Eugenics in action: Mask Bans segregate disabled people, fuel the police state and endanger us all
Plus top 13 articles everyone should read about Covid. And Martin Deschamps!
Welcome back to the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter! And a special welcome to the most recent subscribers who’ve pushed the newsletter up over 1000 subscribers! We’re at 1010 at the moment!
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And speaking of being back, I’m probably mostly returning from a summer of slower and simpler posting. I’m not sure if I’m back to exactly weekly posting just yet -- September through November are very busy months working at a university -- but we’ll see. I’m also very relieved to not be on strike.
What’s the theme this month?
Mask bans. Or rather, how toxic, dangerous and disenfranchising they are, particularly for disabled people. And not just for disabled people, mask bans are dangerous for everyone. Similar but just as pernicious is all the various anti-mask harassment and bullying so many people experience.
One of the best ways for everyone to avoid becoming disabled is to avoid getting Covid. And one of the best ways to avoid Covid is to wear a good mask. People who are getting repeatedly reinfected are having their immune systems damaged. Even just getting older means that our immune systems are weakening. We are all just one Covid infection away from a life-altering consequence.
Everyone having the freedom to wear a mask in any context is an important right that should be maintained. It is an important, life-saving right for disabled people.
I hope that this issue’s resources will help us all better make these points across all of our various networks and communities.
Oh yeah, masks should also be mandatory for everyone in healthcare settings. They protect healthcare professionals and patients alike.
In any case, enough of me. Most of today’s selections are written by the people most affected by mask bans and anti-mask bullying and harassment. I’ll let them speak for themselves.
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Top Articles Everyone Should Read on Covid
New report: COVID more severe, longer-lasting than other respiratory diseases by Mary Van Beusekom / CIDRAP
How Your Immune System Actually Works by Jessica Wildfire / OK Doomer
What COVID-19 Does To The Body (Fifth Edition, August 2024) / Pandemic Accountability Index
"You Have to Live Your Life:" Responses to Common COVID Minimizing Phrases
Why is EVERYONE more SICK? by Lola Germs
Covid-19: Will It Mutate To Nothingness? by Rawat Deonandan
Everything "That Friend" Wants You to Know About Covid by Jessica Wildfire / OK Doomer
‘Immunity debt’ is a misguided and dangerous concept by Anjana Ahuja / Financial Times (Non-paywalled version)
Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Airborne Transmission: Science Rejected, Lives Lost. Can Society Do Better? by Lidia Morawska, William Bahnfleth, et al. / Clinical Infectious Diseases
Real Impact of COVID-19 Infection and Why We Should Care by Jeff Gilchrist
Let's Face It, Covid Trashed Our Immune Systems by Jessica Wildfire / OK Doomer
Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores by Ziyad Al-Aly / The Conversation
Navigating the Long Haul: A Comprehensive Review of Long-COVID Sequelae, Patient Impact, Pathogenesis, and Management by Nishant Rathod Jr., Sunil Kumar, et al. / Cureus
We Are Witnessing Real Time Eugenics... and People Don't Seem to Care by Broadwaybabyto / The Disabled Ginger
A few days ago I wrote a thread on Twitter/X about the proposal to ban masks in North Carolina. I incorrectly assumed there was an exemption for medically vulnerable individuals - and wrote about why I feel it’s unfair to put the burden of exemptions on people who are already struggling. I later found out the proposed bill intends to REMOVE the medical exemption completely.
Whenever I think things can’t get bleaker for disabled individuals - something happens to lower the bar. Hearing that mask bans are gaining in popularity and that at least one US State plans to remove medical exemptions was hard. Seeing all the people celebrating the possibility? Saying disabled people ‘deserve it’ for making them wear masks at the beginning of Covid? It’s broken me. We are living in the age of eugenics and most people either don’t see it - or worse - don’t care.
I’m someone who masked before the pandemic. I’m immune compromised with severe allergies and chemical sensitivities - and masks helped keep me safe and lessened my symptoms. People never cared before the pandemic. Now? They yell, mock & threaten to remove it. Some have even spit. There’s been documented violence against people who mask - such as the case of Will Keenan who permanently lost vision in his left eye after being viciously attacked for masking.
