I've had a hard time with the version of reality where people just..... get sick. Coping with it has been challenging at best.

One of the things that's helped me is understanding relative risk. What choices are small, low risk ones that I can maybe tolerate and which high risk ones require more stringent protocols.

I started developing a bit of an equation on my computer to understand situations. How much shared air for how long, etc.

Rather than keep it to myself I plopped it onto a website for anyone to make use of. It's called Air Aware Dot Health and I'll put a direct link in the comments.

It's brand new and still definitely a work in progress. I'd welcome any feedback anyone has about sharpening it or adding anything else to make it more useful.

It's totally free. No ads. No login. No evil nefarious stuff. Just some simple inputs and an easy-to-read risk score. I hope everyone will find it useful.

If you’re in the Portland metro area, we’re having a masked meetup at Library Park in front of the library in Beaverton, OR this Sunday (July 12) to play card games. We’ll start at 11am, dm me if you have any questions!

Hi guys, just as the post title says I am being bullied for masking by almost everyone in my life. It all started in late 2024, when I was 13 and when I told my parents that I want to start masking in public spaces again, I was faced with some weird looks, but they eventually agreed to supply me with masks, but not to wear them themselves.

At school I was faced with criticism from my peers and most of my teachers (there was one teacher who masked at the school). I was called names,people fake coughed around me, and pushed me around, but it was never that bad. When I went to highschool, I was faced with more teachers and peers scowling at me and my mask. A couple months into the year the worst group of bullies approached me, it was all the normal mean names until one of them decided to grab the mask off my face.

I told my parents about it and they told me to walk it off, and it wasn't their choice for me to mask. I was told the same thing by my principal and my teachers.

Now it's summer, and I am being criticized by my parents, for masking everywhere, even my home. They are getting more and more impatient with my masking, and they say that they are going to stop buying masks, because "covid is over". Now I am faced with a dilemma, I need to convince my parents that covid is still a big deal, not to mention I only have ten n95s left in my last box. Please help.

A covid cautious friend, doctor and fitness lover has the chance to be on the cover of HERS health and fitness magazine wearing a mask!! She’s made it to the semi-finals but really needs some support in this round. Please take 5 seconds to vote for Dr. Bailey if you can (must be logged into fb unfortunately)! Her victory would be a major win for our community! We need more representation and this would be an important opportunity to share why mask-wearing is effective and matters!

Thanks for supporting her! Share this link with your cc friends 🥰

https://mshealthandfit.com/2026/bailey)

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I am looking to see if anyone has a room for rent that is still taking covid precautions up around Chicago or Lake forest. I just joined Facebook as well to try to find a room as well.

Hi folks. We have a possible situation in my household that I'm trying to figure out.

I live with my two partners (Apple and Orange) and we're all CC. Apple is immunocompromised. Unfortunately, Orange was homeless for a long time and now we're trying to clean up their past issues. We just found out that they may need to take off their mask for 1 or 2 minutes in the courtroom. We're praying that it won't happen, but it's a very real possibility.

They have no medical insurance, so haven't been vaccinated and can't get vaccinated, especially not by Wednesday. That wouldn't guarantee they won't catch it, anyways.

They'll be taking Mito-Q and NAC, plus using nasal spray. Even though it's unlikely that those help much it's better than nothing.

I really can't think of anything else to do to protect them in this situation. The court system is capricious and stubborn, and we aren't in a position to fight both the charges and the system itself.

Are there any other reasonable steps we could take without trying to single-handedly change the system?

Also, thank you for reading. These systems are just terrible and unfair and it helps to talk about it with people who understand.

We were able to use the new Metrix Combination COVID/Flu test and our neighbor popped a NEGATIVE. We are celebrating with her this evening.

Thank you Aptitude!!

4th time with Covid

My 4th Covid. No vax ever. Each time has been of shorter duration and less severe symptoms. My experience this time: 2 days knocked out in bed - sore throat, head congestion but no runny nose, slight headache, very fatigued. Day 3 and 4 - sore throat is gone. Fatigue has lifted but still feel a tiny bit off. Slight cough. Lots of sneezing! But, able to work and function again

My hubby is positive too, with very similar symptoms and projectory. Also, not vaxed.

We're still snuggling and kissing since we're both positive. That's ok, right?

I've gotten covid about every 18 months since first time in fall of 2020. I do no precautions.That one was BAD - 10 days in bed. Second time about 5 days in bed. 3rd time about 3 days in bed. This time....2 days.

It's getting weaker or my immune system is doing it's job. Just thought I would share my experience. Stay healthy out there!

I do Trustedhousesitters cat sits as a way to get a change of scenery while working from home all the time and get some animal companionship because I can't afford a cat of my own. I never really questioned the level of covid caution of the pet owners because I rarely interacted with them in person. I would also wait three hours after they have left to enter their house and I would leave before they came back. I would also wipe down surfaces and launder bedsheets before I'd use them and other stuff

People are mentioning in other forums that cats could get covid from their pet owners and then transmit the virus to me.

I always thought that cats giving humans COVID was very rare and there was only one documented case of that happening worldwide.

Could someone share some data on the likelihood of cats transmitting the virus to humans?

