CovidSafeCU
@covidsafecu.bsky.social
Organizing and social group for covid safety in Champaign-Urbana, IL
Mask bloc for central Illinois
Request masks & tests via pinned post!
Mask bloc for central Illinois
Request masks & tests via pinned post!
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CovidSafeCU
@covidsafecu.bsky.social
· Oct 19
We're CovidSafeCU a community of covid conscious folks in Champaign-Urbana & currently the only mask bloc to serve central IL.
We strive to build a covid-safer community by sharing info, plan events & providing free masks/tests.
Find our socials & mask/test request form here: linktr.ee/covidsafecu
We strive to build a covid-safer community by sharing info, plan events & providing free masks/tests.
Find our socials & mask/test request form here: linktr.ee/covidsafecu
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hi friends! we need your support to get more masks out into the community. 💸🔗 to support in the last slide. & get your mask and test requests in now so you can stay safe(r) if you are celebrating in person 💕😷
December 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
hi friends! we need your support to get more masks out into the community. 💸🔗 to support in the last slide. & get your mask and test requests in now so you can stay safe(r) if you are celebrating in person 💕😷
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No one likes to get sick, but some really can’t afford to. 😷 Prevent illness by helping us send respirator #masks to people across Canada. 🇨🇦 Make a donation today. ❤️
donatemask.ca/fundraiser
#GivingTuesdayCa #Fundraiser #Charity #StillMasking #MaskUp
donatemask.ca/fundraiser
#GivingTuesdayCa #Fundraiser #Charity #StillMasking #MaskUp
December 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
No one likes to get sick, but some really can’t afford to. 😷 Prevent illness by helping us send respirator #masks to people across Canada. 🇨🇦 Make a donation today. ❤️
donatemask.ca/fundraiser
#GivingTuesdayCa #Fundraiser #Charity #StillMasking #MaskUp
donatemask.ca/fundraiser
#GivingTuesdayCa #Fundraiser #Charity #StillMasking #MaskUp
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💉Get your Flu (and COVID) shots! 💉
RFKJ banned this influenza vaccination social media campaign but we've got all the copies 🖕
#FIGHTFlu #FIGHTRFKJ
RFKJ banned this influenza vaccination social media campaign but we've got all the copies 🖕
#FIGHTFlu #FIGHTRFKJ
December 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
💉Get your Flu (and COVID) shots! 💉
RFKJ banned this influenza vaccination social media campaign but we've got all the copies 🖕
#FIGHTFlu #FIGHTRFKJ
RFKJ banned this influenza vaccination social media campaign but we've got all the copies 🖕
#FIGHTFlu #FIGHTRFKJ
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Thank you for the thread! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
We only received one donation from bsky with $200 left to go.
I'd really appreciate it if we could get this need met before Christmas so I can actually walk outside when I own winter shoes.
We only received one donation from bsky with $200 left to go.
I'd really appreciate it if we could get this need met before Christmas so I can actually walk outside when I own winter shoes.
December 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Thank you for the thread! 💕💸🏳️⚧️
We only received one donation from bsky with $200 left to go.
I'd really appreciate it if we could get this need met before Christmas so I can actually walk outside when I own winter shoes.
We only received one donation from bsky with $200 left to go.
I'd really appreciate it if we could get this need met before Christmas so I can actually walk outside when I own winter shoes.
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The Chicago Roastery is just the beginning.
Announcing the DOWNTOWN THROWDOWN - striking baristas will be picketing for 48 HOURS STRAIGHT all across Chicago's Loop and River North!
Come out and make some noise with us, and remember: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS at ANY location while we're on ULP strike!
Announcing the DOWNTOWN THROWDOWN - striking baristas will be picketing for 48 HOURS STRAIGHT all across Chicago's Loop and River North!
Come out and make some noise with us, and remember: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS at ANY location while we're on ULP strike!
December 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Chicago Roastery is just the beginning.
Announcing the DOWNTOWN THROWDOWN - striking baristas will be picketing for 48 HOURS STRAIGHT all across Chicago's Loop and River North!