In hospitals, healthcare workers would see my mask and intuitively put one on themselves. Now it’s a battle where I have to carefully choose my words to avoid being labelled as “anxious” or “difficult”. Once you receive one of those labels your care can become compromised. I have to constantly weigh the threat of infection against the possibility my desire to avoid Covid will be psychologized.
Nassau County, NY Makes Masking Illegal - Why Medical Exemptions Aren't the Answer by Broadwaybabyto / The Disabled Ginger
The sad truth is that no matter how justified I would be in wearing a mask - if I’m confronted by law enforcement I’m going to raise red flags. Police are trained to look for physical signs of nervousness or lying - they are NOT trained to assess a person’s medical history or disability.
I’m not afraid to admit that these bans scare me - and what scares me even more is the fact that I’m a cishet white female who is not likely to be profiled by law enforcement. What about the people who don’t look like me? People keep saying that you can mask as long as you’re not ‘doing something wrong’ - and it belies logic that anyone could genuinely believe that.
The reality is that people are stopped by the police all the time for being marginalized, a person of colour, looking “suspicious” etc. These bans will disproportionately impact those already most at risk of profiling and/or unlawful search and arrest.
In addition to the threat of being stopped by law enforcement - bans like this increase the likelihood of harassment and violence against mask wearers1 - because people feel emboldened by the government effectively telling them that those who mask are “bad”. We aren’t bad - we’re just trying to survive.
Mask Bans Insult Disabled People, Endanger Our Health, and Threaten Our Ability to Protest by Alice Wong / Teen Vogue
As a high-risk disabled person who depends on others to keep me safe, I have written about the importance of masking, and I advocate for mask mandates in health care settings. But those individual efforts seem futile against the onslaught of proposed mask bans that would contribute to the spread of COVID and other illnesses, while also pushing high-risk people out of public spaces and protests, violating their right to assemble under the First Amendment.
There are days when I am overwhelmed with grief and rage at the regressive attitudes toward public health and disabled people. In my opinion, the ableist, fascistic, and eugenic nature of proposed mask bans under consideration in New York City and Los Angeles is bleak. But what is happening now is not new or surprising; the hate is more explicit, that’s all. …
Proposed mask bans may vary, but I’d argue they are all steeped in discrimination based on race, disability, class, and religion. Many people wear masks to protect a loved one, protect themself from airborne pathogens, smoke, and air pollutants, and evade surveillance when practicing civil disobedience.
“Safety” is a key word used by people who mask and those who consider masking a criminal act. But it’s worth asking, who is kept safe by the state or by individual acts, and who is left out? “We keep us safe” is a phrase used by community organizers that view public safety as a collective endeavor. As Charis Hill, a disability activist, tells me, “I take medications that weaken my immune system, so I primarily wear a mask to protect myself, but I also wear it to protect others and to show that we are still in a pandemic. If mask bans become the reality, I have little hope that I'll ever be safe in public again.”
Long-COVID rate among disabled people double that of able-bodied by Mary Van Beusekom / CIDRAP
Over 40% of COVID-19 survivors who had disabilities before the pandemic had symptoms for 3 months or longer in 2022, compared with 19% of those without disabilities, further widening health disparities, finds a new report published in the American Journal of Public Health. …
"We read comments from survey participants with pre-existing disabilities who are afraid to go out in their communities because the people they need to interact with, including health providers, aren't masking, and the public in general acts like the pandemic is over," senior author Kelsey Goddard, PhD, said in the release. "Re-contracting COVID can exacerbate their long COVID symptoms."
Coauthor Lisa McCorkell, MPP, noted that few healthcare providers are still taking COVID-19 precautions. "The pandemic is not over, and COVID is still spreading," she said. "Policy should be adjusted so that if we're truly aiming for an equitable response, we implement masking in public places and health care facilities to protect people with disabilities."
Silence from prominent left outlets continues as mask bans spread by Julia Doubleday / The Gauntlet
A mere 48 hours after the passage of the horrifying North Carolina mask ban bill, Democrats once again proved themselves eager to close the purported Evilness Gap between themselves and Republicans by floating a mask ban of their own.
