Jeanne

Love my health & protector of my body from a level 3 biohazard (SARS-CoV2). Healthcare provider, vegetarian, runner, & SCIENCE believer. #MaskUp #CovidIsntOver

[Liesl McConchie @Liesl4CleanAir]

This! ⬇️

Both, And.

Clean surfaces.

Clean the air.

Thank you @cvspharmacy for understanding dominant forms of transmission.

💉

[Lisa Oshima @lisawhelan]

@melmason @ericswalwell If @ericswalwell is elected, will he fix the indoor air quality problem in CA schools? @CalEnergy Title 24 ventilation rates are ~2X less than @CAPublicHealth's *MINIMUM* advice for HEALTH, which actively harms teachers, kids & families. Education must be healthy & accessible.

[Jeanne @JeanneYYK]

@lisawhelan @covidbagofdicks My kids no longer see her bc they are adults, so I don’t know what the Walnut Creek John Muir office is like & if she is still masking with at least a N95.

[Jeanne @JeanneYYK]

@lisawhelan @covidbagofdicks We love Dr. Erin Lee. She wears a N95 or helmet PAPR during visits. But, she works for John Muir & my kids saw her at the Alamo location where the rooms had no air filtration & CO2 above 2000. She is now at the Walnut Creek location.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

Cuba is experiencing nationwide blackouts, and clinicians have requested N95s. I will donate a dollar for every RT this gets in the next hour.

MAKE ME PAY.

James is organizing a fundraiser. Venmo: James-Ray-24

[Jeanne @JeanneYYK]

@M8Void Can you share their name? I’ve been looking for a Covid safe hairdresser.

[Lisa Oshima @lisawhelan]

Kids are breathing unhealthy air in CA schools that doesn't meet @CAPublicHealth's minimum health advice because @CAgovernor @CalEnergy ties building code to energy efficiency targets, not health science. Retweet to tell @GavinNewsom schools should be HEALTHY & energy efficient!

[Gilly @profesh_baby]

I made a comic about why you should be masking in 2026 (spoiler: it’s to protect yourself and your community)

A thread...

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

Let this sink in—if Olympians want to succeed at their sport and want to become famous for their success—it would make sense to protect their health, even at the cost of covering their face. That’s because COVID and many infections are airborne & debilitating. It is not a hoax.

[MaskTogetherAmerica @TogetherWeMask]

2026 Cross Country Ski @TeamUSA members #MaskUp & stay outside of the Olympic Village. Nathaniel Herz @FasterSkier reports
Coach Kristen Bourne said that their “top priority is making sure our athletes and staff stay healthy for the entirety of the Games.”
https://t.co/6Cn0jFASMu

[Jeanne @JeanneYYK]

@FullLaneFemme This is a great & simple video covering the basics of respiratory transmission of pathogens. @CAPublicHealth should do something similar to let people know the importance of cleaning the air & wearing respirators.

[Clean Air Dyke @FullLaneFemme]

A Public health department FINALLY produced a video explaining how airborne viruses work. Next step, getting videos like this on TV and all over social media. Too many people think handwashing will prevent covid or the flu🫤

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

We need to ban stock trading for members of Congress. I have worked for years with @unusual_whales @QuiverQuant on this. Let's do it in 2026!

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

“ONE OF THE BIGGEST SCAM IN HEALTHCARE”—affecting 90% of patients—CVS, UnitedHealth, Cigna created shell companies to skim patient rebates and and hide rebate payments received from drugmakers. You are paying these middlemen’s middlemen. People have died.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Make America Healthy Again. Really?

Double ACA premiums. Kick 15 million off health care. Undermine lifesaving vaccines and spark disease outbreaks.

The Trump administration is endangering the health of the American people.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Sec. Kennedy must appear before the HELP Committee to explain why his vaccine advisory committee, in strong disagreement with the medical & scientific community, voted to end a decades-long recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine.

This vaccine saves lives.

[David It Up! @Dave_it_up]

Six Years and Six Winters Without Getting Sick

I haven’t been sick since 2018.

No flu. No colds. No COVID. Nothing.

Same for my wife. Same for my son. Six winters. Six holiday seasons. While people around us got hammered by one infection after another, we stayed healthy.

There’s no fucking secret.

We wore masks, everywhere.

Not those useless blue surgical masks that leave gaps the size of freight trains around your cheeks. Not the limp cloth things that might as well be made of tissue paper. Real respirators. N95s and KN95s that actually seal to your face and filter the goddamn air you breathe.

Here’s what they don’t tell most: There’s a significant difference between a mask and a respirator. A surgical mask is just fancy fabric that catches, well, spit. An N95 has an electrostatic charge that grabs particles and holds them. Think about rubbing a balloon on your head and watching your hair stick to it. That’s the science working to keep viruses out of your lungs when you breath, instead of letting them waltz right in.

I know a nurse. Seventy-three years old. She worked in a busy family practice through the worst of the pandemic. Small exam rooms. Sick patients all day long. She wore an N95 every single shift until she retired last year.

Guess what? She never caught COVID.

People want this to be complicated. They want it to be about genetics or expensive supplements or some elaborate wellness routine they can sell you. Most of the time, it’s not complicated at all. If a virus spreads through the air, the air you breathe is where the battle happens. A properly fitted respirator changes everything. Can’t take vaccines? Mask up. Immune system issues, well now you have an option, for many viruses.

Once I found masks that actually fit my face (Dräger X-plore 1950 for me
), the discomfort I’d imagined just wasn’t there. I can talk, walk, shop, and travel without constantly fiddling with straps. Half the time I forget I’m wearing one until I catch my reflection somewhere.

But here’s the real reason I keep doing it.

Millions of people are living with Long COVID right now. They’re carrying damage to their hearts, blood vessels, brains, and immune systems. For them, another infection isn’t just a shitty week in bed. It’s another step toward disability. More pain. Another organ system pushed past its breaking point.

They can’t afford to get hit again.

When I put on a mask, I’m not just protecting my family. I’m breaking transmission chains that could lead straight to someone whose body is already hanging by a thread. The cashier at the grocery store. My neighbor. The person standing behind me in line whose immune system can’t take another round.

We’ve normalized getting sick. People shrug and say everyone’s down with something this month. Everyone caught the latest bug going around. That’s one way to live, I guess.

Another way is to admit we have tools that work. Simple tools. Effective tools. Tools that can cut your risk of infection dramatically.

My family chose the second way.

It’s not heroic. It’s not perfect. It’s just looking at what repeated infections do to people and deciding that wearing a piece of filtered material over my face in crowded spaces is worth it.

You want to know how we’ve gone six winters without getting sick?

That’s the answer. We wore real masks for ourselves and for all the people who can’t survive another hit.

The science works. The question is whether you’re going to use it.

[Jeanne @JeanneYYK]

@EntropyChase Thank you for this!

[Jeanne @JeanneYYK]

@CaliforniaCodes @Walmart This is ridiculous. @GavinNewsom needs to make it known that no one should be denied the ability to get a Covid vaccine in CA or any of the west coast states in WCHA. Messaging needs to be simple and everywhere.

[Jeanne @JeanneYYK]

@CaliforniaCodes My son was finally able to get it @Walmart in Moreno Valley despite CA & WCHA clearly stating that all adults can have it if they want. Had to fight with pharmacist on the phone & finally told her that he has a risk factor.