So, I had someone with the blue tick mark of Cain infect one of my threads:
😷 Wear a mask.
🧼 Remember your hand hygiene.
↔️ Remember social distancing.
🌡 If you feel ill, especially a respiratory issue, stay the 🤬 at home.
This ain’t rocket science, y’all. Don’t be a #ModernDayMaryMallon.— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) July 13, 2021
The thing is, I didn’t begin masking up because government told to, I did it because that’s what I was taught in civil defense training some 30 years ago, i.e. how to mitigate spread of an aerosol transmitted pathogen.
1/— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) May 31, 2023
When fighting an outbreak or pandemic, if you truly want to prevent transmission of a pathogen, you have to apply the mitigation measures appropriate for the pathogen at the best of your ability.
3/— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) May 31, 2023
We got off lucky with it “just” being SARS-CoV-2. Next time, exercising your “right to freedom of choice” in times of an outbreak or pandemic may actually cost you your life.
That’s what’s so nasty about emergent diseases that pop out of the woodwork when humanity
5/— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) May 31, 2023
SARS-CoV-2 is a virus. It does not give a flying f💣k about your rights and freedoms. It is fundamentally unable to. The only thing which works is to break the chain of transmission of the virus in as many places as possible. Nothing more, nothing less.
/END— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) May 31, 2023