So, the USDA wants you to not be worried. They EXPECTED numbers to go up.
But they forgot to tell their boss, @SecVilsack, who says it will be isolated and burn out, because they have biosecurity plans available, and understand how it's transmitted.
A reporter asks the task force - obviously, you think contaminated clothes are the source.
Here's a good synopsis of the Michigan report they mention. That synopsis mentions that it would be good to implement the Secure Supply Biosecurity Plan.
. michiganfarmnews.com/usda-releases-…
USDA APHIS replies that they know that shared clothing is a risk factor.
Got that - just a risk factor. We'll come back to that because I went digging.
@USDA_APHIS then goes on to state that they DEPEND ON PUBLIC HEALTH TO TELL THEM IF PEOPLE ARE INFECTED.
45 people have been tested. Total.
Across 12 states and 97 farms.
So, the USDA is telling us not to worry because they are depending on public health to test people to let us know if it is spreading in people.
Did you notice that @USDA_APHIS actually did NOT ANSWER if infected workers were the reason for the spread?
They just focused on the clothes.
But speaking of clothes - is it because your pants leg sneaks up into your nose?
No. It's because virus contaminated aerosols (dust, respiratory, fecal, milk - all possibilities) land on your clothes.
As you move, or wind hits them, they resuspend into the air., and they get inhaled.
This is why Secure Supply has Tyvek coveralls.
NIOSH also has Tyvek
coveralls. But NIOSH ALSO HAS RESPIRATORS, AND has a full on donning and doffing procedure. It is deliberately designed to lower the risk of inhaling those aerosols as you take off the overalls, gloves, boot coverings.
Remove clothes, coverings with respie and goggles on.
Then remove goggles and respirator. Wash hands.
Shower.
And that is just for clothes.
Respirators are also so workers don't inhale the aerosols straight from the dust, cow breath, dried fecal particles, milk aerosols.
When we turn to the vaunted Secure Supply BIOSECURITY website for dairy producers, not a respirator in site.
Safer showering and swimming with great breathability!
Others have used a snorkel w/ N95s - but those then collapse around the snorkel, and breathability is more restricted. This new approach is w/ an internal BRACE!
I took a shower with this, and it worked perfectly. Build 🧵
This is a great technique, but I was looking for something with more breathability.
Not masking led him to getting polymicrobial respiratory infection (multiple pathogens) on 2/6/2025, leading to bronchitis, to bilateral pneumonia, a respiratory event
- leading to stroke and cardiac arrest.
Save this QR Code to your phone or save this tweet. Save it for the next time you get harassed by an antimasker.
This links to the article from March 27th, 2025, with Trump saying it was so nice of a reporter to be wearing a mask.
There's a video of him on this page.
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President Donald Trump stopped answering San Francisco Chronicle Washington correspondent Shira Stein, @shiramstein, to comment on her wearing a COVID mask in the Oval Office, remarking, “You’re wearing a mask! So nice of you!”
Our faces, our health.
And we choose to mask.
Ms. Stein was later singled out by Marjorie Taylor Greene in her for wearing a mask.
Very insulting, at first. But, after Ms. Stein pointed out she was immuncompromised (also having had a stroke, higher risk), she
Of course I don't wish him dead in a box. That is against Twitter's TOS.
But, anyway, what do I mean? On the one hand, pointing out that Covid is probably a bioweapon means that you can point out the silliness of not protecting yourself against it.
On the other hand, this:
Which, of course, is silly as workers in BSL2-4 labs wear N95s and better to protect against bioweapons.
Heh. I can tell an antimasker wrote that because they screwed up the logic on it.