Speaking with CNN today, New York Governor Kathy Hochul repeated right-wing talking points about how masks are “frightening” and that if you see someone masked on the subway, “you don’t know if they’re going to be committing a crime”. This false, inciting rhetoric puts people wearing masks at further risk of harassment and harm. ….
All of these realities put the ongoing pandemic squarely in the center of myriad left priorities; allowing COVID to spread unmitigated is worsening racial inequalities, worsening health inequality, harming workers, worsening homelessness, overloading our already struggling healthcare systems, and disproportionately disabling and killing people who are oppressed along other intersecting identities; people of color, queer people, trans people, women and disabled people.
Yet prominent news outlets that bill themselves as leftist or socialist, like Jacobin, Current Affairs, The Lever and The Intercept remain strangely quiet about unmitigated COVID spread, the crisis of Long COVID, the importance of masking, the need for new clean air standards to bring down transmission, the urgency of airborne infection control in hospitals, and the state’s intensifying targeting of disabled people and those with Long COVID.
As Someone Living With MS, Here's What a Mask Ban Would Really Mean for My Health by Lindsay Karp / Good Housekeeping
These bans go against individual rights and freedoms, as well as the medical data. Around 6.6% of American adults are immunocompromised. The right to protect ourselves from illness shouldn’t be something we have to fight for, and reinstating a pre-civil war statute and banning the one mode of protection we have come to rely on cannot be the solution to violence or property crime.
While I don't have all the answers, one thing is clear: The energy being poured into anti-masking policies has generated negativity around masking in general, further creating an uncomfortable situation for those of us who must wear one. Banning masks will pose a threat to people like me.
MS is a progressive illness that changes over time. With today's advanced treatments, regular exercise and self-care, the disease can remain stable for some people. In addition to medication, I use an exercise bike daily, eat a healthy diet and get as much sleep as possible. I work hard to maintain my current level of imperfect functioning, and becoming sick can deplete my energy and strength overnight. The fear that I may remain depleted for the rest of my life weighs on me daily. Masking lessens that burden.
If you want to support people who are immunocompromised, wearing a mask when you’re under the weather — or offering to if you see someone else who is — not only protects us, but supports our right to protect ourselves.
Waking up healthy isn't something I can take for granted. I wish something as simple as getting my hair cut couldn't potentially leave me weakened, struggling to walk far and unable to enjoy our upcoming family vacation. But that is my reality and wearing a mask allows me to carry on, despite the complicated challenges. It's a right that should never be taken away.
Mask Bans Further Empower the Police State by Lily Sánchez / Current Affairs
So, to recap: Nassau County, one of the richest counties in the nation, which is heavily white and also happens to have a “serious problem with police accountability,” has just put the police in charge of dealing with a political problem that happens to be a thorn in the sides of those in power: opposition to a genocide and support for Palestinian liberation. What could go wrong here?
Plenty, as groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union of New York, the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (which submitted comments in Nassau against the legislation), and others have pointed out. It’s not just that the mask ban infringes upon people’s right to protest or express potentially unpopular political opinions (although Gallup notes that as of March 2024 polling, a majority of Americans disapprove of Israel’s actions in Gaza). It’s not just that people have a right to privacy, particularly in an age of surveillance and doxxing, and mask bans strip people of this right. It’s not just that religious, racial, and ethnic minorities, particularly Muslim Americans, Arab Americans, and South Asian Americans, have been profiled, surveilled, and targeted by police in recent decades and have good reason to fear discriminatory enforcement of this law against them. It’s not just that people who cover their face for any reason—such as those who simply wish to avoid air pollution, UV exposure, or airborne illnesses such as COVID or others, particularly those who are disabled or have weakened immune systems—will be targeted. It’s not just that Black Americans and poor people, who already bear the brunt of the police, will face disproportionate harassment. It’s all of that plus the fact that the police have one major tool in their toolkit: the threat of force, or actual violence. Putting the police in charge of political and social problems—as we already do with protests, homelessness, mental health crises, drug use, or petty theft—usually ends badly.
