r/feminisms • u/RandomWikipediaArtic • Nov 09 '24
Easy first step to protecting your community- start masking again
We’re all struggling with effective responses to the horrifying reelection of Trump in the States. There’s a lot of talk of bringing our individual focus back to community support and I want to give you a very easy first step- resuming wear a mask against COVID, flu, and other respiratory illnesses.
We need to be serious about the risks of these illnesses to those with sensitive medical conditions, and even the risks to currently able bodied individuals. Repeated Covid infections bring increasing risk of immune system dysfunction, vascular issues leading to higher risk of stroke and heart attack, ME/CFS, POTS, and other factors of long covid. Institutional racism and its component medical racism are not going to be tackled by the next administration, so our siblings of color will face disproportionately worse medical outcomes. We are also on the precipice of a potential H5N1 influenza outbreak among humans which could be devastating on the scale of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Masks, particularly higher grade masks like KN95, N95, and aura masks, can be effective at protecting yourself from exposure. They are most effective as source control when worn by a (knowingly or unknowingly) infected person. One way masking will not be as protective of vulnerable individuals as universal masking. Wearing a mask again when you are in public is a good way to take care of yourself, but it’s an even better way to take care of those around you. It makes public spaces more accessible to those of us with disabilities, especially those who lack the privilege to work from home or isolate themselves.
Thank you for considering this simple action.
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u/toomanytacocats Nov 10 '24
Thank you for posting this. We should all continue to mask during this pandemic.
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u/jetpatch Nov 09 '24
Please don't try to get everyone else to join in with your psychosis.
It would surprise me of this is was a guy trolling so he can claim "look, I got those so called feminists to cover their faces like in Afghanistan and say it's pro women. Haha"
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u/RandomWikipediaArtic Nov 09 '24 edited Nov 09 '24
Taking steps to protect yourself and your community from infectious disease is not psychosis. You are also sorely mistaken on your second point.
Your unwillingness to consider why it might matter to make spaces accessible to those of us with disabilities and sensitive medical conditions is the antithesis of intersectional feminism. Same with your casual Islamophobia.
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u/Expensive_Big1931 Nov 14 '24
Based as fuck tho. Y’all gon shave your heads, wear face coverings, abstain from sex? Just go get a burqa at this point…
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u/zinagardenia Nov 09 '24
As someone with POTS who is barely able to take care of myself, I agree. Y’all don’t want what I have, trust me. Especially given what project 2025 will do to disability rights, protections, and benefits…
Besides, being politically active is hard enough for abled folks, and fighting the coming wave of bullshit is going to take all of us giving our best.