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  • Jen Simmonsjensimmons
    Sep 4, 2025, 6:15 AM

    Covid is highly contagious.

    It’s airborne. Floats in the air & hangs for hours, like measles. You can show up later & get infected.

    It’s incredibly damaging to the human body. Especially if you are infected over & over.

    The vaccines are amazing. And yet, they do not prevent vaccinated people from being infected & contagious.

    Many infectious people have no symptoms at all.

    The rapid home tests have an incredibly high rate of false negatives. A negative test does NOT mean you don't have it.

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  • Jen Simmonsjensimmons
    Sep 4, 2025, 6:19 AM

    Waste water data from cities in the United States are showing a massive outbreak in many places right now. I'm watching one person after another get it. While almost no one is taking precautions.

    The information we were told at the beginning about it not infecting or affecting kids much turned out to be proven by scientists to be wrong. Kids do suffer horrible consequences.

    Masks make a massive difference. You need masks that seal, KN95 or N95. Covid is airborne. It floats far.

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  • Jen Simmonsjensimmons
    Sep 4, 2025, 6:24 AM

    We know a lot about this virus. We know how to take care of ourselves & each other.

    You just have to decide that you want to.

    It was incredible in 2020 to see how much people cared, & how far they were willing to go to help their neighbors, friends & family.

    It was devastating to watch in 2022 as 98% of people decided that they were done caring. And instead choose delusion. To intentionally infect others rather than experience more inconvenience.

    It's not too late to start caring again.

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  • Jen Simmonsjensimmons
    Sep 4, 2025, 6:27 AM

    I learned about Covid in Jan 2020, and looked up a LOT of information in Feb. What I learned alarmed me, so I prepared (long before most people in the U.S. did) and then I spread the news on Twitter. [RIP, I miss Twitter.]

    I wrote a lot about Covid in 2020 and 2021 on Twitter.

    And then I gave up. I realized the people around me did not care. And I was screaming into the wind.

    But sadly Covid did not let go of me. I'm still disabled by it. Every day.

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  • Jen Simmonsjensimmons
    Sep 4, 2025, 6:30 AM

    So, I'll just post this one thread. Because it's everywhere right now.

    Do I dare beg you to care again? Quote the science / find all the links to proof? I don't know. I need to sleep & probably it won't matter. The facts are easily found. Most are already known by most people.

    This is a problem of empathy now. To wake up (yes) and recognize that "but I'm a good person, so I don't have to worry, it won't get me, I have good health/genes/morality" is eugenics.

    Choose another path.

    Please?

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  • monarchistmonarchist@na.social
    Sep 4, 2025, 2:33 PM

    @jensimmons

    "I'm a good person"
    Usually a lie

    "Eugenics"
    Something everyone should accept.

    "Empathy"
    Usually a lie

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  • monarchistmonarchist@na.social
    Sep 4, 2025, 2:34 PM

    @jensimmons

    We are overpopulated and need to lose almost eight billion people for natural ecosystems to survive.

    I suggest we lose the ones with the highest mutation load.

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  • gizmomathboy, FCgizmomathboy@mastodon.xyz
    Sep 4, 2025, 3:54 PM

    @jensimmons I haven't stopped making when I go into indoor spaces that aren't my home.

    I've been fortunate to not get it, as far as I know.

    I rarely go out and only to places that have outdoor seating.

    It's a bit tough on the family since they don't mask.

    I would rather not find out what COVID would do to me

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  • Eric Eggertyatil@yatil.social
    Sep 4, 2025, 6:52 AM

    @jensimmons Sometimes people paint 2020 and early 2021 as terrible times, but honestly the way we came together to fix something that affected a lot of people was actually quite great. I just wish people still cared.

    But these days I gotten selfish, too. I will protect me and my partner by almost any means possible, even if this means missing out on things or disappointing others. They might be disappointed, but at least I did not give them a potentially life-altering illness.

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  • Sheldonsysop408@sfba.social
    Sep 4, 2025, 8:39 AM

    @jensimmons I think many do care or would, but got overwhelmed by the complexity of navigating an ongoing pandemic.

    Being former healthcare, I acted as public health liaison in 2020-21. People came to me with #Covid questions. I explained masks and ventilation, carried an #Aranet4, and (despite burnout) kept educating.

    In 2022, I was with friends counting donation money. They used hand sanitizer obsessively while remarking (maskless) how badly they wanted to avoid another Covid infection.

    It suddenly hit me that they couldn't process. Some literally & some were so stressed by complexity that they defaulted to hand sanitizer, Airborne, and good vibes for mental health reasons.

    I also suddenly realized that they had been repeatedly asking the same questions as if we never talked. Despite my efforts, their knowledge was stuck in Fall of 2020.

    I've since given up educating... for now. I'll return to it if the opportunity arises, but I fear only dire consequences would motivate people to try again.

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  • KerplunkKerplunk@mastodon.scot
    Sep 4, 2025, 7:17 AM

    @jensimmons

    The rapid home tests have an incredibly high rate of false negatives. A negative test does NOT mean you don't have it.

    Thank you Jen, too many people say I tested, after retesting done correctly are positive.

    Many infectious people have no symptoms at all.

    Very common, I never had covid, blood test tells a different story

    The end results can be horrific, I know, long covid taught me

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  • Merlin Gillard 🚋😷merling@sciences.social
    Sep 4, 2025, 9:09 AM

    @jumblies @jensimmons There is a difference indeed. Covid is transmitted through both, and one of the tragedies of the pandemic has been the denial of airborne transmissions.
    See e.g. the following sources (among many others):
    epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq
    nature.com/articles/d41586-022
    healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topic
    academic.oup.com/cid/article/7
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

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  • Jen Simmonsjensimmons
    Sep 4, 2025, 7:28 PM

    @GroupNebula563 @merling I've been meaning to take new photos! I need a haircut, and my old photos are from just such a very long time ago. But I'll do my best…

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  • Shantell PowellShanmonster@c.im
    Sep 4, 2025, 1:04 PM

    @jensimmons as far as I know, I've only had COVID once, and despite being fully vaccinated, I have long COVID. I contracted it in 2023 at a dentist office where I could not wear my mask. Both of my parents caught COVID at the dentist office, too. I don't know that I'll ever fully recover, but I have been improving.

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