<aside> đź’‰ Stay Safe Out There. Some information on personal risk mitigation, and hopefully later I will add practical options of what some folks are fighting for on a more policy-based level
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Planning a group event? Consider using this Protection Guidelines for Groups template (made for uni labor org by @/yesallcrops on Twitter) and referring to Safer Gatherings Toolkit by the People’s CDC
Layers of Protection slide from People’s CDC
Death Panel episode featuring @sultanreina and @/yesallcrops describing covid safety in organizing spaces
<aside> 🛠️ This section is under construction, it’s pretty bare right now but I’ll be adding more! Keep scrolling
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It is becoming harder to find up to date information on the ongoing pandemic as various institutions and the federal government roll back their information services. Where possible, it is helpful to be aware of the relative level of covid in your community, the ongoing hospitilizations and the deaths from Covid. All of these are likely undercounts, but it helps to remind yourself that this is still a real threat and we can’t give up.
It also helps to find small ways to stay up to date about Covid in general. If you check out of info you can miss really important developments (like how easily newer variants transmit, new understandings of aerosol based spread, or the knowledge that one can get sick outside).
<aside> ⚠️ JHU’s Covid-19 Dashboard is shut down as of 02/23
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Waste water is a stand in metric for case counts when a robust testing system is lacking. Here’s a FAQ about waste water from the Peoples’ CDC