Thread by @actagainstcovid

Re: getting hassled for mask-wearing post-Feb 28. Can't stress enough that if it happens, stay as cool as you can. People asking: best self-defense? pepper spray? Our best advice: FILM. Leave yr house w/phone fully charged. Send pics/videos to us, cops if warranted /1 #covid19sk

Our best guess is that if anti-mask ppl are trying to start fights or bothering you about masking, especially after *they* don't have to wear them, they've got someone filming & are prob. trying to collect a heavily edited reel of people "freaking out" while "unprovoked" /2

So again, our advice would be to slip away, get a safe distance, film. (Also: find someone in charge nearby, e.g. a store mgr, to do something if they are willing, if not willing leave the store.) /3

Influencers & wannabes in the anti-vax & anti-public-health movement love to characterize people who mask up (& our care for others) as wanting to "control what other ppl do." Don't let 'em, even if it's really enraging that this ignorance is officially catered to. /4

Your other self-defense (IOHO) is: get politically active about yr pro-public-health views— especially offline. Don't agree with the convoy? Great. But they showed up, consistently, & eventually got what they wanted. Go to pro-public health rallies, do the phone zaps of MLAs./5

And we have a few of these happening:
Phone zap this week: bit.ly/phonezapmoe
Sunday Regina protest: fb.me/e/eY5wCdxd2
Sunday Saskatoon protest: fb.me/e/2e3yLHY93

Don't demoralize yrself by staring into abyss of ppl/society affected by disinfo. We must act. /fin