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Today, March 15, is International #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay.
How can you take action? 📢
- Talking about COVID and #LongCOVID in the present tense.
- Wearing a respirator mask to protect yourself and others. Find one online in our fundraising store: buymask.ca. 😷
- Donating to Donate A Mask so that we can continue sending respirator masks to people in Canada who need them. 🇨🇦 donatemask.ca/donate
#CureLongCovidNow #LongCovidAwareness #MaskUp #Donate

Hey men who enjoy sex! MASK UP TO KEEP IT UP! :mastorespirator: 🍆

If taking a soccer ball ⚽ to the crotch had 1/5 odds of long term erectile dysfunction (ED) would you wear a cup when you play soccer?

nature.com/articles/s41598-025

20% of men in this study got NEW ED - and only 1/4 "got their mojo back" after two years.

NaturePrevalence of erectile dysfunction as long-COVID symptom in hospitalized Japanese patients - Scientific ReportsCoronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is associated with a wide range of post-acute sequelae. The prevalence of erectile dysfunction (ED) that developed after COVID-19 and the associated underlying factors were analyzed based on a questionnaire survey, COVID-19 Recovery Study II in Japan. A case–control study was conducted with those with or without ED one and two years hospitalized with COVID-19 between March and September 2021. Six hundred and nine Japanese men, with a median age of 48 years, were analyzed. During the study period, 116 subjects (19.0%) had erectile dysfunction. The patients with ED responded with less subjective awareness of recovery and high breathless and fatigue scores compared to those without ED. The patients with ED also showed higher Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-D (depression) and the EuroQol 5-dimensions 5-level scores for pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression scores compared before COVID-19 infection. Sleep disturbance was suggested to be associated with erectile dysfunction using an exploratory clustering analysis in the one-year survey. There were no associations of COVID-19 severity, reinfection, vaccination frequency, antiviral treatment for COVID-19 with the presence of erectile dysfunction. It was considered that mental support for the subject with erectile dysfunction as a long-COVID symptom is warranted.

You'd think people would want to know if there was a disease that killed more Americans than all our wars combined and is still killing, that causes long-term illness at yearly rates higher than all cancers combined, that all are at risk for, but that all could take actions to prevent. You'd think they want to protect themselves and their families. You'd think that this would be the #1 world priority. It is for me.

A case of measles has been confirmed at a Montreal Canadiens #hockey game on March 3.

Quebec measles outbreak: 31 cases, experts blame low vaccination

The following people may have been exposed:

🟥spectator(s)s in the red sections 111 to 117;

🟥Workers in these same sections;

🟥Tim Hortons and Pizza Pizza workers at the #BellCentre.

#montreal #canada #cdnpoli #measels #publichealth #medmastodon #quebec #healthcare #maskup #elbowsup #hockey

quebec.ca/en/health/health-iss

Shot (article subhead): Oklahoma says the cases ‘don’t pose a public health risk.’”

Chaser (from the article itself)
“In the latest data, only 88 percent of Oklahoma's kindergartners were up, significantly below the 95 percent target to prevent community spread.”

My MMR titers are all in the immune range. Earlier today I texted our GP to get the hub’s titers checked cuz 😬.

#measles #MaskUp #vaccines

From: @chu
climatejustice.social/@chu/114

From: @chu
climatejustice.social/@chu/114

Climate Justice SocialChu 朱 (@chu@climatejustice.social)Honestly, the most shocking thing about this story in this point of 2025 is that they have enough tracking ability to know how many cases there are https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/texas-measles-outbreak-spills-into-third-state-as-cases-reach-258/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

A case of measles has been confirmed at a Montreal Canadiens #hockey game on March 3.

Quebec measles outbreak: 31 cases, experts blame low vaccination

"There’s a magic bullet [against] measles, that's called a vaccine,” said Dr. Don Vinh, Montreal infectious disease specialist and medical microbiologist, about the measles outbreak in Quebec. Erin Seize reports.

#montreal #canada #cdnpoli #measels #publichealth #medmastodon #quebec #healthcare #maskup #elbowsup

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/03/1

CityNews Montreal · Measles exposure confirmed at Canadiens game on March 3 in Montreal | CityNews MontrealA case of measles has been confirmed at a Montreal Canadiens hockey game on March 3.

Five years ago today, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Since then, much of the world has moved on—but COVID hasn’t disappeared.

People are still getting sick, hospitals still see surges, and Long COVID continues to disrupt lives. The good news? We still have the power to protect ourselves and our communities.

Read our latest blog on why prevention still matters: whn.global/five-years-since-co

Traveled to the Midwest this week, and I’m definitely feeling like the lone-masker.

Still, the number of people in the last 2 days who’ve said “you’re smart for wearing that”, when referencing the Darth Vader kn94s I’m rocking, is encouraging.

However, I’m puzzled as to why no one else seems to want to join me in the big brain club. 🤷🏼‍♂️

"Five years after the start of the worst health crisis in living memory, there is a national conversation waiting to be had about the roles of the individual, society and the state in such a crisis. What is my responsibility to myself and to my community, and what is the responsibility of the state towards us? At each level there is room for improvement, but we’re not addressing it. Let’s hope we can have that conversation before we’re tested again, but first the more strident – and misguided – voices have to pipe down."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Five years on, the right’s Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstreamBy Laura Spinney