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Alaina P. (she/her)
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Botanist, sensu lato.
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Folks love to quote @timothysnyder.bsky.social, often "don't obey in advance" but there're further lessons—So what’s keeping you from wearing a mask? It’s easy to fall in step if there are only maskless faces around you; break the spell of denial, set the example—we must protect the health we have.
July 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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For those calling for mask bans for specific occupations, here is an important point:
Reminder that for occupations where it may be essential to reveal faces, solutions exist. Transparent N95s and elastomeric respirators can be used in combination with layered protections such as clean air infrastructure, testing, and vaccines. But employers need to provide these tools for free.
July 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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When mask bans become law, it always results in unfair selective enforcement, which harms the people in society who are most vulnerable or marginalized.
July 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Monthly COVID-19 Forecast July 2025

Average Infectious Rate: 0.9% (1 in 107)

Average New Daily Infections: 448,267

Projected Infections: 13,448,000

Estimated Long COVID Cases: 672,000 to 2,690,000

Estimated Excess Deaths: 4,800 to 8,000
July 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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it is beyond time to see your own complicity in the present moment: when you only mask at protests & never even consider doing so in the grocery store, pharmacy, on public transit, you contribute to a social climate able to criminalize protective tools. CHOOSE SOLIDARITY, prevent infection, mask up.
resist mainstreaming the far right & their ideals with choices you make every day—an easy one is to wear a respirator in, at the very least, public indoor spaces.

needless spread of novel & thought-to-be-gone pathogens has been key to the eugenicists playbook. prevent it.
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June 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM