Denise (she/her) 💪🇨🇦🐦🌱🏕️🎶

Mom, gardener, camper, scientist, ukulele enthusiast. Passionate about nature & family. Elbows up. Views my own. 😷 💉✊🏳️‍⚧️🌈🧡

[jezz @JezziiB]

Straight people: what amount of therapy would it take to turn you gay? If the answer is ‘no amount’ stop supporting conversion therapy. It doesn’t work and it’s torture.

[Denise (she/her) 💪🇨🇦🐦🌱🏕️🎶 @Zygadena]

@giveashitnature I’d suggest we should also embark on a public education campaign on the importance of coyotes (and foxes) in controlling rodents, including mice. Owls are beloved but coyotes are persecuted. And coyotes consume a LOT of rodents.

[Denise (she/her) 💪🇨🇦🐦🌱🏕️🎶 @Zygadena]

@zhouliang_mask @rnewman @noms780 Will the current filters fit the new frame?

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Yeah. A mask cult.
Sure. Call it that.

You know what else was a “cult”?
Hand-washing.
Seatbelts.
Clean drinking water.
Surgery without sawdust and whiskey.

Every time humans figured out how not to die stupidly, someone yelled cult.

So yeah—if a “cult” means noticing that breathing shared air spreads airborne disease, then congrats, you cracked the case.
If it means using a simple tool that reduces viral dose, protects your brain, your heart, your kids, your coworkers—then hail Satan, pass the respirators.

Here’s the part you don’t want to hear:

Masks aren’t about fear.
They’re about pattern recognition.

They’re about looking at six years of data and saying, “Huh. That keeps wrecking people’s bodies. Maybe raw-dogging the air in a pandemic isn’t the flex we thought.”

You don’t call it a cult when firefighters wear gear in a burning building.
You don’t call it a cult when surgeons glove up.
You don’t call it a cult when athletes tape ankles or wear helmets.

You only call it a cult when the protection reminds you that you were lied to—
that “mild,” “over,” “everyone gets it,” and “back to normal” were sales pitches, not science.

This isn’t religion.
It’s physics.
Aerosols don’t give a shit about your vibes, your politics, or how tired you are of hearing about it.

And here’s the uncomfortable truth that really pisses people off:

Some of us never stopped paying attention.

We watched cognitive decline get normalized.
We watched “brain fog” get rebranded as quirky.
We watched kids get sick over and over and were told it’s “good for their immune system” like this is 1820.

So yeah—call us a cult if you need a word that lets you stop thinking.

But don’t confuse discipline with delusion.
Don’t confuse adaptation with weakness.
And don’t confuse people who protect themselves and others with sheep—especially when the herd is walking straight into the slaughterhouse smiling.

This isn’t faith.

It’s survival with receipts.

[Sarah @SarahMcGinger]

Absolutely love the eyerolls from family when we mention we're still not eating in restaurants. Like, what would've changed from last year?? or the year before? Roll your eyes all you want. Hope they get stuck like that LOLLLL.

[Denise (she/her) 💪🇨🇦🐦🌱🏕️🎶 @Zygadena]

@RackMask When do you expect to have more black large masks?

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I don’t want a city on Mars. I don’t want AI in every app. I don’t want data centres in space. I don’t want humanoids or flying cars. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want bees to survive. And a habitable planet.

[Denise (she/her) 💪🇨🇦🐦🌱🏕️🎶 @Zygadena]

@__potatie__ I believe the primary series of two vax 8 weeks apart followed by a third 6 months later is the protocol used by Novavax when studying efficacy and performance, so it is required to be assured of getting the studied and reported benefits, even if one had a previous mRNA.

[Denise (she/her) 💪🇨🇦🐦🌱🏕️🎶 @Zygadena]

@__potatie__ I’m certainly no expert but I thought one needs to get the initial priming series of two doses 8 weeks apart and then boosters 6 to 12 months apart. I think 12 months may be sufficient if one is not immunocompromised but I’m not certain.

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

In 2020, we already knew Covid is vascular. Young people began dying of strokes/heart attacks in droves.

In 2022, studies found fatal heart attacks among US adults ages 25-44 increased by 30% since 2019.

By 2025, heart attacks in Americans 18-44 had increased by 66%.

[Denise (she/her) 💪🇨🇦🐦🌱🏕️🎶 @Zygadena]

@dreamy_run @dotu56 @ianhanomansing @cbcradio It was very frustrating to listen too. I had to turn it off.

[Martha-JD, MBA, PCC-😷🇺🇦 @mryoung151]

N95/FFP3 respirator masks must fit tightly to your face so air goes through the filter and does not leak in around it. This is similar to swim goggles that seal to your face to stop water coming in 👇

[Clareq12.bsky.social- REAL socialists wear masks😷 @ClareQ12]

One reply to my status was "no study TOLD you to wear a mask".
I guess they're right. As an adult, I'm capable of making independent decisions based on knowledge, I don't need an adultier adult to tell me to do something.
So here are some studies that informed my decision...

[Kathryn @kadamssl]

Oh, chronic absenteeism after the pandemic has risen to over 60% for high school students in Ontario?

That’s because IT’S NOT AFTER THE PANDEMIC

Kids are missing school because they are sick, and this is happening on a global scale.

@globalnews

https://t.co/JOVb0TGBNA

[Maria M Gillespie @MariaMGillespie]

I had the privilege of fit testing several families recently using my Bitrex kit. I cannot overstate how important it is to shape your nose wire properly, BEFORE you put on the mask. It makes so many masks go from fail to pass!

Cool people shape their nose wires. Pass it on.

[Mrs. Butters 🥧 @MrsButters]

This is why it's all men until it's no men

[Jess @MeetJess]

Serj Tankian - lead vocalist of System of a Down signing autographs for his new coffee venture in a respirator like it’s just part of the outfit is exactly the kind of quiet rebellion we need.

Protect your lungs. Promote your art.
See how easy that is ?

[Denise (she/her) 💪🇨🇦🐦🌱🏕️🎶 @Zygadena]

@VentiloAngel @Engineer_Wong Yes I understand I cannot measure it. I’m wondering if any studies (or approximations) have been done to try to understand how much they do actually help.

[Denise (she/her) 💪🇨🇦🐦🌱🏕️🎶 @Zygadena]

@VentiloAngel @Engineer_Wong So we can measure how well they help, but do we actually know?

[Denise (she/her) 💪🇨🇦🐦🌱🏕️🎶 @Zygadena]

@VentiloAngel @Engineer_Wong Does this mean that hepa filters can actually filter radon out of the air?

[Denise (she/her) 💪🇨🇦🐦🌱🏕️🎶 @Zygadena]

@RackMask Love them all, but especially excited for watercolor mountain! ❤️ Please make these available in large!