Salting The Vibes by Jessica Wildfire / OK Doomer
We're a country of moral panics. The fear of "salted vibes" has taken a number of forms over the last few hundred years. Americans have expressed irrational fears about witches, jazz, rock music, satanic cults, drugs, porn, feminism, gang violence, and immigrants, and yet they call us doomers and fearmongers for daring to suggest we do something about real threats like disease or oil consumption.
We're now seeing the beginnings of a moral panic around masks, at the worst possible time, as we face a resurgence of disease in the buildup to yet another public health threat in the form of bird flu.
I guess it makes sense. These irrational fears always swirl around a marginalized group who somehow "salts the vibes." In the land of politics, vibes matter more than action.
It's strange how a large number of adults never really grow up. They keep bullying, triangulating, and ostracizing those of us who are just trying to tell the unpleasant truths for everyone's benefit.
If all you care about are vibes, what are you doing?
The answer is nothing.
Over the last four years, Americans have only retreated further into their echo chambers and fragility. They want to believe they're saving the world from fascism, even when the mere sight of a mask or an air purifier sends them into a tantrum about their rights and freedoms. At every turn, politicians on both sides have nurtured this fragility, leaving us wide open.
Mask bans are dumb, dangerous by Star-Ledger Editorial Board / nj.com
After Jan. 6th, the FBI poured over video footage of the Capitol rioters, Bramnick notes; we want to be able to identify and track down people like that afterwards. That’s true, and his intentions are not malevolent. But this is a superficial policy that quickly falls apart on the details, and presents a clear danger to civil liberties.
Start with this basic question: What if a troublemaker simply decides to disguise his face with large sunglasses and a hat, instead? Are we going to criminalize sunglasses and hats, too? Where will it end?
Not to mention all the enforcement and constitutional problems that this bill presents. Even with an exception for people who wear masks for medical reasons, it’s a threat to personal freedoms, because it leaves it up to the cops to decide whether someone has a legitimate medical reason for wearing a mask at a public gathering.
How will they know that? It’s subjective. And based on past experience, we know what that means: Police will disproportionately stop and question Black and brown people, who have also been the most likely to continue wearing masks to protect against COVID-19.
And, as Jim Sullivan of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey adds, this “overbroad and vague” bill “also gives law enforcement the ability to target people based on their political beliefs.”
To My Unmasked Friend in the Fifth Year of COVID by Anna Holmes / Medium
You’re a good person, or you like to think of yourself that way. That’s why when you’re asked to mask, you dismiss it out of hand — because that changed behavior implies that you’ve been doing something wrong.
And my friend, I’m telling this because I love you: you have been. You might have been doing that on faulty information, but be honest with yourself and with me — you’ve heard me begging people to take this seriously. You’ve seen the information I’ve been sharing. You have had the opportunity to seek out the correct information all along, and you have chosen not to.
It isn’t too late to change your view of the risk you’re imposing on the people around you. It’s not too late to push public health to become more effective. It’s not too late to act in solidarity and be the inclusive person you think you are. It’s not too late to take care of yourself.
Ultimately, that’s what I have been screaming myself hoarse about. I don’t want you to end up with what I have. I don’t want you to inadvertently impose that on someone else. And yes, I’ve been angry, because you’ve been advertising your absolute lack of concern with group shots of your naked faces on social media. It doesn’t seem to bother you that I am stuck at home like it’s 2020, except for doctors’ appointments that I literally have to risk my life to go to. You’ve told yourself that it’s not your problem, because only the sick and elderly have to take precautions.
You know better. You can do better. For your community, yourself, and me, do better.
Please. I love you.
Mask bans disenfranchise millions of Americans with disabilities by Kaitlin Costello / STAT
People who are immunocompromised are told to wear masks in addition to getting vaccinated, improving air ventilation, and making sure our close contacts also receive the vaccine. But current coverage with the Covid-19 vaccines is low; only 22.3% of adults have received a vaccine dose in the past year. This means that I can’t return to your unmasked “normal.” The new normal includes exposure to a virulent, airborne illness that circulates year-round, with seasonal spikes that correspond to times of high travel and congregate indoor activities.
