The Fediverse in a nutshell.

#Fediverse #covid #corvid #crow #meme #trans

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Meme template, similar to the infamous Drake one, but with a cute girl with pink hair and a ribbon, frequently used by the trans* community. On the top panel you see the girl frowning and waving away while wearing a surgical mask and sunglasses, saying no to the word "covid". On the bottom panel, the same girl, this time smiling, is holding a crow on her index finger, next to her there is the word "corvid".

"We found that long-forgotten plagues have roared back, killing and maiming children in parts of the world where access to vaccines or trust in them faltered. What seemed like subtle changes to a country’s vaccine policies had disastrous consequences years later."

https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues

#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #disabilities #measles #meningitis #covid #smallpox #diphtheria #tetanus #rubella #polio #HHS #CDC #ACIP #mistrust #misinformation #gavi #GlobalHealth

*Whether or not you're looking for a Covid Safe Date, please share this post. Because it's super difficult for people who avoid Covid to find love online.*

Covid Safe Date is now a feature full online dating website for adults of all genders and sexual orientations around the world who take #Covid avoidance seriously.

We have a few dozen members already, join us!

You may have Long Covid or you may be Novid.

You may have been engaging in consistent Covid safety practices since 2020, or you may have just started properly avoiding Covid recently.

You may have a shitty job that forces you to be maskless in order to stay employed. You may share a household with people who don't avoid the plague like the plague.

But as much as possible, you wear a respirator mask in public. People thinking you look weird or peer pressure isn't enough to make you go maskless. You would only risk another infection with a possibly permanently destructive virus if you feared losing your income, or feared violence, or had to get a medical procedure where you couldn't be masked the whole time.

You absolutely would never go inside a restaurant to eat ever again. Restaurant food can be takeout or delivery. Food can be cooked at home.

Whether you've been infected several times or never, you know the best course of action is to avoid as many infections in the future as possible because the harm is cumulative.

Whether or not you keep vaxxed, you understand that the vaccine doesn't stop infection, you still must wear a respirator mask.

You understand the importance of good indoor ventilation and filtering, but you know a public place with a good air quality rating doesn't mean it's safe to take your respirator mask off. You know people get infected outdoors too if they're very close to other people.

When I tell you that Dr. Hoerger's data shows there's more Covid spreading now than at any point in 2020, you're saddened but you're not shocked. You know Covid is far from over.

And if this applies to you and you actually avoid the plague like the plague, chances are dating websites will be hostile to you if you mention Covid safety.

People have anecdotally had a hard time finding romance on CovidMeetups, because it's not really a dating website but a better place to meet friends or find dentists.

That's why Covid Safe Date exists. It may be the only dedicated part of the internet specifically for Covid avoiders to date and possibly fall in love.

Our services will always be 100% free-of-charge. There's no "premium" tier, all features are available to all users.

And for that reason, Covid Safe Date needs donations from people who can afford to do so, so I can keep paying for web hosting and paying my developers who have Long Covid and are struggling generously for their labor.

https://covidsafedate.com/we-need-your-financial-support/

I'm also the founder of Stop Gen AI, so you'd better believe that there is absolutely zero AI on Covid Safe Date. Our web platform and service is completely human crafted and maintained.

We are a space that's LGBTQIA+, neurodivergence, disability, and poverty inclusive.

And I'm a cybersecurity specialist who takes responsibility for your cybersecurity and privacy seriously.

https://covidsafedate.com/privacy-policy/

Here are screenshots from the newly relaunched Covid Safe Date. You can see my profile, I'm looking for love too!

*Whether or not you're looking for a Covid Safe Date, please share this post. Because it's super difficult for people who avoid Covid to find love online.*

https://covidsafedate.com

#CovidIsNotOver #longCOVID #covid19

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Covid Safe Date homepage

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A view of user profiles

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My profile and the top drop down menu

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A page of acceptable respirator masks

Cats taking the lead with social distancing

#covid #caturday #caturdayeveryday

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Cats evenly spaced across the sidewalk practicing proper social distancing

Scientific American: COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show

We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say (March 18, 2026)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-killed-150-000-more-people-in-its-first-two-years-than-official-toll/

#covid19 #covid #pandemic

Hi, these are the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots. A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.

The West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant's 7 day running average of its detected Sars-CoV-2 levels is low. The last calculation was made on 3/10. Note: the wastewater numbers for the three King County sites didn't get updated last week, but it looks like they have been backfilled now.

