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Covid infection can cause lasting cognitive impairment, memory issues, clinical anxiety and depression, obsessive behaviour, brain fog, PTSD-like symptoms, insomnia, increased risk of psychosis, mood swings, heightened stress responses.

And that's just a taste.

Wear a mask.

Mask Bloc LA member Abby Mahler poses with a wagon full of free high-quality masks The text on the image reads, “THE SICK TIMES: COVID-19 advocates are distributing masks to protect Californians from wildfire smoke. By Sam Rhodehamel.

“We knew it had to happen from us. There was no one else doing it. No one to call,” Abby Mahler, a member of Mask Bloc LA, told The Sick Times. “We deserve to breathe clean air. That is not being provided to us by the government that we pay for.”

As the skies of Los Angeles filled with smoke this week from multiple raging wildfires, COVID-19 advocates and mutual aid groups stepped in to fill the gaps left by local and state governments, providing respirators and crucial information about clean air. bit.ly/4jaTnYs

Imagine if part of the federal gov's early response to the pandemic was to get a HEPA and carbon air purifier into every household - those would be doing double duty right now in LA protecting people from Covid AND wildfire smoke. See how every problem intersects?