For anyone that is reading this and thinking it’s ridiculous…

It’s the same justification most people are using to not wear masks/respies.

Just sayin’.

This is not only a disgusting lie, but a dangerous one. Nondisabled people are looking for anything that makes them forget about the (ongoing) pandemic. They already accepted our shunning without question. Accepting this would mean a complete abdication of responsibility.

Truth is COVID is still going around infecting many people and creating new risks for disabilities with every round. There’s only so many times you can get it before you’re "the vulnerable" too.

I’ve continued to mask the whole time and I suggest you start again if you’ve stopped.

I’ve said this before but it continues to be relevant: The willful disregard for "the vulnerable" that many people decided to adopt in favor of ending the pandemic measures and pretending COVID was over created a social contract were ignoring reality in favor of immediate comfort became the norm.

This is a lie & a totally unsurprising endorsement of eugenics from a government that’s being using necropolitics to advance eugenics agendas & social murder since the day it formed.

And I don’t mean this administration. I mean the US government.

RFK Jr isn’t an aberration. He’s a perfect heir.

if you decry RFK Jrs logic here but find yrself agreeing with, if not saying yourself something to the effect of:
“i’m not sick, i don’t need to mask”

i need you to reflect on the ways your actions echo eugenicists—even if you find their reasoning vile. then let that fuel a change in your behavior.

it gives me no pleasure to say this—i don’t find masking as much as i must to be particularly thrilling—but our reality is stark. you cannot Act As If covid is gone and then be shocked when a nefarious actor makes the same claim. why wouldn’t they? your complacency has allowed it.

if you find yourself appalled that RFK Jr is able to make this claim but you don’t wear a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces, you are acting in precisely the way that allows him to say that covid is gone.

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

Can we get more—or you know, some—masking in airports, on airplanes, & in medical settings at least? If people did that, we could reduce transmission dramatically. If doctors & HCWs masked like they should, more people would pick up on the fact COVID remains dangerous, but that’s a different issue.

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RFK Jr. told the House E&C Committee today that the way to bring down healthcare costs is to "clean up the risk pool" — remove the people who cost too much. He said the $4.3 trillion we spend on chronic disease is the emergency. He said most of Minnesota's autism services funding was stolen. 🧵

This is true. No one wants to admit COVID still exists or ever existed. Quite incredible. Where are the huge conferences dedicated to COVID, like there still is for HIV?

You won. You got a world that doesn't mask, that doesn't vaccinate, that sticks its fingers in its ears whenever death tolls come up.

If immunocompromised people are burdening you because they miss the brief window when you cared? Go to therapy.

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”

This is not bitchy subskeeting, by the by. This is me looking at a fresh wave of “lockdown was so hard” posts and just…

There is very little cognition that some people never left, because everyone else stampeded to get out.

Being 1000% clear, your immunocompromised friends (you have them, right? Well, you do now) weren’t happy with lockdown because we hate people and didn’t want to hang out.

We miss lockdown because that’s when abled people acted like they cared if we died.

Yeah, I'm real tired of this narrative that disabled people "enjoyed" lockdown. Lockdown sucked. It just sucked less than dying of COVID, a thing the abled world doesn't care about anymore.

I'm also tired of abled people mourning their time in lockdown more than they mourn the 1.2 million dead.

I don't want to be living my life inside these same fucking walls for what feels like the millionth year but everyone decided that endless mutating COVID variants and being sick all the time is "the new normal" so fuck me and my family I guess!

Honestly so fucking exhausting and enraging to be told for 6+ years that immunocompromised people should "just stay home," but then after successfully adapting to living and working in total isolation, suddenly telework becomes so demonized that now the message seems to be: "Actually....just die."

The pandemic is ongoing, it continues, it’s NOW. Everyone remains vulnerable to the harms of COVID. We’re past only the initial acute stage of the pandemic. We likely still await the population-wide long term effects—tragically.

When we ask for safety mitigations, like meeting outside or masking or testing we’re trying to save you the pain we suffer. The unmasked can’t admit they’re vulnerable. People with LC are a walking (rolling?) memento mori in the eyes of the ableist. But it’s easier to claim we’re having fun I guess.