Come out and make some noise with us, and remember: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS at ANY location while we're on ULP strike!
Announcing the DOWNTOWN THROWDOWN - striking baristas will be picketing for 48 HOURS STRAIGHT all across Chicago's Loop and River North!
Come out and make some noise with us, and remember: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS at ANY location while we're on ULP strike!
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COVID-19 levels through mid-November remain much lower than what we see during surges, but are starting to increase in parts of the U.S.
More outbreaks are likely to follow the holiday this week, but it will be weeks before they show up in future data updates. bit.ly/3LSXrAC
More outbreaks are likely to follow the holiday this week, but it will be weeks before they show up in future data updates. bit.ly/3LSXrAC
National COVID-19 trends, November 25 - The Sick Times
CDC data continue to come back online following the end of the government shutdown. Those data indicate that COVID-19 levels through mid-November remain much lower than what we see during surges, but ...
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
COVID-19 levels through mid-November remain much lower than what we see during surges, but are starting to increase in parts of the U.S.
More outbreaks are likely to follow the holiday this week, but it will be weeks before they show up in future data updates. bit.ly/3LSXrAC
More outbreaks are likely to follow the holiday this week, but it will be weeks before they show up in future data updates. bit.ly/3LSXrAC
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For up to half of people with #LongCOVID, activities like exercise can trigger post-exertional malaise (PEM). Yet Long COVID clinics around the world are offering exercise as treatment while dismissing its serious harms.
Read more from @spichaksimon.bsky.social: bit.ly/4aaDRJW
Read more from @spichaksimon.bsky.social: bit.ly/4aaDRJW
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
For up to half of people with #LongCOVID, activities like exercise can trigger post-exertional malaise (PEM). Yet Long COVID clinics around the world are offering exercise as treatment while dismissing its serious harms.
Read more from @spichaksimon.bsky.social: bit.ly/4aaDRJW
Read more from @spichaksimon.bsky.social: bit.ly/4aaDRJW
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Capitalism making you want to shop?
The CDC Mutual Aid Network has a great shop and all proceeds help CDC workers in need.
The team at altCDC knows the folks at CDCMAN (and can vouch for them) but receive no money from them.
The CDC Mutual Aid Network has a great shop and all proceeds help CDC workers in need.
The team at altCDC knows the folks at CDCMAN (and can vouch for them) but receive no money from them.
CDC Mutual Aid Network
cdc-mutual-aid-network.printful.me
November 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Capitalism making you want to shop?
The CDC Mutual Aid Network has a great shop and all proceeds help CDC workers in need.
The team at altCDC knows the folks at CDCMAN (and can vouch for them) but receive no money from them.
The CDC Mutual Aid Network has a great shop and all proceeds help CDC workers in need.
The team at altCDC knows the folks at CDCMAN (and can vouch for them) but receive no money from them.
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Thank you for your work. This is another one I like to support. 30% of Natives have no running water. That's horrific in the land of selfish billionaires.
www.navajowaterproject.org
www.navajowaterproject.org
Navajo Water Project
Help DigDeep bring clean, running water to hundreds of American families. 1 in 3 Navajo homes don't have a tap or toilet. We can fix that.
www.navajowaterproject.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Thank you for your work. This is another one I like to support. 30% of Natives have no running water. That's horrific in the land of selfish billionaires.
www.navajowaterproject.org
www.navajowaterproject.org
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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Masks have been an important tool to protect from wildfire smoke or allergy dust since before COVID-19 hit. Mask bans are not only dangerous for people with #LongCOVID but leave everyone more vulnerable to the harmful impacts of air pollution. Read more from @adiehl.bsky.social: bit.ly/3LVDusC
![“[Masking is] the most fundamental freedom one could think of — altering your behavior to protect your own health." - Brian Moench, executive director of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:age5xvis2s2vy5qiz2tjxoc6/bafkreidvnobmyobltqckeo4lyyzgbpuhcw5vfxl7g2n67i2m7kvh337ece@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Masks have been an important tool to protect from wildfire smoke or allergy dust since before COVID-19 hit. Mask bans are not only dangerous for people with #LongCOVID but leave everyone more vulnerable to the harmful impacts of air pollution. Read more from @adiehl.bsky.social: bit.ly/3LVDusC
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N95s can prevent more than just Covid!
