Every covid infection increases the risk of long term issues. If you’ve had it 4 times, that’s better than 20 times. The best time to protect yourself was five years ago. The second best time is this very minute. 13/13

If this resonates with you but you feel like it’s too far gone at this point, it’s truly never too late to start protecting yourself again. If you’re in LA and masking outside, keep your mask on inside. If you are elsewhere, start masking again. Even sometimes. 12/

But just like people believe with their whole hearts that the wildfire smoke is fine because it looks fine and they are told it’s fine and everyone around them is acting like it’s fine, you might have fallen for messaging that Covid is safe to keep getting. But it’s not. 11/

Nobody likes to feel like they’ve fallen for propaganda. We think of ourselves as smarter than that and we don’t want to feel like we have been bamboozled. It’s easy to double down when confronted with this. 10/

They were wrong about the air after 9/11. They are wrong about the LA air now. Why is it so hard to believe that they are wrong about Covid? 9/

If the only reason you think Covid is safe is that everyone else is acting like it’s safe, or if it wasn’t “that bad” when you were infected but you have weird new health issues, maybe try to gently examine that. 8/

Yes we have vaccines now and they’re amazing but they don’t prevent transmission, rarely prevent infection, and don’t prevent long covid. The acute emergency phase may be less dangerous now, but the long term effects are just as devastating and are worse with each infection. 7/

Other than the fact that other people are acting like it’s safe? When you can see with your own eyes that MANY people are acting like the wildfire air is safe when you know in your bones that it just doesn’t make sense? 6/

Can you actually explain how covid, a vascular disease that shut the world down and damages our immune systems long term and is the reason we’re all struggling to recall common words, is somehow safe, other than the fact that they told you it’s now suddenly safe? 5/

The ppl exposing themselves to wildfire air without protection think they are rational humans following guidance. You know better than that because it’s OBVIOUSLY unsafe. So why would Covid somehow be safe to get repeatedly just because you were told it’s somehow ok now? 4/

Ppl walking outside maskless in LA are told the air is safe even though you and I know it just can’t be. Ppl who stopped masking in indoor public spaces were also told it’s safe to keep exposing ourselves to Covid, but it doesn’t actually make sense that it would be. 3/

I need you to know that this is exactly how people have felt for years about Covid. Before I lose you and you think, “that’s stupid, they’re not the same” I invite you to gently examine why they might be. 2/

It may seem like it’s “not the time” for Covid talk, but Covid never left and if you’re wearing a mask anyway, you might as well keep it on to protect yourself and each other as much as possible. We are more vulnerable than ever. Air is shared. Let’s take care of each other ❤️

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I have never pronounced it biopic

That’s what I thought!