for more than just Covid! My complete guide to respirators 👇🏼
Exactly 3 years on 👇 I've still not felt 'breathless', but as for 'some kind of impairment or difficulty in functioning'... Yes - that still sums it up 🙏 And as #COVIDisNotOver the number of people affected is growing! #COVID19 #BloodClots #PulmonaryEmbolism #LongCovid
"The data demonstrates little or no improvement over 16 weeks, while the frequency of contact throughout the study demonstrates the episodic and relapsing nature of long COVID." #LongCovid #PASC
Jon Douglas@atranscendedman.bsky.social · last yr.UK study of 75 people finds long COVID symptoms fluctuate over time. Fatigue, brain fog, and breathlessness persist, with little improvement over 16 weeks. Highlights need for better care and support. jogh.org/2025/jogh-15...
More than 300 FAA employees have been dismissed.
Massive covidization and subsequent decovidization of the scientific literature involved 2 million authors - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
Massive covidization and subsequent decovidization of the scientific literature involved 2 million authors
We aimed to examine the growth trajectory and impact of COVID-19-related papers in the scientific literature and how the scientific workforce engaged in this work.
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Why did we spend so much effort in 2020 mitigating against the wrong routes for COVID spread? Really interesting background on the history and culture of science and medicine for airborne diseases.
Linsey Marr@linseymarr.bsky.social · last yr.I reviewed @carlzimmer.com's new book Airborne. "His book is an enthralling historical exploration of the role of airborne microorganisms in disease, and examines why these pathogens have been overlooked for centuries." www.nature.com/articles/d41... /1
Meanwhile, back in the USA, 'flu is breaking records, other infectious diseases spreading, like measles and 2 severe human cases of H5N1', @kkjetelina.bsky.social. And there are a lot of sick people in the UK too! 🤦By the way, measles is the most infectious virus known! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Flu breaking records, measles, tuna recall, and federal workers fired
The Dose (February 17)
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A webinar discussing practical solutions 👏🏼🙏🏻 @henryburridge.bsky.social #SafeAirSchools events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7d54c6...
Kind of like “weird I thought Covid was over but everyone I know keeps getting Covid”
’Unacceptable’: Doctors raise alarm as COVID runs rampant in Aussie aged care facilities. "The COVID death rate of our elderly in residential care is double that of the pandemic peak. Experts are blaming poor vaccination rates." @AnikaWells @healthgovau Source: archive.md/k2w7n
COVID-19 deaths in aged care are now double what they were at the peak of pandemic. 🔹During the height of the pandemic, 18 Feb 2020 to 19 May 2022 - 2,415 COVID deaths 🔹Between 27 May 2022 to 16 Jan 2025, that number surged to 4,778 deaths hellocare.com.au/covid-19-dea...
Covid-19 deaths in aged care are now double what they were at the peak of pandemic - Hellocare
With nearly 5,000 Covid-19 deaths in aged care since mid-2022, critics argue that poor vaccination rates and systemic failures are leaving aged care residents dangerously exposed.
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