WSPT is one of three King County(-ish) sewersheds in this dataset. You can find overviews, individual sewershed results, and a breakdown of variants for the state wastewater surveillance program, along with other metrics like case counts and hospitalizations for Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses, at https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/diseases-and-chronic-conditions/communicable-disease-surveillance-data/respiratory-illness-data-dashboard#WasteWater. If you go to the page and click "learn more" in the statewide view tab, you can find out lots of details about how these data are calculated and how to interpret them. The dashboard gets updated every Wednesday (generally). The Department of Health is here on the fediweb, at @WADeptHealth

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A screencap of the Washington State Department of Health's Covid wastewater data for the West Point Wastewater Treatment Plant. The trend line of the graph is described in the toot text.

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Le constat sévère de la commission d’enquête révèle des lacunes structurelles majeures dans la gouvernance de crise allemande.

#germany #covid #who #after #calls

RaiNews: Covid, il 18 marzo: una data simbolo di un dolore che il tempo non cancella

Da nord a sud, cerimonie e iniziative nelle scuole per rendere omaggio a chi ha affrontato il momento più buio della pandemia

Covid, March 18: a date symbolizing a pain that time cannot erase.

From north to south, ceremonies and initiatives in schools to pay tribute to those who faced the darkest moment of the pandemic.

#Covid

https://www.rainews.it/video/2026/03/covid-il-18-marzo-una-data-simbolo-un-dolore-che-il-tempo-non-cancella-128fbb68-1045-4482-8558-419894f51f7a.html

Corriere.it - Homepage: Covid, Pippo Franco e altre 15 persone rinviati a giudizio per presunti Green pass falsi

L'attore accusato di falso in atto pubblico col figlio Gabriele e la moglie Maria Piera

Covid, Pippo Franco, and another 15 people have been indicted on charges of allegedly falsifying Green Passes.

The actor accused of forgery on a public document with his son Gabriele and his wife Maria Piera.

#Covid #PippoFranco #GreenPasses #Gabriele #MariaPiera

http://roma.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/26_marzo_17/covid-pippo-franco-e-altre-15-persone-rinviati-a-giudizio-per-presunti-green-pass-falsi-c3e4abde-7aaa-412a-bf43-1b4a45423xlk.shtml

#COVID lockdown for me began almost exactly 6 years ago. 6 years later in the USA:

- no major outlets cover it
- government has stopped tracking it? maybe?
- I don't even know where to get current case estimates
- #furry and pony cons were the last holdouts for mask and vax policy, and both have given up on it
- "vax and relax" even though that's a bad policy for vaxed people and dooms unvaxed people to death
- anti-science backsliding denies the germ theory of disease and the truth that #COVIDisAirborne
- the incredibly prolific and normally good Michael Hobbes decided to punch left to a covid prevention influencer, on the basis that she is too doomer (nothing she said seemed unreasonable to me, Hobbes has been curiously silent on specifics)
- denying ventilation and the swiss cheese model of disease prevention does nothing to create intuition and systems of resilience. for example if we had world-class HVAC filtration indoors, we would prevent (I'm guessing) 95% of the 40,000 COVID+flu deaths in the USA per year. so save 38,000 lives a year, mostly of old people. and as a freebie, you prevent colds and new airborne diseases too. we could focus efforts on hospitals and schools (both hotbeds of disease) to start.
- I got covid at least 3 fucking times and I lock down and do almost nothing and am pretty good about N95 masking and get my goddamn vaccines. for real go fuck yourself if you remain willfully ignorant of the harm COVID does to healthy people, let alone disabled people (who we've learned these last 6 years are disposable, unworthy of protection, and are assigned at birth -- it is inconceivable to ABC or NYT that someone could be "born healthy" and "become disabled" e.g. through a COVID infection)
- I'm pretty young and, on top of getting COVID 3+ times, have had at least two illnesses with 7+ days of significant symptoms each time. that's 5+ major illnesses in 6 years. this kind of sickness never happened to me pre-covid.
- I've had a cough since I think my second covid infection in 2022

RaiNews: Influenza, Bassetti: "Fra le peggiori", l'H3N2 mutato ed il "Covid minaccia minore"

Il bilancio dell'infettivologo: Vaccino meno efficace del previsto ma ha protetto da forme gravi e ricoveri e ora andrà aggiornato"

Influenza, Bassetti: "Among the worst," the H3N2 mutated strain and the "minor threat" COVID.

The infectivologist’s report: Vaccine less effective than expected but has protected against severe forms and hospitalizations and will now be updated.

#COVID

https://www.rainews.it/articoli/2026/03/influenza-bassetti-fra-le-peggiori-h3n2-mutato-e-covid-minaccia-minore-il-virus-52bf7682-1219-4786-8d30-0855b126f9dd.html