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This article seems to say some of the correct things about respirators and also muddles up some stuff and past tenses the pandemic. But it gives us this gif so I can remind you that mouths are gross in the best of times. https://metro.co.uk/2025/12/10/effective-face-masks-stopping-spread-flu-25348891/

“Carry a mask with you and put it on when you feel like it” is risk assessment by vibes. Vibes cannot tell you if a building is properly ventilated or if there’s adequate air cleaning or if that small group of people has an asymptomatic carrier amongst them.

Here’s the thing— Putting on a well-fitted respirator mask gives you a barrier that helps prevent you from straight up inhaling raw germs and pollutants in the air and exhaling whatever germs you’re carrying directly into the air. Washing hands helps removes whatever grody junk you might’ve touched and whatever grossness has landed on your skin. Getting vaccinated potentially eases the impact of the infectious dose of the virus on your body. Everyone keeps getting the order of these wrong.

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If you're doing gifts this year, keep it simple and just give everyone packs of N95s. Load up all the stockings with colourful KN95s/KF94s. Make ...

Look, I’m just saying there are KN95s in some nice colours now. The gift giving season is here-ish. Give some folks a packet of masks in their favourite colour.

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Another thing coming up short in my search for resources is a guide for small businesses to pivot to Covid-safer practices. I’ve collected a bunch of lovely guides for Covid-safer event planning, a couple covering Covid-safer travel, and a lot of nicely detailed how-to guides and worksheets for getting through an infection. Nothing much about fitting air purifiers and CO2 monitors, encouraging respirator use, or how-to guides for budgeting for those costs.

“Wear a mask if you can’t get the vaccine” indicates that the magic goop alone sufficient in protecting against viral spread and we have learned in the last four years that it goddamn well is not.

Hear me out — every classroom gets a box fan. At the start of every year/semester the classrooms get fresh filters and supplies and the homeroom class or whatever get to decorate it. Make the CR box their classroom mascot. Get them emotionally invested in making sure their mascot is plugged in and running and eating up the toxins in the air. All the CR boxes are entered into a virtual pageant/contest to choose best/creative/most something-or-other. Kids get fun rewards. Hooray. Yeah?

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