Covid Safe Furs 🔜 AFC, BLFC

Advocating for Covid safety, education, inclusivity, and community support within the furry fandom.

[Covid Safe Furs 🔜 AFC, BLFC @CovidSafeFurs]

If you want to...

- meet other Covid-conscious furries
- ask questions about cons and Covid safety
- chat about how fursuits work with masks
- share your stories and experiences
- or help us out with what we're doing

Come join the Covid Safe Furs Telegram chat! Link below.

[Covid Safe Furs 🔜 AFC, BLFC @CovidSafeFurs]

A number of people who attended #Megaplex are testing positive for Covid. Wastewater levels for Covid in Orlando were Very High last week.

Don't assume you know what "con crud" you got! Take rapid tests, preferably over multiple days, and wear an N95 mask to stop the spread.

[Hot Space DAD 🔜FC @HotSpaceDAD86]

First tests of the con since we're leaving after our shift in the Dealer's Den ❤️ Remember to test your last day at con and a few days afterward! Come visit us at table 708 today if you're in need of test kits, provided by @CovidSafeFurs! #BLFC #BLFC2025

[Julia Marie @julia_doubleday]

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
https://t.co/BghgCOOc16

[Covid Safe Furs 🔜 AFC, BLFC @CovidSafeFurs]

We have just received a report of a positive Covid test from an #AFC2025 attendee.

Thank you to all who grabbed tests and masks from us today. Please use them to protect others as you head home.

[Covid Safe Furs 🔜 AFC, BLFC @CovidSafeFurs]

Schedule change to 10:30 am on Friday. That'll give you some more leeway to get regged beforehand!

[Covid Safe Furs 🔜 AFC, BLFC @CovidSafeFurs]

See you at #AFC2025! Our panel, "How to REALLY Not Get Con Crud", will be at 10 am on Friday. Make sure to get regged early so you don't miss it!

We'll also have masks, tests, fit testing, and air filters to borrow, all for free, all con long!

[Covid Safe Furs 🔜 AFC, BLFC @CovidSafeFurs]

Schedule change to 10:30 am on Friday. That'll give you some more leeway to get regged beforehand!

[Covid Safe Furs 🔜 AFC, BLFC @CovidSafeFurs]

See you at #AFC2025! Our panel, "How to REALLY Not Get Con Crud", will be at 10 am on Friday. Make sure to get regged early so you don't miss it!

We'll also have masks, tests, fit testing, and air filters to borrow, all for free, all con long!

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

PMC COVlD Report, Sep 15, 2025 (U.S.)
🧵1/7

COVlD-19 levels are "Very High" or "High" in the majority of states, per the CDC.

This includes 27 states & D.C.

🔥🔥Very High:
Alaska, Hawai'i, California, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Texas, Louisiana, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, S. Carolina, N. Carolina, D.C., Maryland, and Connecticut.

🔥High:
Washington state, Oregon, Montana, probably N. Dakota (imputed), Arkansas, Alabama, Virginia, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.

PMC estimates 1 in 38 people (2.7%) are actively infectious. Wastewater-derived case estimates suggest 1.3 million new daily infections.

[Clean Air Club @Clean_Air_Club_]

As expected, Columbia University's mask ban is being enforced against students wearing masks for medical reasons (even though the ban itself claims to make an exception).

[Covid Safe Furs 🔜 AFC, BLFC @CovidSafeFurs]

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[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.

[Yaneer Bar-Yam @yaneerbaryam]

🚨 Massachusetts overrides FDA & CDC limits: Gov. Healey orders COVID boosters available to all residents 5+ at pharmacies. A direct challenge to federal restrictions. For kids 6m–5y available via pediatricians.

https://t.co/P3EnvZhsYM

[Covid Safe Furs 🔜 AFC, BLFC @CovidSafeFurs]

into the con is by simply passing through the airport. It is possible to pick it up at the airport, incubate it and spread it at the con, and then get back home before you start feeling sick - especially if you didn't wear a mask.

[Covid Safe Furs 🔜 AFC, BLFC @CovidSafeFurs]

If you got sick at #Megaplex, it is not necessarily because someone else KNOWINGLY attended while sick. It is possible to be contagious before feeling symptoms, especially with Covid - it is capable of spreading stealthily that way. A simple way of unknowingly bringing illness/

[Covid Safe Furs 🔜 AFC, BLFC @CovidSafeFurs]

If you came home from #Megaplex sick, please test, preferably over multiple days. While it is not necessarily Covid, it is not improbable since we are currently in a surge (the 11th wave). You cannot be sure if it is Covid or not from symptoms alone, which can vary greatly.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

9. Third, in my own experience, people do not understand Long Covid. They have a fixed view of it that can be summed up as 'severe symptoms that do not resolve'. It is also seen as rare, which is why I know people with Long Covid who don't know they have Long Covid.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

4. Second, unlike other common diseases, Covid-19 is not generalisable. That is to say, unlike the common cold, influenza, or norovirus, one person's experience of the disease cannot be relied upon to accurately predict another's.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

2. First, none of its symptoms trigger the human disgust mechanism. Adrian gives a great example of this. The two key symptoms that distinguish Covid-19 from other common diseases are cognitive dysfunction and anosmia, both of which are *invisible* to other people.