hell 2 💙

If you stopped masking, it’s time to start again, today. I’m not asking you to stay home, just to mask as well as possible, and do hand hygiene.

In multiple communities all over the USA and Canada, every pediatric hospital bed is full, mostly with babies and toddlers who have severe respiratory infections. It seems to be a combination of flu, RSV and COVID, sometimes more than one at a time in the same child.

We can sort out why this happened later. Right now, there’s an emergency that should be front page news, and isn’t, and the best way to stop it is to reduce the circulation of all respiratory viruses in our communities by masking everyone who can mask, before babies start dying because there isn’t enough care to go around.

Get your current flu shot and bivalent COVID booster if you haven’t already, but also please mask now.

This is a “do it for the children” post I can get behind because I am seeing this firsthand. I work in a pediatric hospital. The ER has had to take over other areas of the hospital because the beds are full, and the kids aren’t getting better. It is worse than it was at the height of Covid.

And it isn’t being broadcasted from the fucking rooftops. I don’t know why. I can only speculate about “economy” and probably something about it affecting midterms because the fucking GOP politicizes viruses now. And a million other things that make America the dystopia it is.