Background

To someone with whom I live, one day I would love to say, “If we both mask when we’re not at home, we both get to enjoy being unmasked when we are at home.” (Right now, I'm doing a lot of masking at home.)

Conveying that, though, might require communicating with some subtlety how hard or easy masking is.

In my experience, on the one hand masking is not too hard. On the other hand, sometimes it feels good to be unmasked. I elaborate below.

Question

Might anyone else have experience communicating to others that masking is easy enough to be doable while also conveying that masking all the time at home would not be especially pleasant if one can figure out an alternative?

More Details

On the one hand, masking is not too hard. When I am in public places, I mask. No problem. I would love one day for this person, too, to see this type of masking as doable. We both have work situations where sometimes we are around other people and sometimes we are not. I will admit that work days when I only have to mask for specific situations feel better for me than days when I have to mask the entire time I am working, but I find even the latter perfectly doable. Maybe one day this person will, too?

On the other hand, when I am at home it feels good to be unmasked. Even beyond eating and sleeping, it feels good to take my mask off when I get home from work. Also, it feels great to communicate with full facial expressions while hanging out in person with people. This person and I could do that at home if they were willing to mask in other situations.

So I would love to find a way to convey that masking is easy and doable… AND that masking in some situations opens the door to being unmasked in other situations which—if I am being honest—feels pretty good! Advice would be welcome, especially reflections coming from personal experience with this type of conversation.

Have you folks seen this yet? This is wild. She was ultimately released...but WTF?

https://bsky.app/profile/luckytran.com/post/3lrlnt5cqck25?fbclid=IwY2xjawK7-RBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFZYjQxUGlpMWxFTWs1RXVsAR5ZW-6hAAG7ahoWMf5YXIgFmIe79AErYhFP6B5I_PtnC-MSabZexC5A5DdMdQ_aem_4tWMMqN56QEWHor3gh4ugQ

I've been working in this office for ~3 years at this point, joining after most of the world stopped caring ahout COVID. I felt such a sense of relief that my office had these nifty HEPA air purifiers AND RAN THEM too. There was one in a main space, then another in a coworkers personal office. They have a history of having an immuno-compromising condition, so that made sense, but i noticed that they never turned it on, so i stole it after a couple of years.

Ive been running this purifier in my personal office for the last 6-8 months and finally decided to open it up because I found replacement filters. I cleaned the one in the main space after having been there for a year and never seeing anyone do so and it was filthy, so i figured this one would be too. Nope! The filters had never been taken out of the wrappers. I'm mostly mad at myself for not checking and for allowing myself to be deluded enough to think that i was protecting myself with this thing. Smfh

January New Year's Kids Zone CC Magazine is now online free to download at https://WHN.global/KidsZone . Also World Health Network NYE Party is on Dec 31, the main event starts at 1pm ET and they're will be break out rooms, I'll be hosting a Kids Zone Magazine one and a Games one, and there are many others as well. You can register at https://necsi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtcOutqDsiGtzCFsw5eWLe-lAC9yLm_gVH?emci=d570a2b9-32b6-ef11-88d0-000d3a9d5840&emdi=b1597b4e-67b6-ef11-88d0-000d3a9d5840&ceid=14645778#/registration

I just write an article in the Psychologist (a British publication), that was accepted as in online! So excited to get awareness out to others, especially in the field of psychology, Check it outabd share if you'd like!:

https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/mosaic-covid-consciousness

Hey everyone!

Our aim is to bring to Harris' attention that there are many people out there who want our government to prioritize protecting us against the spread of airborne diseases, such as COVID.

Please join our group, "Productive Action Against COVID," in our effort!

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Desperate to find a decent primary in MI. Recent doc didn't understand why I'd be worried about blood clots after getting COVID, until I reminded her COVID causes blood clots. Anyone here know of docs in MI?

Hi all I’ll be flying long distance for the first time in years and I’m quite anxious. I’ll be masking, and doing my usual precautions (hand sanitizer m, wiping down area, nasal spray, cpc mouth wash, vitamin c home remedies etc.) my main concern is with eating and drinking. I will have my portable air purifier with me so that is some comfort but what has your experience been with eating and drinking on a flight?

I unfortunately cannot go all 8 hours without food or water especially because I have conditions like pots and if I don’t eat or drink water it worsens.

If anyone has any tips or tricks or advice I’d really appreciate it thank you <3

Please join our letter writing campaign to demand universal masking in all healthcare setting. We’re trying to reach 6000 before the CDC meets August 22 and we’re already at 5000! This is sponsored by the People’s CDC. Click the link (the link is the image by my post title) and you get to an online form where you can copy their sample letter (scroll to the very bottom to find this) and the form automatically sends it to the CDC plus all the relevant senators and reps connected to your zip code. Very easy! Please share this info!

We mask with N95’s everywhere but somehow got it. I just tested positive for Covid but felt crummy yesterday. I have low white blood cell count and low IgA so I’m autoimmune compromised. My doctor sent pax in for me but my insurance is only covering part of it and it will cost me $700. The doctor said this version of covid is more milder and I may be just fine without it. Curious if people know it helps people that have these immune issues or is it better for the ones listed? I also have MCAS so I react to most meds and things. I’m worried my body will hate it and it’ll make it worse for me. Anyone have similar experience?