By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases

• At the moment, there is a high risk of an H5N1 pandemic. H5N1 has a 50% death rate. The best way to prevent this is by taking covid cautious measures.

United States

Resources

• app to make friends with covid cautious people: https://www.refreshconnections.com/

• Free covid testing: https://www.test2treat.org/s/?language=en_US 

• long covid action items: https://longcovidmoonshot.com/

• learn how to get free covid tests and masks here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html

• heres aan emergency resource for people who already have a prescription for paxloid but cant get it? learn how to get paxloid, a medication to prevent long covid here: https://paxlovid.iassist.com/ Sign up now, that way you can take it right away when you have covid. You have to take it soon after you get tested, if you already have long covid I don't think it's for that, but honestly I forgot.

• https://heymistr.com/ (US) PrEP, a medication to prevent HIV. They say it’s free through insurance, and if it’s not they can figure something out. Advertised as free.

Lay-Person Tasks

1. Get up-to-date on all your vaccines. 

2. Masking. The Covid-19 pandemic is not close to being over. Do the following to protect yourself and others:

• Wear a respirator in public. If you can't, wear an N95 mask. If you can't, wear a medical-grade mask in public. If you can't, wear a regular mask or cover your face with something.

• Have an air filter and bring it to places you are indoors.

• If you are in a situation where it is not safe or possible to mask, wear a nose filter. Stay outside as much as possible and ventilate indoor areas as much as possible. If you are allowed to wear a mask when you’re sick, and feel like you can lie about being sick, then do so. 

3. Don’t spread illnesses. 

• If you are sick with any contagious illness- regardless if it is covid, the flu, a cold, or a cough- stay home. 

• If you do not have that choice, wear a mask, and stay outside as much as possible. 

4. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water, and completely dry them, after going to the bathroom. In addition to reducing the spread of germs related to bathrooms, the most important thing this will do is cleanse you hands of all the germs you picked up since the last time you went to the bathroom. 

• If you currently don’t wash your hands, make it a goal to wash once a day. 

• Put up a hand drying towel.

• Buy, get, or make soap. Put it as an item on your shopping list of items you regularly buy.

• If you don’t have access to a sink (or even if you do) get some hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes. 

5. Wash your hands before preparing food and/or eating. If you frequently eat in public or locations without hand-washing options, carry hand sanitizer with you and use it before you eat. 

6. Avoid or reduce meat. It is predicted that the next pandemic will be caused by animals in factory farms. 

• Become vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, or reduce the amount of meat you eat. As an example, some people only eat meat at social events. Commit to removing at least one type of meat from your diet and replace it with another type of protein. 

• Learn about complementary and complete alternative proteins. 

7. If you are in an area with many mosquitoes, use a mosquito net when you sleep. Due to climate change, there are more mosquitoes carrying diseases in new areas. Find out if any are in your area. 

8. If you frequently have sex or use injection drugs, take PrEP, a medication to prevent HIV. Check out the resource below. 

9. Treat STI’s. 

• Find a resource you can afford that tests for and treats STI’s. 

• Learn the symptoms of common STI’s 

Action Tasks

• Covid Justice Demands List. Edit to update it for 2023, and summarize it to send to representatives. Join a covid-concsious advocacy group and see about contacting representatives together.  https://transformativespaces.org/2020/03/04/demands-from-grassroots-organizers-concerning-covid-19/ 

• This is a map of covid action groups: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1oUcoZ2njj3b5hh-RRDCLe-i8dSgxhno&ll=23.95731967565365%2C0&z=2

• Action Item for tuberculosis: https://youtu.be/tSC06P9A5W4?si=9O_wDTchmDbgHIes 

Informational Resources

• Covid is extremely, extremely serious. It is not like the cold or flu, it damages your cardiovascular and nervous system. 1 in 10 infections results in long covid. The government is trying to downplay it to keep corporate profits up.

• The response to covid 19 is similar to the response of AIDs- people are being left to die. It's not being taken seriously.

• The spread of covid 19 due to refusal to wear masks or isolate was a genocide against the elderly and people with disabilities.

• Genocides are easier to commit after pandemics because it makes people comfortable with mass killings.

• LitCovid is a website with publications on covid 19 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/

• List of articles on Covid-19 from a racial equity lens. https://www.racialequitytools.org/resources/fundamentals/resource-list/covid-19---racial-equity-and-social-justice-resources 

• Vaccines & Freedom (Philosophy Tube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va0RCgbywGc 

• Jimmy Dore’s Anti-Vaccine Lies (Shaun) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wRDLf54Scs 

• The different types of communicable disease are: viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_infectious_diseases https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_disease 

• https://ayts.ca/ Respirator

• Casey Elise on tiktok makes content on covid.

• https://covixyl.com/ this helps protect against covid

• https://numeroteca.org/2022/03/15/what-can-you-do-to-reduce-viral-transmision-through-indoor-aerosols/

• If your mask has a good seal, then you don't have to be so strict with physical distance. The six foot "rule" actually came from "research" from the early 1900s. There's not an amount of physical distance that keeps one from getting infected with a virus, it's more about the density of virus in the air.

• If you can get an air purifier (with filters that are either MERV 13 or HEPA), that will help pull virus out of the air and trap it inside the filter.

• To clear a room of air from someone who had to enter your house: set up fans so that the inside air is being blown out the window in the room they were in, and another fan blowing air in from a room they were not in.

• "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8176266/ This research study tested a bunch of surfaces to see if they were viable transmission points for SARS-COV-2, including within the hospital rooms of patients. "Conclusions: The majority of studies report identification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on inanimate surfaces; however, there is a lack of evidence demonstrating the recovery of viable virus. Lack of positive viral cultures suggests that the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through fomites is low."

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA This page talks about the different ways that HEPA filters trap particles. The same basic functions apply to masks and respirators too. Masks and respirators are also electrostatically charged. This means that when a particle comes into contact with the mask material, not only does it not pass through, it also gets stuck onto the surface and will remain stuck there"

• https://sites.google.com/view/why-we-are-covid-cautious/home Information on covid.

POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

• Solve homelessness. The rise of homelessness in 2020 caused 100,000 covid deaths in 2020. See 11.1