They stop colds, flus and other airborne illness.
They’re also highly effective against pollen, pollution, wildfire smoke and environmental triggers.
Many maskers haven’t been sick in years.
Respirators are pretty amazing.
They stop colds, flus and other airborne illness.
They’re also highly effective against pollen, pollution, wildfire smoke and environmental triggers.
Many maskers haven’t been sick in years.
Respirators are pretty amazing.
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 AM
N95s can prevent more than just Covid!
They stop colds, flus and other airborne illness.
They’re also highly effective against pollen, pollution, wildfire smoke and environmental triggers.
Many maskers haven’t been sick in years.
Respirators are pretty amazing.
They stop colds, flus and other airborne illness.
They’re also highly effective against pollen, pollution, wildfire smoke and environmental triggers.
Many maskers haven’t been sick in years.
Respirators are pretty amazing.
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🎃 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 🎃
Our shop has been tootling away & a huge thank you to those who have supported it!
🖇️
longcovidadvoc.shop
Our shop has been tootling away & a huge thank you to those who have supported it!
🖇️
longcovidadvoc.shop
October 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🎃 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 🎃
Our shop has been tootling away & a huge thank you to those who have supported it!
🖇️
longcovidadvoc.shop
Our shop has been tootling away & a huge thank you to those who have supported it!
🖇️
longcovidadvoc.shop
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Poor people should be allowed cookies
Disabled people should be allowed cookies
Kids whose parents are on SNAP should be allowed cookies
No one is being given “extra” money for the odd treat
They’re sacrificing something else
Let them have the treat.
Life is hard enough.
Disabled people should be allowed cookies
Kids whose parents are on SNAP should be allowed cookies
No one is being given “extra” money for the odd treat
They’re sacrificing something else
Let them have the treat.
Life is hard enough.
October 31, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Poor people should be allowed cookies
Disabled people should be allowed cookies
Kids whose parents are on SNAP should be allowed cookies
No one is being given “extra” money for the odd treat
They’re sacrificing something else
Let them have the treat.
Life is hard enough.
Disabled people should be allowed cookies
Kids whose parents are on SNAP should be allowed cookies
No one is being given “extra” money for the odd treat
They’re sacrificing something else
Let them have the treat.
Life is hard enough.
Happy Halloween and Blessed Samhaim from CSCU to you!!
If you're wearing a costume mask when you're out tonight, you could be wearing a mask everyday! AND with the benefit of keeping others safe. They come in cool colors, several shapes and sizes and you can wear more than one costume with them.
If you're wearing a costume mask when you're out tonight, you could be wearing a mask everyday! AND with the benefit of keeping others safe. They come in cool colors, several shapes and sizes and you can wear more than one costume with them.
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Happy Halloween and Blessed Samhaim from CSCU to you!!
If you're wearing a costume mask when you're out tonight, you could be wearing a mask everyday! AND with the benefit of keeping others safe. They come in cool colors, several shapes and sizes and you can wear more than one costume with them.
If you're wearing a costume mask when you're out tonight, you could be wearing a mask everyday! AND with the benefit of keeping others safe. They come in cool colors, several shapes and sizes and you can wear more than one costume with them.
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If you still wear a mask & take precautions to protect yourself and others from COVID-19/other infections:
Thank you for saving lives and for putting people before the status quo. Every time you wear a mask, test before/after going to crowded events, and stay home when sick, you make a difference.
Thank you for saving lives and for putting people before the status quo. Every time you wear a mask, test before/after going to crowded events, and stay home when sick, you make a difference.
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If you still wear a mask & take precautions to protect yourself and others from COVID-19/other infections:
Thank you for saving lives and for putting people before the status quo. Every time you wear a mask, test before/after going to crowded events, and stay home when sick, you make a difference.