If masks are banned where I live, I will have to make the choice between endangering my transplant and my health every time I leave the house, or to remain on permanent lockdown in my home. As disability oracle and activist Alice Wong reminds us, mask bans are an extension of “ugly laws,” historical laws and ordinances that prevented disabled people from being in public. We deserve to be seen and to be included in public life. Mask bans are a threat not just to disabled people, but to all of us. It’s never too late to start masking again—to protect not just your health and the health of people around you, but also to protect our fundamental human rights.
WHN Statement on Mask Bans in the Context of the Summer Surge / World Health Network
As a science-driven public health organization, the World Health Network (WHN) voices its strong opposition to mask bans. Our position is based on several critical factors: masking effectively protects individuals from airborne pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2; there is no credible evidence to suggest that mask bans reduce crime; and, importantly, mask bans disproportionately endanger the most vulnerable members of our communities. The scientific evidence is clear: masks continue to be one of the most effective, affordable, and accessible means for individuals to protect themselves during the ongoing pandemic.
As the United States faces an alarming surge, with over 1,300,000 new daily COVID-19 cases and higher infection rates than during 90% of the pandemic, the idea of restricting or eliminating the right to mask is both dangerous and unconscionable. Masking remains a vital public health tool, especially as we confront a wave of infections that has the potential to overwhelm our healthcare systems and inflict long-lasting harm on our communities. The protection offered by masks is not just about individual safety but about collective responsibility to minimize the spread of the virus.
Moreover, with conservative estimates indicating that 10-25% of all acute COVID cases result in long COVID, this means that greater than 130,000-325,000 people are becoming disabled on a daily basis. We are experiencing a significant increase in long-term disability. The implications of this wave could be devastating if protective measures like masking are undermined. We must continue to prioritize the use of masks as a vital practice to safeguard public health and mitigate the severe and ongoing dangers posed by the ongoing pandemic.
Why do People Stop Masking After They Get Covid…and How Should These Changes Inform Our Own? by JTO / Essays You Didn’t Want to Read
In general, I’m not a huge fan of the expression “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” because I tend to believe that most people could be doing better at most things, most of the time, than they are; I am, by nature, an optimizer. But I also think we need to recognize the psychological forces that have both led people to abandon covid mitigations and which keep them from taking up those risk-reducing behaviors again – and we should look to deal with those dynamics while appreciating that they are deeply ingrained aspects of the human condition. No matter how frustrated, angry or upset folks are that so many people, including their previously masking friends, have “moved on,” we need to tailor current strategies to engage with people about risk reduction on the battlefields on which we currently find ourselves, if we hope to win those battles, let alone to prevail in the larger war on public health.
Out of control COVID means permanent segregation for many disabled people by Julia Doubleday / The Gauntlet
Essentially, a single COVID infection took me from functional to housebound with new onset, debilitating symptoms and strange injuries. I went from never having a headache to having round-the-clock migraines that don’t respond to OTC meds, for which I now take multiple expensive medications. What would a second COVID infection do to me?
Do I not deserve access to public spaces?
Do other disabled people not deserve access to public spaces?
Do I not deserve to live a life that is free from the constant threat of reinfection with a virus that already took so much from me? Do I have the right to socialize, to eat in a restaurant? After all, isn’t that what the people who refuse to mask claim? That a life without eating indoors is a life that isn’t worth living?
What about the millions of people who were disabled by their first, second or third COVID infections? Do they deserve to risk reinfection each time they leave home?
Leave Those Kids Alone / John Snow Project
If someone bullies a person for wearing a hijab, they face consequences. If they bully a person for wearing a turban, they will be sanctioned according to the rules of their institution or laws that punish racism and discrimination. Most people view the racist bully with disdain because society has determined that targeting someone based on their race or religion is inherently a bad thing.
But what about people who wear masks?
A recent social media thread1 outlined the abuse suffered by a child at the hands of fellow students and adult staff for wearing a mask to protect against the risk of respiratory infection. Replace mask with turban, hijab, crucifix or Star of David and see how you feel about the victimized child and the people who’ve been bullying them. Talk to members of the COVID-safe community and you’ll understand that this sort of bullying is commonplace.
