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*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.*
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)
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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Le constat sévère de la commission d’enquête révèle des lacunes structurelles majeures dans la gouvernance de crise allemande.
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.
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 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.
You might have seen Don't breathe it in, the video with the phosphorescent green gas by The John Snow Project. But you've likely not seen this John Snow Project video, Will we choose to prevent Covid deaths?
Two years old and only 773 views. This is a choice, and it is reprehensible. We need truth and reconciliation. We need Nuremberg trials.
As a rule, I usually do not do calls to action. Watch this video.
Respiratory viral infections prime accelerated lung cancer growth: “Severe #COVID-19 is associated with an increased subsequent lung cancer risk”
Today is #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay.
For more than six years i suffer from this insidious disease. Some symptoms have gotten better, others worse, even others have only recently developed (looking at you gastritis).
But the world has moved on, now pretends that #COVID is over and that i as someone with #LongCOVID do not exist (i must be a "trigger").
No one ever asks, how are you doing. All the care work falls to one person, who has zero support for this burden. I have never felt so alone.
This is the absolute worst time to have the most awful people in charge of public health. To be fair, Biden let us down to start with: gave in to pressure for profit. When banks made catastrophic terrible decisions in 2008, we had hundreds of billions to bail them out. When poor people needed healthcare and protection from COVID, it was important to take our lumps and get back to work.
Sorry for the substack link, but now they're literally deleting data on #COVID so we can't even know what happened.
People will still die. Turning off the measurement doesn't mean they don't die.