Thank you for saving lives and for putting people before the status quo. Every time you wear a mask, test before/after going to crowded events, and stay home when sick, you make a difference.
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i have looked cute lately
just fyi
just fyi
October 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
i have looked cute lately
just fyi
just fyi
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When they ask you why
you are still taking precautions
show them the research
that has found
“Covid and Flu
Can Triple Your Risk
of Heart Attack,”
and after they’ve read it
ask them why
they still aren’t taking precautions.
you are still taking precautions
show them the research
that has found
“Covid and Flu
Can Triple Your Risk
of Heart Attack,”
and after they’ve read it
ask them why
they still aren’t taking precautions.
October 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
When they ask you why
you are still taking precautions
show them the research
that has found
“Covid and Flu
Can Triple Your Risk
of Heart Attack,”
and after they’ve read it
ask them why
they still aren’t taking precautions.
you are still taking precautions
show them the research
that has found
“Covid and Flu
Can Triple Your Risk
of Heart Attack,”
and after they’ve read it
ask them why
they still aren’t taking precautions.
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Thanks for representing, Tom Hanks! Folks who wear respirators in 2025 know what's up 💜
October 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Thanks for representing, Tom Hanks! Folks who wear respirators in 2025 know what's up 💜
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October 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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At least 3,000 people who have been detained in Chicago ICE raids are missing from official DHS records.
We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility.
They’re disappearing people.
No due process. No accountability.
We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility.
They’re disappearing people.
No due process. No accountability.
Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?
At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.
www.nbcchicago.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
At least 3,000 people who have been detained in Chicago ICE raids are missing from official DHS records.
We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility.
They’re disappearing people.
No due process. No accountability.
We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility.
They’re disappearing people.
No due process. No accountability.
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If you are still unsure
of what to wear tomorrow,
first: ask yourself
what you want to be
on Halloween,
second: remind yourself
you don’t want to be
sick come November,
and so third: assure yourself
that a mask
compliments any costume.
of what to wear tomorrow,
first: ask yourself
what you want to be
on Halloween,
second: remind yourself
you don’t want to be
sick come November,
and so third: assure yourself
that a mask
compliments any costume.
October 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If you are still unsure
of what to wear tomorrow,
first: ask yourself
what you want to be
on Halloween,
second: remind yourself
you don’t want to be
sick come November,
and so third: assure yourself
that a mask
compliments any costume.
of what to wear tomorrow,
first: ask yourself
what you want to be
on Halloween,
second: remind yourself
you don’t want to be
sick come November,
and so third: assure yourself
that a mask
compliments any costume.
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As a disability advocate, I think it’s appalling how many people are fine letting disabled folks starve because they think “survival of the fittest” means we should die.
But here’s the thing… no one should be starving.
The richest country in the world can afford to feed everyone.
But here’s the thing… no one should be starving.
The richest country in the world can afford to feed everyone.
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
As a disability advocate, I think it’s appalling how many people are fine letting disabled folks starve because they think “survival of the fittest” means we should die.
But here’s the thing… no one should be starving.
The richest country in the world can afford to feed everyone.
But here’s the thing… no one should be starving.
The richest country in the world can afford to feed everyone.
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Surprising (and refreshing!) to see this messaging from a University!
Western University in London, Ontario is urging students to mask up if they’re unwell and show compassion to those who do mask.
We need more of this.
Covid is still here and a good respirator is an excellent preventative tool!
Western University in London, Ontario is urging students to mask up if they’re unwell and show compassion to those who do mask.
We need more of this.
Covid is still here and a good respirator is an excellent preventative tool!
October 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Surprising (and refreshing!) to see this messaging from a University!
Western University in London, Ontario is urging students to mask up if they’re unwell and show compassion to those who do mask.
We need more of this.
Covid is still here and a good respirator is an excellent preventative tool!
Western University in London, Ontario is urging students to mask up if they’re unwell and show compassion to those who do mask.
We need more of this.
Covid is still here and a good respirator is an excellent preventative tool!