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A thread of SARS2 prevention tools, since I find myself digging up the same links time after time when people ask what to do
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
N95 fit testing is simple to do, but also complex enough that even an organization of experts can get some aspects of it wrong, as seen on the fit tester training website run by the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists Inc.
In their FAQ, Resp-Fit explain that N95s are tested for face seal leaks by using a fit testing machine setting called N95 Mode ("<99%"). It tests for particles that could only have gotten in the mask by leaking under the face seal rather than through the filter because because their 55nm (.055 micron) size makes them non-penetrating.
That was the theory when N95 mode was developed by TSI. But it turned out to be dead wrong.
In fact, 55nm particles are the ideal size to penetrate N95 filter media - they are still well filtered at 95% or better but not as well as larger or smaller sized particles. However, N95 Mode coincidentally also happened to only test for negatively charged particles in the mask, which are non penetrating.
So, N95 mode did work to fit test N95 masks, but only by accident. Since N95 Mode worked, TSI didn't have reason to question their original theory of operation until published studies identified 55nm as being within the most penetrating particle size for N95s.
N95 Mode under various names continues to be a vital, but sometimes optional, feature on all major brands of mask fit testing machines.
The Resp-Fit FAQ:
respfit.org.au/faqs/#when_to…
TSI's updated explanation from 2010:
tsi.com/getmedia/f4177776-e6…
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
Faculty out here complaining they get paid to advise students. Meanwhile I am advising for tons of students, many of whom are not mine, bc no one supports disabled students anywhere. I am out here helping other ppls' advisees do research in DS, get published, and graduate. 1/2
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
A lot more of you are actually disabled but would rather work yourself into the ground because we’re all conditioned to believe that our worth is attached to how much we push through things that actively harm ourselves than actually admitting we need help or rest.
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
Much of the discourse on PhD stipends would be resolved with universal healthcare, wages that pay into social security, and a confrontation with the ridiculous fiction that is the tuition waiver
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
re: grad student unions
Everyone, everywhere, has a fundamental right to assemble and organize. The idea that grad students and researchers don’t because they like their job is nothing more than a violation of the fundamental principles of democratic action in free societies
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
We need more politicians to come out swinging for Long Covid patients like this.
This bill works to end the stigma associated with LC while also taking critical steps to reduce transmission like masks in healthcare and displaying CO2 levels in public spaces.
J’ai déposé une proposition de loi pour en finir avec l’invisibilisation et l’abandon des malades du Covid long !
Les chiffres sont inquiétants : en 2022, Santé publique France recensait 2 millions de malades, dont 700 000 atteints de formes sévères. Une personne atteinte sur cinq cesse de travailler, et un grand nombre de celles qui poursuivent leur activité ne peuvent reprendre qu’à temps partiel ou finissent par être licenciées. Des jeunes sont radiés de leurs établissements d’enseignement, et les enfants malades restent sans repérage à l’école, faute de formation des médecins scolaires.
Voilà ce que contient ma proposition de loi 👉
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
"We can't do anything about fascists doing public harassment because they always bring a camera"
So fuck up the camera guy first what's difficult about this?
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
“2 grad student roommates”
Do people understand that grad students are adults who sometimes have kids and families to support? Not everyone can live with roommates. $51k in a town where the average rent for a 1-bedroom is $3,300 is poverty wages.
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
And btw I was 37 when I got sick! Literally lost my wonderful social life and am very sad to be missing out on weddings, birthdays, etc. missed my mom’s own funeral. I’d love the freedom to simply pop on a mask and live a normal life vs long covid hell. It’s not that big a deal
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
If you actually put yourself in my shoes and think about it logically, and think about how you’d logically best avoid reinfection, then yes you’d realize unfortunately you’d just have to mask in public spaces and have to assume you don’t know whether or not ppl are infectious
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
I’m sure it’s easy to think it’s overkill when your life didn’t already get destroyed by the virus lol, but mine did. Along with my other health issues I developed chronic migraines, I lost my career, my income is half what it was before & I have to use a chair in the shower
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
So like yes, some people are asymptomatic, that’s just a reality we have to contend with. This meta analysis of 38 studies found that over 40% of cases were asymptomatic. In addition, many ppl are contagious 1-2 days before symptoms
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
Oh and the last thing I’ll say is the reason those of us who take precautions have to be SO extreme is bc everyone else is doing nothing. Like yall are NOT helping AT ALL. Won’t stay home sick, won’t mask when sick, won’t mask in healthcare settings, won’t mask on planes
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
When you fix your mouth to talk about long covid it’s NEVER to advocate with us for funding it’s always bullshit threads like this to call us crazy and talk about how we’re overreacting. No advocacy for clean air meaning upgraded ventilation, filtration and tech like far UVC
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
Benfit cuts always kill disabled people first. Reformers claim theyll catch ppl taking advantage but theres almost no one TO catch. Meanwhile, we let health insurance and drug companies commit fraud every single day. Policing everyday people has never been the solution
There are about to be many more stories like this.
"McCreary, 64, was told that his benefits now required that he have a job. "I don't understand what job I can get," McCreary said. "I can't walk. I can hardly breathe. What job am I going to get?"
npr.org/2026/11/09/nx-s1-603…
Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
Society went along with this policy instead of insisting on a real solution, which would have meant containment, the way SARS1 was contained in 2003. In doing so it agreed to levels of death and disability that used to be unthinkable.
They don't delay infections and deaths enough for people to live natural lives, is the key part of this
Three years later, we have several countries where excess mortality has reached, or even far exceeded, what was predicted if everyone got infected.
And bear in mind that this is only the beginning. SARS2 is now endemic and will go on infecting, reinfecting and killing people indefinitely.
All the flatten the curve strategy achieved was to delay deaths, and at a level that would previously have been considered unacceptable.
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Aunt Fetamine🐀🐀 retweeted
Three years later, we have several countries where excess mortality has reached, or even far exceeded, what was predicted if everyone got infected.
And bear in mind that this is only the beginning. SARS2 is now endemic and will go on infecting, reinfecting and killing people indefinitely.
All the flatten the curve strategy achieved was to delay deaths, and at a level that would previously have been considered unacceptable.