There is never any justification for targeting someone based on their personal choices, attire or appearance. A child or adult who chooses to wear a mask is doing so for their own reasons. They might be immune compromised or have a family member who is immunosuppressed. Diabetes puts people at higher risk of poor outcomes of COVID-19 and other infections2. Perhaps they have a family member with diabetes, or perhaps they themselves live with the condition. Maybe they have an autoimmune disease or a family member who does. Or perhaps they just want to avoid participating in the largest experiment in human history.
Whatever their reason, it is private and none of anyone else’s business. Bullying is often portrayed as the strong picking on the weak, but it is usually the weakest members of society who engage in bullying. Those who seek to externalize the way they feel about themselves, to draw attention away from their own flaws or downplay their own fears.
Mpox And Mask Bans—A Recipe For Disaster by Judy Stone / Forbes
Dr. Angelique Corthals is a Covid-19 expert, scientific advisor for MaskTogetherAmerica and associate professor at CUNY. She said the mask bans are “robbing us of the main tool to prevent not just this pathogen, but also novel pathogens that are coming our way thanks to climate change.” Speaking of anti-mask advocates, she added, “These people are not into nuances.”
“The mask bans come at the worst time,” Corthals continued. “Not only are we facing a new pandemic of actually airborne virus (H5N1), but mpox was another storm waiting to happen.” Because clade I mpox is more infectious and more virulent than the earlier clade, we need to take non-pharmacologic interventions to reduce the spread. Corthals stressed “that no mode of transmission be dismissed (‘oh, it’s only through sexual contacts’ or ‘it’s only skin to skin’).” And she concluded, “Public settings, such as schools, universities, and hospitals should have precautions in place.”
The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee of the CDC will be meeting Thursday, August 22 to further discuss revisions to its policies. There will be an update from the Isolation Precautions Guideline working group. The CDC notes, “The primary purpose of HICPAC meetings is to review and discuss emerging issues, research, and data related to infection prevention and control in healthcare settings.” Will HICPAC will add these new concerns about mpox transmission to its deliberations?
What non-pharmacologic interventions do we have that would address each of these infections—Covid-19, avian flu, and mpox? Masking and improved ventilation. “It seems few lessons have been learned,” Corthals concluded.
If parents don’t fight to protect children from Covid in schools, nobody else will by Tess Finch-Lees / Irish Independent (non-paywall version)
“It’s not your fault,” I told 16-year-old Cara, whose mother died of a SARS-CoV-2 infection she gave her. To be clear, the doctor confirmed Cara (not her real name) had passed on the virus and Covid was entered on the death certificate as the cause of death.
Cara’s mother had not been outside their home in the weeks preceding her death.
When masks were dropped in the “Omicron’s mild” phase of the pandemic, Cara continued as the lone masker at school to protect her immunocompromised mother, who was undergoing chemotherapy. It was tolerable until a child psychotherapist said on the national airwaves that some girls would continue to mask anyway “to hide their acne”.
His words were used to bully her. Cara left, but without support from teachers she struggled. Her parents pleaded with the school to use the Hepa filter they bought. The school refused. Cara eventually returned to school unmasked, caught Covid and infected her mam. It killed her. Cara self-harms because she blames herself. She hasn’t been to school since
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A McDonalds in Portland, Oregon has posted a sign saying they will not serve anyone wearing a mask. / Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran) / X
Just had a follower (a woman) message to tell me they were told they could not wear a mask at @sportinglifeca in Sherway Gardens. Apparently this is a store policy? If so, Sporting Life, could you point to where this is posted? This is so unbelievably unacceptable. / Sabina Vohra-Miller (@SabiVM) / X
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LeBoeuf Deschamps (Breen LeBoeuf and Martin Deschamps), featuring Ricky Paquette on guitar. Performing the Offenbach classic, Ayoye.
Thank you so very much for your post, the wonderful pieces included and all the links. It is the people like you that give me hope.
Thank you for including one of my articles in this excellent round up! I truly hope people start paying attention as these bans are a threat to our very survival.