I am livid that people assume that everyone who still takes significant precautions must be having a great time.
Some of us just understand the stakes and have lost too much to LC or other disabilities to FAAFO. Check in on your disabled friends. Host accessible masked events. You’re isolating US!

Without starting a fight, may I just say that if you deeply and profoundly understand the need for human contact as a result of Covid, you might consider doing something to help the people still at high risk from Covid access it, instead of acting in ways that excludes and isolates them.

Study links long COVID in kids to worse grades, attention, and social life

Yet another reason to clean the air, encourage routine testing, increase paid leave, change policies that encourage presenteeism despite illness, and create cultures where there is no shame attached to masking

Tons of research since 2020 points to Covid causing cognitive decline, affecting memory, attention, and executive function. It’s criminal that schools don’t clean the air and it’s negligent of public health to have led everyone to believe Covid is just a cold when it’s causing so much damage 🧵👇

This is a global concern.

Vaccinate your kids & yourselves, if possible.

There is no longer herd immunity from MMR vaccines. Even fully vaccinated people can catch measles etc. So wear a respirator mask, especially in healthcare settings where sicknesses are in the air. 😷

CNN uncovers an online rape academy….

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U.S. National COVID-19 Risk Table (April 20, 2026). Table shows the chance that at least one person is infectious in gatherings of different sizes. Examples: 1 person: 0.4% 5 people: 2.2% 10 people: 4.3% 25 people: 10.5% 50 people: 19.9% 100 people: 35.8% 200 people: 58.8% 300 people: 73.5% Text notes that in a group of 25 people, there is about a 1 in 9 chance someone is infectious.

National COVID-19 Risk Table (U.S.) dated Apr 20, 2026

Chances Anyone is Infectious:

🔸1 in 226 people infectious (0.4%)

🔹1 person: 0.4%
🔹10 people: 4.3%
🔹20 people: 8.5%
🔹50 people: 19.9%
🔹100 people: 35.8%
🔹300 people: 73.5%

Most states are shaded light blue, indicating very low transmission. A few states show low levels (green). Mississippi is marked moderate (orange, limited data), while West Virginia is very high (dark red). Guam also shows moderate levels. Some areas have limited or no data. Legend shows estimated prevalence ranges from <0.9% (very low) to >3.5% (very high). Text notes only three areas—Mississippi, Guam, and West Virginia—have moderate or higher transmission, with most of the U.S. at very low levels.

U.S. National COVID-19 Estimates (April 20, 2026). Infections: 1 in 226 people actively infectious (0.4%) ~217,000 new daily infections ~1.55 million infections in the past week ~69 million infections in 2026 5.17 cumulative infections per person Long COVID: 11,000–43,000 cases from daily infections 78,000–310,000 cases from weekly infections Excess deaths: 50–90 from daily infections 400–700 from weekly infections Summary notes that even during a “lull,” about 1.6 million infections per week continue to cause significant illness and deaths.

Table of U.S. COVID-19 state prevalence estimates (April 20, 2026). Most states are classified as “Very Low” or “Low” transmission, with estimated active infections generally around 1 in 100 to 1 in 200 people (0.4%–1.5%). Higher levels include: Guam: Moderate, 1 in 48 (2.1%) Mississippi: Moderate (limited data), 1 in 62 (1.6%) Table also shows estimated risk of at least one infectious person in gatherings of 10 to 100 people, increasing with group size. Note explains CDC reporting floor limits very low estimates and data may be volatile.

Table of U.S. COVID-19 state prevalence estimates (April 20, 2026, page 2). Most states are classified as “Very Low” transmission, with active infections typically around 1 in 150 to 1 in 250 people (about 0.4%–0.8%). A few states are “Low,” around ~1% prevalence. West Virginia stands out as “Very High,” with 1 in 15 people (6.7%) estimated infectious. Table also shows risk of at least one infectious person in gatherings of 10 to 100 people, rising significantly with group size (e.g., over 99% in a group of 100 in West Virginia). Notes mention limited data for some states and that estimates can vary.

US Weekly COVID update: Apr 20, 2026

🔸1 in 226 Actively Infectious
🔸217,000 Daily Infections
🔸1,550,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸69,000,000 Infections in 2026
🔸78,000 to 310,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸400 to 700 Weekly Excess Deaths

Source: pmc19.com/data/