I heard a story third-hand toward the beginning of the current regime about ICE agents being in tears about what they were ordered to be doing.

I wonder if those agents are still working for ICE, or if they quit because their conscience couldn't take it anymore.

There are other supports available too! Climate action and caring for our emotions are *both* important. ❤️

Very different from the (inaccurate and unhelpful!) cultural COVID narrative that the only way to deal with our emotions is to pretend there's no problem.

www.climatementalhealth.net

Some official government sources on Long COVID: it's been extensively studied as a condition and quite clear that it's a phenomenon.

www.cdc.gov/long-covid/a...
www.nyc.gov/site/doh/cov...

You can review the extensive body of research on Long COVID here
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22long...

No second "all" in the quote - it's "at all times in public spaces", which makes it genuinely unclear both what @jamellebouie.net feels is unreasonable and why!

Nuance is hard b/c length limit - just offering opportunity for clarity b/c I appreciate and respect his work

Sure thing! I assumed @jamellebouie.net was aware of the context but quoted below for anyone who needs it

One thing it helps to clarify is *which* public spaces are referred to; it's a different convo e.g. wrt Matt McGorry's request for masking in essential public spaces (linked) vs. all spaces

(I'm not even at high risk myself! I mask in public spaces both since research indicates that recent waves have still generated long COVID cases, and because the request from the disability community to mask in public spaces strikes me as eminently reasonable, so I'm happy to do it.)

May I ask for clarification on the reasons you said this?

I'm genuinely confused as there are many public spaces where people at high risk can't choose not to be, and masking in these spaces is something that the majority of Americans demonstrated the ability to do earlier in the pandemic.

I would guess that EBSCOhost's subject tags for this article are also AI-generated, but perhaps they were written by a confused human!

We really need to make this point over & over again. When they say, "we're going to try to be more fair & represent the right's perspective," it *sounds* (especially to them) like trying to do better journalism, but in practice, it is the opposite, because the right is built on lies.

Masking is a good idea everywhere! Both to protect vulnerable folks everywhere, and since COVID and other airborne illnesses are still a risk for everyone.

However, since our culture has normalized not masking, the spaces that most center community care tend to be countercultural in some way.

Sometimes, we progressives, we religious liberals, we forget that people don't join a cause. People join people. Not ideas, not institutions. People join people. #UUAGA

Right, I was at a protest in late May where I was one of two people with a mask (out of ~100) and I noticed afterwards in the photos I had been a couple people over from someone holding a “why hide your faces cowards?!” sign…

I don’t know how much regional variation there is in the protest culture - very possible different places have different experiences. I also suspect ICE covering their faces is decreasing masking propensity here - seeing fewer masks recently than I did in April.